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Words to live by
13-Mar-07Sell out crowds. Overflow rooms. Young fans looking for autographs after a ‘performance.’ Not things usually associated with a lecturer talking about prime numbers. But such was the case for 2006 Field’s Medal winner Terence Tao. The article Scientist at Work - Terence Tao - Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime in the New York Times gives a profile of this young, talented mathematician, described as a ‘rock star’ and the ‘Mozart of math.’
Use it or Lose it
06-Mar-07“You’ve forgotten a lot of things you used to know, haven’t you Dad?”
This astute observation from my son came at the end of an interesting conversation we had about lunar eclipses. We were driving east on I-44 in Southwest Missouri as the sun went down in the rear-view mirror. A short time later, [...]
Achieving mastery in your field of choice allows you to see and understand connections from outside your own area of expertise. I can’t help thinking of Richard Feynmann’s excursions outside the world of physics as an example. The recent Science Daily story Mathematicians Unlock Major Number Theory Puzzle provides another (emphasis mine):
It was [...]
Telling your story with pictures
17-Dec-06At the last St. Louis Idea Market, Scott Matthews from XPLANE had us all create a visual explanation of how a toaster works. Among many observations I made from the exercise, key was how different people interpreted what was meant by “how a toaster works.” Some of us took it to mean “How [...]
