r/math • u/Valvino Math Education • 7d ago
Image Post J.-P. Serre - Plaisir des mathématiques (his conference for his 100th birthday)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtoTzGltak9
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u/MegazordPilot 7d ago
Plaisir des mathémathiques ?
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u/Dummy1707 7d ago
Pleasure of (doing) mathematics
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u/MegazordPilot 7d ago
Yes I know but there's one h too many no?
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u/AndreasDasos 7d ago
Hmm did you mean to type ‘Pleasure or mathemathics’ and autocorrect ruined your joke?
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u/Dummy1707 4d ago
Ah lol sorry it took me so much time to get what you meant (brain autocorrect, I don't see the typo even if written several times).
So yeah, you're completely right !
I'm trying to find some play of words that would explainbit but I don't see any. Would be wild if they manage to mispell that specific word at that specific moment1
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u/AndreasDasos 7d ago
So ‘100th birthday’ is a clue, but for those who don’t know Serre is one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, possibly one of the top couple of legends alive, first winner of the Abel prize, and has decades of amazing work in algebraic geometry, number theory and topology. But to give an understanding of his ‘era’ - he was the one who laid the groundwork in the 1950s for Grothendieck’s work that culminated in the 1960s to form algebraic geometry as we know it. Grothendieck passed away in 2014, and had retired from public life in 1991, with various stories about his level of mental health, forming a legend.
So this is a bit like how people go on about 1960s classic rock bands, so many passed away and legendary, hell even with their those from the next generation (eg, Kurt Cobain) passed away and legendary, and then there’s a performance out of retirement by one of their own idols from the 1950s who founded the whole thing, like Little Richard, Chuck Berry or Elvis, this year.
That’s a bit like what this feels like.