Dang, this #AlgebraicGeometry text has a very poetic title, "The Rising Sea", which refers to an oneiric metaphor of Grothendieck about how a nut of knowledge is slowly cracked by the slowness of an incoming ocean tide.
It also cites Morpheus from The Matrix in its preface, haha.
Now I really want to read this. I like poetical mathematics. Kinda like Ada Lovelace.
http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/216blog/FOAGnov1817public.pdf
Ooh, this is already getting interesting.
"Pathological examples are useful to know. On mountain highways, there are tall sticks on the sides of the road designed for bad weather. In winter, you cannot see the road clearly, and the sticks serve as warning signs: if you cross this line,you will die! Pathologies and (counter)examples serve a similar goal. They also serve as a reality check, when confronting a new statement, theorem, or conjecture, whose veracity you may doubt."
"We will not concern ourselves with subtle foundational issues (set-theoretic issues, universes, etc.). It is true that some people should be careful about these issues. But is that really how you want to live your life?"
I FEEL YA BRO
@apocheir Oh man, that quote! I remember trying to look up if it was originally hers or Weierstrass, who was her collaborator.
The only source of that quote I could find was this
Attached: 1 image You know, that quote, by Sofya :kovalevskaya: "It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul." ? I was wondering why it sounds so much like Weierstrass's own quip, "It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician." That's because she is paraphrasing her collaborator in a letter to Madame Schabelskoy. I prefer Kovalevskaya's version. Here is an excerpt from a memoir/biography of hers: https://archive.org/details/sonyakovalevsky00kovaiala/page/316/mode/2up?q=poet @[email protected]
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Dudley Eigenvalue, DDS