<html><head><title>Giris AG</title></head><body style="background-color:#FFFFFF"><p style="padding-top:14.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="color:#ff0000;font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">R&eacute;coltes et Semailles</span></p><p style="padding-top:14.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="color:#ff0000;font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">(Bi&ccedil;mek ve Ekmek), K&#305;s&#305;m I</span></p><p style="padding-top:14.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="color:#ff0000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Bir matematik&ccedil;inin hayat&#305;</span></p><p style="padding-top:14.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="color:#ff0000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Yans&#305;malar&#305; ve Tan&#305;kl&#305;klar&#305;</span></p><p style="padding-top:18.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="color:#008000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Alexander Grothendieck 1986</span></p><p style="padding-top:14.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">(Serbest T&uuml;rk&ccedil;esi) Y&#305;lmaz Aky&#305;ld&#305;z</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="padding-top:24.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Kaynak</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="color:#ff0000;font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">R&eacute;coltes et Semailles, Part I</span></p><p style="padding-top:14.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="color:#ff0000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">The life of a mathematician</span></p><p style="padding-top:14.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="color:#ff0000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Reflections and Bearing Witness</span></p><p style="padding-top:18.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="color:#008000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Alexander Grothendieck 1986</span></p><p style="padding-top:14.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">English Translation by Roy Lisker</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;text-align:center;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">(Giri&#351; k&#305;sm&#305;, kitab&#305;n b&uuml;t&uuml;n&uuml; bitirildikten sonra &nbsp;Ocak 30, 1986 da yaz&#305;lm&#305;&#351;)</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Giri&#351;</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Samimiyetime inan&#305;n&#305;z ki bu Giri&#351; k&#305;sm&#305;nda uygun bir &#351;eyler yazmak i&ccedil;in b&uuml;t&uuml;n iyi niyetimi g&ouml;sterdim. Bir defa olsun akla uygun, makul bir &#351;eyler yazay&#305;m istedim. 3 - 4 sayfay&#305; ge&ccedil;meyecek Giri&#351; k&#305;sm&#305;, &nbsp;bin sayfan&#305;n &uuml;zerindeki yaz&#305;lar&#305;ma g&uuml;zel bir a&ccedil;&#305;l&#305;&#351; olsun ki &#351;&uuml;pheci okuyucu oltaya tak&#305;ls&#305;n ve bu sayfalarda neler yaz&#305;l&#305; oldu&#287;unu merak etsin. Kim bilir, bakars&#305;n&#305;z i&ccedil;inde onu da &#351;ahsen ilgilendiren &#351;eyler olabilir! &nbsp; </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> </span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;S&ouml;ylemem gerek, insanlar&#305; oltaya takmak tam da benim sitilim de&#287;ildir. Fakat, bir defaya mahsus olmak &uuml;zere, bir istisna yapmak istiyorum. Bu b&uuml;y&uuml;k canavar&#305; basabilecek &ldquo;yeteri kadar deli bir yay&#305;nc&#305;&rdquo; &nbsp;bulabilmem i&ccedil;in bunu yapmak zorunday&#305;m. </span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Her neyse, bu benim y&ouml;ntemim de&#287;il. Fakat elimden gelenin en iyisini yapt&#305;m, ama, ilk ba&#351;ta tasarlad&#305;&#287;&#305;m gibi, sadece bir &ouml;&#287;le sonras&#305;nda olmad&#305; bu i&#351;ler. &nbsp;Giri&#351; k&#305;sm&#305;n&#305; yazmaya ba&#351;layal&#305; yar&#305;n 3 hafta olacak, sayfalar&#305;n &uuml;st &uuml;ste birikti&#287;ini g&ouml;r&uuml;yorum. Ortaya &ccedil;&#305;kan bunca yaz&#305;ya hi&ccedil; bir manada &ldquo;Giri&#351;&rdquo; denemez. Bak&#305;n, yine ba&#351;aramad&#305;m. Bir t&uuml;rl&uuml; anlatam&#305;yorum &#351;unu: Ben al&#305;n&#305;p sat&#305;lacak birisi de&#287;ilim. Ba&#351;kalar&#305;na veya kendime