From: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Bourbaki and Categories
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:20:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Kfkjs-0004aV-K7@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
David Spivak wrote:
> I agree with Andre. Encapsulating a group of mathematicians inside a
> single named entity fosters a kind of collaborative spirit in which
> good ideas are not kept for personal use later but are shared amongst
> the community. When ideas are shared in real time, good mathematics
> can be produced faster. Anyone who wants to join the collective can
> do so, and the collective produces highly useful material. Of course
> such an enterprise is orthogonal to name-recognition, and maybe to
> getting tenure!
A partial solution: those who already have sufficient name recognition
should proclaim the value contributed by those without it and especially
in support of tenure for them.
jim
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