Yesterday's 11 AM post Mad Day concluded
with a link to a 2001 American Mathematical Society
article by Pierre Cartier that sums up the religion and
politics of many mathematicians…
"Here ends the infancy narrative of the gospel…."
"… while Simone Weil's Catholicism was violently
anti-Semitic (in 1942!), Grothendieck's Buddhism
bears a strong resemblance to the practices of
his Hasidic ancestors."
See also Simone Weil in this journal.
Note esp. a post of April 6, 2004 that provides
a different way of viewing Derrida's notion of
inscription .
