On 8/28/06, David Gerard dgerard@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