Alexander A. Migdal

\(\newcommand{\I}{\mathrm{i}}\) Recent headlines announced that artificial intelligence had “solved” one of the Navier–Stokes Millennium Problems.

Unlocking the Secret Box: Why Turbulence is Not Chaos, but a Symphony of Primes Alexander Migdal Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ alexandermigdal.com “God does not play dice with the universe.” — Albert Einstein (1926) “When I meet God, I am go…

Translated by ChatGPT No worries, no cares, no burdens in sight, No car to drive, no coat too tight.

If a poorly dressed guy grabs your wallet at a knife point in a dark alley we call it robbery.

Translated by Chat GPT Once, we celebrated The Seventh of November, Cursed the Bolsheviks, And drank more than we’d remember.

Democracy is as old as Geometry, but unlike that Greek invention, Democracy did not evolve since Euclid times.

Translated by ChatGPT Give in to temptation, don’t hold back, Hop on the next Amtrak, And ride straight to New Jersey’s charms— For a joyful Russian “fuck” in my arms.

Translated by Chat GPT We don’t gaze at the stars, don’t hear the cicadas, Don’t dance in the warm summer rain.

Translated by ChatGPT: Substituting his friend Kolya, On a date he couldn’t keep, Kadya met Tanya that evening— And their love took root, so deep.

Translated by ChatGPT To Tanya We wandered together on spring’s fragile ice In Komarovo, thirty years past.

Talk at Mitchell Feigenbaum Conference The initiation into Landau School of Thought started with famous Theoretical Minimum Exam.

To Tanya: Swept in the sea, sails torn and flailing By this relentless Wind of Fate, We never know where we are sailing: We do not waver – we go straight.

You rarely feel at home when you are traveling abroad, you see the beauty, you see the sophistication, but it is other people’s beauty and other people’s sophistication.