Category Archives: Waffle

Intermezzo

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Persiflage

Scholze is giving a course at Berkeley! Follow Jared Weinstein’s lecture notes from the course here. I believe that the lectures are also being recorded and will be available approximately one week after each lecture; I will add a link … Continue reading →

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100 Posts

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Persiflage

Meaningless numerical milestones are a good a reason as any for an indulgent post. Today, I will discuss some facts from this blog which you might not otherwise know about. It will be in the form of an (mercifully short) … Continue reading →

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The decline and fall of Publications Mathématiques de l’lHÉS

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Persiflage

I want to discuss the decline of a once great journal. How did IHES go from this: and this: to this: It is a sad state of affairs. To be clear, I am talking about the typesetting here. The old … Continue reading →

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A flat white, please

Posted on August 10, 2014 by Persiflage

Thanks to the New York Times, I can now order a flat white at my local cafe instead of an 8 ounce latte. Culture is coming to America, my friends!

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En Passant IV

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Persiflage

My students Richard Moy and Joel Specter have uploaded their paper on partial weight one Hilbert modular forms, previously discussed here, to the ArXiv. Germany now leads the world in both soccer and perfectoid spaces. This is a recipe for … Continue reading →

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Math and Genius

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Persiflage

Jordan Ellenberg makes a compelling case, as usual, on the pernicious cultural notion of “genius.” Jordan’s article also brought to mind a thought provoking piece on genius by Moon Duchin here (full disclosure: the link on Duchin’s website has the … Continue reading →

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A postview of Bellairs/Barbados

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Persiflage

I am just recovering from my trip to Barbados for the McGill sponsored conference at the Bellairs institute (which I previously discussed here). I thought it was a wonderfully enjoyable conference, for many reasons. The first is that I got … Continue reading →

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The Decline of Western Civilization

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Persiflage

I am often inclined on Saturdays to spend a few hours at the Brothers K cafe. I bring my laptop and some scratch paper, sip away on a cortado, and listen to music on my headphones as I work; it … Continue reading →

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Short thoughts on my visit to Berkeley

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Persiflage

The marine biologists at Monterey Bay Aquarium give their octopuses hand massages. So do the fishmongers at Eataly. It’s quite an experience to come face to face with this antediluvian monster:  Are you allowed to turn right on red in … Continue reading →

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Daleks

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Persiflage

I’ve wanted to write a post about the new Doctor Who series for a while, but this is not that post. Instead, this post is about a Macintosh game called Daleks, which I first played on a Mac 512 (running … Continue reading →

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