Comments on: noncommutative space quiz http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/noncommutative-space-quiz.html lieven le bruyn's blog Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:50:41 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jan http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/noncommutative-space-quiz.html/comment-page-1#comment-8241 Jan Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:20:56 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/?p=1885#comment-8241 <p>Ah, that makes sense. In some sense there are too many ways of looking at noncommutative geometry...</p> Ah, that makes sense. In some sense there are too many ways of looking at noncommutative geometry…

]]> By: lieven http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/noncommutative-space-quiz.html/comment-page-1#comment-8238 lieven Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:05:08 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/?p=1885#comment-8238 <p>@errol : if you mean Alain Connes by "the Grand-master" there are interviews available online : <a href="http://ipm.ac.ir/news/2005/connes/connes-interview.pdf" rel="nofollow">Tehran interview</a> and a shorter <a href="http://www.alainconnes.org/docs/Inteng.pdf" rel="nofollow">Skandalis-Goldstein interview</a>. Have fun with them!</p> <p>@jan : my bad then. i was hoping to depict something of the adelic-class-space, different colors corresponding to different primes...</p> @errol : if you mean Alain Connes by “the Grand-master” there are interviews available online : Tehran interview and a shorter Skandalis-Goldstein interview. Have fun with them!

@jan : my bad then. i was hoping to depict something of the adelic-class-space, different colors corresponding to different primes…

]]> By: Jan http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/noncommutative-space-quiz.html/comment-page-1#comment-8223 Jan Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:00:34 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/?p=1885#comment-8223 <p>As a starting PhD student in noncommutative geometry, I have no idea what this picture would be. </p> <p>My mental image would have distinct "points" for each component which commutes with the other component, making for example noncommutative torus some sort of fuzzy grey roughly in the shape of a torus, never sharpening to distinct points, no matter how far you zoom in. However, if you tweak the "noncommutativity" parameter theta, sometimes, suddenly your fuzzy patches would collapse into nice sharp tori, showing the behaviour when theta becomes rational.</p> As a starting PhD student in noncommutative geometry, I have no idea what this picture would be.

My mental image would have distinct “points” for each component which commutes with the other component, making for example noncommutative torus some sort of fuzzy grey roughly in the shape of a torus, never sharpening to distinct points, no matter how far you zoom in. However, if you tweak the “noncommutativity” parameter theta, sometimes, suddenly your fuzzy patches would collapse into nice sharp tori, showing the behaviour when theta becomes rational.

]]> By: Errol http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/noncommutative-space-quiz.html/comment-page-1#comment-8159 Errol Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:11:21 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/?p=1885#comment-8159 <p>I have recently started reading your blog and its very interesting; I like the fact that its about noncommutative geometry. Hey man, keep it up; it would be nice to read an interview with the Grand-master himself but I leave this entirely up to you</p> <p>Errol</p> I have recently started reading your blog and its very interesting; I like the fact that its about noncommutative geometry.
Hey man, keep it up; it would be nice to read an interview with the Grand-master himself but I leave this entirely up to you

Errol

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