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Ironically, his teacher, the one who sounds like a cow chewing its cud, has the exact attitude you'd expect from a sea of disenchanted students. Lackadaisical is as lackadaisical does.
James Gandolfini died today, my thoughts go out to his family, wife and children.
A seriously talented actor that changed the quality of television. He never reached his full potential on the big screen but was the Brando of the small screen.
I leap into the darkness and chew upon shadows, and in these shadows I sometimes see the luminous and pure sparkling of three inedible diamonds. So I rise to the surface with a diamond in each pupil of my eyes in order to pass through the opacity of the world and another between my half-closed lips so that when I speak my words will be crystalline, hard and dazzling.
Originally posted by Fernando Zalamea
It could be said, observing the almost crystallographic luster of Serre’s own work, that the great mathematical creator laces his perpetual decantation of the penumbra (the realm of discovery) with a rare capacity to reveal/construct luminous crystals (the realm of invention) on his zigzagging path. Indeed, it is remarkable that Serre’s limpid style, astonishingly smooth and ‘minimal’, should, in the author’s own words, reveal itself as a ‘wonderful melange’ situated on a penumbral ground. In the same sense, many of contemporary mathematics’ crystallographic gems emerge from the obscure grounds where they are born: Grothendieck's motifs with their musicality in major and minor keys, Langlands' letter to Weil with its putative unseriousness and casual tone, Atiyah's index theorem with its excavation of murky depths, Cartier's dream with its shifting terrains in mathematical physics, Zilber's extended alternative with its obscure intuition of the complex variable's logical behavior, Gromov's h-principle with its ground of discordant situations in the penumbra of differential equations, amidst many other examples that we took up in part 2 of this book.
"He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."
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