From: David Espinosa <davidespinosa123@me.com>
To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>
Cc: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Deligne on Grothendieck
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:05:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1U1GM2-00084Z-UH@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1U0vSo-0008CE-O4@mlist.mta.ca>
(1) Please re-read. I think the comments you're referring to are from
Mumford, not Serre.
(2) It's only natural that each mathematician prefers his/her own style --
I do mathematics the way I like it to be done. The same brain is both
generator and recognizer. I find my own jokes funny for exactly the same
reason!
On Jan 30, 2013, at 1:00 PM, "Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar> wrote:
> 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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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 [this message]
[not found] ` <CAOzx82p8A2L+=4X8wOnLggjoYDW5fqHwy77Fry2EcuBu3p770w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-31 22:20 ` Colin McLarty
[not found] <510989E8.9070307@dm.uba.ar>
2013-02-01 1:53 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
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