sevimli olmaya ne kadar niyetlensem bile, benim yap&#305;m b&ouml;yle de&#287;il... &nbsp;</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sonunda elimde kalan, bir matematik&ccedil;i olarak &ccedil;al&#305;&#351;ma hayat&#305;m&#305;n i&ccedil;inde &ldquo;A&ccedil;&#305;klamal&#305; bir Gezinti&rdquo;. Matematikten hi&ccedil; bir &#351;ey anlamayan insanlar i&ccedil;in bir Gezinti. Kendim i&ccedil;in de &ouml;yle, &ccedil;&uuml;nk&uuml; ben hi&ccedil; bir zaman b&ouml;yle bir Gezintiye &ccedil;&#305;kmad&#305;m. Kendimi yasaklanm&#305;&#351; &#351;eyler hakk&#305;nda konu&#351;urken ve onlar&#305;n &uuml;st&uuml;ndeki &ouml;rt&uuml;y&uuml; kald&#305;r&#305;rken g&ouml;r&uuml;yorum. Tesad&uuml;f buya, b&uuml;t&uuml;n bunlar kendi &ccedil;al&#305;&#351;malar&#305;m ve bu eserim i&ccedil;in de &ccedil;ok &ouml;nemli konular. Bunlar&#305;n hi&ccedil; birisi &nbsp;matematiksel tekniklerle ilgili de&#287;iller. Bu i&#351;i ba&#351;ar&#305;p ba&#351;aramayaca&#287;&#305;ma siz karar vereceksiniz. Biliyorum bu ger&ccedil;ekten biraz &ccedil;&#305;lg&#305;nca bir i&#351;. &#350;ayet benim neler hissetti&#287;imi sizlere hissettirebilirsem, ba&#351;arm&#305;&#351; olurum. Ne yaz&#305;k ki pek &ccedil;ok meslekta&#351;&#305;m bunlar nas&#305;l hissedilir, &nbsp;bilmiyorlar. B&ouml;yle olmalar&#305;, &nbsp;kendilerinin b&uuml;y&uuml;k bilge olma mecburiyetinden, veya haddinden fazla &ouml;d&uuml;l alm&#305;&#351; olmalar&#305;ndan kaynaklan&#305;yor olabilir. Bu gibi &#351;eyler ki&#351;inin esas temel konularla &nbsp;olabilecek ba&#287;&#305;n&#305; kopart&#305;rlar. Bu yaz&#305;lar&#305;m, yani &nbsp;&ldquo;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">R&eacute;coltes et Semailles</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&rdquo; &nbsp;i&ccedil;inde gezinirken kendi hayat&#305;mdan da bahsedece&#287;im. Ve, yer yer, bunlar&#305; yazmam&#305;n arkas&#305;nda yatan maksad&#305;m&#305; da a&ccedil;&#305;klayaca&#287;&#305;m. Gezintimin sonunda, matematik d&uuml;nyas&#305;ndaki &nbsp;eski &ldquo;dostlar&#305;ma&rdquo; ve &ouml;&#287;rencilerime, ge&ccedil;en senenin May&#305;s ay&#305;nda yaz&#305;lm&#305;&#351; &nbsp;bir mektup bulacaks&#305;n&#305;z. O da hi&ccedil; bir manada teknik bir yaz&#305; de&#287;il. Canl&#305; &nbsp;bir belgeden ger&ccedil;ekleri &ouml;&#287;renmek isteyen herkes bu mektubu okuyabilir. Bu mektupta &nbsp;&ldquo;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">R&eacute;coltes et Semailles</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&rdquo; le doru&#287;a ula&#351;an ufak tefek k&#305;r&#305;nt&#305;lar bulacaks&#305;n&#305;z. Hatta bu Mektup, matematik d&uuml;nyas&#305;n&#305;n o kendine mahsus atmosferi hususunda, en geni&#351; manada size, kitap i&ccedil;indeki Gezintimden daha da &ccedil;ok &nbsp;fikir verebilir. Ve, bir de, Gezintim boyunca &nbsp;kulland&#305;&#287;&#305;m &nbsp;ifade tarz&#305;m&#305; ve &nbsp;d&uuml;nyada di&#287;erlerince anla&#351;&#305;lmaktan uzak bu sitili kullanma zihniyetimi, siz de biraz ola&#287;an d&#305;&#351;&#305; &nbsp;bulabilirsiniz. Gezintim boyunca, burada ve &ldquo;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">R&eacute;coltes et Semailles</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&rdquo; i&ccedil;inde matematik yapman&#305;n tabiat&#305;ndan bahsediyor olaca&#287;&#305;m. &#304;lk elden kendi deneyimlerimle ben bu i&#351;i &ccedil;ok iyi anl&#305;yorum. S&ouml;yleyeceklerimin &ccedil;ok b&uuml;y&uuml;k bir k&#305;sm&#305;n&#305;n b&uuml;t&uuml;n yarat&#305;c&#305; i&#351;lere ve b&uuml;t&uuml;n yeni bulu&#351;lara aynen uygulanabilece&#287;ini, en az&#305;ndan, daha ziyade ki&#351;inin kafas&#305;nda yap&#305;lan &ldquo;entellekt&uuml;el&rdquo; &ccedil;al&#305;&#351;malara ve yazarl&#305;&#287;a tatbik edilebilece&#287;ini d&uuml;&#351;&uuml;n&uuml;yorum. Bu tip bir &ccedil;al&#305;&#351;ma, &nbsp;sorgulad&#305;&#287;&#305;m&#305;z baz&#305; &#351;eyleri anlarken sanki a&ccedil;&#305;lan bir &ccedil;i&ccedil;ekmi&#351; ve kulu&ccedil;kadan &ccedil;&#305;kan bir civcivmi&#351; gibi olmalar&#305;yla ay&#305;rt edilir. &nbsp;Di&#287;er y&ouml;nde bir &ouml;rnek olarak, ihtirasl&#305; a&#351;k da ke&#351;fetme arzusundan kaynaklan&#305;r. A&#351;k, &ldquo;cinsel&rdquo; olarak bilinen bir kavram&#305; anlamam&#305;z&#305; sa&#287;lar ki bu da kendisini