Cita (XIV)

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. --Albert Einstein

Cita (XIII)

Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen. --David Hilbert

Translation: We must know. We will know.
Speech in Königsberg in 1930, now on his tomb in Göttingen

Cita (XII)

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. --John Von Neumann

Cita (XI)

Philosophy is written in this grand book— I mean the universe— which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth. --Galileo Galilei (1623)

Cita (X)

Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können. --David Hilbert
(No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created.)

Cita (IX)

You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage. --John Von Neumann (a Claude Shannon)

Cita (VIII)

Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. --George Pólya

Cita (VII)

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. --Charles Darwin

Cita (VI)

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. --John von Neumann (a Felix T. Smith)

Cita (V)

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. --Carl Friedrich Gauss

Cita (IV)

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? --David Hilbert

Cita (III)

Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain. --Mikhail Bakunin

Cita (II)

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. --Galileo Galilei

Foto (I)

Gran marca de galetes, vistes a una tenda "duty free" de l'aeroport de Berlín-Schönefeld

Cita (I)

"L'imagination se lassera plutot de concevoir que la nature de fournir." --Blaise Pascal
(La imaginació es cansa abans que la natura)

Cartell frik (XI)

Vist a algun lloc de Beijing.

Cartell frik (X)

Espero que no et multin si caus. Vist a la Ciutat Prohibida.

Jonathan Coulton - Mandelbrot Set

Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician
Every one of them is a splinter in my eye
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
And the Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
On a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born

His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
Left him well equipped to face those demons down
He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules
He used his giant brain to turn the game around
And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head
A bulbous pointy form
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down

Take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series of Z’s should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set

Mandelbrot Set you’re a Rorschach Test on fire
You’re a day-glo pterodactyl
You’re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
You’re one badass fucking fractal
And you’re just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way

Mandelbrot’s in heaven, at least he will be when he’s dead
Right now he’s still alive and teaching math at Yale
He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none
And his geometry succeeds where others fail
If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings
From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home

Just take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series of Z’s should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set

Mandelbrot Set you’re a Rorschach Test on fire
You’re a day-glo pterodactyl
You’re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
You’re one badass fucking fractal
And you’re just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way
And you’re just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way
Go on change the world in a tiny way
Come on change the world in a tiny way

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