Timeline for What does the term "yoga" mean in mathematics?
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| Jun 7, 2011 at 14:33 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Adding to Dima's comment, there is also the eightfold way in physics (and more particularly, representations of SU(3) as used in physics): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_Way_%28physics%29 | |
| May 6, 2011 at 13:37 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | To my mind (and at the risk of getting discussion-y), the term "calculus" is more often used to refer to something more codified and constrained by rules (the propositional calculus, the predicate calculus, the calculus of relations, the lambda calculus, a sequent calculus, the calculus of dependent types, and even the differential calculus). We need a term for a body of techniques which has not yet been completely codified, and "yoga", whether you like it or not, is used for that purpose. This is at the level of description, not prescription (or proscription). | |
| May 6, 2011 at 5:45 | vote | accept | Sridhar Ramesh | ||
| May 6, 2011 at 4:00 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | In my opinion wherever you say "yoga" as it is usually (mis?)used in mathematics, you could actually say "calculus" as that word should be properly used (e.g., "Kirby calculus"). | |
| May 6, 2011 at 3:53 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | there is also a "Buddhist" tradition in naming of maths techniques, cf. "12-fold way" in enumerative combinatorics... | |
| May 6, 2011 at 2:39 | vote | accept | Sridhar Ramesh | ||
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| May 6, 2011 at 2:28 | answer | added | Dan Petersen | timeline score: 39 | |
| May 6, 2011 at 1:55 | answer | added | Allen Knutson | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 6, 2011 at 1:28 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Gian-Carlo Rota use the term when writing about all the different ways of defining matroids. | |
| May 6, 2011 at 1:23 | answer | added | Todd Trimble | timeline score: 18 | |
| May 6, 2011 at 0:59 | history | asked | Sridhar Ramesh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |