From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7591 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Espinosa Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Deligne on Grothendieck Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:05:05 -0800 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: David Espinosa NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359724197 29837 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2013 13:09:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 13:09:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories@mta.ca To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Feb 01 14:10:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.32]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U1GNj-0003gb-7A for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:10:15 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:39844) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1U1GM4-0001aT-4a; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:08:32 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1GM2-00084Z-UH for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:08:30 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7591 Archived-At: (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" 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. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]