On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Rob Beezer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 13, 3:37 pm, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote: >> In the context of homological algebra its pretty common to talk about lifts,
Huge +1. Using the word "lift" for precisely what I used it for (in the function under consideration) is very common in certain areas of mathematical research. I didn't even think twice about it when I introduced that function. That said, you have a valid point about "lift' not being sufficiently evocative for newbies. > > Thanks, Volker. So if you know homological algebra, "lift" works for > you. ;-) Good to know it is not as far-fetched as I have thought. > > Though as usual, I'm looking out for the newbies (mathematically). > > Proposal: make "preimage_representative" an alias for "lift"? That's a pretty good idea. William > > Rob > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
