Dear Mark, this is unfortunately a bad example. If you click through any of the results for "category" <http://terrytao.wordpress.com/?s=category> on Terry's page, you'll see that in nearly all cases, the only use of the word "category" is in "n-Category Cafe", which appears in the sidebar of every page, amongst the links to other blogs. best, Scott Morrison On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:21, Mark Weber <mark.weber.math@googlemail.com> wrote:
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
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