A far more interesting framework for thinking about the current crisis, from Matilde Marcolli: An important counterpoint to the torrent of propaganda being parroted by some leading mathematicians. www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/AIm...

A letter to the math community, to appear in the Notices. In response to what I view as irresponsible messaging and unfortunate decisions from some mathematical leaders influencing many in my department. www.math.toronto.edu/mgualt/math-...

"...the survival of the human species, and even of life itself, threatened by the growing ecological imbalance caused by the indiscriminate use of science and technology and by suicidal social mechanisms, and also threatened by conflicts related to the proliferation of military devices" - A.G.

In 1970, Grothendieck learned that ~5% of IHES operating funds were from the French Ministry of Defense. His colleagues were not willing to end this military cooperation, and so, he resigned his professorship. Later that year, in Montreal, he founded Survivre et Vivre, whose purpose was...