The Joy of Abstraction book club - Chapter 1

Recorded by Eugenia Cheng, as part of topos.site/joa...
01:17 What is the relation with How to Bake Pi?
03:51 Can you specialise in CT as an undergraduate?
05:06 At what point does abstraction become CT?
07:14 What does it mean for CT to operate in different contexts?
08:58 What can CT teach us about mathematics itself?
11:38 How to improve the school maths curriculum?
16:16 What is the difference between abstraction and generalisation?
20:43 Does CT distinguish between 5+1=1+5 and 5+1=6?
22:50 Does CT not treat similarity as a single dimension?
25:55 How does CT relate to theoretical physics?
27:42 What is abstract algebra?
29:32 How does CT relate to metamathematics and set theory?
31:54 What about HoTT or quantum mechanics?
33:02 Is anybody using CT to study storytelling?
33:23 How can I start applying CT to other subjects?
33:59 Can I translate your book into other languages?
34:30 Is it true that people don't understand mathematics?
39:25 What about Gödel's incompleteness theorems?
42:09 Thanks!