Towards a New Model of Abstraction (1992)
by
Gregor Kiczales
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kiczales92towardsa,
author = {Gregor Kiczales},
title = {Towards a New Model of Abstraction},
booktitle = {},
year = {1992},
publisher = {}
}
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Abstract
We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for... [The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations he can carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. Hermann Weyl, “The Mathematical Way of Thinking” (This appears at the beginning of the Building Abstractions With Data chapter of “Structure and Interpretation







