{"id":12306,"date":"2021-04-29T16:33:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12306"},"modified":"2021-04-29T16:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:33:20","slug":"some-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12306","title":{"rendered":"Some History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading out soon for a 10 day vacation in the Rocky Mountains, blogging likely to change from sparse to non-existent for the next couple weeks.  I&#8217;ve come across the following things that people with an interest in the recent history of mathematics may find worthwhile:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S. T. Yau over the past year has organized a series of talks on the recent history of mathematics, featuring prominent people in the subject giving expository talks on a topic, sometimes writing something up.  The talks are available <a href=\"https:\/\/cmsa.fas.harvard.edu\/literature-lecture-series\/\">here<\/a>, the write-ups <a href=\"https:\/\/cmsa.fas.harvard.edu\/history-and-literature-of-mathematical-science\/\">here<\/a>.  I can especially recommend Nigel Hitchin&#8217;s detailed explanation of <a href=\"https:\/\/cmsa.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Geometry-and-physics.pdf\">the work of Michael Atiyah relevant to physics<\/a>, much of which he was personally involved in.<\/li>\n<li>Lieven Le Bruyn at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neverendingbooks.org\/\">neverendingbooks<\/a> points to some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neverendingbooks.org\/bourbaki-and-grothendieck-serre\">wonderful French math YouTube videos<\/a>.  Don&#8217;t miss Alain Connes interviewing Serre, with Serre explaining that he doesn&#8217;t know (or care) what a topos is.<\/li>\n<li>For a good account of the fascinating life of Alexander Grothendieck, there&#8217;s Luca Signorelli&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/planetofstorms.wordpress.com\/2021\/03\/30\/the-man-of-the-circular-ruins\/amp\/\">The Man of the Circular Ruins<\/a>.  I hadn&#8217;t realized that some of the weirder writings from Grothendieck&#8217;s later life are now readily available, for instance <a href=\"http:\/\/cm2vivi2002.free.fr\/AG-biblio\/AG-clesonges.pdf\">La Clef des Songes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For a long recent account by Langlands both of his recent ideas about geometric Langlands and his fascination with languages (including White Russian language instructors), see this letter to <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.ias.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/letter-to-Saint-Aubin-rpl.pdf\">Yvan Saint-Aubin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading out soon for a 10 day vacation in the Rocky Mountains, blogging likely to change from sparse to non-existent for the next couple weeks. 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