From: Johannes Huebschmann <huebschm@math.univ-lille1.fr>
To: Colin McLarty <colin.mclarty@case.edu>
Cc: "categories@mta.ca" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Seeking a quote about 1930s algebraic topology
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:19:33 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1W101s-00018E-JE@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1W0MV9-0004z5-JY@mlist.mta.ca>
I recall an Eilenberg quote from the 1960's
"Algebraic topology is a strange and bewildering field ... "
I guess a google search yields the source right away.
Best
Johannes
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014, Colin McLarty wrote:
> 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
>
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2014-01-05 16:02 Colin McLarty
2014-01-07 16:19 ` Johannes Huebschmann [this message]
2014-01-09 2:02 ` Tadeusz Litak
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