| одиночество---о Перельмане |
[Sep. 6th, 2006|07:59 pm] |
Гротендик об отказе от премий: http://kolmogorov.unex.es/~navarro/res/prizes.pdf
....I left that environment in 1970, and, while keeping my
passion for scientific research, inwardly I have retreated more and
more from the scientific "milieu." Meanwhile, the ethics of the
scientific community (at least among mathematicians) have declined
to the point that outright theft among colleagues (especially at
the expense of those who are in no position to defend themselves)
has nearly become the general rule, and is in any case tolerated by
all, even in the most obvious and iniquitous cases. Under these
conditions, agreeing to participate in the game of "prizes" and
"rewards" would also mean giving my approval to a spirit and trend
in the scientific world that I view as being fundamentally
unhealthy, and moreover condemned to disappear soon, so suicidal
are this spirit and trend, spiritually and even intellectually and
materially.
и продолжает о интернете и новых веяниях
This…reason is for me by far the most imperative one. Stating it is in no way
meant as a criticism of the Royal Academy’s aims in the administration of its
funds. I do not doubt that before the end of the century, totally unforeseen
events will completely change our notions about “science” and its goals and
the spirit in which scientific work is done. No doubt the Royal Academy will
then be among the institutions and the people who will have an important role
to play in this unprecedented renovation, after an equally unprecedented
collapse of civilization.
Об одиноком труде---человек, за которым шли сотни, если не тысячи, ученых, а десятки работали
под прямым руководством :
You remark the psychic difficulty of any
lonely creation... Such has been my situation all my life, since my childhood,
in the mathematical creation and in my spiritual itinerary... And without that,
nothing great is accomplished, in the individual adventure, nor in the collective
adventure – at the intellectual level or at the spiritual level... At the spiritual
level, the biggest oeuvre (in my eyes) accomplished by a man, was the Passion
of the Christ and his death on the cross. This oeuvre was and should be solitary.
It was even the supreme solitude, since God moved away, so that the Oeuvre is
accomplished without the help of any consolation.
и о математике с Б-гом :
Mathematical laws are discovered by man, but they
are not created by man, not even by God. Two plus two equals four is not a
God’s decree, that He may change in two plus two equals three, or five. I feel
mathematical laws as a part of the nature of God – certainly a negligible part,
the most superficial in a certain sense, and the only accessible to the reason by
itself.
( Оригинал на французском )
Московские Новости о Перельмане : Совсем уж удивительно, что поздравлений из наших академических и официальных инстанций не последовало. |
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