Re: Derivatives

[Jurriaan Bendien <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> That's because he is in exile.

Yes, I knew that. My own exile is more self-imposed, to the extent that,
after what happened to me, basically I just want to shut a lot of stuff out,
so that I concentrate better on saying and doing what I mean, and not what I
do not mean, or what other people think I should mean etc. (but this is just
difficult for me, and it is difficult for me to relax correctly, and so on).
>From my point of view, Sabri is a very skilled guy, with whom I'd share a
lot of interests and philosophies, I'm sure. At least he's interested in
things like love and poetry. I met Sungur Savran once, very impressive guy
too, reading through things I realised there was a very sophisticated
economic and political tradition in Turkey which I didn't know (but then I
don't speak the language or anything either). From a scholarly point of
view, I may take a different view about using statistical tools and
game-theoretical tools, but that is just a trivial difference really, and
anyway he's a better statistician and mathematician than I am (I am more
interested anyway in the interpretation of aggregates, and only in a few
specific mathematical issues) so little point in arguing on about that.

J.