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Overview

  • 9 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Spanish; learning French, Japanese
  • 46, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Doing a phD in Number Theory
  • I wonder...
  • From Berlin
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Extending "Kronecker's liebster Jugendtraum"

ABOUT ME

Die Selbstkritik hat viel für sich.
Gesetzt den Fall ich tadle mich;
so hab ich erstens den Gewinn,
daß ich so hübsch bescheiden bin;
zum zweiten denken sich die Leut,
der Mann ist lauter Redlichkeit;
auch schnapp ich drittens diesen Bissen
vorweg den andern Kritiküssen;
und viertens hoff' ich außerdem
auf Widerspruch, der mir genehm.
So kommt es dann zuletzt heraus,
daß ich ein ganz famoses Haus.
W. Busch

"Nun scheint es aber, daß niemand von sich selbst so recht sicher weiß, inwieweit er gut oder böse ist, [...]"
S. Freud

PHILOSOPHY

Although I despise all works of counter-aufklärung, I despise pure positivism even more.

"Tragödien kehren wieder als Komödien." Hegel

More to come.

Interests

Photography (www.flickr.com/photos/bildungskatastrophe/, pinhole construction)
Go (5k)
Learning about different people and places
Opera (Italian & Russian)
Urban Exploring
RPG's (Shadowrun mainly)
Piano
Literature (Gibson, Dostojewskii, Murakami, Wilde...)
Aikido
International politics
Learning Japanese, though I'll never succeed.
Take a walk and think
and yes...number theory

  • literature
  • photography
  • politics
  • piano
  • opera

Music, Movies, and Books

Music I like: see: LASTFM.DE/USER/CSCHOEN
Books I like: Brüder Karamasow, Justine(deSade), Gespenster(Ibsen), illuminatus, Supergute Tage, Rupien Rupien, Sombra Del Viento, Werther, D-land ein Wintermärchen, Hitch Hikers Guide, Pratchett, Eco, Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein,offenen Adern Lateinamerikas, Murakami,...
And yead movies: Adaption, Mulholland Drive, Lord of War,KhabiKhushiKhabiGham,Einer flog übers Kuckucksnest, Sin City,Main Hoo Na,Fight Club, Down by Law, Matrix, Hero, Weather Man, Die Stadt Der Verlorenen Kinder

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-The prison in Cochabamba, there is no other place like this.
-The Mauerfall in Berlin, so important for me.
-The Taniyama-Shimura conjecture so beautiful.

The rest is unfortunately secret.

Teach, Learn, Share

I always like to share a game of Go.
Take a photo stroll with someone.
Learn about cool urban explorer sites.
And anything on number theory (elliptic curves, modular forms, ...) :)
Anything about my interests basically. I share what I know and like to learn more about it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Monaco, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bolivia, Germany, Spain

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