I remember one
occasion when I
tried to add a
little seasoning to
a review, but I
wasn't allowed to.
The paper was by
Dorothy Maharam, and
it was a perfectly
sound contribution
to abstract measure
theory. The domains
of the underlying
measures were not
sets but elements of
more general Boolean
algebras, and their
range consisted not
of positive numbers
but of certain
abstract equivalence
classes. My proposed
first sentence was:
"The author
discusses valueless
measures in
pointless spaces."
Citation:
I Want to Be a
Mathematician,
Washington: MAA
Spectrum, 1985, p.
120.