From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6201 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: are fibrations evil? Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:04:53 -0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285118375 29648 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2010 01:19:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Yetter , John Baez , categories To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Sep 22 03:19:33 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpy.mta.ca ([138.73.1.139]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyDzd-0005IP-1f for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:19:29 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:52064) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OyDyn-0006s4-Oc; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:18:37 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OyDye-0004AQ-6l for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:18:28 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6201 Archived-At: Andre is very polite, I call such a subculture "ghetto", and Benabou=20 calls it "Category land". Joyal wrote: > Dear David, >=20 > I appreciate your view. > I would love to have the dictatorial power to reform=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 communi= ty. > The new word may become a tag for identifying the members of a group. > It may enclose its user into a sub-culture. >=20 > Best, > andr=E9 >=20 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]