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Monthly Archives: August 2012
What I did on my summer vacation
Back in July, I spent some time in Goettingen. As most readers of this blog, it is an old university town with plenty of history – Gauss, Riemann, Hilbert and their friends all worked and lived there. There was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bismarck, Comte, Foucault, Gauss, Goettingen, Hilbert, Parque de la Reserva, Riemann, Sonderweg, Sorbonne
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Back to the battle
I paused the blogging for a bit due to other commitments. To summarize the last few months: AGRA went well, I got a paper on three primes out, and, after the usual conference season, I am back in home ground. … Continue reading
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Tagged Benedict XVI, Burt Lancaster, cinema, Klaus Kinski, Palpatine, Romy Schneider, summer school, symmetric group, Toshiro Mifune, Visconti
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The value of the variable 