▽Bertrand Meyer's technology blog ●02/06 17:40 Impressive! That was a time of highest scientific productivity for Pasteur (in spite of major personal tragedies), with one breathtaking discovery after the other, including anaerobiosis (life without air), pioneering studies of fermentation, preparing and performing numerous experiments, carefully refuting spontaneous generation… He was also a dedicated teacher, giving numerous lectures and expos
▽The n-Category Café ●02/06 11:30 n-Categoryの人達 February 4, 2025A Characterization of Standard Borel SpacesPosted by John BaezPeople in measure theory find it best to work with, not arbitrary measurable spaces, but certain nice ones called standard Borel spaces. I’ve used them myself.The usual definition of these looks kind of clunky: a standard Borel space is a set XX equipped with a σ\sigma-algebra Σ\Sigma for which there exists a comp