FW Lawvere / Pierre Cartier / Angus MacIntyre / John L Bell / Colin McLarty Rencontres, Fougeres 2005
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Recorded at Rencontres, Fougeres (2005), featuring FW Lawvere, Pierre Cartier, Angus MacIntyre, John L Bell, Colin McLarty. From the Michael Wright Collection, held by the Archive Trust for Research in Mathematical Sciences & Philosophy.

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0:00 And, of course, shortly after he died, Simpson had a tremendous propaganda against him on the term, didn't he? Yes, he wasn't really at the whole time, and I missed that. Saying, you know, this is, oh, because he had made a few off-the-cuff remarks of a completely, obviously fairly light-hearted kind, about the academic politics of mathematical research. How to present your results and how to get tenure is a lot of wrote a great deal and I think that made a part of it as well. So, but obviously ironic, I think that Simpson declared it doesn't do anything. I think in the sense that he was physically lazy, unlike most mathematicians, he wasn't fond of walking. But also I think in the sense that he didn't have a sit spot, he was a key to sleep. You probably are very fair. No, it's because the monad is temperamental. That's all right. Click on it now, and it should, and it's okay. But once in a while, it does... I wondered about this. Yes, so... It was. The monad is sometimes temperamental, and you always have to check with you. Well, you used to know... I believe it was your husband, one of the founders, had traveled to, like young husband, the same type of thing I did, gone there in a military capacity and brought back.

2:30 Well, this guy let on that he knew how this was done, but he doesn't like it very much. And of course, where Younghusband let Himmler follow, because the SS sent this expedition. An enormous amount of stuff. One that's described in the movie for seven years. Exactly, which is still all displayed in this museum in Salzburg, where they took the Dalai Lama around about a few years ago when he was there. And he came and raised some guys, raised some wonderful resource, you know, this kind of time capsule of all the best. And he didn't sort of mention the fact that it had all been put together by the SS. The staff of the SS Arnhemeyer Anthropological Research Office in the Oryx area. What else do I remember? There were several people who were actually from military intelligence. The woman could perceive other things. They knew exactly what we were doing. They knew what we were doing. They knew what we were doing.