Copyright
This document is in the public domain and so unlimited alteration, reproduction, and distribution by anyone are
permitted.
Authorship
This preliminary discussion of project QED (very tentative
name) is an amalgam of many ideas that many people have had and for
which perhaps no one alive today deserves much credit. We are
deliberately avoiding any authorship or institutional affiliation at
this early stage in the project (and may decide to do so forever) in
the hope that many will want to join in the project as principals,
even as originators (to the extent that anyone alive today could be
thought to be an originator of this project). Some of those involved
in the project would much rather that QED be completed than that they,
as individuals, be lucky enough to partake significantly in the
project, much less get any public credit for its completion. It may
seem paranoid to avoid personalities, but we are inspired by the
extraordinary cooperation achieved in the Bourbaki series in an
atmosphere of anonymity.
created 31/12/95 modified 11/1/96
