From: Vaughan Pratt <pratt@cs.stanford.edu>
To: categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Another question on Grothendieck
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:46:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Orffa-0007gb-E5@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Or9Si-00031p-Iw@mlist.mta.ca>
On 9/1/2010 12:21 PM, Eduardo J. Dubuc wrote:
> I am wondering, nobody can read the mathematics and come up with what
> Grothendieck meant !!!
Eduardo raises an excellent point here. Which is more important for a
contribution, its meaning or its influence?
If the latter, a secondary question is, how was that influence achieved?
Improved access to the contribution, e.g. via translation, may help
those who understand the mathematics but not the French explain the
influence, even if the original meaning remains obscure.
Vaughan
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2010-08-30 14:18 Michael Barr
2010-08-30 18:04 ` Andrew Stacey
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2010-09-03 6:46 ` Vaughan Pratt [this message]
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2010-09-04 7:04 ` Vaughan Pratt
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2010-09-05 23:23 ` Vaughan Pratt
[not found] ` <E1Ort7T-00087z-SA@mlist.mta.ca>
2010-09-05 19:51 ` Steven Vickers
2010-09-06 17:53 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2010-08-31 5:50 ` John Baez
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