From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6271 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Todd Trimble Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: potential names Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:40:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Todd Trimble NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286025263 29563 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2010 13:14:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 13:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Categories list To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joyal=2C_Andr=E9?= Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sat Oct 02 15:14:22 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 1P21uu-00019e-Kw for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:14:20 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:53847) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P21u5-0003q3-Rk; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:13:29 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P21u3-0006zp-2j for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:13:27 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6271 Archived-At: Of the choices offered here, I like "precarious", "unstable", or "fragile". I just thought of "risky" myself. Good, experienced mathematicians will know when it's okay to take "risks" (and will be aware of what the risks are). "Unstable" seems like a very sober choice, not too likely to ruffle feathers. I encourage anyone who cares about this issue to take a look at the current discussion at the nForum: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~stacey/Mathforge/nForum/comments.php?DiscussionI= D=3D1886 You will see that opinions are divided even among workers in the nLab. Todd ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Joyal, Andr=E9" To: "Juergen Koslowski" Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:57 AM Subject: categories: potential names Dear Juergen, You wrote: >Let me start by proposing "equi-unstable" and "precarious" as possible >replacements for "evil". I agree that we should explore various options. Strickly speaking, there is no need for a new terminology since "non-invariant" has been used in the past and it is working pretty well. Let me draw a list of potential names. I have added a few: non-invariant equi-unstable precarious unstable fragile private I invite everyone to contribute to the list. Best, AJ [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]