It seems the history of mathematics is endlessly tricky.
we are watching in real time that all history is endlessly tricky and terrible. some of us settled on math precisely because it seemed less terribly tricky than the rest. i was under a solemn oath after the high-school that whatever i might do in my life the only requirement was that it should have nothing to do with math, which seemed like people competing who is smarter. i settled on it after i destroyed one relationship after another just proving stuff all the time. so it is a little ironic to find on the other end the history of mathematics being the tricky part. :) -- dusko
Ross Street <ross.street@mq.edu.au> writes: [snip]
however there would have been discussion of terminology at the LaJolla conference. Very tricky!
Ross
On 14 Nov 2023, at 9:14 am, John Baez <john.baez@ucr.edu> wrote:
Hi -
It is not very important, but I was amused to discover recently that [snip] out problematic cases caused by coincidental equations between objects.
It seems the history of mathematics is endlessly tricky.
Best, John Baez
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