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On April 29, 1814 Napoleon landed on the island of Elba, surrounded
with a personal army of 1200 men. The allies, Russia, Prussia,
England and Austria,
hadforcedhimintoexileafteranumberofverycostlydefeats;hewasdeprived
ofallhistitles, butcouldkeepthetitleof"EmperorofElba."
Historytellsusthat each morning he took long walks in the sun,
reviewed his army each midday
anddiscussedworldmatterswithnewlyappointedadvisors,
followingthesame pattern everyday, to the great surprise of
Campbell, the British of?cer who was to keep an eye on him. All
this made everyone believe he was settled there for good.
Napoleononcesaid: Elbaisbeautiful, butabitsmall. Elbawasde?nitely a
source of inspiration; indeed, the early morning, March 6, 1815,
Metternich, the chancellor of Austria was woken up by one of his
aides with the stunning news that Napoleon had left Elba with his
1200 men and was marching to Paris with little resistance; A few
days later he took up his throne again in the Tuileries. In spite
of his insatiable hunger for battles and expansion, he is
remembered as an important statesman. He was a pioneer in setting
up much of the legal, administrative and political machinery in
large parts of continental Europe. We gathered here in a lovely and
quaint ?shing port, Marciana Marina on theislandofElba,
tocelebrateoneofthepioneersofintegrablesystems, Hirota Sensei,
andthisattheoccasionofhisseventiethbirthday. Trainedasaphysicist in
his home university Kyushu University, Professor Hirota earned his
PhD in '61 at Northwestern University with Professor Siegert in the
?eld of "Quantum Statistical mechanics." He wrote a widely
appreciated Doctoral dissertation on
"FunctionalIntegralrepresentationofthegrandpartitionfunction."
On April 29, 1814 Napoleon landed on the island of Elba, surrounded
with a personal army of 1200 men. The allies, Russia, Prussia,
England and Austria,
hadforcedhimintoexileafteranumberofverycostlydefeats;hewasdeprived
ofallhistitles, butcouldkeepthetitleof"EmperorofElba."
Historytellsusthat each morning he took long walks in the sun,
reviewed his army each midday
anddiscussedworldmatterswithnewlyappointedadvisors,
followingthesame pattern everyday, to the great surprise of
Campbell, the British of?cer who was to keep an eye on him. All
this made everyone believe he was settled there for good.
Napoleononcesaid: Elbaisbeautiful, butabitsmall. Elbawasde?nitely a
source of inspiration; indeed, the early morning, March 6, 1815,
Metternich, the chancellor of Austria was woken up by one of his
aides with the stunning news that Napoleon had left Elba with his
1200 men and was marching to Paris with little resistance; A few
days later he took up his throne again in the Tuileries. In spite
of his insatiable hunger for battles and expansion, he is
remembered as an important statesman. He was a pioneer in setting
up much of the legal, administrative and political machinery in
large parts of continental Europe. We gathered here in a lovely and
quaint ?shing port, Marciana Marina on theislandofElba,
tocelebrateoneofthepioneersofintegrablesystems, Hirota Sensei,
andthisattheoccasionofhisseventiethbirthday. Trainedasaphysicist in
his home university Kyushu University, Professor Hirota earned his
PhD in '61 at Northwestern University with Professor Siegert in the
?eld of "Quantum Statistical mechanics." He wrote a widely
appreciated Doctoral dissertation on
"FunctionalIntegralrepresentationofthegrandpartitionfunction."
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