Oct
25
Math’s use of language
Filed Under hisabati, sayansi, tarakirishi by Mucheru
Here’s a gem from the Ars mathamatica blog.I don’t think I could put it better if I tried.
You know, mathematical terminology cannot be parodied. Mathematicians have invented groups, semigroups, quasigroups, pseudogroups, and two mostly-unrelated concepts both known as groupoids. They have invented both formal groups and quantum groups, neither of which are kinds of groups. And while the study of groups is a branch of algebra, most groups are not, in fact, algebraic.
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