It seems to be the time for politics first. Here are several essays/letters concerning current events: by Viktor Shenderovich, Dmitry Chernyshev, Lech Walesa.
My response to the petition Mathematicians against the genocide in Gaza.
The letter I sent on March 17, 2024 to the US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as a comment to his Senate speech about the prospects of peace in Palestine.
The letter I sent on March 7, 2022 to the office of the Rector of the Moscow State University, mathematician V. A. Sadovnichiy, in connection with his endorsement of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Did you know: In one's
afterlife, one is condemned to finding counter-examples to all false
statements made in life? From W. H. Aumer:   Vladimir   Arnold   (my teacher)
Hence the advice: Start early!
Two millenniums back / Euclid founded the science of Data.
Two Wikipedia lines / are all it merits to date.
Alexander GIVENTAL
Here is a photo of mine
(and here is of yours)
Office: 701 Evans Hall
Phone Number: 510-642-3660
Email address:
givental@math.berkeley.edu
Postal Address:
Department of Mathematics
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720
June 12, 1937 -- June 3, 2010
As a Matter of Thought
 
(English)  
(Russian)
Links (at MCCME)
  Photos (courtesy of S. Tretyakova)
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