Favourite pastime

My favourite pastime. This particular game (Kansas) is won very rarely, contrary to Pileon, Beleaguered Castle, Spider ...


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W. E. Fraser

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William Edward Fraser is a contemporary researcher in computer science.

W. E. Fraser is the author of a paper entitled Thermographic Analysis of Go. Endgames using Brute-Force, 2000 July 24. Illustrations to be used during a conference based on the paper can be found here.

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(alphacode : fraserwe ; numcode : 472)

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Rabbits explanation

On the first photo below, one can see a global view of my youth home. The blue X indicates the place where there were rabbits. These rabbits were bred by mother's mother who lived in the house. When a rabbit was killed and eaten, the fur was kept, dried and sold to a man passing in the street. Just after World War II, a time when goods were missing in all domains, these furs returned in our home after preparation for clothes usage. And mother, who had good skill in sewing, made winter coats with them.

The three other photos were taken during the usual Sunday afternoon walk. I am with sister and brother J.

Note that the additional chimney through the window indicates that the first photo was taken some years after the three other ones, more precisely after the middle of years fifty when an oil-stove was installed in the corridor.

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Rabbits

Much much more

2010 wed jul 28 - 8:45 pm, time of Paris.

French TV. About an important french politician: Michel Debré.

They speak of Debré's religion. They don't see the problem of words. One could call that the philosophical general relativity. How to qualify the faith of somebody using the words of dictionary? As if ideas were perfectly translated by a preexisting perfect language. The poorest thing is in the thinking that TV comments could, in a few words, describe correctly Debré's religion. The result is a few standardized sentences: "he was this, his father was that...". Poll sentences in front of an unfathomable reality of existence.

Philosophy is much much more difficult than anything else.

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Remainders of fatness

Me, this morning.
Yesterday I registered 91.5 kg on the electronic scales.

Comparison with 2005.

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Symphony

A thing that becomes possible when one is retired: conduct moments of days like a maestro conducting a symphony.

In activity life, there are continuously moments when one cannot stop what one does; one cannot wait to take a breath, to think about what will be the most convenient thing to do next.

When retired, it's possible. Like a maestro slowing the orchestra in a meditative movement.

This note is far reaching. Human life is imagination about using time harmoniously.

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Persons

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John Erik Fornaess, is a contemporary researcher in pure mathematics.

Below is a link to one of his research texts in pure mathematics. This text (15 pages) is freely downloadable :

http://archive.numdam.org/ARCHIVE/AIF/ ... /AIF_1982__32_2_23_0.pdf

Though the publisher is french - a venerable institution located at Grenoble - the text is in english. But this english is easy and mixed with technical words that are not in the usual dictionary (paracompact, holomorphic ...)

This is pure mathematics; this means that the questions that are developed in the article will not be directly used for practical purpose, e. g. to solve one of the great problems of mankind (cancer ...). However, history of sciences shows that applied mathematics (the "useful" mathematics) depend strongly on pure mathematics, need strongly their coherence and the strength of their logic.

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(alphacode : fornaess ; numcode : 210)

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Baron Joseph Fourier, 1768 — 1830, was mathematician.

Fourier's name is inside a lot of mathematical analysis itself applied to all vibrating phenomena in nature from music and all sounds to electromagnetic waves (radio, light, X-rays).

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(alphacode : fourier ; numcode : 034)

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Hélène F. is younger than me by a few years.

She lived, during my youth, in the house almost in front of mine, on the other side of the street.

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(alphacode : [not public] ; numcode : 487)

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Simon Fraser, 1776 — 1862, was a canadian explorer.

A river and a university in British Columbia are given his name.

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(alphacode : fraser ; numcode : 186)

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Silvia Fleming

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Silvia Fleming is a US singer.

Silvia Fleming

« Music and singing have always been a part of my life » she writes in her biography.

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(alphacode : flemingsilvia ; numcode : 269)

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First priest at Mauprevoir

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The first priest I knew in Mauprevoir had care uniquely of Mauprevoir church.