yenilemek, &ccedil;i&ccedil;ekler gibi a&ccedil;&#305;lmak ve derinlemesine b&uuml;y&uuml;mek demektir. Bu iki itici - yani masas&#305;nda oturan matematik&ccedil;iye hayat veren, ve seveni sevilene iten &nbsp;kuvvet, &nbsp;birbirlerine, &nbsp;genelde san&#305;landan &ccedil;ok daha yak&#305;n ba&#287;l&#305;d&#305;rlar, veya, insanlar &ouml;yle inanmak isterler de diyebiliriz. Benim arzum, &ldquo;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">R&eacute;coltes et Semailles</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&rdquo; in bu sayfalar&#305;n&#305;n okuyucuyu kendi i&#351;inde ve g&uuml;nl&uuml;k hayat&#305;nda bu ba&#287;lant&#305;n&#305;n varl&#305;&#287;&#305;ndan haberdar etmesidir.</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Do&#287;ruyu s&ouml;ylersek, bu Gezinti boyunca daha ziyade matematikle ilgilenece&#287;iz. &nbsp; Bu i&#351;in ba&#287;lam&#305;nda veya bu i&#351;in d&#305;&#351;&#305;ndaki ki&#351;iler hususunda hi&ccedil; bir &#351;ey s&ouml;ylemeyece&#287;im. Bu genelde matematik&ccedil;inin veya bilim adam&#305;n&#305;n biraz iltifatl&#305; bir imaj&#305;n&#305; verme riskini ta&#351;&#305;yor - bilim adam&#305;n&#305;n s&#305;n&#305;rs&#305;z b&uuml;y&uuml;k tutkusunu bozmak gibi... yani &ldquo;Bilimin Efsanesi&rdquo;; iyi veya k&ouml;t&uuml;, yazarlar&#305;n hala bug&uuml;n bile g&ouml;rkemli Prometheus efsanesine tak&#305;l&#305; kalm&#305;&#351; olmalar&#305; gibi bir &#351;ey... &nbsp;Bu efsanenin ba&#351;tan &ccedil;&#305;kar&#305;c&#305;l&#305;&#287;&#305;na, her zaman olmasa da, sadece tarih&ccedil;iler kar&#351;&#305; &nbsp;durabildiler. &nbsp;&#304;&#351;in esas&#305; asl&#305;nda &#351;u: Genelde i&#351;ini yaparken kendisi fark&#305;nda olmasa da , Bilim Adam&#305;n&#305;n ger&ccedil;ek g&uuml;d&uuml;s&uuml;nde, kibir, yani &nbsp;kendini be&#287;enmi&#351;lik ve h&#305;rs, b&uuml;y&uuml;k roller oynar. Benzer durum di&#287;er mesleklerde de g&ouml;r&uuml;l&uuml;r. Ki&#351;iye ba&#287;l&#305; olarak, bu kendisini kurnazca veya grotesk &#351;ekilde belli edebilir. Ben bu hususta &nbsp;kendimi ayr&#305; tutmuyorum. Bu belgeyi okuyan herkes benimle ayn&#305; fikirde olmal&#305;d&#305;r. </span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">.....................................</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">arkada&#351;lar:</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">benden bu kadar!</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">&ldquo;dad&#305;na bir bak&#305;n&rdquo; &nbsp;istedim.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">zaten ben frans&#305;zca bilmem ve </span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">elimdeki ingilizce &ccedil;eviri ne kadar da orijinaline sad&#305;k, </span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">bilemem. </span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">Ger&ccedil;i AG yasaklad&#305; kendi yaz&#305;lar&#305;n&#305;n ve yapt&#305;&#287;&#305; onca matemati&#287;in kullan&#305;lmas&#305;n&#305;, </span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">yani b&uuml;t&uuml;n bu yaz&#305;lanlar ka&ccedil;ak...</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">Ama, Rusca terc&uuml;mesi sar&#305; renkli bir kitap olarak &ccedil;&#305;km&#305;&#351; durumda.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">T&uuml;rk&ccedil;esi neden olmas&#305;n?</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">Telif hakk&#305;na falan da gerek yok...</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial">y.a.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">Gelin size son bir k&#305;yak daha yapay&#305;m ve Giri&#351; in son sat&#305;rlar&#305;n&#305; da terc&uuml;me edeyim. Maksad&#305;m elbette i&#351;tah&#305;n&#305;z&#305; kabartmakt&#305;r, bu defa &#351;arapla:</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Haydi vira! Gelin birlikte, hayat&#305;n bizzat kendisinden bahsederken, &nbsp;ya&#351;anm&#305;&#351; bir hayat i&ccedil;inde beraber bir yolculu&#287;a &ccedil;&#305;kal&#305;m. Bu uzun bir yolculuk olacak, binlerce sayfal&#305;k ve her bir sayfa ger&ccedil;eklerle doldurulmu&#351;. &nbsp;Bu seyahati yapmak benim b&uuml;t&uuml;n hayat&#305;m&#305; gerektirdi, ve hen&uuml;z hi&ccedil; bir &#351;ey bitmedi, ger&ccedil;i onu sayfa sayfa yeniden yaratmak bir seneden daha fazla