3 Sep
2010
3 Sep
'10
6:46 a.m.
On 9/1/2010 12:21 PM, Eduardo J. Dubuc wrote:
I am wondering, nobody can read the mathematics and come up with what Grothendieck meant !!!
Eduardo raises an excellent point here. Which is more important for a contribution, its meaning or its influence? If the latter, a secondary question is, how was that influence achieved? Improved access to the contribution, e.g. via translation, may help those who understand the mathematics but not the French explain the influence, even if the original meaning remains obscure. Vaughan [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]