[FRIAM] guidance requested

[Frank Wimberly]

Oh, yes.  When I was an undergraduate in math at Berkeley I worked in the
math library.  We had multiple copies of the complete works of Bourbaki
(ten or fifteen volumes, three copies each).  This group was very important
in standardizing math terminology among other things.  Graduate students
checked those out very frequently.  Their choice of math terms appears to
be very "Franch" e.g. "surjective" for "onto".

Frank

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 10:52 AM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm>
wrote:

> Silly me; I just discovered that Nicolas Bourbaki — despite publishing
> numerous papers and authoring a classical math text, inventor of injective,
> surjective, and bijective functions — did not exist (at least as an
> individual person).
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, at 7:32 AM, Prof David West wrote:
>
> thank you Carl and Frank.
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020, at 10:46 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
>
> Ok, there are various mathematician's blogs, but this one is pretty up
> front with how she thinks.
> https://www.math3ma.com
> I particularly appreciate her ability to illustrate her thought processes
> with diagrams.
>
> For examples, I was particularly fond of
> https://www.math3ma.com/blog/the-yoneda-perspective
> and
> https://www.math3ma.com/blog/at-the-interface-of-algebra-and-statistics
>
> I liked the illustrations of more basic stuff as well.
>
> For another less, um, colorful reference, I'd direct you to "Drawing
> Theories Apart", by David Kaiser.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Theories-Apart-Dispersion-Diagrams/dp/0226422674
>
> Haven't gone into it much, and I doubt it addresses your question as much
> as the other links,
> but the brilliant.org folks look interesting.
>
> Enjoy!
> Carl
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 8:42 PM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
>
> The following is a simplistic article about how mathematicians think.
>
>
> https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-psychology-behind-mathematical-thinking-4fdc3ab32bfe
>
> I find the idea behind the article interesting and, when I have time, will
> follow up trying to find 'real' stuff to read. But, if any of you are
> feeling generous and would supply me with some pointers or directions; I
> will really appreciate it.
>
> davew
>
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