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From: Colin McLarty <colin.mclarty@case.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Deligne on Grothendieck
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:20:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1U1GK3-00080B-80@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOzx82p8A2L+=4X8wOnLggjoYDW5fqHwy77Fry2EcuBu3p770w@mail.gmail.com>

Eduardo,

I guess you meant the comments of Serre quoted along with Mumford,
Tate, and Arkani-Hamed in the note by Siobhan Roberts.  (The note is
at simonsfoundation.org/science_lives_bio/pierre-deligne/)

Colin



On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Colin McLarty <colin.mclarty@case.edu> wrote:
> Where is the link to Serre's comments?
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Eduardo J. Dubuc <edubuc@dm.uba.ar> wrote:
>> On 29/01/13 09:08, Joyal, Andr? wrote:
>>>
>>> An interview of Deligne by MacPherson:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://simonsfoundation.org/category/features/science-lives/
>>>
>>
>> I have not see the interview of Deligne by MacPherson in the link above,
>> but I read in that link the comments of Serre on the mathematics of
>> Deligne as opposed to the mathematics of Grothendieck, and his
>> conclusion that Deligne is best. It is interesting to notice that when
>> describing the characteristics and virtues of Deligne's mathematics he
>> is just describing  the characteristics and virtues of his own
>> mathematics. Clearly Deligne's and Serre's mathematics are similar and
>> different to Grothendieck's. In putting Deligne's mathematics at the
>> top, Serre is just putting his own mathematics at the top.
>>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-31 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-29 12:08 Joyal, André
2013-01-30 21:00 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2013-02-01  4:05   ` David Espinosa
     [not found] ` <CAOzx82p8A2L+=4X8wOnLggjoYDW5fqHwy77Fry2EcuBu3p770w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-31 22:20   ` Colin McLarty [this message]
     [not found] <510989E8.9070307@dm.uba.ar>
2013-02-01  1:53 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc

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