{"id":1247,"date":"2009-09-06T03:08:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T01:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:40:54","slug":"sabbatical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/2009\/09\/06\/sabbatical\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabbatical"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in my career, I am on sabbatical this semester, and will spend it at the Institute for Advanced Study<\/a> (where there is a programme in analytic number theory this year).
\nConsequently, and also for the first time in a relatively long time, I am in the USA at the moment for professional reasons. This brings back memories of earlier times and rather pointless anthropological observations:<\/p>\n

* On the down side, the Border bookshop “local” to where I stayed during the summer seems to have decided to dispense with a Science section. To replace it (?), there are two nice wide shelves of “Magic studies”. This is strange enough that I wonder if this is an isolated event (the equally local Barnes and Nobles still has a decent Science section).<\/p>\n

* On the plus side, I would never have thought that I would buy Y. Meyer’s “Wavelets and operators”<\/a> (in the Cambridge English edition) in a second hand bookstore located inside the Lakeview Museum<\/a> in Peoria, Illinois, home base of the world’s largest scale model of the Solar System<\/a>. By the way, if you intend to go see it — maybe as a pretext for bargain hunting maths books (the wavelet book cost 25 $, which is a fairly good deal certainly) –, be advised that the name Lakeview and the address West Lake Avenue are both misleading: the museum is quite far from the “lake” of Peoria, which in any case is just a slightly widened Illinois river; so do take good directions with you before leaving…<\/p>\n

P.S. I checked: they don’t have a copy of “Galois Groups over Q<\/i><\/b>“<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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