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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
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| 2:33a | Языки птичьи и рыбьи, I Первые два главных слова для матлогика - форкинг и форсинг, можно и перепутать. Есть у меня и для третьего главного слова варианты, но никак не могу определиться. |
| 3:54a | ... Видимо, все желавшие давно высказались - поэтому комментарии к записи-загадке открыты. Извиняюсь за задержку с этим нехитрым действием. Про картинку: The passage of Byrd's motet quoted above is - with allowances for artistry - an indiscernible sequence of length four. Stretched to \omega, it represents the legend that Jesus ascended into heaven. Sir Michael Tippett put a similar indiscernible sequence of length three at the climax of the closing spiritual in his oratorio A child of our time, set to the words 'Walk into heaven'. Wilfrid Hodges, "Model theory" Плюс ещё пара эпиграфов от ![[info]](http://lj.rossia.org/img/userinfo-lj.gif) dmitri83@lj в комментариях. |
| 11:16p | Rien de Nouveau Ici По мотивам записи о недоговорённости у And then we had Andre Weil came and gave a course of lectures here, I think end of my first year, and he'd written this paper about vector bundles and algebraic geometry, vistar, but my relations with him were a bit strained. Actually, what happened was that he gave his course which is in the third term on developing what lectures he'd given before on algebraic geometry, and Fibre Bundles, and really overlapped a lot with what I was writing up for my Smith's Prize Essay, and so I was very chuffed - here was this great man giving lectures on one of the things that I was working on independently. So I showed him my typescript, first version of my typescript, and was hoping to get some encouragement, you see. He took it away and then he kept it a week or two and then he gave it back to me and there was no comment, you see, and I was a bit disappointed. And I looked very carefully and on the sheet, cover sheet we had written on this bit of paper, if you held it up to the light like they do with all this new electrostatic device or something, you could see some writing. Somebody'd written on another sheet above so it came through, and what it said was "Rien de Nouveau Ici" and I thought to myself he didn't mean that, that must have been accidental. But I got to know him subsequently much better when I was a colleague and it's just the kind of thing he would have done. He wasn't going to tell me to my face that there's nothing new here, but he wasn't above writing it so I work it out for myself. And you know, in some sense it was true. I mean obviously what I was doing was somehow more or less continuing what he'd been talking about, although I was doing a bit more detailed, but still I was a first year graduate student and he was a famous professor, and that's not the way you encourage research students. So, you know, if I'd been a bit sort of less resilient it might have put me off and made me quit. But I persisted, but I've never forgotten it. |
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