Timeline for Motives versus Motifs
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| Jan 8 at 21:58 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Ben Webster♦ | ||
| May 15, 2010 at 14:04 | comment | added | Xandi Tuni | It firmly remains my opinion that the term "motif", alluding to a pattern, a recurring element in a story or a theme would have been the better of the choices, whereas "motive" sounds forensic to me. The orthographical question, whether "motif" may be spelled "motive" as I take from Milne's comment, is a different one - if one can do so, just write "motive" and never explain what you mean by it. | |
| May 15, 2010 at 13:56 | comment | added | ogerard | @Xandi: I would like to see more non-native french speaker publish mathematical articles in french, but the arrogant style of your answer is certainly not going to help. | |
| May 15, 2010 at 13:24 | comment | added | Donu Arapura | So then it appears that either way is correct. | |
| May 15, 2010 at 13:11 | comment | added | Xandi Tuni | Par ce terme [motif] j'entends suggérer qu'il s'agit du "motif commun" (ou de la raison commune) à cette multitude d'invariants cohomologiques différents associés à la variété. [Recoltes et semailles SS16] | |
| May 15, 2010 at 12:09 | history | answered | Xandi Tuni | CC BY-SA 2.5 |