Les: > how's alg. topology doing these days???
Have no idea since I stopped paying attention to it about 15 years ago. But as far as I know, Topology is dead, unless it started booming somewhere in these days. By the way, as for Lebesque, as a Turkish saying goes, "I am a lier of" my teacher, who got his PhD at Sorbonne. That was his story and since he was an "insider", and beyond that someone who does history of mathematics among other things, I expect that he knows better than what is written in usual biographies. Where is that place where solid mechanics is booming? Maybe I will go there one day. Best, Sabri
