How to cultivate great taste - by Utsav Mamoria

You are going to spend 30 minutes reading this. Listen to this music as you go along. Trust me, it is connected to the piece, just not in ways you may think. In 1935, a letter appeared on the desk of Élie Cartan, a distinguished French mathematician. The letter was from a colleague, André Weil, who was introducing a reclusive mathematician, Nicolas Bourbaki. Weil submitted an article on Bourbaki’s behalf for publication in the journal Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences (Proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences). Nicolas was a former lecturer at the Royal University of Besse in Poldavia, who was now living in the grief of his country being wiped off the map of Europe. He not only lost his job but also almost all of his money during the dissolution of his country. Nicolas ended up making some money by giving lessons in belote, a card game at which he was a master, at a cafe in the Paris suburb of Clichy. Weil had to go through a significant amount of persuasion to have Nicola

You are going to spend 30 minutes reading this. Listen to this music as you go along. Trust me, it is connected to the piece, just not in ways you may think. In 1935, a letter appeared on the desk of Élie Cartan, a distinguished French mathematician. The letter was from a colleague, André Weil, who was introducing a reclusive mathematician, Nicolas Bourbaki. Weil submitted an article on Bourbaki’s behalf for publication in the journal Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences (Proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences). Nicolas was a former lecturer at the Royal University of Besse in Pold