Integrability: an allegory to politics
As aspiring mathematicians, our ÔGeneral Philosophy of IntegrabilityÕ, according to Professor Kiselev, should be as follows:
ÒWith the bad points [points of discontinuity], you put them in a really tiny prison so that they donÕt screw up your proof. An with the good guys [continuous intervals], you negotiate with them until your proof works.Ó