An experiment by researchers suggests that it might be better to let apples, oranges and locomotives stay in the real world and focus on abstract equations in math class. Many educators in recent ...

From the real world to the abstract. The earliest example of abstraction was when humans counted before symbols existed. A sheep herder, for instance, needed to keep track of his flock of sheep ...

Where math is an abstraction of the real world, category theory is an abstraction of mathematics: It describes the architectural structure of any mathematical field, independent of the specific ...

What are some use cases for which it would be beneficial to use Haskell, rather than R or Python, in data science? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.