Timeline for Understanding a quip from Gian-Carlo Rota
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| May 24, 2017 at 14:26 | history | edited | Abdelmalek Abdesselam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 24, 2017 at 13:26 | comment | added | Abdelmalek Abdesselam | @Christian: "100%", "THE correct interpretation", "perfectly obvious", "very misleading", "correct answer: nothing"... That's a bit much don't you think? | |
| May 23, 2017 at 21:29 | comment | added | Christian Remling | This is, in my opinion at least, 100% the correct interpretation. I think this becomes perfectly obvious if one reads the complete quote, which is actually not at all aimed at $K$ theory, categories and functors etc., but rather at the "hero worship" mentioned parenthetically in the OP. The paragraph quoted in the OP is, as it were, tacked on at the end of the piece when all the main points have already been made, and it's very misleading to now wonder what R may have wanted to say about $K$ theory (correct answer: nothing). | |
| May 23, 2017 at 21:20 | comment | added | Abdelmalek Abdesselam | I don't know how many articles by Rota you read, but from my reading of his work I would tend to opt, when in doubt, for the most provocative interpretation...:) | |
| May 23, 2017 at 21:14 | comment | added | Will Sawin | @AbdelmalekAbdesselam Regardless, I have tried to say something in response to the mathematical question by mentioning a connection that is slightly different from those previously described. I will try to expand on it later. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 21:11 | comment | added | Will Sawin | @AbdelmalekAbdesselam I don't think we disagree as much as we seem to. I agree with both what you wrote in your answer and in your comment. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 21:10 | history | edited | Will Sawin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2017 at 21:09 | comment | added | Abdelmalek Abdesselam | You may be right but we can't know for sure since, as I said in my answer, Rota is not around anymore. Anyway, I don't see the point of trying to spin what he said into a watered-down version regarding the (I think intentional) provocative aspects. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 20:55 | history | answered | Will Sawin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |