{"id":5089,"date":"2013-02-03T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2022-01-18T09:05:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:05:57","slug":"one-day-in-the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/one-day-in-the-life\/","title":{"rendered":"One day in the life . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . of Boris N. Delone (1890-1980), Russian <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-matherati-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mathematician<\/a>, moutaineer, and polymath, member of a famous family of mathematicians and physicists, whose grandson was <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2010\/08\/five-minutes-of-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dissident poet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>July 6, 1975, Delone spends a cold night (-25 degrees C) in a tent on a glacier under the beautiful peak of Khan Tengri (7000 m, the Tien Shan mountain system, Central Asia) [pictured, at sunset] at a height of about 4200 m.&nbsp; In the morning a helicopter picks him up to take him to Przhevalsk (now Karakol), a Kyrgyz city at the eastern tip of Lake Issyk-Kul.&nbsp; From Przhevalsk he takes a local flight to Frunze (now Bishkek), the capital of Kyrgyzstan, where the heat exceeds 40 degrees C.&nbsp;&nbsp; After queuing up for a few hours and with the help of some &#8220;kind people&#8221; and the Academy of Sciences membership card he succeeds in purchasing an air ticket to Moscow.&nbsp;&nbsp; Late at night he arrives at Domodedovo airport in Moscow, from which he still needs to go to his country house near Abramtsevo (Moscow oblast).&nbsp;&nbsp; Taking the last commuter train, he arrives at the necessary station at around 2 am; from there it is another three kilometers to his house, half of which are in a dark dense forest.&nbsp; He loses his way and, after roaming&nbsp;around the night forest for a long time, leaves his heavy rucksack in a familiar secluded place.&nbsp; Only in the morning does Delone succeed in getting home safely.&#8221;&nbsp; (page 13).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In that year, 1975, Boris Delone was 85 years old.<\/p>\n<p>N. P. Dolbilin [2011]: Boris Nikolaevich Delone (Delaunay): Life and Work. <em>Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics<\/em>, 275: 1-14.&nbsp; Published in Russian in <em>Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V. A. Steklov<\/em>, 2011, 275:&nbsp; 7-21.&nbsp; A pre-print version of the paper is <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1008.5290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . of Boris N. Delone (1890-1980), Russian mathematician, moutaineer, and polymath, member of a famous family of mathematicians and physicists, whose grandson was a dissident poet: July 6, 1975, Delone spends a cold night (-25 degrees C) in a tent on a glacier under the beautiful peak of Khan Tengri (7000 m, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,51,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-matherati","category-post-industrial-nomads","p1","y2013","m02","d03","h11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10384,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}