Timeline for Why is "abelian" infrequently capitalized?
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| Nov 2, 2018 at 16:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 13, 2012 at 13:05 | comment | added | Juan Bermejo Vega | By the way, maybe it would be interesting to ask this again in the English Usage SE. | |
| Feb 4, 2011 at 3:40 | comment | added | Yaakov Baruch | Replacing English with Hebrew would solve all these problems. | |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 22:12 | answer | added | John Bentin | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 22:55 | comment | added | Spiro Karigiannis | @Tunococ: Yes, we do. The solution is to use a hyphen. It should be co-Cartesian, pseudo-Riemannian, non-Abelian. | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 22:29 | comment | added | Tunococ | If you were to capitalize Cartesian, would you also write coCartesian? | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 22:26 | comment | added | Qfwfq | In some languages, such as Italian, capitalizing an adjective that comes from a name is a grammar mistake. | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 22:07 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | @Gerry--fixed two attributions. Was pasting from meta and lost formatting, along with my place. Thanks. | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 22:06 | history | edited | Steve Huntsman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 5, 2010 at 21:22 | comment | added | gowers | I don't want to dictate what others do, but I myself have a consistent convention: I capitalize the lot. | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 21:07 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | I think you are crediting me with words written by another. | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 20:17 | comment | added | Dror Speiser | Having one's name an uncapitalized mathematical adjective is the highest honor a mathematician can get | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 19:54 | answer | added | André Henriques | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 17:44 | answer | added | Tom Goodwillie | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 15:42 | answer | added | Michael Hardy | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 14:47 | answer | added | Denis Serre | timeline score: 19 | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 14:46 | answer | added | Ketil Tveiten | timeline score: 15 | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 14:20 | answer | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | timeline score: 32 | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 14:01 | history | asked | Steve Huntsman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |