This account from Alexandre Borovik's Mathematics under the Microscope, on a summer math camp on the Aegean Coast, raises many interesting questions on doing math in countries outside of the current mainstream.

I quote Borovik: Crucially, I have two dozen bright, highly motivated students who are prepared to learn something challenging and non- ( Read more... )

A new photoblog by María Clara. Click on the shadows to get there.


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Bloom has written a very beautiful post on the Jerusalem/Tel Aviv dichotomy. This is just an echo - an invitation to go read it. Click on any of the two sides of the dichotomy to read Bloom's post.


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These days are sometimes hectic - filled with nice things and insights, but still tiresome.

1. An intriguing idea of a student seems to give the Theoretical Chemistry Group some possibilities of studying evolutionary systems using their tools (Theoretical Chemistry, mixed with some topology and some biology). I truly hope they will succeed! ( Read more... )

Lunettes rouges, one of those blogs hosted by Le Monde, is interesting to follow. Recent posts deal with Sophie Calle's Jérusalem, Uccello as precursor of Duchamp, medieval nudes that display a surprising command of body and muscles, Henry Darger and his Petites filles au pénis, etc. etc. Click on the picture to go there.


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One of the reasons why I have been so inactive here has to do with the beginning of the semester (August 8th in Colombia), mixed with a conference in Oaxaca and other things I had to round up. I have become a devote classblogger - by this I mean I open up new blogs for the classes I teach at Universidad Nacional, and I also run a couple seminar ( Read more... )

Walking in San Francisco, along 4th Street from the Caltrain station toward Market, we came across this:


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If you can read Spanish, and the subject interests you, there are here answers to questions about Judaism, by someone who asks and asks and muses and ponders (Bloom). The Hell-Sultan Pool-Jerusalem Cinémathèque triple connection is very intriguing ( Read more... )

A very nice novelty in LJ:

http://www.livejournal.com/portal/