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From: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Science Citation Index
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:05:32 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1L8aeK-0002mX-99@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, jim stasheff wrote:

> Michael,
>
> at least in the old days,
> multiauthor papers were listed only once
> e.g. Milnor and Stasheff
> only under Milnor
>
> jim

I haven't looked recently, but that was the way it was when I used it.  It
was a way of finding where a subject had gone, not who had led it there.
This is a total misuse of the index.

Michael




             reply	other threads:[~2008-12-04 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-04 16:05 Michael Barr [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-10 23:11 jim stasheff
2008-12-10 14:43 Michael Barr
2008-12-09 19:35 Vaughan Pratt
2008-12-08  9:53 Giuseppe Longo
2008-12-06 15:19 R Brown
2008-12-06  1:58 jim stasheff
2008-12-05 21:21 Pedro Resende
2008-12-05 15:46 jim stasheff
2008-12-05 14:58 jim stasheff
2008-12-05 14:16 Tim Porter
2008-12-05 10:28 Joachim Kock
2008-12-05  7:07 Andrej Bauer
2008-12-04 21:09 R Brown
2008-12-04 17:13 Michael Mislove
2008-12-04 16:00 jim stasheff
2008-12-04 15:56 Michael Barr
2008-12-04 15:49 jim stasheff
2008-12-04 14:22 Robert J. MacG. Dawson
2008-12-05 14:12 ` Hans-E. Porst
2008-12-04  7:15 George Janelidze
2008-12-04  7:06 Patrik Eklund
2008-12-04  0:32 Michael Barr
2008-12-03 17:23 John Baez

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