User talk:Cnilep/Archive/04 June 2010

Abuse of language
I agree with the reversion of this edit. What was being referred to was not a mistake, but rather a conventional simplification of language in which a term is not meant literally but is expected to be understood. Michael Hardy (talk) 20:33, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I will defer to you and to User:Sławomir Biały on proper wording. Since Abuse of language is now a disambiguation page, should the internal link be changed to Abuse of notation?


 * Note, to, that I made similar changes to the following pages. These may well have introduced a similar error. I would appreciate your help in correcting any errors I have introduced.


 * Laplace transform
 * Involution (mathematics)
 * Point reflection
 * Polynomial identity ring
 * Thanks for your help, Cnilep (talk) 20:43, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Not all abuse of language in mathematics is abuse of notation, and I don't think this is such a case. Probably more about abuse of language in mathematics should be included in the article space somewhere. Michael Hardy (talk) 20:49, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, but linking to the DAB page is probably not very informative, is it? I note this from Abuse of notation: "Abuse of language is an almost synonymous expression that is usually used for non-notational abuses. For example, while the word representation properly designates a group homomorphism from a group G to GL(V) where V is a vector space, it is common to call V 'a representation of G.'" Is there yet another meaning that needs to be described somewhere? Cnilep (talk) 20:52, 4 June 2010 (UTC)