zaman&#305;m&#305; ald&#305;. Kelimeler bazan &#351;&uuml;phe i&ccedil;inde nazlanarak geldiler. &#304;lk akla geldiklerinde ve sonradan yap&#305;lan g&ouml;zlemlerde de, her bir kelime &ccedil;ok dikkatlice tart&#305;ld&#305;, &nbsp;hafif veya a&#287;&#305;r olduklar&#305;nda gerekli de&#287;i&#351;imlere u&#287;rad&#305;. </span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Dolay&#305;s&#305; ile, bu d&uuml;&#351;&uuml;nceli - &#351;ahitli - Gezinti nin bir g&uuml;nde veya hatta bir ayda bile bitirilebilecek pek de kolay bir okuma olaca&#287;&#305;n&#305; &nbsp;beklemeyiniz. Bir an &ouml;nce sonuna ula&#351;mak isteyen okuyucu i&ccedil;in de&#287;ildir bu yaz&#305;lar. &ldquo;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">R&eacute;coltes et Semailles</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&rdquo; gibi bir canavarda &ldquo;sonuna ula&#351;mak&rdquo; tan bahsedilemez, &ldquo;neticeler&rdquo; den de &ouml;yle, aynen benim veya sizin hayat&#305;n&#305;zda da &ldquo;sonlar&rdquo; dan ve &ldquo;neticeler&rdquo; den bahsedilemeyece&#287;i gibi. </span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Gelin &#351;&ouml;yle d&uuml;&#351;&uuml;n&uuml;n: &Ouml;n&uuml;n&uuml;zde birisinin hayat&#305;n&#305;n derinliklerinde mayalanm&#305;&#351; bir &#351;arap f&#305;&ccedil;&#305;s&#305; duruyor. (Ertu&#287;rul &Ouml;zk&ouml;k &uuml;n a&#287;z&#305; sulanm&#305;&#351;t&#305;r &#351;u an...) Son kadeh, birinci kadehten ne daha iyi, ne de daha k&ouml;t&uuml; olacakt&#305;r, y&uuml;z&uuml;nc&uuml; kadeh i&ccedil;in de durum ayn&#305;. Hepsi benzer, ve hepsi tamamen farkl&#305;. Ve ilk yudum berbatsa, bilin ki o kadehin i&ccedil;inden geldi&#287;i b&uuml;t&uuml;n f&#305;&#351;&#305; da ayn&#305; &#351;ekilde berbatt&#305;r. K&ouml;t&uuml; bir &#351;arap i&ccedil;mektense iyi bir su i&ccedil;mek &ccedil;ok daha iyidir!</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Yine de, iyi bir &#351;arap buldu&#287;unuzda, onu yava&#351; yava&#351; i&ccedil;iniz, ko&#351;uyorsan&#305;z l&uuml;tfen ona dokunmay&#305;n&#305;z.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">(Bu kadar)</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">...............................................................</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">It is also the case that the most totally consuming ambition is powerless to make or to demonstrate the simplest mathematical discovery - even as it is powerless ( for example) to &quot;score&quot; ( in the vulgar sense) . Whether one is male or female, that which allows one to &#39;score&#39; is not ambition, the desire to shine, to exhibit one&#39;s prowess, sexual in this case. Quite the contrary!</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">What brings success in this case is the acute perception of the presence of something strong, very real and at the same time very delicate. Perhaps one can call it &quot;beauty&quot;, in its thousand-fold aspects. That someone is ambitious doesn&#39;t mean that one cannot also feel the presence of beauty in them; but it is not the attribute of ambition which evokes this feeling....</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The first man to discover and master fire was just like you and me. He was neither a hero nor a demi-god. Once again like you and me he had experienced the sting of anguish, and applied the poultice of vanity to anaesthetize that sting. But, at the moment at which he first &quot;knew&quot; fire he had neither fear nor vanity. That is the truth at the heart of all heroic myth. The myth itself becomes insipid, nothing but a drug, when it is used to conceal the true nature of things.</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I intend in R&eacute;coltes et Semailles to speak of both aspects : of the passion for knowledge, and the passion of fear and the antidotes of vanity used to curb it. I make the claim that I understand , or at least am well acquainted with, the passion for knowledge. ( Yet perhaps one day I will discover, to my amazement, to what extent I&#39;ve been deceiving myself) . Yet when it comes to fear and vanity, and the insidious ways in which these block creativity, I am well aware that I have not gotten to the root of this enigma. Nor do I know if I will ever see through to the end of this myself in the years remaining to me.