Subject: categories: Re: Upper case and lower case

From: David V Feldman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:10:25 -0400 (EDT)

>  In mathematics many structures  are named 
> after some one's name. For example, Boolean 
> algebra, Hermitian matrices, Hausdorff 
> space, Euclidean space. The first letters of 
> the person's name are usually in upper case. 
> The only exception I have seen are the 
> abelian group and sober space. Does any one 
> know why these two cases are different from 
> others?
> 
>  Thanks
> 
>  Zhao Dongsheng   
> 
> 
> 

Fred Linton explains the term sober space this way:
if you haven't been drinking you don't see double
(so you don't want any pair of points belonging to
the same set of open sets) and you certainly don't
see any pink elements (irreducible closed sets
with no generic point).

David Feldman