John Cremona: > Please can we just use "mathematics" and not argue about abbreviations? -- > John
+1000 On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Schroeder <mtthwschroe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear John, > > Thank you for your interest in resolving this problem. > > To answer your question I am referring to > http://www.sagemath.org/tour-quickstart.html. I was reading this to get an > idea of what SAGE can do, when I hit this road block :) > > "Sort of supports" my point? I tracked down a video of an interview with a > professor of Linguistics, within which she addresses this very issue. > During these dark times in America (and the world) > in which the expert is increasingly marginalized, I am surprised to see Dr. > Murphy's comments so readily dismissed here in an academic forum. Please > visit her home page at the University > of Sussex. On her homepage you will see that Dr Murphy's areas of expertise > include "American English" and "British English". In watching the video, I > was struck by the rich and long history of this problem. > I was hoping that by presenting this information, others would have the > intellectual honesty to move past their individual preferences and just > consider the facts. Doing this seems the only way that mistakes like > "Maths" > will ever be corrected. > > > > On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 4:03:05 PM UTC-8, Matthew Schroeder wrote: >> >> In the headings of the quick start it says things like "Symbolic Maths" >> and "Numerical Maths" >> >> It is MATH not MATHS. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
