Author Archives: rpflee

Complex plane as a connection between differentiation and integration

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The coefficients in a Taylor series may be calculated by differentiation, while those in a Fourier Series may be calculated by integration. Since these two types of series are really the same in the complex plane, this suggests that there exists some hidden connection between differentiation and integration that the only complex number can reveal.

— Visual Complex Analysis p.79, by Tristan Needham

2009.12.31 Thursday ACHK

Twistor string theory

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In 2003, Edward Witten proposed to marry twistor and string theory by embedding the topological B model of string theory in twistor space. His objective was to model certain Yang-Mills amplitudes. The resulting model has come to be known as twistor string theory.

Witten (2004) built on this insight to propose a way to do string theory in twistor space, whose dimensionality is necessarily the same as that of 3+1 Minkowski spacetime. Hence twistor string theory is a possible way to eliminate the need for more than 3 spatial dimensions when doing (super)string theory.

— Wikipedia on Twistor theory

2009.12.30 Wednesday ACHK

PLT Scheme

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There is also PLT Scheme, which uses an incompatible branch of wxWindows (version 1), created in 1995. The toolkit is deeply integrated with the language run-time (garbage collection, resource administration) unlike in other languages, which simply provide a library binding.

— Wikipedia on wxWidgets

2009.12.29 Tuesday ACHK

Trigger an idea

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That’s what triggered the idea. Sometimes ideas are born out of necessity: you solve a problem for yourself, and you hopefully solve it for a number of other people too.

— Bhatia, Founders at Work

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2009.12.29 Tuesday ACHK

Twistor theory

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In theoretical and mathematical physics, twistor theory is a mathematical theory mapping the geometric objects of conventional 3+1 space-time (Minkowski space) into geometric objects in a 4 dimensional space with metric signature (2,2). This space is called twistor space, and its complex valued coordinates are called “twistors.”

— Wikipedia on Twistor theory

2009.12.27 Sunday ACHK

Mysterious duality

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In theoretical physics, mysterious duality is a set of mathematical similarities between some objects and laws describing M-theory on k-dimensional tori on one side, and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces on the other side.

In theoretical physics, mysterious duality is a set of mathematical similarities between some objects and laws (and perhaps all of them, if the conjecture is extended appropriately) describing M-theory on k-dimensional tori (i.e. type II superstring theory on T^{k-1} if k is positive) on one side, and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces (for example, the cubic surfaces) on the other side.

— Wikipedia on Mysterious duality

2009.12.26 Saturday ACHK

Perseverance

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Perseverance is important because, in a startup, nothing goes according to plan. Founders live day to day with a sense of uncertainty, isolation, and sometimes lack of progress. Plus, startups, by their nature, are doing new things — and when you do new things, people often reject you.

— Founders at Work, Jessica Livingston

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2009.12.26 Saturday ACHK

聖誕誡命

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Sentence 1 is achieved by sentence 2.

— based on Mr Lee@philosophical analysis lecture@2002

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The greatest commandment, Jesus:

1. One should love Yahweh with one’s entire heart, soul, mind, and strength.

你要全心全靈全意全力愛上主, 你的天主.

2. One should love one’s neighbour as one would love oneself.

愛你的近人, 猶如愛你自己.

— the Gospels of Mark[12:28–34] and of Matthew[22:34-40]

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Not many people have realized that the two are actually the same sentence.

Sentence 2 is the ONLY method to achieve sentence 1.

— Me@2009.12.04 2009.12.25

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2009.12.25 Friday copyright ACHK

Fans

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First, organize 1,000

I think the ability to find and organize 1,000 people is a breakthrough opportunity. One thousand people coordinating their actions is enough to change your world (and make a living.)

You don’t find customers for your products. You find products for your customers.

— Seth Godin

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2009.12.24 Thursday ACHK

Illusion 2

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Dedicated to the memory of Mr Shields …

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The first time I saw him, he asked me to help to print several pages of notes. The general office computer could not print his file. So I used my computer in the Staff Room 4 to print the pages. (I do not remember clearly. Maybe it was that my computer could not print it. We went to the general office to print it.)

He said he had been Hong Kong, teaching English for over a decade. I wanted to know which of the staff rooms would be his office. But I did not know how to say it in English,

“Where do you sit?”

He replied, “What do you mean?”

— Me@2009.12.23

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* Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

–- Einstein

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2009.12.23 Wednesday copyright ACHK

Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation 2

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The Hubbard-Stratonovich (HS) transformation is an exact mathematical transformation invented by Russian physicist Ruslan L. Stratonovich and popularized by British physicist John Hubbard.

— Wikipedia on Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation

2009.12.21 Monday ACHK

The Magic City

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The second theme is concerned explicitly with technology. It is a law of life in the magic city that if you wish for anything you can have it. But with this law goes a special rule about machines. If anyone wishes for a piece of machinery, he is compelled to keep it and go on using it for the rest of his life.

— Disturbing the Universe, p.4

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2009.12.21 Monday ACHK