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Identity
- Last name:
- Madore
- First and middle names:
- David Alexander
- Date and time of
birth:
- 1976-08-03T07:40+0200 (this means: Tuesday,
August 3rd, 1976, at 7:40AM Paris local time)
- Place of birth:
- Paris, France (13th
arrondissement, at the “clinique Isis”, 19
boulevard Arago)
- Sex:
- male
- Photograph:
- vide contra
![[Photograph]](./images/maphoto25-cropped.jpg)
; see also this page for more photographs of
me.
- Eye color:
- medium blue (actually, my
right eye is of a slightly lighter shade than my left eye)
- Hair color:
- light blond
- Height:
- 1.74m (that's 5′8″ in
these ridiculous US units)
- Weight:
- 65.5kg (that's 144lb in these
ridiculous US units)
- Citizenship:
- French (by birth,
through my mother) and Canadian (also by birth, through my
father)
- Father:
- John Andrew Madore
- Mother:
- Geneviève Panaud
- Paternal
grandparents:
- Andrew Francis Madore (deceased) and Eunice
Lilian Arthur (deceased)
- Maternal
grandparents:
- Robert Panaud (deceased) and
Thérèse Seigneuret (deceased)
The most reliable way to contact me is
by email. If you need to phone me, you
should at least try my apartment's
phone before you try my cell
phone. If you need to send me regular mail,
my Paris address can be used,
but if you are sending me something related to my work, use
my address at work. If you just
want a little chat, ICQ may be
a way.
- Email address:
david+www![[at sign]](./images/commercial_at.png)
madore![[dot]](./images/full_stop.png)
org- Cellular
phone:
- +33 6 98 03 41 80 (Bouygues)
- Personal address in
Paris:
- 11 rue Simonet
F75013 Paris
France
- Personal phone number in
Paris:
- +33 1 45 88 39 61
- Parents' personal address in
Orsay:
- 14 avenue du Grand Mesnil
F91400 Orsay
France
- Parents' personal
phone:
- +33 1 69 28 15 82
- Work address:
- École
Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications
Département Informatique
et Réseaux
46, rue Barrault
F75634 Paris cedex
13
France
- Office
phone:
- +33 1 45 81 78 82
- Web page:
- You are already reading it.
- Professional Web
page:
- is elsewhere.
- ICQ UIN:
- 168950339
- MSN:
davidamadorehotmailcom- PGP public key:
- has ID 1024D/0B2790DE.
Studies
- Institution:
- I am alumnus of
the Université de
Paris Sud (Paris XI, Orsay), and of
the École Normale
Supérieure of Paris (“rue d'Ulm”); I also
taught in both places.
- Doctorate:
- I passed my PhD
with Jean-Louis
Colliot-Thélène
(
Jean-LouisCOLLIOT-THELENEmathu-psudfr)
as my thesis advisor.
- Specialty:
- pure mathematics:
algebraic geometry (arithmetic geometry, actually); applications:
cryptography
- Past studies and diplomata:
- See my curriculum vitae.
- ENS class:
- C/S 96
(I guess this would be called
graduating class of 2000
in some
places)
Parents
- Father's name:
- John Andrew
Madore
- Mother's name:
- Geneviève
Panaud
- Parents' personal address in
Orsay:
- 14 avenue du Grand Mesnil
F91400 Orsay
France
- Parents' personal
phone:
- +33 1 69 28 15 82
- Father's work:
- theoretical
physicist (emeritus) at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique of the
Université de Paris Sud
- Father's office
phone:
- +33 1 69 15 82 05
- Father's
email:
johnmadorethu-psudfr- Mother's work:
- librarian at the
Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de
Paris
- Mother's office
phone:
- +33 1 44 59 29 57
- Mother's
email:
madorepanaudvoilafr
Personal stuff
- Alternate names:
- I have
essentially two: “Ruxor” and “Gro-Tsen”.
Ruxor (the name comes from an old novel of
mine—but it's really not worth reading) is a kind of alternate
identity; I use it as my nick on IRC and elsewhere. Gro-Tsen (the name has a complicated
story) is my character as a Zen master;
I use it as my nick among my friends of the ENS.
- Keirsey /
Myers-Briggs
temperament indicator:
- INTP (with a doubt on the T, and
actually on everything except the N), which makes me something between
an Architect
and a Healer
- Kinsey score:
- 6 (this means I'm
gay)
- Status:
- Living with my boyfriend
- Brothers &
Sisters:
- Biologically, none. However, Émeric
“Mouton” Tourniaire and myself have adopted each other
as brothers, so effectively I now have two (younger) brothers and
three (younger) sisters.
