2017 welcome letter

[Vavilov Nikolai]

 

 

Carissimi, I've tried to append everyone inscribed to the Algebra 2017 course to the

Perugia Algebra group, hope that worked this time! I am happy and honoured to

welcome you as my students this year!

As you might have noticed, this year the school is 4 weeks instead of 5. Life is

real, life is earnest. Despite everything, music is still there to be heard. Umbria

and Toscana remain as fabulous, as they always have been. Actually, in the

meantime, I've visited 90 cities in Toscana and Umbria alone, about the same

number, as in all of Russia, or in all of Germany, for that matter.

The former director of the SMI, Leo De Michele, described our daily stroll through

Rocca Paolina, Corso Vannucci , turning at Fontana Maggiore to the arcs, and then to

the scaline dell'Acquedotto, as "la passegiata piu' bella del mondo". I very much share

his opinion.

Welcome to my world:

 

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecapoli_etrusca

 

Enjoy the school, enjoy the toil --- sorry, soil, and enjoy the rest!

Your pictures follow under separate cover, as I compress them.

 

Best Nikolai Vavilov

 

P.S. My first name in the name of the group is reproduced with a grave mistake. It should

be spelled in Greek, Nikolai, with the final "i".

 

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четверг, 30 июля 2015 г., 8:20:56 UTC+2 пользователь Vavilov Nikolai написал:

Dear All, attached please find my welcome letter to the group back in 2011, and 
the (slightly corrected, but still not complete) notes of my course. I can repeat 
everything I said then. 
    I will start sending you your pictures and the first homework after the class. 
    Otherwise, Perugia and Umbria and Toscana (very close!) at large are 
unique and fantastic places to be. Enjoy yourself! 

Best                                                                               Nikolai Vavilov 

P.S. Dear 2011 and 2013 participants, I decided it wouldn't be polite to remove you 
from the group myself. Please unsubscribe yourselves, if you wish to. Sorry for the 
junk mail! 

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Dear All, I'm happy to be in Perugia again, and I'm happy to have you as my students. 
       I will do my best not to disappoint you, but a human can only be held responsible for 
his intentions, not for the results of his actions (de qui?). 
       Attached please find my notes of Perugia 2007, based on my own notes at the Harbin 
Institute of Technology in 2005, reworked and expanded in 2007 by an excellent Bavarian 
student of SMI-2007 Benedikt Ahrens, in accordance with what was actually covered that 
year. 
       It's a dvi file, but you'll have to be able to read dvi files anyway, to communicate with 
research mathematicians. 
       Otherwise, I could convert it to a pdf file. 
       You'll notice that the final part is not complete, but it's simply FAR too much work to 
finalise and polish it to a real book. 

Yours                                                                           Nikolai Vavilov

[giuseppe giacopelli]

Giuseppe Giacopelli.

I'm Giuseppe and I'm from Palermo, I attended the bachelor in mathematics in the University of Palermo and I'm at the first year of the master in mathematical physics, which is a master of mathematics, at the university of Palermo.

I attended 5 algebra courses, the 3 canonical courses at the bachelor (Algebra 1,2,3) and two in the last year, the first one was about rings and an introduction to character theory and the second one was an introduction to Lie algebra's.

My interest are Lie group, Lie algebra, mathematical modellistic and I'm also a programmer of C# e matlab.

Giuseppe Giacopelli.

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27.07.2017, 23:09, "giuseppe giacopelli" <giuse...@gmail.com>:

Giuseppe Giacopelli.

 

I'm Giuseppe and I'm from Palermo, I attended the bachelor in mathematics in the University of Palermo and I'm at the first year of the master in mathematical physics, which is a master of mathematics, at the university of Palermo.

I attended 5 algebra courses, the 3 canonical courses at the bachelor (Algebra 1,2,3) and two in the last year, the first one was about rings and an introduction to character theory and the second one was an introduction to Lie algebra's.

My interest are Lie group, Lie algebra, mathematical modellistic and I'm also a programmer of C# e matlab.

Giuseppe Giacopelli.

 

Caro Giuseppe, grazie!

From what you say, you know already BOTH parts of the course, character theory AND

Lie algebras!

Actually, I'm very ashamed to say that I was never in Sicily (though Antonio Giambruno

a couple of times suggested me to come to Palermo in Winter, I know, I should!) Somehow,

I've redone ALL of Goethe's "Italienische Reise" --- and quite a bit more! --- apart from the

Sicily part.

B.t.w., Goethe was obviously well informed, alongside with the obvious tourist places, he

visited cities like Vicenza, Padova, Ferrara, Siena, Perugia, Arezzo, Assisi, Spoleto,... You

cannot make a more educated selection even now.

As a side-note, in his Italian diary Goethe NEVER mentions having seen the frescoes by

Giotto in the upper San Francesco church in Assisi:

 

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_San_Francesco

 

I am a man of very simple tastes, of course, quite easily satisfied with the best, but in my

unqualified opinion, this is THE most important work of art, you can see in all of Italy (well,

POSSIBLY apart from Sicily!) free of charge.

Of course, I shall have to redo also the Sicily part one day! AT LEAST Palermo, Monreale,

Agrigento, Catania, Siracusa, Taormina...

 

N.V.