Showing posts with label heros. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heros. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Tribute to Heros G H Hardy
Tribute to Heros G H Hardy
Today is the birth centenary of G.H.Hardy, great English Mathematician.Hardy is most famous outside of mathematics for his "A Mathematicians Apology". book . The book, talks among other things about how mathematics is young mans game. He is also known for his association with Ramanujan and for being the person responsible for bringing him to Cambridge where his greatest mathematics unfolded.
Some quotes:
1. Asked if he believes in one God, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism".
2. "I have never done anything useful. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world."
Wikipedia :
It is never worth a first class mans time to express a majority opinion. By definition, there are plenty of others to do that.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Quoting one of the mathematicians, C Snow, that Hardy worked with:
A mathematicians apology is, if read with the textual attention it deserves, a book of haunting sadness. Yes, it is witty and sharp with intellectual high spirits: yes, the crystalline clarity and candor are still there: yes, it is the testament of a creative artist. But it is also, in an understated stoical fashion, a passionate lament for creative powers that used to be and that will never come again. I know nothing like it in the language: partly because most people with the literary gift to express such a lament dont come to feel it: it is very rare for a writer to realize, with the finality of truth, that he is absolutely finished.
Hardy was a sort of purist mathematician, one who did his mathematics not for the sake of its applicability to anything, but for the sake of doing great mathematics. Hardy, along with Littlewood and Ramanujan, is also mentioned in Apostolos Doxiadis "Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture". The link above gives a short summary on his life.
Some quotes:
1. Asked if he believes in one God, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism".
2. "I have never done anything useful. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world."
Wikipedia :
It is never worth a first class mans time to express a majority opinion. By definition, there are plenty of others to do that.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Quoting one of the mathematicians, C Snow, that Hardy worked with:
A mathematicians apology is, if read with the textual attention it deserves, a book of haunting sadness. Yes, it is witty and sharp with intellectual high spirits: yes, the crystalline clarity and candor are still there: yes, it is the testament of a creative artist. But it is also, in an understated stoical fashion, a passionate lament for creative powers that used to be and that will never come again. I know nothing like it in the language: partly because most people with the literary gift to express such a lament dont come to feel it: it is very rare for a writer to realize, with the finality of truth, that he is absolutely finished.
Hardy was a sort of purist mathematician, one who did his mathematics not for the sake of its applicability to anything, but for the sake of doing great mathematics. Hardy, along with Littlewood and Ramanujan, is also mentioned in Apostolos Doxiadis "Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture". The link above gives a short summary on his life.
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Saturday, August 19, 2017
Tribute to Heros Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Tribute to Heros Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Today is 112 birth centenary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Recent generations of Bharat [a.k.a India] have forgotten or neglected some of our forefathers who sacrificed everything for the sake of freedom of Bharat [a.k.a India].These freedom fighters have fought for so long and hard, we never equal such great persons. We should always remember them.
For detailed information about him, please visit
1. Netaji Research Bureau
http://www.netaji.org/
2. Video Clips from Netaji Research Bureau
http://www.netaji.org/vclip.html
Jai Hind
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