On discovering the work of Vladimir Drinfeld

TO: Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld, University of Chicago, Chicago. IL
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE:  Your articles and books, especially Algebraic geometry over finite fields with number theory, especially within the theory of automorphic forms, Quantum groups, V. G. Drinfeld; Chiral algebras, American Mathematical Society (2004); and even your homepagesnLab, St. Andrews, ArXiv, Google Scholar, Seminar: Geometric Langlands Seminars, YouTube: A stacky approach to crystalline (and prismatic) cohomology, 2019.

This page: https://81018.com/drinfeld/

Second email: 28 January 2026

Dear Prof. Dr. Vladimir Drinfeld:

My last note to Robert Langlands! I thought you would appreciate it.

Bruce


From: camber 81018.com <camber@81018.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 4:22 PM
To: rpl@ias.edu
Subject: Still at it — https://81018.com/langlands-correspondences/

Dear Prof. Dr. Robert Langlands:

I celebrate your insights and innovations and take them a simple logical step:  https://81018.com/langlands-correspondences/

May you go gently into your days knowing you served us well.

Thank you.

Warmly,

Bruce

First email: July 7, 2022, 4:42 PM   (updated)

Reference: http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/langlands.html

Dear Prof. Dr. Vladimir Drinfeld:

I am just a simple guy hung up on infinitesimal spheres, tetrahedrons and octahedrons, and cubic close packing of equal spheres, who assumes the first manifestation in spacetime is a sphere and then, based on Planck Time, generated at about 18.5 tredecillion spheres per second

Perhaps there is a more simple model of the universe in here. 

We started our project in 2011 in a high school geometry class and now we are wrestling with simple configurations like five-octahedrons and their gap: https://81018.com/2022/05/19/five/ Add the five-tetrahedrons, top and bottom and we have this image: https://81018.com/15-2/

We have 202 base-2 notations that define the universe — https://81018.com/chart/  The first 64 notations are from the Planck base units to just below quantum fluctuations believed to be between Notations 66-65. 

Too crazy for you?  I understand.

Best wishes,

Bruce