From: Tadeusz Litak <tadeusz.litak@gmail.com>
To: Colin McLarty <colin.mclarty@case.edu>,
"categories@mta.ca" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Seeking a quote about 1930s algebraic topology
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:02:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1W1FKJ-0006CF-17@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1W0MV9-0004z5-JY@mlist.mta.ca>
On 1/5/14 5:02 PM, 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?
It wasn't the audience of Eilenberg's talk, but the source of the story seems to be MacLane's paper about his work in
topology. MacLane wrote tentatively this was said by somebody attending a talk by Tucker or perhaps Steenrod. See:
http://eilenberg100.ptm.org.pl/sites/default/files/documents/the-work-of-samuel-eilenberg-in-topology.pdf
Best wishes,
t.
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2014-01-05 16:02 Colin McLarty
2014-01-07 16:19 ` Johannes Huebschmann
2014-01-09 2:02 ` Tadeusz Litak [this message]
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