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maths for aspiring chatelains
Some French real estate agents don’t try to sell you property, but a dream. There’s nothing wrong with pursuing dreams as long as you’re doing the necessary maths. If not, your dream may soon become an...
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Map of the Parisian mathematical scene 1933-39
#map2 img { max-width:none !important; padding:0px !important; } . Michele Audin has written a book on the history of the Julia seminar (hat tip +Chandan Dalawat via Google+). The “Julia Seminar” was...
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Grothendieck’s gribouillis (2)
We left the story of Grothendieck’s Lasserre notes early 2015, uncertain whether they would ever be made public. Some things have happened since. Georges Maltsiniotis gave a talk at the Gothendieck...
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NaNoWriMo (1)
Some weeks ago I did register to be a participant of NaNoWriMo 2016. It’s a belated new-year’s resolution. When PS (pseudonymous sister), always eager to fill a 10 second silence at family dinners,...
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Where is Fogas?
A reading suggestion for Grothendieck-stalkers crawling around the Ariège region, near Saint-Girons, in search of ‘another house’ : better bring along the Fogas Chronicles by Julia Stagg. Julia Stagg...
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a wintry chataigneraie
It took us some time to clear the array of old chestnut trees. But it paid off. A good harvest easily gives half a ton of chestnuts, including some rare, older varieties. In the autumn, the coloured...
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Grothendieck, at the theatre
A few days ago, the theatre production “Rêves et Motifs” (Dreams and Motives) was put on stage in Argenteuil by la Compagnie Les Rémouleurs. The stage director Anne Bitran only discovered...
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Grothendieck’s gribouillis (4)
Fortunately, there are a few certainties left in life: In spring, you might expect the next instalment of Connes’ and Consani’s quest for Gabriel’s topos. Here’s the latest:...
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Grothendieck stuff
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 genius of the...
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Chevalley’s circle of friends
Last week, Danielle Couty ArXiVed her paper Friendly views on Claude Chevalley (in French). From the abstract: “We propose to follow the itinerary of Claude Chevalley during the last twenty years of...
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Grothendieck meets Lacan
Next month, a weekend-meeting is organised in Paris on Lacan et Grothendieck, l’impossible rencontre?. Photo from Remembering my father, Jacques Lacan Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and...
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the topos of unconsciousness
Since wednesday, as mentioned last time, the book by Alain Connes and Patrick Gauthier-Lafaye: “A l’ombre de Grothendieck et de Lacan, un topos sur l’inconscient” is available in the better bookshops....
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The (somewhat less) Secret Bourbaki Archive
It has been many, many years since I’ve last visited the Bourbaki Archives. The underground repository of the Bourbaki Secret Archives is a storage facility built beneath the cave of the former...
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Le Guide Bourbaki : Marlotte
During the 1950ties, the Bourbakistas usually scheduled three meetings in the countryside. In the spring and autumn at places not too far from Paris (Royaumont, Celles-sur-plaines, Marlotte, Amboise…),...
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Le Guide Bourbaki : Sallieres-les-bains
For three summers in a row, Bourbaki held its congres in ‘Sallieres-les-bains’, located near Die, in the Drôme. La Tribu 36, from June 27th till July 9th 1955 La Tribu 39, from June 24th till July 7th...
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Le Guide Bourbaki : Amboise
Between 1955 and 1960 four Bourbaki congresses were held in Amboise, a small market town on the river Loire, and once home of the French royal court. La Tribu 38, from March 11th-17th 1956, ‘Congres...
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Le Guide Bourbaki : Pelvoux
Pelvoux is a former commune (now merged into Vallouise-Pelvoux) in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France. No less than five summer-Bourbaki...
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Le Guide Bourbaki : Murol(s)
The preparations for the unique Bourbaki-congress in Murols, start already in La Tribu 32 (fall 1953). On page 3: “Summer 54: To suit Phileas Chevalley, Sammy Fogg and eventual Mexicans and Colombians,...
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