"abelian" vs. "Abelian"

[jm58660]

It needs a little work to change "abelian" to "Abelian", as some of the strings are generated. This is kind of spin-off from #19753.

Component: misc

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19942

[jhpalmieri]

comment:1

There is no compelling reason to change "abelian" to "Abelian". I think this should be closed.

[jm58660]

comment:2

Replying to @jhpalmieri:

There is no compelling reason to change "abelian" to "Abelian". I think this should be closed.

Not a big thing, but this would be consistent with for example #19788. At least Wikipedia uses always caps for Abelian, Hamiltonian etc.

(But of course english is not my own language, so I let others to decide this.)

[jhpalmieri]

comment:3

Replying to @jm58660:

Replying to @jhpalmieri:

There is no compelling reason to change "abelian" to "Abelian". I think this should be closed.

Not a big thing, but this would be consistent with for example #19788. At least Wikipedia uses always caps for Abelian, Hamiltonian etc.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_group#A_note_on_the_typography.

That is, I don't think there is consistency in the mathematical world for the capitalization, or not, of "abelian".

[tscrim]

comment:4

Someone once joked to me that Abel has received the greatest prize in mathematics, a lowercase letter. It's fairly ubiquitous to use "abelian", so I would suggest closing this ticket.

[jm58660]

comment:5

Replying to @tscrim:

Someone once joked to me that Abel has received the greatest prize in mathematics, a lowercase letter. It's fairly ubiquitous to use "abelian", so I would suggest closing this ticket.

OK, please mark positive review. (Or actually, Volker will decide when closing this.)