Epsilontist
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:11 pm
"Epsilontist" is a word used by Paul Halmos in his essay "How to write mathematics". It appears in this sentence:
Is anything known about its origin and established definition?
The essay can be found online at https://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty ... oWrite.pdf and appears on page 142. But I've never seen the word elsewhere, and an online query doesn't find anything at all.Symbolic presentation, in the sense of either the modem logician
or the classical epsilontist, is something that machines can write and few
but machines can read.
Is anything known about its origin and established definition?