Re: Resolution

["Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>]

Greetings

Let's just hope none of this creates another situation
like the one Sammy reported facing in a North African
fish restaurant, where his menu offered, among other
local delicacies, "Fried Pimp", the author evidently 
having rendered the Arabic word for the fish in question, 
actually a mackerel, first into French as "maquereau", 
and thence into English as "pimp". 

Rhymes with "shrimp" -- easier to type than "mackerel" --
so why not?

Cheers, -- Fred

------ Original Message ------
Received: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:13:56 PM EDT
From: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
To: Categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: categories: Resolution

> Thanks to Jonathan Chiche and Johannes Huebschman for the answer to my
> question.  First off, according to the online Encyclopedia of Mathematics,
> relatively compact means having compact closure (I had called that
> conditionally compact; neither term is very evocative).
> 
> Now to denombrable a l'infini, first Johannes wrote that it meant that the
> one point compactification had a countable basis at the point at infinity.
> Then Jonathan pointed to a '57 paper of M. Zisman that actually defined it
> to mean \sigma-compact.  In the context of locally compact spaces, the two
> definitions are easily seen to be equivalent!  Since \sigma-compact seems
> to be widely used, I will go with that.
> 
> And now let us break off this thread.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
>