Tag: Cartier’s Groundhog Day
This journal a year ago yesterday— “Some designs work subtly. Others are successful through sheer force.” — Penelope Green Subtly: Sheer force:
Yesterday's 11 AM post Mad Day concluded with a link to a 2001 American Mathematical Society article by Pierre Cartier that sums up the religion and politics of many mathematicians……
A perceptive review of Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life— "Page 185: 'Whatever else we are, we are also mad.' " Related material— last night's Outside the…