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October 9
The theory of categories originated [1] with the need to guide complicated calculations involving passage to the limit in the study of the qualitative leap from spaces to homotopical/ homological objects. Since then it is still actively used for those problems but also in algebraic geometry [2], logic and set theory [3], model theory [4], functional analysis [5], continuum physics [6], combinatorics [7], etc. In all these the categorical concept of adjoint functor has come to play a key role.
http://www.emis.de/journals/TAC/reprints/articles/8/tr8.pdf