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[Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)]

In <m0scsu.8xu at spenarnc.xs4all.nl>, on 03/12/2012
   at 07:00 PM, Albert van der Horst <albert at spenarnc.xs4all.nl> said:

>I know, but what the mathematicians do make so much more sense:

Not really; Mathematical notation is a matter of convention, and the
conventions owe as much to History as they do to logical necessity.
The conventions aren't even the same from author to author, e.g.,
whether "field" implies Abelian.

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