Kom iedereen tegen

перечитывая классиков
неожиданная кульминация длинного (и местами занудного)
разговора известного пользователя sowa с Тао, Гауэрсом и
проходившими мимо математиками, про, без сомнения, очень важные
материи, сюрреалистичная в своей непосредственности, и потому
мне показавшаяся очень весёлой.

sowa Says:
March 26, 2013 at 1:48 pm

To Emmanuel Kowalski:

This looks very convincing for some, probably. But before your comment
all tried use really significant and already known to relatively wide
audience results. Now you pick up two highly specialized short notes
which mention that some combinatorial theorems are used. The abstracts
look like their authors (most of whom are known to me as
mathematicians) met at some conference and proved a couple of liitle
results during a break.

Emmanuel Kowalski Says:

March 26, 2013 at 5:57 pm

I don’t particularly believe in two cultures either (except maybe
open-mindedness versus closed-mindedness, which seems to me to be a
psychological reality), but since there was a claim of applications
going in one direction, why shouldn’t examples in the opposite
direction be relevant?

(Note: I have no idea what “before your comment all tried use really
significant and already known to relatively wide audience results”
could possibly mean).

Matthew Emerton Says:
March 26, 2013 at 8:06 pm

Dear Emmanuel,

I think “before your comment all tried use really significant and
already known to relatively wide audience results” means “before you
made your comment, every one [making the argument that there are
applications in the other direction, i.e. from the second culture to
the first culture] tried using as examples results that are really
significant and known to a relatively wide audience”. I don’t know any
Russian grammar, unfortunately, but this reminds me of constructions
in German where what would be a separate phrase in English becomes
instead an extended adjective that is directly applied to the noun.

Regards,

Matthew

( а где же панчлайн? да вот же он! )

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