# 抽象废话

## 注解和引用

1. ^ 1.0 1.1 埃里克·韦斯坦因, Abstract Nonsense at MathWorld
2. ^ 2.0 2.1 Michael Monastyrsky, Some Trends in Modern Mathematics and the Fields Medal. Can. Math. Soc. Notes, March and April 2001, Volume 33, nos. 2 and 3. Online version available at http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/aboutus/FieldsMedal_Monastyrsky.pdf.
"In algebra, the term “abstract nonsense” has a definite meaning without any pejorative connotation."
3. ^ Saunders Mac Lane. "The PNAS way back then". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 94, pp. 5983–5985, June 1997.
"The first of these papers is a more striking case; it introduced the very abstract idea of a "category"—a subject then called "general abstract nonsense"!"
4. ^ An Application of Abstract Nonsense to Surface Area, Harriet Lord
5. ^ Abstract Nonsense for Functional Programmers, Edsko de Vries
6. ^ Colin McLarty, The Uses and Abuses of the History of Topos Theory, Brit. J. Phil. Sci, 41 (1990) p 355.
"Steenrod jokingly tagged category theory 'abstract nonsense' and made it central to his axiomatics for homology"
7. ^ Joseph Rotman, "An Introduction to Homological Algebra, by Charles A. Weibel" (book review), Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 33:4 (Oct. 1996) 473–476.
"The self-deprecating phrase general abstract nonsense (due to Steenrod) was promulgated by Eilenberg and Mac Lane, two of the major innovators of homological algebra, to highlight this aspect of the subject."
8. ^ Serge Lang, "Algebra" Second Edition, Addison Wesley, 1984, p 175