On 28/08/06, Mak <makwik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Mathematics is supposed to be a Wikipedia-like
undertaking," from
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/weekinreview/27johnson.html
It is funny to me that Wikipedia is showing up more and more in these
contexts.
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."
- d.