TO: Jean-Pierre Serre, France
FM: Bruce E. Camber, USA
RE: We’ve begun to follow your work through references within the Abel Prize, AIS, ArXiv (22). especially Invariants cohomologiques mod 2 et invariants de Witt des groupes alternés(2024). We are also visited your Wikipedia listing and your homepage. Our page of references about your work and of our writing about it is here: https://81018.com/serre/
Other references https://81018.com/mathematicians/ https://81018.com/irrationals/
Third email: 27 March 2025 (updated)
Dear Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Serre:
I was more than gratified to find your article from 2024, Invariants cohomologiques.
In 1980 for the Spring semester I studied with Olivier Costa de Beauregard for about an hour per week and with Jean-Pierre Vigier on the next day at the Institut Henri Poincaré. With Vigier we spent a day with Alain Aspect in his lab in d’Orsay. Bernard d’Espagnat joined us. Earlier I had spent time at CERN with John Bell on two occasions and in London (Birbeck) with David Bohm (same two trips).
I would like to invite you to consider a very basic, intrinsic geometry of the octahedron (inside the tetrahedron and as a result of the stacking/packing of spheres). I’ve hypothesized that somewhere around the Planck Time/Planck Length, those four hexagonal plates (pictured) within every octahedron come alive with the four primary irrational numbers.
Now, please bear with me. It seems we’ve just scratched the surface of the irrationals. When I asked the AI tool, Grok, there was a lively exchange: https://81018.com/breakthrough/ https://81018.com/irrationals/
Can academia start from a very different place that few have known about? Can we imagine such simple geometries? Can we expand beyond the limitations of ideas and concepts we’ve had throughout the ages? I hope so.
Have a lovely day and evening; and, many thanks.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
Second email: Thursday, 28 April 2022 at 12:01 PM
Dear Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Serre:
There is never enough time. On Sunday, when I sent my little note about our history (just below), I thought, if you could, you might quickly comment. However, if you had engaged the base-2 process, and the fullness of a base-2 map of the universe had hit you for the first time, it may have been too much. It was a risk that I was willing to take. You’d have to forgive me later. The nature of the sphere, the very nature of pi, the deep-definition of the finite-infinite relation through continuity, symmetry, and harmony, might wait for the next time. But, the site’s stats from France and the Paris area have not moved, so I suspect Sunday’s note never got through to you. Well, at some point, you’ll know that I tried!
My best wishes for you in all that you do,
Bruce
PS. I now have my own Jean-Pierre Serre page — http://81018.com/serre — to keep track of my notes to you and to link to those pages and articles of your work that I have found most compelling. Thanks. -BEC
First email: Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 4:26 PM (updated)
RE: On going to the mountain to talk to the best
Dear Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Serre:
High school, December 2011, we went inside a tetrahedron. Inspired by Zeno, we kept going by dividing the edges by 2 and connecting the new vertices. In 45 steps, we were within particle physics; in 67 additional steps we were within the Planck scale.
Using Planck Length for our edge, we multiplied by two, 112 times to return to the classroom and 90 additional times to go out to the approximate size (and age) of the universe (all tetrahedrons and octahedrons).
Eventually we added Planck Time, assumed it was the first moment, and in 202 steps we were going well beyond 13.81 billion years. It has 202.34 base-2 notations, basic geometries, the Planck units, and a currently unknown number of dimensionless constants. Is that enough to ask people of your caliber, “Is it a good start of a model? Should we work with it?”
Thank you.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
PS: Since writing to you, we’ve ask that question of the six AI systems. We were surprised by their answer. The six sent us their “Official Statement.” –BEC (27 February 2026)