Subject: Re: [lojban] 2 maths questions

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 23:14:30 -0400

>These words can never come into conflict with their
>ordinary meanings anyway. The only one that could be
>probelmatic is {girzu}, because other mathematical
>concepts might also want it.

You'd be surprised by the way technical terms can conflict. Leonard Adleman has
demonstrated finding the solution to a graph-theory problem by putting DNA
fragments in solution and letting them combine. Even within one field of study,
terms can conflict; there are two mathematical meanings of "graph", for
instance.

I propose sujgirzu for group and piljygirzu for ring. I was going to say
fedgirzu for division ring, but lenu fendi does not appear to be a mathematical
operation.

phma