Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024UT-Austin had its own nepotism rules, which they circumvented by making Cécile a professor in Astronomy instead of Physics. About ten years later, in 1983, they ditched the rules and made Cécile a professor in the Physics department. (12/n) 1280
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024While at UT, Cécile worked on methods of functional integration underlying Feynman's path integral approach to quantum mechanics, and a host of other topics. It was there that Cécile wrote her book "Analysis, Manifolds, and Physics" with Yvonne Choquet-Brouhat and Margaret Dillard-Bleick. (13/n) 2270
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024The first edition came out in 1977, then a revised version in 1982. You'll find a copy on the shelves of most mathematical physicists. The acknowledgements page features this fanciful drawing of the three authors riding what I guess is the snail of real analysis? Whatever it is, I love it. (14/n) 2414
Mark Rupright @markerupright.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I wish I had the chance to meet Cécile and Bryce. I did meet Yvonne, who worked with Jimmy York every summer. I was always too intimidated to introduce myself to Yvonne. When I finally did, she replied, “oh, Sarah’s fiancé!” 010
