From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4717 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Barr Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Science Citation Index Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:05:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: Michael Barr NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241020126 14532 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:48:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:48:46 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Fri Dec 5 09:28:11 2008 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1L8aeK-0002mX-99 for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:23:16 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 21 Original-Lines: 18 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4717 Archived-At: 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