{"id":7930,"date":"2016-11-09T14:02:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:02:46","slug":"the-italians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/the-italians\/","title":{"rendered":"The Italians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book review by Gian-Carlo Rota [1991], Editor of Advances in Mathematics (volume 88, issue 2, page 301):<br \/>\nReview of:\u00a0 S. S. ABHYANKAR:\u00a0 <em>Algebraic Geometry for Scientists and Engineers<\/em>. American Mathematics Society, 1990, 295 pp.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry, the taboos are (a) giving an exposition that can be followed by anyone but one\u2019s two or three closest friends, (b) claiming that a result has any applications whatsoever, (c) mentioning the word \u201ccombinatorial,\u201d (d) claiming that any mathematics existed before Grothendieck (only some vague handwaving references to \u201cthe Italians\u201d are occasionally allowed, provided they are not supported by bibliographical data). Abhyankar has violated all these taboos. He\u2019d better get himself some bodyguards.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book review by Gian-Carlo Rota [1991], Editor of Advances in Mathematics (volume 88, issue 2, page 301): Review of:\u00a0 S. S. ABHYANKAR:\u00a0 Algebraic Geometry for Scientists and Engineers. American Mathematics Society, 1990, 295 pp. Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry, the taboos are (a) giving an exposition that can be followed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-reviews","p1","y2016","m11","d09","h14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}