From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6096 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vaughan Pratt Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Another question on Grothendieck Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:46:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Vaughan Pratt NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283556536 31638 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2010 23:28:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 23:28:56 +0000 (UTC) To: categories list Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sat Sep 04 01:28:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.138]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Orfgk-0006Dt-AS for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:28:54 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:47292) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Orffe-0001Mh-CY; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:27:46 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Orffa-0007gb-E5 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:27:42 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6096 Archived-At: 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 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]