Timeline for Who was the first to capitalize Real?
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| Aug 13, 2018 at 15:10 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | This reminds me of Bill Thurston's story about how, before he came up with the terminology "orbifold", he tried other terms. One of those was "manifolded". This led to conversations like "No, not manifold, manifolDEAD". | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 13:29 | history | edited | JBantje | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2018 at 4:11 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | @Gro-Tsen my suggestion would be to speak it as if it were a quote following a colon :"Real" which could be emphasized visually by finger wiggling | |
| Apr 16, 2018 at 14:57 | comment | added | JBantje | @Gro-Tsen When I'm discussing KR-theory with my advisor (in German) we usually say "real" instead of the German word "reell" to make the distinction … that's bearable, though a poor choice still | |
| Apr 16, 2018 at 14:41 | vote | accept | JBantje | ||
| Apr 16, 2018 at 13:54 | comment | added | LSpice | @Gro-Tsen, there is also the distinction in motivic integration between 'function' and 'Function'. (I agree about its desireability!) | |
| Apr 16, 2018 at 13:49 | comment | added | Ben McKay | Surely it would be better to write "complexified vector bundle" rather than "Real vector bundle". | |
| Apr 16, 2018 at 13:35 | comment | added | Gro-Tsen | I had never heard this terminology before, but it seems like an atrocious idea for a number of reasons to distinguish "real" and "Real" (how are you supposed to make the distinction orally? how are you supposed to start a sentence with "Real vector bundles"? and — of course this problem might have been unforeseeable when the term was invented — how are you supposed to search for this online? or simply, look it up in an encyclopedia?). | |
| Apr 16, 2018 at 11:13 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 17 | |
| Apr 16, 2018 at 9:59 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | Is there any reason to think that it was not Atiyah in the article mentioned? | |
| Apr 16, 2018 at 9:24 | history | asked | JBantje | CC BY-SA 3.0 |