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some tales of mathematic

在Princeton大学曾经流传着一些数学家证明定理的“显然”标准

if Wedderburn says it’s obvious,everybody in the room has seen it ten minutes ago

if Bohnenblust says it’s obvious,it’s obvious

if Bochner says it’s obvious,you can figure it out in half an hour

if von Neumann says it’s obvious,you can prove it in three months if you are a genius

if Lefschetz says it’s obvious,it’s wrong

Lefschetz不屑于证明细节在数学界是众所周知的,甚至他的课堂上有很多小错误,据说有一次Hodge说Lefschetz证明了一个Hodge原来已经证明过的定理,不过定理本身是错的…

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  some tales of mathematic 是一个连载文章,我不知道作者是谁,很可能是一个叫littless的家伙。 实际上我上面转载的这篇是这个系列中的第201篇——这个系列很长,从2006年初开始,已经连续写了两年了,写到了第204篇。你可以在NKBBS的Mathmatics版面上找到全部的内容,方法是通过搜索链接,在“标题含有”中填上“some tales of mathematic”,时间范围为“800”天以内。我当然不是要通过这些吸引大家去学习数学,不过能够轻松一笑,就已经起到作用了。

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3 Comments

  1. paanda wrote:

    小小纠正一下:是mathemat!ans. 呵呵
    littless这个系列讲的故事不是最精彩的,不过这是因为最好的故事已经被ukim在Heroes in my heart 系列中写过了,这个系列故事应该首发在未名BBS.
    另外还有一个”物理大牛们的八卦”,是saymyname@newsmth写的,也属于最好的故事之列,首发应该是在水木。而littless这个系列是在各大BBS数学相关板面同时发表的:)

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    Friday, February 29, 2008 at 12:51 am | Permalink
  2. ppip wrote:

    我这就是抛砖引玉啊:)

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    Friday, February 29, 2008 at 10:31 am | Permalink
  3. paanda wrote:

    贴一个类似的八卦:来源:
    http://chenyi.blogsome.com/2006/09/04/p332/

    If you want to be a Witten, you must know more algebraic
    geometry than an average algebraic geometer.
    If you want to be a Vafa, know half as much as Witten.
    If you want to be a Strominger, know half as much as Vafa.
    If you want to be a Polchinski, know half as much as Strominger.
    If you want to be a Banks (or a Sen?), know half as much as Polchinski.
    If you want to be a Susskind, know zero amount of algebraic geometry.
    If you want to be a Polyakov, know negative amount of
    algebraic geometry

    顺便再给一下我上面提到的两个系列的完整版链接:
    http://202.113.16.117/cgi-bin/bbs/bbs0an?path=/groups/GROUP_5/Science/D4A18F6EC/DAF9C500A
    http://202.113.16.117/cgi-bin/bbs/bbs0an?path=/groups/GROUP_5/Science/D4A18F6EC/D7A1971AB
    有做广告的嫌疑哈 ^_^

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    Friday, February 29, 2008 at 10:57 am | Permalink

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