Tale of Tales

The best animation film ever - available on YouTube (4 parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmcp4XNCWRY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBniVo80Mec http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjndixMcl8g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7H1wrcFjc

Support Slow Food Movement!

This fast food parlor occupies premises (at a corner of rue Soufflot and boulevard Saint-Michel) of a cafe A Capoulade where, in 1930-s, the founders of the Bourbaki group were meeting for work on their project, see a paper by Liliane Beaulieu, from which this contemporary photograph is taken: To add insult to injury, the opposite corner site is held by MacDonald's. Nowadays, would it be possible to do mathematics in burger joint? Therefore, support Slow Food Movement!

Espace Tangente

Can you imagine a British shop with the word "mathematical" on the shop sign? (Espace Tangente, 80 bd St Michel 75006 Paris; closed on Sunday -- this explains a unfortunate wire mesh.) Yesterday I bought there a nice book on mathematics in music. See a website of the publishing house Editions Pole, it apparently owns the shop (or vice versa).

British Library on Euston Road

Since I mentioned British Library in a comment to my post "Nabokov and Onegin's Stanza", I wish to add a brief tip on a hidden tourist gem of London: British Library on Euston Road, between Euston and King's Cross/St Pancras train stations. If you find yourself dying of boredom at Euston or King's Cross with 40 minutes to spare, visit the ground floor exhibition of the British Library - it is 5 minutes walk, entry is free (and instant, the exhibition is in the entrance lobby). You will discover fantastic treasures, like the logbook of HMS Victory with the record of Admiral Nelson's death, or the manuscript (actually, exceptionally tidy handwritten book - true labour of love) of Alice in the Wonderland.