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\title{Kind of proposal (Talk)\\ %Inform if it is a talk or a poster
\textbf{What ``is'' the Yoneda Lemma?}
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{\large \textsc{Eduardo Ochs}}\thanks{eduardoochs@gmail.com}\\
{\small PURO/UFF, Rio das Ostras, RJ, Brasil} \\
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\textbf{Keywords:} Diagrammatic Reasoning, Mathematical Education
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The ``Yoneda Embedding'' is easy to remember, but to prove it we need
to prove the ``Yoneda Lemma'' first; the ``Yoneda Lemma'' takes a lot
of mental space.
Let me refer to that ``Yoneda Lemma'' as the ``Yoneda Lemma (in the
strict sense)''; the ``Yoneda Lemma (in the wide sense)'' will be the
``Yoneda Lemma (in the strict sense)'' plus the ``Yoneda Embedding''.
In the next paragraphs I will use the term``Yoneda Lemma'' to mean the
``Yoneda Lemma (in the wide sense)''.
What ``is'' the Yoneda Lemma? Let's call that question Q1, and let's
split it into several subquestions in the usual way:
\begin{itemize}
\item[Q2] What is the best notation, and what are the best diagrams,
for remembering the Yoneda Lemma after we understand it well?
\item[Q3] What are the best motivating examples for the Yoneda Lemma?
As an aside, what does ``best motivating examples'' mean? Can we
formalize that idea? There is a partial answer in \cite{OchsMD}; are
there other ones?
\item[Q4] Imagine that you want to present the Yoneda Lemma for
non-categorists, and imagine that you can prepare a video for your
presentation, and complement it with a blog post. What are the
figures and animations that you would choose? Which slogans would
you choose? Why?
\end{itemize}
Note that I am sort of splitting ``what is the Yoneda Lemma?'' into
several subquestions, and some of them are naturally associated to
verbs: ``remember'', ``reconstruct'', ``generalize'', ``specialize'',
``present'', ``teach''; some others are nouns: ``analogies'',
``animations'', ``slogans''.
I only started studying Mathematical Education (``ME'') very recently,
and I was very surprised to see that this division into subquestions
is studied a lot in ME. One extreme example is the book \cite{Ma},
that discusses ``deep understanding'' in the context of teaching
Arithmetic to children, but practically all the ideas in that book are
trivial to adapt to Category Theory. A less extreme example is
\cite{VanHiele}, that discusses ``levels of thinking'', mainly in the
context of school geometry.
In my presentation I will show some texts and ideias from ME that I
believe that would be especially useful to categorists. The
``recommended readings'' will be basically the references at the end
of \cite{BadFoundations}.
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\bibitem{OchsMD} E. Ochs. {\it On the Missing Diagrams in Category
Theory (First-Person Version)}.
{\tt https://anggtwu.net/math-b.html\#2022-md}. 2022. arXiv:
2401.12345.
\bibitem{Ma} L. Ma. {\it Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics
(Anniversary Edition)}. Routledge, 2010.
\bibitem{VanHiele} P. M. van Hiele. {\it Structure and Insight - A
Theory of Mathematics Education}. Academic Press, 1986.
\bibitem{BadFoundations} E. Ochs. {\it Bad Foundations and Manipulable
Objects}. {\tt
https://anggtwu.net/math-b.html\#2026-bad-foundations}. 2026.
arXiv: 2602.16026.
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