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> Pop quiz: out of the journals Aequationes mathematicae, Indagationes mathematicae, Inventiones mathematicae, Quaestiones mathematicae, three are mediocre and
by ableal 5y ago
> Pop quiz: out of the journals Aequationes mathematicae, Indagationes mathematicae, Inventiones mathematicae, Quaestiones mathematicae, three are mediocre and one is absolutely top-notch. Without googling can you guess which?
Is the good one Indagationes ?
(Edit: looks likely. I picked it because it seemed the better name)
- impendia 5y agoBzzzt. :) Yeah, that's the only one whose meaning you can't guess if you don't read Latin. Inventiones, as it turns out.
- ableal 5y agoNative Portuguese speaker here - "indagações" (pronounced pretty close to the Latin), is an infrequently used word meaning asking questions ;-) Seems the Italians kept it around in the original spelling, too. P.S. Hey, it's English, just barely: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indagate https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indagate