In grad school, I was interested in statistics so I went to a talk by Laurent Schwartz called Distribution Theory. I thought it meant normal dist etc, but when he started off with tempered representations of Lie groups, I thought WHOA!. Ever go to a lecture beyond your pay grade?
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I and some of my fellow number theory students in grad school ran out to buy Weil's "Basic Number Theory" before our prof warned us that it isn't as basic as we think it is.pic.twitter.com/jDzJ13IprE
I bought Serre's "A Course in Arithmetic" to amuse friends. The first page isn't quite what many imagine it's going to be.
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I enjoy teaching an undergraduate course called "Advanced Number Theory," followed by a much harder graduate course called "Introduction to Arithmetic"... (The titles are not misnomers. The NT is Advanced for undergrads. The Arithmetic is just the beginning of research level...)
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Wasn’t there a story of Ed Witten feeling confused (and excited too) when Micheal Atiyah gave a talk on quantum field theory at Harvard ? This inspired Witten to study more maths and he spent a year at Oxford with Atiyah.
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