From: "Noam Chomsky"

From: "Noam Chomsky" To: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]> Subject: RE: any interaction Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 00:17:23 +0000 Sounds like a very appealing guy, as well as obviously a very deep thinker. A welcome member of the tribe. There is interesting work on probabilistic models. Bob and his students have done important work on computational complexity, and he's the co-author of quite an interesting paper, which he may discuss with you, showing how efforts to deal with simple problems with probabilistic models of acceptability that eliminate grammar fail (by many orders of magnitude) as compared with the same models that integrate grammatical knowledge — not too surprising, apart from prevailing dogmas. Hope we can work something out with Barak. Lots of questions I'd like to ask him, especially about events that are only partially described in what archival records have been released. Noam From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 1:24 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: any interaction I spent all day with gromov yesterday, he readily admits lack of anything meaningful to date. . but suggests the new descriptions allow for some intriguing insights. . " somewhere between nonsense and illumination." He concedes exaggeration , with a Jewish smile. he says it helps make a point and get attention. he said you would understand. ): he is at the same instiitute as was grothebdieck . He was fascinated that though there was no probablitles to sentences . there were tree like structures that were more abundant than others. . words like thou, appear in print quite often as a result of the bible. the sentences are somewhat limited I will try to meet benvick this month in cambridge when your schedule becomes open. just let me know . for our ehud bout. On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Noam Chomsky < > wrote: Remarkable person. As you probably know, in 1970 I lectured for several days, all day, in the ruins of the Polytechnique in Hanoi, on every topic I knew anything about. Those who attended were starved for anything, because of the isolation. Some were mathematicians, who probably had attended his seminar. From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 12:48 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: any interaction EFTA00717935 http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grothendieck.html please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected], and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation®gmail.com, and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved EFTA00717936