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Re: heat again "Never as a Noun"



As the person who brought the Bohren and Albrecht quote to the
attention of the editor of AJP, I'd also like to draw the list's
attention to the quote on page 568 (which I never saw before):

"If you think you can invent better words than those currently in
use, you are undoubtedly right. However, you are rather unlikely
to get many people except your own students to accept your
terminology; and it is unkind to make it hard for your students
to understand anyone else's writing. One Bourbaki per century
produces about all the neologisms that the mathematical community
can absorb." --Ralph P. Boas, Jr. (see AJP 69, 568 for full citation).

-dan