Communicating relational thinking (a.k.a. category theory)

Speaker: Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan, Tallinn University of Technology

Abstract: I love math, I love people and I am interested in how they both interact. While being a postdoctoral fellow at the Topos Institute, a team of four including me published an online illustrated live-book on category theory -- which we termed as relational thinking for the purposes of this book -- intended for a general STEM-oriented audience. We used story-telling and leaned in on technology instead of formal symbols to communicate category theory.

In this talk, I will outline the storyline of this book and also touch on the technology that made this book happen. This project is joint work with Paul Dancstep, Brendan Fong, Angeline Aguinaldo, Evan Patterson and many others behind the scenes.

[subramaniannk]

thanks for the book! I am very eager to read the book. My understanding is Category theory among other things formalizes reasoning with analogies and so everyone who has reasoned with analogies have an intuitive or scant understanding of category theory. Would you be so kind to say this is correct or not?