From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8036 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin McLarty Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Seeking an Eilenberg quote Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:55:45 -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 1393677968 30726 80.91.229.3 (1 Mar 2014 12:46:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 12:46:08 +0000 (UTC) To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sat Mar 01 13:46:16 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 1WJjJ1-0004mm-TB for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2014 13:46:16 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:34031) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WJjI3-00020F-Jk; Sat, 01 Mar 2014 08:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJjI2-0006ek-Fx for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sat, 01 Mar 2014 08:45:14 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8036 Archived-At: It seems to me I somewhere read that Eilenberg told his students you should not be able to explain a theorem you prove. That is, the right proof of the right theorem will clearer itself than any purported explanation could. Can anyone give me a good source for that, or for something like it? Or is it just not a reliable memory? best, Colin [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]