</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Over the course of writing R&eacute;coltes et Semailles there emerged two images, representing two fundamental aspects of the human adventure: These are the </span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">child</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> ( alias the worker ), and the </span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">boss</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> . In the Promenade on which we are about to embark, we will be dealing almost exclusively with the </span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">child</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">. He also figures in the section entitled &quot;The child and the Mother&quot;. The meaning of this term will, I trust, become clear as we proceed.</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet in the remainder of the work it is the </span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">boss</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> who will be at center-stage: he isn&#39;t the boss for nothing! To be more precise, one isn&#39;t talking about a single boss, but of various bosses of different enterprises being maintained concurrently. At the same time, these bosses have a way of resembling one another in their essential nature.</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Once one begins to talk about bosses, there have to be </span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">villains</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">. In Part I of the section entitled &quot;Complacency and Restoration&quot; (</span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Fatuit&eacute; et Renouvellement</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">), which comes right after the introductory material (</span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> Prelude in 4 Movements</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">), it is I, above all, who am the &quot;villain&quot;! In the remaining 3 sections, its the others. Everyone gets a turn!</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">In other words one can expect to find, along with a number of more or less profound philosophical reflections and some &#39;confessions&#39;(without contrition), several &quot;acid sketches&quot; (</span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">portraits au vitriol</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">- to use the expression of one of my colleagues who has found himself somewhat mistreated), as well as a host of vigorous &quot;operations&quot; which have not been sanitized. Robert Jaulin* has assured me ( only partly joking) that what I&#39;m doing in R&eacute;coltes et Semailles is a kind of &#39;ethnography of the mathematics community&#39; ( or perhaps the sociology)</span></p><hr><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> (*) </span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Robert Jaulin is an old friend of mine. It is my understanding that he, vis-a-vis the community of ethnologists, is regarded, ( as I am in the mathematics establishment) as something of a &#39;black sheep&#39;.</span><hr><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">It is extremely flattering of course to learn, ( without having been aware of it), that one is engaged in real scholarship! It is a fact that in the inquiry portion of this enterprise I have watched (at some risk to myself) the passage across these pages of a considerable portion of the mathematics establishment, as well as friends and colleagues of less exalted status.That has come back to me over the last few months during which I&#39;ve started sending out a provisional first edition of R&eacute;coltes et Semailles.</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Unquestionably my testimony has had the effect of tossing a brick through a glass window! Echoes of every sort ( save that of boredom) have resonated from everywhere. Frankly this was not what I&#39;d expected. And there&#39;s been lots of silence too, the kind that speaks volumes</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Clearly I still have a lot to learn, about all the things going on in the private retreats of others, such as ex-students and those former colleagues who seem to be doing pretty well for themselves ( my apologies &ETH; I meant to say in the &#39;sociology of the mathematics community&#39;!) To all those who, in their own way, have contributed to this &#39;sociological research&#39; with which I occupy my elderly days, I of course express my profoundest gratitude.