- Geek
code:
- GM/CS d- s:- a- C+++>++ UL/B/S+++(++++) P+
L+++>++++ E++ W+++ N-@ o(++) K? !w-- !O M !V PS++ PE-() Y+(++) PGP+
t 5? X- R tv-() b++@ DI- D- G@ e+++$>++++$ h@ !r y@
- Hobbies:
- spending too much time in
front of computers; reading literature and writing some of mine; going to
movies; listening to music (mainly classical / film music / Celtic,
but I dabble in other genres too, like disco or techno); walking
around Paris (especially at night); intellectual masturbation of all
kinds (only intellectual, you ask? well, I think you can guess the
answer to that)
- Favorite books:
- Jorge Luis
Borges: El Aleph (The
Aleph)
- Jean Giraudoux: La Guerre de
Troie n'aura pas lieu (The Trojan War will not take
place)
- José-Maria de Heredia: Les Trophées
- Richard Bach:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Jacques Monod: Le Hasard et la Nécessité
(Chance and Necessity)
- Italo Calvino: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (If
on a Winter's Night a Traveler)
- Georges Perec: La Vie, Mode d'emploi (Life: A User's
Manual)
- Victor Hugo:
Bug-Jargal
- Umberto Eco:
Baudolino
- Isaac Asimov: Second
Foundation
- Douglas Hofstadter: Gödel,
Escher, Bach
- Douglas Adams: The Hitch-Hiker's
Guide to the Galaxy
- Jean Racine:
Bérénice
- Armistead Maupin:
Tales of the City
- Gottlob Lessing: Nathan der Weise (Nathan the
Wise)
- Oscar Wilde: The Happy
Prince
- William Shakespeare: A Midsummer-Night's
Dream
- J. R. R. Tolkien: The
Hobbit
- Some people I greatly admire:
- Isaac
Asimov; Élisabeth Badinter; Robert Badinter; Jorge Luis Borges;
Willy Brandt; René Cassin; Noam Chomsky; Charles Darwin; Bette
Davis; Richard Dawkins; Umberto Eco; Stephen Fry; Caius Gracchus;
Hadrian; David Hilbert; Douglas Hofstadter; Victor Hugo; Michelangelo;
Bertrand Russell; Alan Turing; Leonardo da Vinci; Oscar Wilde
- My sense of humor:
- I'm not sure how
one can describe a sense of humor, but let me mention that I very much
like Douglas Adams (The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the
Galaxy), Woody Allen, Alain Chabat, Philippe Geluck (Le Chat), Gary Larson (The Far
Side), the Monty Pythons, The Onion (especially
their horoscopes) and Charles Schulz (Peanuts); on the
other hand, there are things that I do not find funny, for
example nearly all puns and plays on words, or scenic jokes involving
food (such as the “pie-in-the-face” joke).
- If I were:
- a letter: A; a color: sky
blue; a season: spring; a stone: a lapis-lazuli; an alchemist's
element: air; a metal: nickel; a gas: argon; an object: a pillow; an
animal: a lion; a tree: a willow or a poplar; a flower: a petunia; a
fruit: a peach; a taste: vanilla; a drink: milk; a dish: roast
chicken; a sport: volley-ball; a weapon: a bow; a capital sin: pride;
a feeling: amusement; a myth: Prometheus bound; a Greek
god: Apollo or Hermes; a Fantasy character race: a Half-Elf; a Fantasy
character class: a wizard; a fiction character: Hari Seldon; a
historical character: Hadrian; a painting: Magritte's Domain of
Arnheim or Poussin's Shepherds
of Arcadia; a sculpture: Michelangelo's David,
of course; a word: “clear”; and all in all:
eclectic
- Some things I like:
- Sleeping.
Sleeping is the single thing we spend the greatest amout of
time doing (well, at any rate, for me it is), so we might as well
enjoy it. And I do. So here's a nice little quote:
There are two
pleasant moments in a day: in the evening when we go to bed, and in
the morning when we don't get up.
- Wasting time by chatting
about anything.
- People who are able to talk about more than a
single topic (a rare gift, verily).
- Intellectually elegant
solutions to problems of all kinds (of course, I reserve the right to
define what I mean by “intellectually
elegant”).
- People who remember how to
smile.
- People who have this marvelous quality that they are
able to remain calm at all times without seeming indifferent or
uninterested, nor altogether too serious.
- Modern architecture:
spacious buildings made mostly of glass, for
example.
- Consulting dictionaries.
- Cows. I mean, the
animal, Bos taurus: in the first place, cows give milk, and
milk is the drink of the gods; and besides, cows have such lovingly
placid eyes.
- Sheep. I mean, the animal, Ovis aries: I
was once viciously attacked by an ewe when I was small, but, since
then, I've been shown that sheep are tender and gentle animals.
Incidentally, I have a stuffed sheep in my room, which was given to me
by friends (the kind of friends that, having which, I do not need
enemies): I lovingly named it “cutlet”.
- Ducks (I
mean the live animal, not the food): ducks are ridiculously pompous
and mindless creatures, so I feel a great kinship to
them.
- Chinese, Indian and Italian food; umami
taste and coriander.
- Some things I
dislike:
- People who try to bestow their moral
standards upon others. Fanatics of all kinds, but religious (or
moral) fanatics above all.
- People who take me for an idiot
without admitting it (there's nothing wrong with taking me for an
idiot so long as you admit it).
- People who have no defects: as
Elizabeth Taylor once said, they usually tend to have some pretty
annoying virtues.
- People who have the same defects as I do: so
I can't blame them as I would like.
- Utterly gratuitous laws
and rules.
- Hair splitting in more than sixteen parts (up to
sixteen is all right).
- Brussels sprout: there are various
vegetables that I dislike (celery, for instance), but none is as
deeply repulsive to me as the brussels sprout.
- My handwriting:
- looks like this
![[Handwriting]](./images/juliet-sample.png)
.
- My voice:
- You can hear me read Athalie's Dream or Baudelaire's warning.
- My personality:
- isn't entirely
pleasant; here's an attempt
to describe it in words.
- My autobiography:
- is pretty long (note that it is in
French).
More
Also see my entry
in the ENS
students' directory. And, of course, see my WebLog.
David Madore (david+wwwmadoreorg)