From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5399 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: additions Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:43:08 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261526486 25764 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2009 00:01:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:01:26 +0000 (UTC) To: "categories" Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Wed Dec 23 01:01:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NNEfF-0008Vx-F8 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:01:17 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NNED2-0006EI-V1 for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:32:09 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5399 Archived-At: On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:20:29 PM EST, Michael Barr reminisced: > ... His = > reply essentially was, "Oh, it's category theory language. Well, I won= 't = > allow any of that in MY notes. No analyst would use that language." Amusing tale, reminding me of Sammy's response when I approached him, oh = so many decades ago, about supervising my proposed thesis on functorial meas= ure = theory: "Measure theory? That's analysis, isn't it? Go ask an analyst." Cheers, and Seasons' Greetings, = -- FEJ Linton [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]