[FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

[Carl Tollander]

Folks that are interested in the structure of scientific communities 
might be
interested in some of David Corfield's work.  It's aimed primarily at the
intersection of the math and philosophy communities, but seems to me to 
have
some cross-application to some of the issues in this thread.  The references
seem to have different roots than those mentioned here so far
(which is not an argument for better, just different).

http://www.dcorfield.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/HowMathematicians.pdf

His conclusions may take some getting used to.

He's also one of the primary contributors to The n-Category Cafe at
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/

Carl