From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5830 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: terminology Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:53:16 -0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274460966 4811 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2010 16:56:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 16:56:06 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Fri May 21 18:56:04 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFVW0-0006IA-4q for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 18:56:04 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1OFVBE-0006ww-MX for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 21 May 2010 13:34:36 -0300 In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5830 Archived-At: soloviev@irit.fr wrote: > My personal opinion is that this process is very much influenced > by the pressure of "bibliometry", "impact factors" and other "modern > trends" - people often not very scrupulously invent and reinvent > terminology to be better cited, and, conscious or not, it often very > much smells of imposture. > > Sergei Soloviev I agree with this. But it should be clear that many times it is not conscious, but certainly it often smells of imposture. Other times it smells of excessive logic and formalism. Concerning "injective" I see no problem at all that some times injective means (1-1) and other times it means the dual of projective. Where is the problem !!, the context always tells you which meaning it is being used. e.d. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]