Quanta Magazine "Map of Mathematics" missing foundations.

Annatala Wolf a.lupine at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 00:22:49 EST 2020


No. This is an unrelated image from a YouTube video on a similar topic.

To see Quanta's map, use the link I provided, scroll down a little, and
select "The Map" from the small set of buttons under any of the summaries.



On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 7:07 PM Joe Shipman <joeshipman at aol.com> wrote:

> It’s in the upper left corner of this “Map of Mathematics”:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/95869671@N08/32264483720
>
> Is this from the same artist?
>
> —JS
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 15, 2020, at 6:54 PM, Annatala Wolf <a.lupine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Quanta Magazine just released an interactive site it calls rather
> authoritatively "The Map of Mathematics", which links to some of the math
> articles Quanta has published over the years by classifying them into
> subfields:
>
> https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-map-of-mathematics-20200213
>
> The map itself is clearly geared toward a non-mathematical audience, but
> it's still rather disappointing that despite the attempt to touch on as
> many fields as possible, there's nary a mention of set theory, category
> theory, or even mathematical logic.
>
> I was going to comment about it, but the first person to comment had
> already pointed this out.
>
> Oddly enough, the Map article shows up under the set-theory tag anyway:
>
> https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/set-theory/
>
> Perhaps they made a mistake and intended to include it.
>
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