From phma@webjockey.net Wed May 01 14:00:04 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 1 May 2002 21:00:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 692 invoked from network); 1 May 2002 21:00:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 May 2002 21:00:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 May 2002 21:00:02 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0377C3C476; Wed, 1 May 2002 16:59:51 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] cipja'o Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 16:59:50 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0205011659500D.02045@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Wednesday 01 May 2002 15:19, Jay Kominek wrote: > A transcendental number is one which cannot be expressed as a polynomial > with integer coefficients. All transcendental numbes are irrational. As *a root of* a polynomial. > > We don't, of course, have a word for algebra either (nor hardly any > > other branch of mathematics -- or anything else). > > http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/?Math%20Terminology > > http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/?Terminology There are at least two different meanings of "algebra" within mathematics: 1. The method of manipulating equations so as to solve them. 2. A mathematical structure based on a field and satisfying certain axioms. They should be given different brivla in Lojban. phma