Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:52:56 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Fwd: Your memo on Jacques Herbrand From: Christoph Benzmueller To: Claus-Peter Wirth Hi CP, for your interest. Cheers, Chris ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jacques Calmet Date: 2009/3/10 Subject: Re: Your memo on Jacques Herbrand To: Christoph Benzmueller Cc: siekmann@dfki.de, serge.autexier@dfki.de Dear Chris, You are much welcome to forward my message to Claus-Peter Wirth. I was awar= e I did not add him as a receiver of my message but I do not know him and I was in a hurry and did not have time to look for his email address. Best regards, Jacques On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Christoph Benzmueller wrote: Hello Jacques, good to hear that you had such a pleasure reading this article. We were really working very hard on it for quite some time. But the person who worked the hardest was without doubt Claus-Peter Wirth. May I forward your email to him as well? Or maybe send it to him yourself -- he does not have a job in German academia right now and I think it could mean a lot to him if he gets such a positive feedback to this piece of work. Best wishes, Chris 2009/3/10 Jacques Calmet > Dear Joerg, Chris and Serge, > > I have read with great pleasure and interest your lectures on Jacques > Herbrand as a Logician. I came across them a few days ago only. > I almost discovered Herbrand through these lectures. > I have been particularly struck by your table on page 9 listing the > students attending the Hadamard's seminar. Weil, Chevalley and Dieudonn= =E9 > are legends among French mathematicians, > but Herbrand and Lautman never reached such a status. Bourbaki is not the > only reason to make such a statement. Weil and Chevalley have an > extraordinary mathematical legacy, Dieudonn=E9 had, in addition, a very s= trong > personality that could not be ignored. > I only heard of Lautman as a "mathematical philosopher". Herbrand is the > man of his universe mainly. I never heard of them during my studies or as= a > young researcher in theoretical physics (or as a member of the French > mathematical society). The board of the thesis of Herbrand is also of gre= at > interest since Vessiot and Frechet have left a large impact. Picard-Vessiot > is still a meaningful concept in the area of differential algebra while > Frechet-Volterra functionals have been used quite a lot by mathematical > physicists in the same area (my first research topic dealt with such > functionals). > > Thanks for making me discover the life of Herbrand (and also Lautman). > > Best regards, > > Jacques > > -------------------------------------- > Prof. Dr. i. R. Jacques Calmet > University of Karlsruhe (TH) Phone:+49/ (0)721/608-6306 > Am Fasanengarten 5 Fax: +49/ (0)721/608-6116 > Postfach 6980 Home: +49/ (0)721/67 501 > D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany E-mail: calmet@ira.uka.de > > > > > --=20 Christoph Benzmueller Professor for Formal Methods and AI International University in Germany http://christoph.benzmueller.me