tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167594532011-04-21T20:51:31.854+02:00Thoughts of a random french guy on maths, physics, biology of consciousness, and occasionally music.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10876419733363733397noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759453.post-1133260092264568552005-11-29T11:24:00.000+01:002005-11-29T11:28:12.273+01:00

For information: this blog is not closed permanently, it's just that I have no time for blogging until january...

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Anybody looking for a glorious musical moment should consider historia di jephte damnatorum lamentatio by Le Parlement de Musique.The interpretation is faultless, and the solists are quite exceptional, in particular Marion Fourquier (harp) and Elisa Franzetti (soprano).

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It's refreshing to see that not all mathematicians spend all their lifes on a few (sometimes dubious) ideas.Gromov seems to be completely into molecular biology now, with a new workshop at IHES where none of the speakers is into maths.Mumford 's semester-long program at MSRI on image analysis took place rencently.Tao (one of the future 2006 Fields medalists) recently submitted stuff to

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Free books by William Stein on number theory which are not mentionned on the links I've given before are here and here.Lucky people in Berkeley can attend J.H. Conway's Bowen lectures during the next three days. If you have and feel like writing a few words about it here, please do! Apparently there are a few videos of some other lectures by him here.

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I've just discovered the DML and the WDML. Superb!Numdam is really becoming fantastic too.I wish one day the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences will be added. Obviously that's a lot of work...

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Another birthday, but one which has received too little publicity in my opinion, is that of Sir William Rowan Hamilton.His impact on both physics and maths really is astonishing and also deserves press coverage, too bad this is already Einstein's year!John Baez got interwied a while ago for Plus magazine (aimed at a general audience) about quaternions and octonions.There's so much great stuff to

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In the next two years we'll get a lot "conference in honor of (insert name here) on the occasion of his/her 60th birthday".Here are a few potentially interesting ones (far, far away -- sigh -- hopefully they'll video them...): Delignefest, Margulisfest, Simonfest, ColinDeVerdièrefest, Lodayfest.Update: Hirschowitzfest , Toledofest, Howefest .

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I've always found blackboards full of formulas quite entertaining, especially messy ones! Makes me want to reconstruct what people were talking about.There's a few pictures online but not that much. So please, if you have a nice (genuine) one in your office one day, just post the link here ;-)So far I've seen just two: Sarah Zerbes's one and this lovely multi-author opus from MSRI.

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Blogging on with yellow pictograms, Springer's annual Yellow Sale is now on with some nice titles, including recent ones like Arnold's PDE lectures.Unfortunately many texts I'd like to get are not on that sale list, and in fact are quite expensive! I certainly can't afford $119...Hopefully in the future much more people will follow the nice example of Allen Hatcher and Cambridge University Press

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La fête de la Science 2005 aura lieu à partir de ce week-end et jusqu'à la fin de la semaine prochaine.Les programmes de toutes les activités prévues dans toute la France sont disponibles.Bonne fête, et n'hésitez pas à aller voir les matheux aussi!

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Here are the online maths videos I found so far. That's tons of great stuff really! Any useful additions welcome...In english:at Duke U. , at MSRI, at PIMS, at IAS, at CIRM, at Clay InstituteIn french & english:2000 Paris conference on geometry in XXth centuryIn french (conférences en français tous niveaux):at ENS Ulm, at ENS Lyon, at UTLS

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I know nothing about holomorphic dynamics as I'm not too keen on hard-core analysis anyway, but these animations on Herman Rings and Arnold Disks are quite cool looking (Herman rings are defined here).For something completely different, I had also never heard of the Matiyasevich sieve, but that's definitely something to show to undergrads. Makes the primes obvious (well, trickly so of course).

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If you're looking for an exceptional baroque ensemble, well look no more: Rinaldo Alessandrini's Concerto Italiano is for you.I don't own all of what they recorded yet, but their Marenzio CD for instance is a delight!There's a more a recent one of Marcello & Vivaldi that looks superb too.

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According to Peter Woit's blog, Serge Lang passed away this monday.That's quite sad, especially because he's one of the few great mathematicians who did something for mass education outside the university by doing lots of public lectures in schools and elsewhere. See Math Talks for Undergraduates , The Beauty of Doing Mathematics--Three public dialogues and Math!__Encounters with High School

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I'm sure you know already, but anyway here's a great a list of online lecture notes by Alex Stepanov.As for papers, well there's most of Inventionnes for free here ; there's a now very interesting new initiative called Mathematical Sciences Publishers ; many french journals are on numdam ; for many more see Jim Pitman's list of free maths journalsHopefully all interesting journals will be cheaply

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Hi there, welcome!Topics on this blog will include: mainly: science & tech, in particular maths, physics, biology of consciousness. sometimes: music, opinions, surprises, perhaps some pictures (landscapes). never: religions, superstitions, my private life, your private life. Frequency of postings is unknown as yet (twice a week probably). Languages used will be english and

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