| o научной ситуации в Париже |
[Aug. 8th, 2006|02:06 am] |
Paris seems to be getting more gloomy every year as far as the scientific atmosphere goes. Everyone incubates his own ideas in his own corner, and the seminars are turning into some kind of social ritual, after which everyone runs home as fast as possible...The young researchers maintain a respectful distance from their hierarchical seniors, and moreover, since they often force themselves to follow about ten lecture course and seminars a week, they not necessarily have a lot of time left for thinking, and they therefore do not always have much to say, or even to ask.
Obviously, foreign mathematicians have started to notice this state of affairs, even if they are too tactful to say anything without being asked. I have talked to several of them about it, such as Zariksi, Tate and Chern, because it was starting to embarrass me. [....] I am starting to realise that the long military has a disastrous influence. [...] he will be useless for several years as an insider or at least as a Parisian i.e. someone who contributes to the fertility of the scientific atmosphere of Paris. Cartier has not been a Parisian for ages [...] Just when Gabriel is beginning to be interesting, off he goes to the army [...] we can't invite him to IHES. [....] I managed to scrape four or five [..] with vague glimmers of understanding, and one or two of whom appeared to be about to start on some useful and even urgent work, namely Verdier and Giraud. If I do not actually have the impression of preaching in the wilderness in Paris, I am at least certain of building on sand.
We cannot require the soldiers or the politicians or the princes that govern us to be aware of the psychological subtleties of scientific research...[]
It is strange that the French, with their reputation of rebelliousness, are in fact less politically-minded then the Americans. I am also thinking of the fact that it is impossible for a foreigner to teach in a State institutional in France, despite a dearth of teachers with its becoming
more acute every year. To the best of knowledge, although all academics personally agree that this law is out-dated and absurd, none of them have ever raised the question with public opinion and public authority, and the timid changes to th ethics law (foreigners in the CNRS, temporary associate professorships for foreigners) were not even initiated by academics "who should know".
Grothendieck to Cartan, 10.22.61 |
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А целиком есть? А то очень много [...].
Спасибо! Я просто посмотрю в книжке.
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| Date: | August 8th, 2006 - 01:54 am |
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