On 8/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The whole sentence is an interesting view of what we
do as well:
"Mathematics is supposed to be a Wikipedia-like undertaking, with
thousands of self-effacing scriveners quietly laboring over a great
self-correcting text."
And the next: "But in any endeavor — literature, art, science,
theology — a celebrity system develops and egos get in the way."
Taking that naively, it sounds like they're holding Wikipedia up as
the ideal - free from these problems - and mathematics as its flawed
application?
Steve