At that time, there were enough priests to have one per village. He ended his service there because of a severe disease that led surgeons to cut his two legs. This occured in the middle of years fifty. He was replaced by a younger one.

Near the church of Mauprevoir

This photo was certainly taken on a Summer Sunday. My sister, my two brothers and myself are going to (or come from) mass. Usually, in Mauprevoir, we have not this kind of clothes

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(alphacode : firstmauprevoirpriest ; numcode : 480)

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Mr. F.

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Mr. F. was my teacher in primary school during the school year 1949 - 1950.

He discovered during the school year that I was his far-cousin by my mother. He anounced it, one day, during the class. Later, he became ill and could not finish the school year. He was replaced by his wife.

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(alphacode : [not public] ; numcode : 440)

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Leonardo Fibonacci

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Leonardo Fibonacci, circa 1170 — circa 1250, was an Italian man.

L. Fibonacci is known by basic mathematicians as the person whose name was given to a famous sequence of numbers.

The years of his birth and death are not exactly known. He was an italian man of a time when european learned people paid more attention to Holy Books than to mathematics. But Fibonacci had his education in north Africa where he was in contact with the arabic mathematics world.

I show below how the sequence of Fibonacci numbers is generated. I start with 0 and 1 (leftmost column) which are the two first numbers. I add these numbers : 0 + 1 = 1 ; the result 1 will be the third number (second column). So the sequence has now three numbers 0,1,1 . I add now the two last numbers of the sequence : 1 + 1 = 2 ; the result 2 will be the fourth number (third column). And so on. The sequence is infinite.

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(alphacode : fibonacci ; numcode : 133)

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Richard Feynman

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Richard Phillips Feynman, 1918 — 1988, was a was a famous physicist who dealt mainly with properties of atomic particles.

I shall add nothing to the good biography in Wikipedia, emphasizing only Feynman's participation to the development of the first atomic bomb and the Nobel prize he received in 1965.

As an advanced physicist, Feynman did a lot of mathematics and, for a mathematician, Richard Phillip Feynman is also the person who gave his name to Feynman integrals.

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(alphacode : feynman ; numcode : 187)

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Pierre Fermat

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Pierre de Fermat, 1601 — 1665, was a French lawyer and mathematician.

One of the most famous problems in mathematics bears his name. This problem was only recently solved (1995) after certuries of work from mathematicians of many countries in the world.

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(alphacode : fermat ; numcode : 137)

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weight

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Of course, from November 2009 on, I continued having, at evening, a dinner of 300 grams plus dessert.

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Christmas 194?

In the large kitchen of home. In front of the door-window since father's camera was a black parallelipipedic box of the simplest kind without flash.

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(post scriptum for the one who has already very detailed informations. Indeed, there was another camera at home; a much smarter one with an opening door and a deploying accordion. But this camera never worked.)

Michael B. Feldman

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Michael B. Feldman, born in 1944, is a retired US professor of computer science.

M. B. Felman's name is associated to Ada, a programming language which has its origin in the US army. No matter the opinion one has on the action of US army, Ada is now a good worldwide used language with a lot of available free documentation and even a handbook which gives all good reasons to adopt Ada. This language is mainly targeted to enterprises but an individual can have a free ada compiler on a PC and experiment in Ada programmation. I did it using in particular M. B. Feldman manuals.

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(alphacode : feldman ; numcode : 162)

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Herbert Federer

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Herbert Federer, 1920 — 2010, was a mathematician.

I own a copy of the big volume which is in the center of his work: Geometric Measure Theory.

P. M.

(alphacode : federerherbert ; numcode : 424)

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William Faulkner

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William Faulkner, 1897 — 1962, was a US writer.

W. Faulkner was «One of the most influential writers of the 20th century.» (wikipedia) I read only one book of him : a french translation of Mosquitoes.

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(alphacode : faulknerwilliam ; numcode : 203)

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My three children

All three have their jobs far from home.




Their mother is no longer here.

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