22 Dec
2009
22 Dec
'09
12:21 p.m.
Dear Michael, 2009/12/21 Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
... His reply essentially was, "Oh, it's category theory language. Well, I won't allow any of that in MY notes. No analyst would use that language."
There's an easy reply to people infected with such silliness -- ask them if Terry Tao is an analyst, to which they'd probably reply "of course", and then tell them go to Tao's blog http://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and do a search for "category" (the search bar on Terry's page is on the left just below "recent comments"). The results will speak for themselves. Mark Weber [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]