May I ask why you started by learning category theory?
I started it on a whim (someone linked a LW post on it on Twitter) and I found it engaging enough to stick with it. I donโt want to quit it because I am trying to break my habit of abandoning projects I start. Itโs also not the case that I am finding it too difficult to progress. I do think Iโm slow going, but a more mathematically literate friend disagreed (from their perspective, I was going pretty fast), so I think I should stick with the project, so that I can form a habit of following my projects through to completion.
I like learning about abstract stuff, though I think I would find category theory easier if I knew other abstract maths, but I can always just use the concrete example of Set to try and think about the concept, and then imagine the category theory concept as a generalisation of the appropriate set theory concept.
I started it on a whim (someone linked a LW post on it on Twitter) and I found it engaging enough to stick with it. I donโt want to quit it because I am trying to break my habit of abandoning projects I start. Itโs also not the case that I am finding it too difficult to progress. I do think Iโm slow going, but a more mathematically literate friend disagreed (from their perspective, I was going pretty fast), so I think I should stick with the project, so that I can form a habit of following my projects through to completion.
I like learning about abstract stuff, though I think I would find category theory easier if I knew other abstract maths, but I can always just use the concrete example of Set to try and think about the concept, and then imagine the category theory concept as a generalisation of the appropriate set theory concept.