Cycling mathematician solves Kato's Conjecture

[The Wogster]

David L. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:48:48 -0800, Tom Keats wrote:
>
>
>>In article <[email protected]>,
>> "David L. Johnson" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>
>>>Y'know, when you try to use fancy words, you ought to turn on your
>>>spellchecker.
>
>
>>So, despite your momentary acerbity, I still like you, and I
>>understand how life experience can take its toll. You're still
>>a good guy, with good & valid things to say, ya grouch, ya!
>
>
> Sorry to **** you off, Tom. I kinda thought that the "thought-condusive
> peripatism" was a bit over the top. Forget I said anything.
>
> BTW, I still don't see how you can tell whether or not TeX was composed in
> emacs. But then, I hate emacs. I never could see the use of an editor
> that required you to have a manual open on your lap, to use the darn thing.

Especially that manual, if your going to have 100lbs on your lap, that
isn't the 100lbs most people would have in mind ;-)

For unix editors, your much better to use vi, every modern unix and unix
clone has a version of vi on it....

W

 

[Claire Petersky]

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> In my experience the bike beats the bus anyday

The last day I rode before I came down with this cold I did a race with the
route 225. This is the bus I usually race, as it duplicates about three
miles of the final 5.5 miles on my way home. I knew it'd be a hard race,
because my success in beating it out is not really about how hard I pedal,
but how many passengers it has to disgorge and how thick the traffic is.
Since there are fewer commuters, both on the bus and the road, just after
Xmas, I knew I'd have to be very canny about the route I took.

I figured the lights just right, and instead of having to wait *forever* for
the light to change at 148th, I sailed through the green. Still, the bus
beat me out as I made the final climb to the top of the west Sammamish
plateau. The driver knows me by now, and slowed down and yelled a greeting,
before finally passing.


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[Dane Buson]

David L. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> BTW, I still don't see how you can tell whether or not TeX was composed in
> emacs. But then, I hate emacs. I never could see the use of an editor
> that required you to have a manual open on your lap, to use the darn thing.

Why it's perfectly simple. Personally I have the MIT Space Cadet Keyboard
which has seven shifting keys: four "bucky bit" keys -- "control", "meta",
"hyper", and "super" -- and three like the regular shift key, called
"shift", "top", and "front". [1] It's oh so convenient when I want to
simultaneously save my file, compose Usenet replies, shave the cat and
make toast. Now if only I could find a text editor to go with my EMACS
OS... [2]

[1] I wish I was making the bit about the MIT keyboard up, it really
did (does?) exist. I don't own one (thank god).

[2] Vim Forever!1!1!!!onE!

--
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"Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The
Presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a
high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first
prize." -Saul Bellow

 

[Tom Keats]

In article <[email protected]>,
"David L. Johnson" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:48:48 -0800, Tom Keats wrote:
>
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> "David L. Johnson" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> Y'know, when you try to use fancy words, you ought to turn on your
>>> spellchecker.
>
>> So, despite your momentary acerbity, I still like you, and I
>> understand how life experience can take its toll. You're still
>> a good guy, with good & valid things to say, ya grouch, ya!
>
> Sorry to **** you off, Tom. I kinda thought that the "thought-condusive
> peripatism" was a bit over the top. Forget I said anything.

Aw, you didn't **** me off.

FWIW I generally don't bother with spell checking; this time
perhaps I should have. Also there was that recent thread in
which Jobst participated, decrying gibbled grammar, spelling
and syntax. It all got pretty euphuistic and worthy of mockery.
I guess I got too caught-up in that spirit. It seems mockery
isn't conducive to accuracy.

> BTW, I still don't see how you can tell whether or not TeX was composed in
> emacs.

Nothing else makes such an almost-Regular-Expressions dog's-breakfast
when undergoing 7-to-8-bit-ascii convertions, etc from system to system.
Back in the day, cooking up file/format converters that turned dogs'
breakfasts into dogs' lunches was something I enjoyed (and got pretty
good at.)

> But then, I hate emacs. I never could see the use of an editor
> that required you to have a manual open on your lap, to use the darn thing.

I'm so used to emacs that I frequently hit ^E instead of the 'End'
key, or ^D instead of 'Delete' when typing in MS-Word, with a PC
keyboard. My resulting consternation and associated verbiage can
become a paragon of pyroclasm.

> Happy New Year, anyway.

Happy everything, to you and to everybody! A paragon of happiness to all!


a paragon of cheers,
Tom

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[[email protected]]

Tom Keats wrote:
> [email protected] quotes:
>
> > # Abstract
> >
> > # Kato's conjecture, stating that the domain of the square root of any
> > # accretive operator $L=-\dive(A\nabla)$ with bounded measurable
> > # coefficients in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is the Sobolev space
> > # $H^1(\mathbb{R}^n)$, i.e. the domain of the underlying sesquilinear
> > # form, has recently been obtained by Auscher, Hofmann, Lacey,
> > # M\texsuperscript^{c}Intosh and the author. These notes present the
> > # result and explain the strategy of proof.
>
> Kewl!! TeX! And apparently composed in emacs! I'm almost tempted to
> write a convertion program (in SNOBOL4 of course) that'll format the
> above to a dvi-able .tex file. The PERL people could write something
> screamingly faster, but mine would be prettier. And probably better
> self-documenting.
>
> I'm feeling a wistful, bittersweet nostalgia now.

Huh? Conversion program? It's plain TeX or Latex with pound
signs in front that Jobst inserted as quote-marks.

http://www.numdam.org/numdam-bin/item?id=JEDP_2001____A14_0

Click on the pdf link to see what it looks like when typeset.