Re: abutment = aboutement?

[jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>]

Thaks, Vaughan

That reraises a question I implied earlier
limit for the E_\infty term is appropriate
but that is the graded of what I dimly recall the SS
abuts to - the ungraded, e.g. H^(E) in the Serre-Leray SS

anyone confirm that?

jim

Pratt wrote:
> Meanwhile I count eight occurrences of "abut" and "abutment" in the (36
> kilobyte!) main Wikipedia article on spectral sequences (there are a
> dozen separate much shorter articles on particular spectral sequences,
> along with a 15 kB article on derived categories).
>
> On the other hand the algebra and geometry articles of the 1987
> Britannica Macropaedia both prefer the term "limit" for what a spectral
> sequence converges to, in respectively Peter Hilton's contribution
> "Other aspects of homological algebra" to the algebra article, and the
> geometry article's section on algebraic topology.
>
> Since Wikipedia seems to be trumping Britannica these days, and no one
> here has objected to established usage in mathematics trumping
> linguistic suitability, the precise distance of "abutment" from the
> optimal English cognate for "aboutissement" would appear to be academic,
> an epithet reflecting the outside world's perception that raising moot
> points is in our job description.
>
> Vaughan
>
>>> Thanks to Eduardo D and Vaughan P and Michel H for their misgivings,
>>> which encouraged me to compose the above, despite the assurances
>>> of Jim S that the 'abut*' usage is by now well entrenched.
>>>
>>> Fred
>
>