Adriano,
Arresting those without good reasons for being outside is an interesting
approach. Is this an ordinance for Paris only or does it apply throughout
France? I assume there is a list of acceptable reasons for going out and maybe
a penalty to be paid if you aren’t wearing a face mask. Is that true?
Lawrence
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 7:23 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Prizes & Corvid-19
good day/evening to Lawrence et al.
No, I mean not moving, I am in Paris and all movement is severely restricted by
the army.
Army personnel has the right to arrest on sight on the streets.
If you are curious the powers (president & prime M) decided that the issue of
burden is
reversed.
In normal times x has to right to go anywhere and x can be stopped on probable
cause, endangering safety, crimes etc.
Now x has to prove her/his/their reasons to be not indoor.
One silly note: why not taking up the good idea of washing one's ass instead of
destroying trees to produce milions of metric tons of toilet paper?
I trust you are doing well, or medium well
best
Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:17 PM Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Adriano,
You wrote, “The reason I say this -among others- is that I am confined (no
movement & no going anywhere) hence reading.”
I assume you are referring to the “confinement” recommended to many of us
because of the Corona Virus. Here in California we are going thoroughly
berserk. Our governor is closing schools for the rest of the year. What large
numbers of unsupervised children are going to do with all this free time is a
problem the governor is willing to leave to parents.
Long lines are waiting at many stores to buy materials, such as toilet paper,
that California is in no danger of ever running out of – for the rest of the
century.
California is pretty much a sanctuary state, come one come all, even though
overpopulation is a factor that increases the likelihood of catching Corvid-19.
The little face masks have all been purchased as far as I can tell. Like you
I’m confining myself, but I was pretty much doing that anyway because of the
knee injury – arranging to receive everything I need by delivery rather than
shopping for it – except for easy trips to see if my knee is getting stronger;
which I’ll forgo for the next few weeks.
My clever daughter in Idaho found the specifications for making face masks and
has made some for her brother and me. In his case he does have to go out but
isn’t worried because only the elderly with preexisting health problems such as
pneumonia are in serious danger. Even though I don’t have any of the dangerous
preexisting health problems, I would just as soon avoid the corvid-19 if
possible (I also try to avoid the flu & colds) – although, for those who will
get it and be no more affected than they would if they caught a cold or the
normal flu, they will presumably be immune (completely or somewhat?) the next
time it comes around; so there “may” be advantages to getting it over with.
As to “not moving” maybe you are talking about something else. I am confining
myself to my house, but I have workout-gear that I use almost every day. Also,
my study is on the second floor so going up and down the stairs with a bad knee
is a bit of a workout in itself. . . also, I have taken to puttering in my back
yard. I have several rose bushes that appear to be extremely healthy. I may
also plant some more California poppies. I did that last year and discovered
that the little poppy bushes survived and produced more blooms this year. J
Lawrence
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Behalf Of adriano paolo shaul gershom palma
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:13 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] 2020 Abel Prize
This strikes me as somewhat single minded.
The reason I say this -among others- is that I am confined (no movement & no
going anywhere) hence reading.
I was last night re-reading the second volume of Kotkin (STALIN, waiting for
Hitler, widely available in many forms.)
While Hitler was indeed one of the many cretins obsessed by Jews, he faced
steep competition. According to several sources, Stalin exterminated 82% of the
officers of the Red Army, inclusive of the NKVD, up to Yagoda. All of this
while claiming that he (he = Stalin) was waiting for the invasion by Japan,
Poland, and Germany.
I enclose a short quote
Stalin, Stepehn Kotkin
Hiroaki Kuromiya incisively dissected Stalin’s cold-blooded logic regarding
opponents and enemies, while Erik van Ree revealed Stalin as a Marxist-Leninist
true believer, and Arfon Rees showed him to be a combination
revolutionary and Machiavellian.33 These insights were not offered as
explanations for the murderous episode of 1937–38. “There is in Stalin’s Terror
an element of sheer preposterousness which defies
explanation,” Adam Ulam conceded, after trying.34
congrats to the Abel prize and kudos to N Abel!
Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 1:56 PM Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Torgeir,
Each time I read something like this, it reminds me that one of Hitler’s
biggest mistakes (in regard to his war efforts) was to persecute the Jews,
which group had some of the finest minds in Germany. Furstenberg went first to
the U.S. and then on to Israel and Margulis (from the U.S.S.R & so would
require a different rant) to the United States where he stayed. I suppose it
can’t be estimated how much Germany was hurt and Israel and the U.S. (&
elsewhere) enhanced by Hitler’s persecution of the Jews – can’t help thinking
about it though.
[Apologies if this sounds insensitive – I’m afraid it does – don’t intend that
however.]
Lawrence
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Behalf Of Torgeir Fjeld
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:51 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Furstenberg and Margulis win the 2020 Abel Prize
Dear all,
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel
Prize for 2020 to Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
and Gregory Margulis, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA “for pioneering the
use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and
combinatorics”
Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis invented random walk techniques to
investigate mathematical objects such as groups and graphs, and in so doing
introduced probabilistic methods to solve many open problems in group theory,
number theory, combinatorics and graph theory. A random walk is a path
consisting of a succession of random steps, and the study of random walks is a
central branch of probability theory.
“The works of Furstenberg and Margulis have demonstrated the effectiveness of
crossing boundaries between separate mathematical disciplines and brought down
the traditional wall between pure and applied mathematics,” says Hans
Munthe-Kaas, chair of the Abel committee.
He continues: “Furstenberg and Margulis stunned the mathematical world by their
ingenious use of probabilistic methods and random walks to solve deep problems
in diverse areas of mathematics. This has opened up a wealth of new results,
such as the existence of long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers,
understanding the structure of lattices in Lie groups, and the construction of
expander graphs with applications to communication technology and computer
science, to mention a few.”
Hillel Furstenberg
Hillel Furstenberg was born in Berlin in 1935. His family was Jewish and they
managed to flee from Nazi Germany to the U.S. in 1939. Sadly, his father did
not survive the journey, and Furstenberg grew up with his mother and sister in
an orthodox community in New York.
When he published one of his early papers, a rumor circulated that he was not
an individual but instead a pseudonym for a group of mathematicians. The paper
contained ideas from so many different areas, surely it could not possibly be
the work of one man? Following a career in mathematics at several universities
in the U.S., he left the country in 1965 for the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, where he stayed until his retirement in 2003. Spending most of his
career in Israel, he helped establish the country as a world center for
mathematics. Furstenberg has won the Israel Prize and the Wolf Prize.
Gregory Margulis
Gregory Margulis was born in Moscow in 1946. From early on he showed a unique
talent in mathematics. In 1978, he won the Fields Medal at only 32 years old
but was unable to receive the medal in Helsinki since the Soviet authorities
refused him a visa.
He was one of the top young mathematicians in the Soviet Union but was unable
to find a job at Moscow University as he faced discrimination for being of
Jewish origin. Instead, he found work at the Institute for Problems in
Information Transmission. He was only allowed to travel abroad in 1979 when
Soviet academics were given more personal freedoms. During the 1980s he visited
academic institutions in Europe and the U.S. before settling at Yale in 1991,
where he has been ever since.
Margulis is a winner of the Lobachevsky Prize and the Wolf Prize.
Due to the ten years age difference and the travel restrictions of the Soviet
authorities, the laureates did not formally collaborate, however, they
influenced each other’s work.
Mvh. / Yours sincerely,
Torgeir Fjeld <https://torgeirfjeld.com/>
~~ ereignis <https://ereignis.no/> : taking you to who you are ~~
