The French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss once observed “In Paris, intellectuals need a new toy every 15 years.” Some pointers to applications of their… Related posts: ...
These three ideas (re)surfaced over the last two decades, claiming to have potential applications to major open problems: (2000) $mathbb{F}_1$-geometry tries to view $mathbf{Spec}(mathbb{Z})$ as�...
January 13th, Gallimard published Grothendieck’s text Recoltes et Semailles in a fancy box containing two books. Here’s a G-translation of Gallimard’s blurb: “Considered the mathematical�...
No, this is not another timely post about the British Royal family. It’s about Richard Borcherds’ “teapot test” for quantum computers. A lot of money… Related posts: dinner’s ready ...
I’m on vacation, and re-reading two ‘metabiographies’: Philippe Douroux : Alexandre Grothendieck : Sur les traces du dernier génie des mathématiques and Siobhan Roberts :… Related post...
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I’m back in Antwerp for over a week now, and finally got hold of our copy of Shimura’s “Introduction to the arithmetic theory of automorphic… Related posts: Mappalujo way too ambitious ...
Smullyan found himself in a very strange country indeed! All the inhabitants of this country are completely truthful – they always tell you honestly what… Related posts: Boolean and Heyting ...
http://www.neverendingbooks.org/smullyan-on-the-presidents-sanity
My one and only resolution for 2018: ban vampires from my life! Here’s the story. In the 1920’s, Montparnasse was at the heart of the… Related posts: the mathematician of cubism changes ...
http://www.neverendingbooks.org/brancusis-advice-avoid-vampires
Earlier today, John Duncan (of moonshine fame) emailed he was unable to post a comment to the previous post: “I went to post a comment… Related posts: From WordPress to ePublishing (1) wp-l...
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Please allow for a couple of end-of-semester bluesy ramblings. I just finished grading the final test of the last of five courses I lectured this… Related posts: driven by ambition and sloth ...