From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>
To: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: abutment = aboutement?
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:46:06 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KWsP6-0001RX-Vk@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
[ Note from moderator: It is time to close this thread. Further discussion
of the linguistic part of Michael's query should happen away from the
list. Thanks to contributors. ]
Michael Barr wrote:
> I am NOT about to change a word that has apparently existed for over 50
> years just because it is not particularly meaningful.
"aboutissement" existed for over 50 years of course, but the translation
"abutment" is, (at least in the references given in these postings, including
the translation of the grothendieck-serre correspondence) much more recent, it
seem that all of its occurrences are from the second millennium, or very close.
On the other hand, we have learned in these postings that in the 1980's and
before, the word "limit" (and not "abutment') was used for what a spectral
sequence converges to. An authority as Peter Hilton used "limit".
There are a lot of well established words in mathematics which are not
particularly meaningful, but the difference with "abutment" is precisely that
they are well established.
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2008-08-22 16:46 Eduardo J. Dubuc [this message]
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2008-08-22 4:04 Fred E.J. Linton
2008-08-21 20:23 Robert L Knighten
2008-08-21 19:18 Vaughan Pratt
2008-08-21 14:30 Nimish Shah
2008-08-21 14:07 Tim Porter
2008-08-21 6:15 Eduardo J. Dubuc
2008-08-20 15:33 jim stasheff
2008-08-20 14:45 jim stasheff
2008-08-20 13:13 Michael Barr
2008-08-20 5:12 edubuc
2008-08-19 18:06 Vaughan Pratt
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