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
@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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