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The first lesson learned when approaching Bill Lawvere’s work and intense activity is that in mathematics there are no facts that are specific, unique and meaningful for only a few special cases. The traditional dividing lines between geometry, analysis, mechanics, and so forth are themselves artificial, and while their conventional limits are easily (for him) crossed, their interconnections should always be borne in mind.
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Betti, R. (2011). F. William Lawvere. In: Bartocci, C., Betti, R., Guerraggio, A., Lucchetti, R. (eds) Mathematical Lives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13606-1_33
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