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Topic: ReS section on motives


view this post on Zulip সায়ন্তন রায় (Nov 20 2021 at 15:16):

Today I started translating ReS's section on motives. Following are some of the phrases I am not able to translate. Can anyone help? Also if you can, please comment on the accuracy of the translation as well.

[My attempt: The theme of topos est issu de that of schemes, the same year in which schemes appeared -- but it goes far beyond the mother-theme in scope.]

[My attempt: Le premier s’est concrétisé entre mes mains en l’outil cohomologique \ell-adique, which now appears to be one of the most powerful mathematical tools of the century.]

[My attempt: To my mind, after the development of the $\ell$-adic cohomological tool, c’était là a new step, in the direction of these conjectures.]

[My attempt: And the few key phenomena dégages dans the standard conjectures can be seen as forming a sort of ultimate quintessence of the motivic theme, as the vital "breath'' of that subtle theme among all, of that "heart within the heart'' of the new geometry.]

[My attempt: There, expressed in the non-technical language of a musical metaphor, this is the quintessence of an idea of childish simplicity encore, delicate and audacious at the same time. I developed this idea, en marge des tâches de fondements that I considered more urgent, under the name of "theory of motives'' or "philosophy (or "yoga'') of motives'', throughout the years 1963–69. It is a theory with a fascinating structural richness, a large part of which still remained conjectural.]

[Crude attempt: I am particularly confused by the word "ici" here. Otherwise, my attempt was, "This is not the place to return to something I say elsewhere."]

[My attempt: I express myself on various occasions, in Récoltes et Semailles on about this "yoga of motives'', which is particularly close to my heart. Ce n’est pas le lieu de revenir ici sur ce que j’en dis ailleurs. Suffice it to say that the ``standard conjectures'' follow most naturally from the world of this yoga of motives. At the same time they provide a principle of approach for une des constructions en forme possibles de la notion de motif .]

[My attempt: Neither this question, nor the other equally crucial question (celle dite de la "resolution of singularities'') are resolved yet at present. But while the second of these questions appears, today as it did a hundred years ago, as a prestigious and formidable question, the one I had the honour of developing s’est vue classer by the peremptory decrees of the world (from the years that followed my departure from the mathematical scene, and just like the motivic theme itself) as a kind of Grothendieckian smoke and mirrors.]

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