Ah! non credea mirarti Sì presto estinto, o fiore; Passasti al par d'amore, Che un giorno sol durò.

Too weird to live,

too rare to die.

(Hunter S. Thompson)

The place upon my tightrope will ever be impregnable.

Der Platz auf meinem Seile wird immer uneinnehmbar sein.

(Peter Rühmkorf)

»Die entscheidende Botschaft des Akrobaten an die Mitwelt liegt in dem Lächeln, mit dem er sich nach dem Auftritt verbeugt. Noch deutlicher spricht sie in der nonchalanten Handbewegung vor dem Abgang, jener Geste, die man für einen Gruß an die oberen Ränge halten könnte. In Wirklichkeit übermittelt sie eine moralische Lektion, die soviel besagt wie: Für unsereinen ist dergleichen gar nichts.«

Peter Sloterdijk

The decisive message of the acrobat to his fellow human beings is in his smile while he bows after his act.

It is even clearer in the nonchalant gesture of his hand preceding his departure;

the gesture one might think to be a salutation to the balconies and upper circles.

In fact it conveys a moral lecture saying as much as: to our sort such a thing is nothing.

We are four friends from Germany: the brother of the mathematician Andreas Floer and three very close personal friends of Andreas for more than fifteen years, from 1976 on.

We are: Detlef Floer and Michael Link, living in Berlin, Germany. We have been friends since 1975.

Rolf Kaiser and Kurt Heim, living in Bochum, Germany. We too have been friends since 1975.

We are no mathematicians and we are not planning to edit any math articles. We are merely going to watch the good progress of contributions concerning Andreas and the Floer homology.

We have put several pictures of Andreas in the Wikimedia Commons, [1]

We express our special thanks to Chan-Ho Suh who wrote the Andreas Floer article and wrote much of the article about Floer homology. It was his initiative which started it all.

We thank David Farris for his excellence in writing most of the Floer homology article and the outstanding Wikipedian Charles Matthews for his expert collaboration.

We thank user Claude J for his translation of the biographical article and especially for the translation of the demanding article Floer homologyinto German. We thank user Grimlock for his translation of the biographical article into French. We thank another friend in Taiwan for the Chinese-language version.

We marvel at the number of new wikilinks in the article and are pondering the question if Andreas would have foreseen in how many directions his ideas would ever branch out.

Well, thank y’all, math-folks!

[Rolf Kaiser on Facebook]

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