Eglantine Emeye

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Églantine Éméyé, born in 1974, appears from time to time in the French TV.

Églantine Éméyé

P. M.

(alphacode : emeyeeglantine ; numcode : 366)

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A fetching idea

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A fetching idea for a decision-maker : Formalize the persons' knowledge and formalize the inferences that they can make.

It never will be an accurate science. At first, one must feed the system by «Collix knows this», «Dollax knows that» and so on. But nobody has certainty on what Collix or Dollax knows — except, respectively, Collix and Dollax. I only have absolute certainty on what I see and feel.

P. M.

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It's me

It's me


It's me,

O Lord.

P. M.

Father and his four children

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This photo was taken - certainly by mother - in front of our home, on the garden side, exactly ...

Behind us one can see the blind window of the cellar. The ground of the cellar is below the garden ground by a bit more than one meter. In this cellar, exactly below the window, there is the stock of coal nuts that are used for the fire in the kitchen. From time to time, the coal sellers stop their truck in the street, carry bags of coal on their backs and pour the coal nuts directly in the stock through the open blind window. Though fading, the specific sound of flowing coal nuts is still in my memory.

P. M.

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Samuel Eilenberg

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Samuel Eilenberg, 1913 — 1998, was born in Poland and had a career of top level mathematician in the USA.

S. Eilenberg is joint author of a book which has a basic historical importance : Foundations of Algebraic Topology. This book can be freely downloaded here.

P. M.

(alphacode : eilenberg ; numcode : 017)

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Dimitri Egorov

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Dimitri Fedorovich Egorov, 1869 — 1931, was a Russian mathematician.

A subdomain of mathematical analysis is named measure theory. This is an eminently abstract area and has almost nothing in common with the technical problem of measuring some quantity in physics. A theorem in measure theory bears Egorov's name.

P. M.

(alphacode : egoroff ; numcode : 470)

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H. M. Edwards

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Harold M. Edwards is a contemporary mathematician.

H. M. Edwards' name came to my attention through a book he wrote : Riemann's Zeta Function. This book is centered in a famous still unsolved mathematical problem. The extraordinary power, speed and size of to-day computers are still not enough to help finding the solution.

P. M.

(alphacode : edwards ; numcode : 408)

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Tree

«The first evidence of plants on land comes from spore tetrads attributed to land plants from the Mid-Ordovician early Llanvirn, ~470 million years ago).» (wikipedia)

Photo taken in my garden a few days ago.

P. M.

With spectacles

Me, a few days ago.

Thomas Edison

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Thomas Alva Edison, 1847 — 1931, was a US inventor, scientist and businessman.

Thomas Edison

He «developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.» (wikipedia)

P. M.

(alphacode : edisonthomas ; numcode : 139)

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My kitchen

P. M.

Antonin Dvorak

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Antonin Dvorak, 1841 — 1904, was a Czech composer.

A score found here

This is only one of the numerous themes of A. Dvorak's «New World Symphony». I heard this music for the first time more than forty years ago, and I still enjoy it each time I hear it.

P. M.

(alphacode : dvorak ; numcode : 180)

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D.

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D. is the fifth boy of the list that master recited daily to check our presences in my first year at primary school.

This was during school-year 1948-1949. The list always remained in my memory as present as the alphabet. This didn't occur for lists of subsequent classes.

P. M.

(alphacode : [not public] ; numcode : 446)

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Marie-Louise Jacotin

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Marie-Louise Jacotin, 1905 — 1972, was a French professor of mathematics in university.

Marie-Louise Jacotin
photographed with her husband Paul Dubreil (146)
who was also a mathematician

Paul and Marie-Louise met in the Ecole Normale Supérieure (the top level in France for studies of mathematics). They get married in 1930. The photo was taken in 1931. A tragedy occured in the life of the couple when their unique daughter died in 1970, aged of 34 years. M.L. Jacotin died two years later probably as consequence of an accident in car.

The feminist struggle of the first half of the XXth century appears in the fact that M.L. Jacotin dared, after her marriage, to sign Dubreil-Jacotin instead of solely Dubreil.

P. M.

(alphacode : dubreiljacotin ; numcode : 147)

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Paul Dubreil

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Paul Dubreil, 1904 — 1994, was French professor of Mathematics in University.