</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Needless to say I have been most receptive to the enthusiastic responses. There have also been those colleagues , rare enough, who have shared with me their feelings and their experiences about the state of crisis, and the extreme degradation, which lies at the heart of the contemporary mathematics community, of which they are members.</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Among those who, outside of this circle, have been among the first to give this testimony a warm reception I wish to single out Sylvie and Catherine Chevalley(*), Robert Jaulin, St&eacute;phane Deligeorge, Christian Bourgeois.</span></p><hr><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">(*)</span><span style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Sylvie and Catherine Chevalley are the widow and daughter of Claude Chevalley, the colleague and friend to whom I&#39;ve dedicated the central core of R&eacute;coltes et Semailles ( R&amp;SIII,&quot;The Key to the Yin and the Yang&quot;). I will be speaking of him in many places, and of his role in my personal journey.</span><hr><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Well, here we go! Let us begin our Promenade through the work of a lifetime,as a way also of speaking of that life itself. It will be a long voyage indeed, of more than a thousand pages, each of them filled with substance. It has required the whole of my life to make this voyage, which is far from finished, and more than a year to reconstruct it, page upon page. The words have sometimes come hesitantly, as they attempt to give the full import of my experience, the understanding of which has also come hesitantly &#286; like the ripe grape buried in the winepress that may offer resistence to the force applied to crush it.Yet even at those times when it appeared that words were pouring out, tumbling over one another in their urge for release, they were not being strewn at random on the page. Each of them has been carefully weighed, either at the moment of their emergence or in subsequent consideration, and appropriately modified if too light or too heavy.</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Thus, don&#39;t expect that this reflection-witnessing-voyage will make for facile reading, in a day or even in a month. It is not intended for the reader who wishes to come to the end of it as quickly as possible. One can&#39;t really speak of &quot;endings&quot;, much less &quot;conclusions&quot; in a work like R&eacute;coltes et Semailles , no more than one finds such things in my life or in yours.</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Think of it like a wine fermented in the depths of someone&#39;s being for a lifetime. The last glass will be neither better nore worse than the first, or the hundredth. They are all alike, and they are all completely different. And if the first goblet is spoiled, the whole vat from which it comes is likewise spoiled. Far better to drink good water than bad wine!</span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Yet, when one finds a good wine, it is best to sip it slowly, and not when one is one the run.</span></p><hr><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#00008b;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fermentmagazine.org%2Frands%2Fintro1.html&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNETTbGkmYgxSz5vY4h1OCtg-JtSrA">Introduction</a></span><hr><span style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Return to </span><span style="color:#00008b;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fermentmagazine.org%2Fhome5.html&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNFmKXjk1IXctmaJePVKHFNytCK6bA">Grothendieck Folder</a></span></p><p style="padding-top:12.0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0.0pt;direction:ltr;padding-bottom:2.0pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p></body></html>