[A-List] March 1

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Sabri,
>
> 'Vahshet' or 'vahset' is basically an Arabic
> word and also adopted into Urdu, Persian and most
> of the eastern languages used in Pakistan and other
> nearby countries. In fact Turkish has much in common
> with Urdu, Arabic and Persian.
>
> Tariq

Brother Tariq,

As far as I know, Urdu is a language made up of Turkish, Persian
and Arabic and the word Urdu in Turkish means "Army". As I
recall, Urdu is the language of some "Army" that consisted mostly
of Turks migrating from Central Asia to Anatolia or some such
thing. But I leave it to the historians to give us more
information about it, as history is not my strong suit.

Not that I think I have any.

By the way, I don't want to offend you, but your assessment of
the Turkish AKP and its leader Tayyip appears to have turned out
to be incorrect. Tayyip seems to be a sold soul. I still don't
have any proof but I still think that Tayyip and his party were a
US creation, created as part of their strategy to dominate the
world. Apparently, it was a failed attempt on the pat of the US,
although we don't know what will happen next.

One of the things the students of mathematics, especially if they
are new to the subject, is that get confused with so many symbols
that they have to cope with. Unlike the usual belief, mathematics
is not about numbers, but about patterns and structures, and in
building these patterns and structures, you need to use names and
labels that are almost arbitrarily selected. For example, there
is no difference between x = y + z and z = x + y as long as you
define x, y and z appropriately.

So, I used to tell my students to ease their confusion:

"Names and labels are not important; facts are."

Yet, I still paid utmost attention to use the names and labels as
consistenly as I could so that they did not get confused much.

Best,

Sabri