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Das diagramm ist kommutativ!

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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

(top-left corner:) Hexensküche 1971

Riemann-Roch’scher Satz: der letzte Schrei: das Diagramm

[the chart and doodles]

ist kommutatif! [sic]

Um dieser Aussage über f: X→Y einen approximativen Sinn zu geben, musste ich nahezu zwei Stunden lang die Geduld der Zuhörer missbrauchen. Schwartz [sic] auf weiss [sic] (in Srpinger’s Lecture Notes) nimmt’s wohl an die 400, 500 Seiten.

Ein packendes Beispiel dafür, wie unser Wissens- und Entdeckungsdrang sich immer mehr in einem lebensentrückten logischen Delirium auslebt, während das Leben selbst auf tausendfache [not sure about that] Art zum Teufel geht – und mit endgültiger Vernichtung bedroht ist. Höchste Zeit, unsern Kurs zu ändern!

[illegible] 1971 Alexander Grothendieck

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I’m not sure if I can do the German idioms justice in English, but here’s an attempt at translating it:

Hell’s kitchen 1971

Riemann-Roch’s Theorem: the latest in-thing: The diagram

[the chart and doodles]

is commutative! In order to give any meaning to that statement about f: X→Y I had to abuse the audience’s patience for two hours. In written form (in Springer’s lecture notes) it takes about 400–500 pages.

A stunning example how our curiosity has taken to enjoying itself in a logical delirium, disconnected from reality [literally: life], while life itself is going to hell a thousand times over – and is on the brink of its final annihilation. It’s about time we changed course!

[illegible] 1971 Alexander Grothendieck

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Top translation and you're super nice to have taken the time to write the original text.

However I don't think the translation was necessary: everybody on lemmy obviously speaks flüssig German.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago
[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
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