Monday, September 13, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Jeanne Grall
Jeanne Grall is a contemporary author of books on history.
She wrote in particular Girondins et Montagnard which deals with the French revolution. I read this book several years ago. Here is a translation of what I wrote about the book at that time:
This book gives some thickness to words that pupils find to the nausea in handbooks of history. Charlotte Corday leaves the famous painting and has parents, a childhood and a youth. One learns also that the hounded Girondins ran in the country as the resistant did one hundred fifty years later.
P. M.
(alphacode : gralljeanne ; numcode : 167)
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Robert Goulet
Robert Goulet, 1933 — 2007, was a North American singer and actor.
One can hear his voice in the Soundamerica website where he interprets several Christmas songs and in particular a beautiful God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
P. M.
Bernare Gostiaux
Bernard Gostiaux, is a contemporary French mathematician.
B. Gostiaux is joint author of a book I have in my little mathematical library. This book, written in french and entitled Géométrie différentielle (differential geometry), was published in 1972. A search on the net shows that, since this date, Bernard Gostiaux published other books as single author and that the book I own was translated into english (with a 3rd author) under the title Differential Geometry: Manifolds, Curves, and Surfaces.
What is differential geometry ? Each time you use a map of a region of the world, you use differential geometry — a way to insert cartesian coordinates on something which is not ... cartesian, e. g. the surface of a sphere. But, "of course", this can be generalized to abstract numerical spaces, that is spaces whose elements are systems of numbers describing some reality. One can remark also that some vocabulary used by mathematicians in differential geometry is borrowed from geography : maps, atlasses, and used even in abstract case. According to my last infos, a student in mathematics, today, doesn't learn differential geometry before the 4th year in university.
P. M.
Kenneth Gorelick
Kenneth Gorelick, born in 1956, is an American saxophonist.
One can hear him playing Christmas songs in the Soundamerica website. He is nicknamed Kenny-G, which can cause confusion with (goldsmithkenneth 247) who has this same nickname.
P. M.
Kenneth Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith, born in 1961, is a USA poet.
K. Goldsmith has teaching and radio activities. He is nicknamed Kenny-G, which can cause confusion with (gorelickkenneth 471) who has this same nickname.
P. M.
Roger Godement
Roger Godement, born in 1921, is a french mathematician.
For me, R. Godement is mainly the author of two books of mathematics, a big treatise of algebra for students in first years of university and another one, Topologie algébrique et théorie des faisceaux (algebraic topology and sheaf theory) for graduate students. These two books had an important place in my mathematical life.
R. Godement is also known for his critical opinions about military usage of mathematics.
P. M.
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