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L'Humanite
05-14-2017, 09:41 PM
The University of Montpellier has placed on line 18,000 pages of unedited notes made by the mathematical genius with his singular trajectory. The objective: to encourage new discoveries.
Along the manuscript pages are aligned mysterious equations, concentric schemes, all scribbled in a lively and compact handwriting.
photo: Maugendre-FishEye/Andia.fr
Clearly, one understands nothing. The “sheaves, stratified spaces” or the “conic neighborhoods” are meaningful to — practically — nobody. And (...)
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