From: "Joyal, André" <joyal.andre@uqam.ca>
To: <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: RE: Alexandre Grothendieck
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:54:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1XqtAM-0000Bs-AQ@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <099skRaLG0480S05.1416269552@web05.cms.usa.net>
Dear Fred,
Grothendieck is gone, what can we say.
He gave us a space where to play.
He was insane some like to say.
This dark world is lasting too long.
Where are light and fire gone?
I am reading a letter of Grothendieck to Thomason (*):
> Ce vent de mépris à l'égard des indispensables travaux de fondements,
> (et plus généralement, pour tout ce qui ne se conforme pas à la mode du jour).
> ................
> Ce n'était pas une lettre pour "me plaindre" de ceci ou de cela qui me déplaisait.
> Mais c'était une impossible tentative de *partager une douleur*.
> Je savais bien au fond que c'était sans espoir; car tout le monde fuit la douleur,
> c'est à dire fuit la connaissance (car il n'y a pas de connaissance
> de l'âme qui soit exempte de douleur).
(*)Lettre sur les dérivateurs (1991).
-André
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From: Fred E.J. Linton [fejlinton@usa.net]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 7:12 PM
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Joyal?=@co02.mbox.net; Joyal, André; "categories@mta.ca"
Subject: Re: categories: Alexandre Grothendieck
The best way to describe my reaction to this unwelcome news
is to say that I was entirely bouleversé by it:
> Alexandre Grothendieck died this morning November 13
It marks the end of an epoch!
RiP, AG. -- Fred Linton
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2014-11-18 2:54 ` Joyal, André [this message]
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