From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 5:24 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: any interaction I spent all day with gromov yesterday, =AO he readily admits lack of anything meaningful to date.. but suggests t=e new descriptions allow for some intriguing insights. . "= somewhere between nonsense and illumination." He conced=s exaggeration , with a jewish smile. he say= it helps make a point and get attention. he said you would understa=c1. ): he is at the same instiitute as was grothebdieck = He was fascinated that though there was no probablitles to sentence= . there were tree like structures that were more abunda=t than others. . words like thou, appear in =rint quite often as a result of the bible. the sentences are somewha= limited I will try to meet berwick this month in c=mbridge when your schedule becomes open. just let =e know . for our ehud bout. On Fri, Jul 3, 2=15 at 7:09 PM, Noam Chomsky < > wrote: Remarkable person. As you probably know, in 19701 lectu=ed for several days, all day, in the ruins of the Polytechnique in Hanoi, =n every topic I knew anything about. Those who attended were starved for anything, because of the isolation. Some w=re mathematicians, who probably had attended his seminar. From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 12:48 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: any interaction http://www-history.mcs.st-a=drews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grothendieck.html <http://www-history.mcs.st- andrews.ac.uk/B=ographies/Grothendieck.html> EFTA_R1_01623262 EFTA02498040