From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5402 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Weber Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: additions Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:21:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Mark Weber NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261526631 26091 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2009 00:03:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:03:51 +0000 (UTC) To: Michael Barr , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Wed Dec 23 01:03:44 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 1NNEhb-0000tx-0C for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:03:43 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NNEEn-0006JR-1s for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:33:57 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5402 Archived-At: Dear Michael, 2009/12/21 Michael Barr > ... 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." > There's an easy reply to people infected with such silliness -- ask them if Terry Tao is an analyst, to which they'd probably reply "of course", and then tell them go to Tao's blog http://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and do a search for "category" (the search bar on Terry's page is on the left just below "recent comments"). The results will speak for themselves. Mark Weber [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]