Occasionally, I have conversations with mathematicians who take the name Bourbaki in vain, insinuating that the work of this great *mathematician* had led the development of 20th-century mathematics astray. I wish to take a minute here to appreciate the works of Weil, Grothendieck, Borel, Eilenberg, MacLane*, Tate, Cartan, Serre, Thom, Dieudonné, and others without whom we would not have certain important answers to the Riemann hypothesis, such developed theories of modular forms and elliptic curves, such a rich body of work in cohomology, topos theory, category theory, or the promise of a mathematical GUT in the form of Langland's program.
Below are some links that are mostly related to Weil's conjectures, elliptic curves, and the wonderful work being done to bring number theory, representation theory, harmonic analysis, and algebraic geometry together. When I get bogged down with the dumpster fire that is politics or any other slow-motion car crash in this world, I am happy to be reminded that there exist truly beautiful things. Enjoy! Tim Gower's on the Weil conjectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHkYqPX3Je4&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize Andrew Wiles Abel prize lecture on abelian and non-abelian approaches to Fermat's last: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1mgEBx1nQ&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize Edward Frenkel on Langlands Program as GUT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8e_HMEwKIY&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize Abel prize interview with Pierre Deligne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkNf00Ut2TQ&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
