Examples

If you’re a scientist, engineer, or industry professional and are curious about how category theory could be applied to your field, we’ve compiled a list of examples and relevant papers.

Materials scienceMatriach is a program that uses the mathematical framework of operads (special kinds of categories) to produce hierarchical protein materials, such as collagen. Press release from MIT.

Manufacturing: …

Physics: Stephen Molloy at ESS (European Spallation Source) used category theory to find weaknesses in an XML-based model for a particle accelerator.

Pharmaceuticals: …