Paul Dubreil
photographed with his wife (147)
who was also a mathematician

P.Dubreil and his wife wrote together a book entitled «Leçons d'algèbre moderne» (lessons of modern algebra), ed. Dunod, (C) 1961. The book, 400 pages, is self-contained and covers basics in algebra for a A-level + 2 years student. I have this book in my library and much of my knowledge in algebra is in it.

P. M.

(alphacode : dubreil ; numcode : 146)

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portrait

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Me, today.

And my cat.

P. M.

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Maurice Druon

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Maurice Druon, 1918 — 2009, was a French writer and political man.

M. Druon's life, occupies, together with other great names, the cultural zone of gaullism.

I read his book Ordonnances pour un état malade (2002 – Prescriptions for an ill State). A book which addresses practically the fundamental problem of civilisation, that of the importance of the social structures, the size of which are between the person and the whole mankind. Directly from his Gaullist option, M. Druon is favourable to a strong nation — in fact, a strong French nation despising somewhat international organizations. This is probably not the future as basic reflexion on the person tells it.

P. M.

(alphacode : druonmaurice ; numcode : 166)

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Spring 1960

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Spring 1960

My second year in high seminary ends. My plan to go in to the Dominican Order, born in October 1959, is unchanged.

However, only my director of conscience is officially aware. And he stays favorable. Dominican France is divided into three horizontal strips called Provinces. Poitiers is in the "Province of Lyon" which has its noviciate building in Angers. My director of conscience knows well Angers novices' master and contacted him about me.

Normally, by the end of the second year of studies, the seminarists leave for the military service. This is what my condisciples are going to do — and for a long time; France is doing its War of Algeria. But me, if I had not had my dominican plan, I should have gone before the call under the flags; I have not yet the age. Even with the coming of the promotion 1959, I am the youngest of seminarists. With my 182 cms, it is not visible.

It is thus a new life that I consider. On the one hand, what I hope to find is communal life. I always imagined myself badly alone in a parsonage.

Intellectual work is in the center of Dominican Order. And on the other hand, I hope to find intellectual deepening of my religious commitments. I have, of course, the deep feeling to have been raised in the unique good religion; but this feeling comes up against a multitude of questioning. For example, without thinking about that precisely, I would like to be able to put on the clearcut what opposes catholic and protestants and be able to tell exactly why catholics are the ones who are in the good way.

P. M.

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The vicar Drochon

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The Vicar Drochon was the second priest I knew who had care of Mauprévoir church.


The church of Mauprévoir

Precisely a catholic vicar. Mauprévoir is a village at 50 km south of Poitiers and everybody in the region is catholic. Mother, my sister, my two brothers and me used to spend the bulk of summer holidays there. The last time it occured for me was summer 1958 — later I had a few short summer sojourns there, but not with the same group and the vicar Drochon was replaced by another one.

I think that the vicar Drochon is not parent with the abbe Drochon (479), chaplain of the Lycee.

P. M.

(alphacode : drochonabbemauprevoir ; numcode : 481)

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The abbe Drochon

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The Abbe Drochon was the second high school chaplain I knew.

The abbe Drochon,
chaplain in the Lycee de Poitiers

The abbe Drochon had a key role in the succession of events that, in october 1958, led me to end my studies in the Lycee de Poitiers and enter the seminar in the same town.

The above photo is a detail of the following one which was taken during a solemn communion in 1955 or so.

P. M.

(alphacode : drochonabbelycee ; numcode : 479)

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Free World

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I have no special knowledge in economy but it seems that when people speak of free world or capitalism, there is a great confusion.

In the free world, economy is founded on normal competition. This means that I shall not be required to spend my money in the state stores where quality of products is not the main question. This means also that no gang will require the salespeople of a given domain to swell their prices.

Next to that, in the free world, speculation is authorized. It is a fully different thing and is not that which defines the free world nor capitalism. In fact, speculation is always strictly framed by laws against initiates' offense. The only, but real, advantage that society globally pulls from speculators is the production – as side effects – of informations about firms' health. A fair investor for profit must be aware of that and must avoid viewing speculation as a lottery, forgetting that, in a lottery, winners are necessarily few. World recent events showed the necessity of the remark.

P. M.

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