Re: The game of the name: Standard constructions, triples, monads, fundamental constructions

[Dusko Pavlovic <duskgoo@gmail.com>]

>> It seems the history of mathematics is endlessly tricky.

we are watching in real time that all history is endlessly tricky and terrible.

some of us settled on math precisely because it seemed less terribly
tricky than the rest. i was under a solemn oath after the high-school
that whatever i might do in my life the only requirement was that it
should have nothing to do with math, which seemed like people
competing who is smarter. i settled on it after i destroyed one
relationship after another just proving stuff all the time.

so it is a little ironic to find on the other end the history of
mathematics being the tricky part.

:)
-- dusko

>
Ross Street <ross.street@mq.edu.au> writes:
[snip]
> however there would have been discussion of terminology at the LaJolla conference.
> Very tricky!
>
> Ross
>
>> On 14 Nov 2023, at 9:14 am, John Baez <john.baez@ucr.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi -
>>
>> It is not very important, but I was amused to discover recently that
[snip]
>> out problematic cases caused by coincidental equations between
>> objects.
>>
>> It seems the history of mathematics is endlessly tricky.
>>
>> Best,
>> John Baez



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