Quivers: A year of linear algebra by drawing arrows

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Quivers: a year of linear algebra by drawing arrows 2026 Jun 9 Disclaimer: if your first instinct was to think about string diagrams, that's not was this post is about. Cool guess, though. In algebra there's this idea of representations of some object, especially linear representations. It's so important that even chemists typically have the representation theory of finite groups in their curriculum, because those have a profound influence on the structure of atoms and molecules. And it just so

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