A virtual tour of my works in the GEOMETRY field I've developed a experimental-web-site for learning and having fun with geometry. I called this experiment Adventures in Geometry. It's like a melting pot of several geometrical experiments made under the form of applets of the programming language Java and the software Cinderella. Part of the success of the web site is merit of Antonio Costa, who gave me the idea, the opportunity  and the mediums for developing it. For this and for a million things: GRACIAS ANTONIO.  You can visit the web site clicking right HERE  (The site is in my mother language: Spanish)

Meanwhile, the fact of finishing my degree in naval engineering (if you want to know more about the work developed in the naval field at the university, please visit the Towing Tank web-site at  ETSIN-UPM, run by my friends Luisito and Asouto) has brought me from Aranjuez  (please, visit the wonderful little village I live in at Spain: El Real Sitio y Villa de Aranjuez, famous all over the world due to: its Concert - El Concierto de Aranjuez, by Joaquín Rodrigo; its Asparagus and its Strawberries) to live in Naples.

How is the atmospheric weather of Madrid respect to Naples? This is a very often question that my friends (both spanish and neapolitans)  ask to me.

The location of Madrid is: 40.41º N, 3.68º W, 667 m above sea level; and Naples is: 40.53º N 14.18º E. This information is taken from the web page of my friend Isidoro, go there if you want to see the climate of Madrid. 

And the next item talks about the real-time weather conditions of Madrid (more precisely Aranjuez, my home town) and Naples:

        

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and Why Naples?

 I had to choose between Genova, Trieste and Naples. Genova: too cold; Trieste: too windy; Naples: just perfect! Following the track of the people from the Grand Tour of the XIX century (Goethe, Winckelmann, Stendhal...) I've choosen Naples.

   

J.  Winckelmann

"One gets spoiled here [in Italy] but God owed me this; in my youth I suffered too much"

The Naples I know is a marvelous city: noisy, chaotic, smelly, sticky... but full of life: all the Mezzogiorno preserves the essence of the so-called antique-Mediterranean-way-of-life of Italy. This city breaths history, literature, ancient and modern art, and has a boiling population  full of ideas, specially political ideas.

DECLARATION OF INTENTIONS

 

Like Andrew Hodges says, "there are definite advantages to an academic non-career: The rising tide of bullshit in academic administration. The narrow specialization and tunnel vision expected in academic posts." All of this is truth, but nowadays, for somebody like me (John Doe and not Andrew Hodges) the security that an academic position gave to the life (material and intellectual) of any people is something to take into account. That's the reason why I'm trying to  focus my career in the academic  field   because I like teaching, researching and, above all, because I'd like to have an independent and undisturbating position in order to watch, study and think the world. I call that concept La Atalaya. I'm still searching my own atalaya: an unmovable, independent, critic and elevated point of view that lets me think the world.

I'm also in debt with Andrew Hodges, because I've taken the Philosophy of his web site in order to build mine's.  Thank you for this. And also, because, like Alan Turing, I'm a strong supporter of those brave men who shout the truth of his inner reality to the whole world (in that case, their huge humanity and homosexuality: Thanks Andrew and  thanks Alan, wherever you are).                                             I'll always value more the freedom of saying the truth that living a lie of a life dominated by the pressure of the  modern  forces of the world we  live in. In terms of Marshall Berman: To think dialectically is to presuppose that opposites, such as permanence and change, civilized and primitive, city and country, and so forth, are best understood as a kind of unity (a dialectical or paradoxical unity) because neither exists without the other. They are locked in a mutually defining creative and destructive embrace. For me, modern experience catches every aware person within its epic contradictions. The artist is the one who makes that experience manifest. To the author, the greatest modern writers and artists have been the most courageous and conscious ironists, individuals who have opposed the very conditions of modern life from which they gained their purpose and energy.  Avant-garde modernism is not the only stand taken by modern artists toward modern life. Put categorically, the social roles artists played can be identified as 1) engaged opposition, 2) individualist autonomy, and/or 3) collaboration with "the powers that be" under bourgeois capitalism and its institutions. (Taken from Marshall Berman, from "Introduction: Modernity - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, " All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982) pp. 15-23.

If you want to know more about Marshall Berman or simply you like Politics and Philosophy, visit my Political and Philosophical Area

This is because I am also trying to do...

...something different

but don't know what yet

The Melting Pot

Looking at the situation realistically, I've not finished my degree yet, I'm not earning money in a serious way, money that would let me do the really things I'd like to do... So at the beginning of this new year 2003 I branched out in new directions, doing other things I enjoy.

	I intend to produce an online-interactive book on Geometry, due to the power of the Java Language and it's applets applications (in a challenge to emulate Isidoro Martinez  , my great professor of Thermodynamics, whose marvelous pages I strongly recommend).
	Writing Poetry
Like I said supra, I like homepages and the freedom of expression on the Web. Please enjoy my web site. See the Site Map, or go to one of these mines' pages:   Geometry with Cinderella My Art and Poetry Page   My images Neapolitan Aphorisms       My Politics and Philosophy Area or link to one of these friends' pages:

Or these:

Stendhal, for the happy few!

Leonardo Sciascia web

electronic book on Thermodynamics: web site of my friend and professor  Isidoro Martinez

Leonardo Fernández Jambrina web-site:colleague and friend of mine

Alan Turing Home Page

rlpulidor[at]hotmail.com

Blog: THE TRANSVERSAL TRUTH

 

Last updated 5 May 2006