Category Archives: Mathematician

Beauty 3

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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

— David Gelernter

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2009.09.29 Tuesday ACHK

主觀世界 2

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Language

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The limit of my language is the limit of my world.

– Ludwig Wittgenstein

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中文是中國人的語言;

英文是地球人的語言;

數學是宇宙人的語言.

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懂中文的人有一個中國;

懂英文的人有一個地球;

懂數學的人有半個宇宙.

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– Me@2009.02.10

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2009.09.26 Saturday copyright ACHK

Results

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Mathematicians won the war.

Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes and built the A-bomb.

Mathematicians… like you.

In medicine or economics,

in technology or in space,

battle lines are being drawn.

To triumph we need results — publishable, applicable results.

Now, who among you will be the next Morse,

the next Einstein?

Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom and discovery?

Today we bequeath America’s future into your able hands.

Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen.

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— A Beautiful Mind (2001)

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2009.09.11 Friday ACHK

Music

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Leonhard Paul Euler (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany.

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In 1739 he wrote the Tentamen novae theoriae musicae, hoping to eventually incorporate musical theory as part of mathematics. This part of his work, however, did not receive wide attention and was once described as too mathematical for musicians and too musical for mathematicians.

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2009.08.26 Wednesday ACHK

石頭記

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It is proven that the celebration of birthdays is healthy. Statistics show that those people who celebrate the most birthdays become the oldest.

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今日收到o既壽包, 好似石頭咁硬.

都唔知點算好… …

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2009.02.06 Friday copyright ACHK

Catch-22

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A real-life mutual contradiction is that one cannot get a job without experience, but one cannot get experience without a job. In this respect, the initial move to the job market can be very challenging.

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2008.02.05 Thursday ACHK

足球員 > 足球評述員

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The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

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If then I find myself writing, not mathematics, but ‘about’ mathematics, it is a confession of weakness, for which I may rightly be scorned or pitied by younger and more vigorous mathematicians.

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— A Mathematician’s Apology (1940), by G. H. Hardy

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2009.01.28 Wednesday ACHK