A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year....
I hope this new year has been treating you well. Be blessed.
WHAT'S OUT AND WHAT'S IN FOR MATHEMATICAL TERMS (Michael Stueben 11/07/1994)
Today it is considered an egregious faux pas to speak or write in the crude antedated terms of our grandfathers. To assist the isolated student and the less sophisticated teacher, I have prepared the following list of currently fashionable mathematical terms in academia. I pass this list on to the general public as a matter of charity and in the hope that is will lead to more refined elucidation from young scholars.
thinking: hypothesizing.
proof by contradiction or indirect proof: reductio ad absurdum.
mistake: non sequitur.
starting place: handle.
with corresponding changes: mutatis mutandis.
counterexample: pathological exception.
consequently: ipso facto.
swallowing results: digesting proofs.
therefore: ergo.
... to be continued....
