From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7968 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin McLarty Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Seeking a quote about 1930s algebraic topology Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:02:04 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: Colin McLarty NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389062170 28006 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2014 02:36:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 02:36:10 +0000 (UTC) To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue Jan 07 03:36:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.186]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0MWf-0008Hi-GB for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 03:36:17 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:51439) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W0MV8-0001ZV-TU; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0MV9-0004z5-JY for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:34:43 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7968 Archived-At: It seems to me I recall someone, maybe Eilenberg, saying they gave a talk at Harvard in the 1930s on algebraic topology, where someone in the audience said the subject had reached a level of complexity that it would not be able to sustain. Can anyone here confirm that? Or can someone correct me by giving a different story that I might have confused in my memory? best, Colin [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]