Never throw up your hands, announce you're no good at something and give up. With persistence, you could reach an understanding that far surpasses that of others and revolutionize the subject! 'Course, you could also waste your life trying.
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Thanks for posting this.
RIP.
I think you gotta love what you’re workin on...he sounds like a brilliant kinda guy...he studies what he wants..he is not cluttered by all the accoutrements of modern living...but if you’re not good at sometin’...it could mean its cuz you aint no good!
Galois, a mathematician whose work forms the foundations of our modern cryptographic systems, died at the age of 20 in a duel. Age 20 is way too young. And it just goes to show, just because you're a genius doesn't give you common sense or make you a marksman.
I do not have the mind for math, and never will, but I detect something interesting here. A well told story about this man and his life would make a good movie. With the right actor and director, I would go see such a film.
This would be the kind of film teachers would bring their young students to see and report about later. A film to make high level math appealing, even cool to some degree. His theories would have to be well watered down for the general public.
If Alec Baldwin wasn’t so pigheaded, he would be good in such a role because of his natural brashness and overconfidence.
Looks like a site that I will need to keep up with.
Very interesting. Thanks for the article. “Edward Frenkel, a mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley,...” works in Evans Hall. In 2009 I took a set of 20 undergraduate students on a tour of Cal and we walked around the third floor hallway in Evans Hall, the math building at Cal. The hallway was dark, we walked slowly and quietly, noticed a few doors were open and saw offices with lights on. A student asked me, “Can on knock on the door and say ‘hi’?” I said, No way. Let’s go. There are four kinds of math: pure, physic, models, and computers. Cal is one of the best schools for pure mathematics. Thankfully, there are medical test today for aneurisms.
Nobody but nobody really understands how the human brain works. It 90% phospholipid. Just how those fats chrn up there and create complex human thoughts and insights is the science of the new millennium. Obviously this man like a few precious others had unique and rare circuits that made his insights possible. Perhaps if civilization survives and advances one day humans may come to understand the physiology of thought.
Something fun from Wiki:
Intuitively, two spaces are homeomorphic if one can be deformed into the other without cutting or gluing.
A traditional joke is that a topologist cannot distinguish a coffee mug from a doughnut, since a sufficiently pliable doughnut could be reshaped to a coffee cup by creating a dimple and progressively enlarging it, while shrinking the hole into a handle.
Clearly a racist!
Here is a non-tecnical lecture by Vladimir Voevodsky: How I became interested in foundations of mathematics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yZE3IoAy8
