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The point is to help us. It's not there to cause people pain. The point of abstraction is to clear out the fluff in order... to see more clearly what's actually going on.

— Eugenia Cheng Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

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Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.

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This is the point of understanding the abstract structures inside things.

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The trouble with this is that nothing behaves logically.

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Math, unfortunately is presented in this very ingressive way, despite the fact that when you get to the research level, it's very congressive.

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I don't believe that one should have anything without sharing it, and that includes knowledge, money, food, love...

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