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Modern algebra has exposed for the first time the full variety and richness of possible mathematical systems.
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The potential usefulness of a mathematical concept or technique in helping to advance scientific understanding has very little to do with what one can foresee before that concept or technique has appeared.
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.. in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions will arise. In reality there is now no guarantee of this sort of security...
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Mathematics, springing from the soil of basic human experience with numbers and data and space and motion, builds up a far-flung architectural structure composed of theorems which reveal insights into the reasons behind appearances and of concepts which relate totally disparate concrete ideas.
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Born:
August 4, 1909
Died:
April 14, 2005
(aged 95)
Bio:
Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
Known for:
Categories for the Working Mathematician (1971)
Mathematics, Form and Function (1986)
Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Sheaves in geometry and logic (1992)
Homology (1963)
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