Timeline for Co-Objects are better [closed]
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| Feb 15, 2010 at 7:54 | comment | added | David Eppstein | FWIW I would have been happy with "subjective and argumentative" as close reason. It's subjective in that the math is the same regardless of which way the arrows go, only our interpretations of it differ, and argumentative in the "my style of math is better than yours" direction. | |
| Jan 20, 2010 at 10:07 | comment | added | David Corfield | We discussed symmetry breaking in mathematics here golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/06/kan_lifts.html and here golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/… | |
| Jan 20, 2010 at 1:18 | comment | added | David E Speyer | For the record, the close dialogue has a discrete list of ways I can label the question. The only two which seemed even vaguely right were "not a real question" and "subjective and argumentative". If I could have written my own descriptor, I would have said something like "requires discussion, not an answer". | |
| Jan 20, 2010 at 0:59 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | ah, good to know that THIS is not a real question. | |
| Jan 19, 2010 at 20:48 | history | closed |
S. Carnahan♦ Mariano Suárez-Álvarez Qiaochu Yuan David E Speyer Andrew Stacey |
not a real question | |
| Jan 19, 2010 at 20:29 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | @Emerton: I agree with all of your points, but they don't seem to support the claim that this site is a good place for this question. My personal opinion is that MathOverflow would be better without moving in the direction of psychological musing. That is not to say that I dislike questions about monads/comonads, limits/colimits and so on. | |
| Jan 19, 2010 at 18:57 | answer | added | Emerton | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 19, 2010 at 18:47 | comment | added | Emerton | I think that this is an interesting question. There is a famous remark, attributed to Deligne, that "all problems in mathematics are psychological". I think that this remark has a very strong grain of truth to it, and I know that I am not alone in doing so. In my view, reflecting on questions like Martin's is one way to build up psychological strength. And, with all due respect to the n-category cafe, he didn't solicit the view of the participants in that forum, but rather, of the participants on this site. | |
| Jan 19, 2010 at 18:28 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | Sorry, I'm voting to close. | |
| Jan 19, 2010 at 18:21 | comment | added | David E Speyer | It's an interesting question, but I think it would do better at a blog or forum than here. Can someone find the n-cafe link Qiaochu mentions? Those folks don't seem to mind restarting old conversations. | |
| Jan 19, 2010 at 18:16 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Martin Brandenburg | ||
| Jan 19, 2010 at 18:14 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | It's borderline. I think as written it's more appropriate for a blog (and in fact I remember the n-category cafe having a discussion like this). | |
| Jan 19, 2010 at 18:09 | history | asked | Martin Brandenburg | CC BY-SA 2.5 |