Re: abutment

["Ben Webster" <bwebster@math.mit.edu>]

Yes, it does.  Googling "abutment spectral sequence" makes this
abundantly clear.

Ben

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Eduardo J. Dubuc <edubuc@dm.uba.ar> wrote:
> Well Michael, I do not have at hand your original post. What I do remember
> of
> that post is that you ask for an english translation of the word
> "aboutissement", not for a translation a whole sentence containing that
> word.
>
> In my whole experience reading mathematics written in english, I do not
> remember to have seen the word "abutment".
>
> On the other hand, I am tired of reading spanish translations (from english
> or
> french or russian) of mathematical texts where single words are replaced by
> their spanish translations, and the result is completely alien to standard
> mathematical spanish.
>
> Does the word "abutment" belong to standard mathematical english ?
>
> Eduardo.
>
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>
> Michael Barr
>>
>> Maybe Eduardo should have read my whole post.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, edubuc wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I suggest to Michael Barr to send the whole  sentence where it is found
>>> the word "aboutissement",  and ask for a translation  of the sentence.
>>> He will get a better  english version that just a rendering into english
>>> of that word.
>>>
>>> May be the natural 21 century mathematical english version of the french
>>> sentence will not even use the word "abutment".
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael Barr wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  That seems to be the translation of the word, thanks to several.  That
>>>>  still leaves that mysterious E^{pq} ---> G^p(E^{p+q}) to correct,
>>>> since I
>>>>  do not believe that it is correct as stands.
>>>>
>>>>  Michael
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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