From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5572 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jim stasheff Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Publication of writings by Alexander Grrothendieck Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:49:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: jim stasheff NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266169132 16310 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2010 17:38:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:38:52 +0000 (UTC) To: Ronnie Brown , Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Sun Feb 14 18:38:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NgiQi-0003re-Lc for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:38:48 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NghvJ-0003ES-2H for categories-list@mta.ca; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:06:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5572 Archived-At: Ronnie Brown wrote: > Dear All, > > In view of a letter written by Alexander Grothendieck on January 3, > 2010, giving a kind of interdiction on further publication of any of > his writings or correspondence, in any form, I would like to make the > following clear. > > I started corresponding with Alexander in 1982; this turned into a > friendly and warm correspondence, which he later termed `a baton rompu', There's a totally different meaning for baton rompu I wonder which came first and how the tranmogrificatio occurred jim [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]