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| ``linguistic whine''
by rspuzio on 2007-03-16 01:08:26 |
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| Why does English have to be cursed with this awful choice of
term "field" for this concept which happend to coincide with
a completely unrelated concept in differential geometry??!!!?
In other languages, the situation is much better --- for
instance, in Polish, one says "cialo" for the algebraic
concept and "pole" for the geometric concept; in Greek, one
says "soma" for the algebraic concept and "pedion" for the
geometric concept; in French, one says "corps" for the
algebraic concept and "champs" for the geometric concept....
It would be a lot saner if English followed the pattern
of other Indo-European languages and called this thing "body"
and reserved the term "field" for the geometric notion.
By the way, Pahio, how is the situation in the Finnish? |
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