> 何かを禁ずることで力を引き出す。 「形・真・理」は、禁じているわけではないですが、条件が揃わなければ力が発揮できない。制約を与えることで、力、強大な力が発揮されるんだ、と捉えています。

That's why I find myself drawn to the algebraic — in hopes of drawing out some unreasonable (monstrous?) effectiveness...

> "The syntax is the soul. Study the soul to know the syntax. Evil mind, evil syntax". —not Toranosuke Shimada

https://www.theonion.com/kitten-thinks-of-nothing-but-murder...

Cats as (Arab/syriac) guest demon/god of algebra? (It's just inconvenient that they are also associated with category theory)

Brings to mind the Atiyah (who was Lebanese) quote.

At least as far as typesetting commutative diagrams goes, could category theory be the revenge of geometry?

Ahh yes, LLMs ( preneutered!) may cause a resurgence of diagramming (used in vengeance)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/formalizing-the-pr...