## Crowdfund subtitling of interviews?

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Four months ago, Leila Schneps started a crowd-funding project to translate part 3 of Scharlau’s biography of Grothendieck. So far, she raised 3350 of the required 6000 dollars from 45 donations.

## Fresh(wo)men’s course on Foundations

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In two months I’ll be teaching ‘Logic and Set Theory’ for the first time, a first year, first semester course on Foundations. And no (though I considered it for a nanosecond) I will not trow HoTT at them…

## On categories, go and the book $\in$

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A nice interview with Jacques Roubaud (the guy responsible for Bourbaki’s death announcement) in the courtyard of the ENS. He talks about go, categories, the composition of his book $\in$ and, of course, Grothendieck and Bourbaki.

## Why I didn’t post yesterday today

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At times it is far more rewarding to enter into an exchange on G+ than to try to write yet another blog post here…

## A noncommutative moduli space

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Supernatural numbers also appear in noncommutative geometry via James Glimm’s characterisation of a class of simple $C^*$-algebras, the UHF-algebras.

## The origins of HoTT

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Below, a great G+-post by Allen Knutson, pointing to a talk given by Voevodsky in which he explains why  some errors (by himself and others) convinced him that mathematics needed a new foundation.

## Erna Bannow, octonions and the Leech?

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Erna Bannow was born october 6th1911 in Schlawe (Pommern), now Sławno in Poland. In 1930 she finished her secondary studies at the Oberlyzeum Merseburg (near Leipzig). She then continued her studies at the universities of Marburg, Bonn, and Göttingen.

## Oulipo’s use of the Tohoku paper

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Many identify the ‘Tohoku Mathematical Journal’ with just one paper published in it, affectionately called the Tohoku paper: “Sur quelques points d’algèbre homologique” by Alexander Grothendieck.

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## Hilbert’s heartbreak hotel

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A post by Nature is causing some ripples at Google+.