L'exemple des mathématiques est éclairant. Nous, physiciens, ne sommes contre aucune modernisation: une transformation des mathématiques, englobant les données de façon plus large et plus naturelle, a toute notre approbation. Je n'engagerai pas ici la querelle des ingénieurs et des scientifiques des sciences expérimentales contre l'enseignement actuel des mathématiques modernes. Cette querelle, qui se développe depuis un an, permettra peut-être à cette forme d'enseignement de s'adapter à l'expérimentation, à la réalité technique, d'être utilisable dans la pratique et de ne pas constituer uniquement une formation abstraite pour esprits abstraits. […] Nous avons beaucoup à faire pour éviter d'être envahis en France par la séduisante et dangereuse race des abstractocrates. (Science et Bonheur des Hommes. Leprince-Ringuet, Louis. Flammarion. 1973, p.30, p.137)

My name is Julien Scordia, I live in France and work as an engineer. I use LyX to take reading notes, write syntheses, and maintain some diaries. Some of my notes are uploaded on this website, which is named Perusal, Synthesis, Bliss. They are provided "as is", with no censorship, since I have not enough time to tweak them for hours; yet I hope that the contents may be of some use to people finding them by serendipity. Perusal, Synthesis, Bliss is written in English language as much as possible but it may contain French here and there (when relevant or when I did not take time to write in English).

You may contact me by clicking here; if needed my public key for encryption is available.

Perusal, Synthesis, Bliss is completely made from LyX source documents, using a homemade script generating the index pages and menus automatically from a directory hierarchy on my computer (about 2000 lines of Python code). Manual operations are reduced to the minimum. As a LyX to HTML converter I use elyxer since for the time being it is superior to the LyX to XHTML internal converter.

Without further mention on a particular page, Perusal, Synthesis, Bliss is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Sometimes I use the following color code in the articles:

• orange, red to indicate significant points in my text or in the text of others, by order of increasing importance;
• green (less important) and lime (more important) to indicate my own comments in the text of someone else (then between square brackets, [like this]) , or in my summary of the text of someone else. Often I prepend my initials "JSA" to be still clearer about that;
• gold to underline definitions (new words in the text);
• magenta to indicate points possibly to be investigated on my side, or unclear points at the time of page upload.

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