From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>
To: André <joyal.andre@uqam.ca>
Cc: David Yetter <dyetter@math.ksu.edu>,
John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>, categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: are fibrations evil?
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:04:53 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OyDye-0004AQ-6l@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Oxilu-0005NF-Eh@mlist.mta.ca>
Andre is very polite, I call such a subculture "ghetto", and Benabou
calls it "Category land".
Joyal wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> I appreciate your view.
> I would love to have the dictatorial power to reform
> the mathematical vocabulary.
> I dream of kicking out long words like diffeomorphism and homeomorphism.
> I guess that if they have persisted in mathematics, it is because
> everybody understand them.
>
> It is very difficult to impose a new terminology.
> There is a social aspect to the problem.
> Even if small group of peoples agree in using
> a new terminology, this may have little influence on the larger community.
> The new word may become a tag for identifying the members of a group.
> It may enclose its user into a sub-culture.
>
> Best,
> andré
>
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-17 4:36 John Baez
2010-09-18 13:50 ` Joyal, André
2010-09-19 14:57 ` David Yetter
[not found] ` <F8DA87C6-CBED-44AE-B964-B766A95D8417@math.ksu.edu>
2010-09-19 18:21 ` Joyal, André
2010-09-20 17:04 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc [this message]
2010-09-20 16:59 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2010-09-22 2:52 ` Toby Bartels
[not found] ` <20100922025245.GA14958@ugcs.caltech.edu>
2010-09-22 18:56 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
[not found] ` <4C9A5156.3010307@dm.uba.ar>
2010-09-22 21:06 ` Toby Bartels
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2010-09-24 23:43 Fred E.J. Linton
2010-09-17 2:17 David Roberts
2010-09-15 11:43 Thomas Streicher
2010-09-16 0:28 ` Michael Shulman
2010-09-16 1:14 ` Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
[not found] ` <AANLkTinosTZ2NQW9biPxiwpX9zPi5m=kwvA16nHjK=Xu@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-16 9:47 ` Thomas Streicher
2010-09-16 10:00 ` Prof. Peter Johnstone
[not found] ` <alpine.LRH.2.00.1009161023190.12162@siskin.dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
2010-09-16 10:46 ` Thomas Streicher
2010-09-17 7:44 ` Toby Bartels
[not found] ` <20100916094755.GA19976@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
2010-09-17 5:01 ` Michael Shulman
2010-09-18 13:48 ` Thomas Streicher
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