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Monoidal category(Q1945014) is a category that admits tensor products. Bob Coecke claims that Monoidal Category is the universal construct that can be used to construct everything, physical or informational[1]. It can be used as the building block for all languages, including natural languages, see Quantum Natural Language Processing[2]. Bob Coecke's argument about Monoidal Category is closely related to the concept of monad as illustrated in Leibniz's Monadology. It can be the intellectual foundation to conduct universal data abstraction in the developmental efforts of PKC and its applications. That means it has direct application to the compilation and interpretation of complex information systems, that covers almost any engineered system of practical interesting. To learn the formal definition of Monoidal Category, Richard Borcherds has a video on Monoidal Category[3].

Monoidal Category as a Two Dimensional Algebra?

Daniel Tubbenhauer's VisualMath also has a video on What are…monoidal categories?[4]. At the end of the video, he stated that Monoidal Category can be used as a way to model a Two-Dimensional Algebra.


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Monoidal Categories in Visual Representations

Peter Selinger has a paper called: A survey of graphical languages for monoidal categories[5]. There are a few variations of monoidal categories:

Symmetrical Monoidal Category

Symmetrical Monoidal Category

Braided Monoidal Category

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