Timeline for ubiquity, importance of path algebras
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| Nov 16, 2009 at 3:20 | comment | added | Hugh Thomas | Actually, the nLab seems to have given up on redefining "quiver". | |
| Nov 15, 2009 at 18:34 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | I guess this is an issue for the nLab: ncatlab.org/nlab/show/quiver | |
| Nov 15, 2009 at 17:10 | comment | added | Hugh Thomas | I don't think the existence of synonyms is a big problem. Words with multiple conflicting definitions, on the other hand, are annoying. Your proposal fixes a synonym by introducing a conflict among definitions of "quiver". Even if everyone in the world made the change today, there would still be over thirty years of representation theory literature written using the old meaning of quiver. So I don't think your proposed change is an improvement. | |
| Nov 15, 2009 at 16:09 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Can't we just agree that a quiver is the free category on a directed graph? | |
| Nov 15, 2009 at 15:57 | history | answered | Hugh Thomas | CC BY-SA 2.5 |