[FOM] pathology

[Martin Davis]

Everywhere continuous nowhere differentiable functions were once regarded
as pathological. At least since fractals have entered mathematical
discourse, they are commonplace.

I suspect that the concept of "pathological" is social rather than
mathematical.

Martin
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