书名：
爱与数学
ISBN：
9787508658070
作者：
弗伦克尔 胡小锐
出版社：
中信出版集团股份有限公司
出版时间：
2016-01-01
图书分类：
数理科学和化学
语言：
chi
开本：
16开-胶版纸
版次：
1
装帧：
线装
页数：
310页
字数：
99999千字
如果你不得不去上一门美术课，它却只是教你怎么油漆栅栏，你作何感想？如果你从未在美术课堂上见过凡•高和毕加索的画作，甚至根本不知道它们的存在，你又会作何感想？唉，这就是常见的数学教学方式，它导致我们中的大多数人都成了“坐等油漆干”的生物。
爱德华・弗伦克尔（Edward Frenkel），哈佛大学博士，曾在哈佛大学任教，现为加州大学伯克利分校数学系教授。他在数学类专业期刊上发表了80多篇论文，并在世界多国做过关于“朗兰兹纲领研究”的巡回演讲，他的演讲视频在youtube网站上的点击率超过百万次。也由于其富有魅力的外表使其作品在网站上好评如潮，同时网友钻研数学的动力大增。
This is really a question about the nature of mathematical insight. The ability to see patterns and connections that no one had seen before does not come easily. It is usually the product of months, if not years, of hard work. Little by little, the inkling of a new phenomenon or a theory emerges, and at first you don’t believe it yourself. But then you say: “what if it’s true?” You try to test the idea by doing sample calculations. Sometimes these calculations are hard, and you have to navigate through mountains of heavy formulas. The probability of making a mistake is very high, and if it does not work at first, you try to redo it, over and over again.More often than not, at the end of the day (or a month, or a year), you realize that your initial idea was wrong, and you have to try some…
How to describe the excitement I felt when I saw this beautiful work and realized its potential? I guess it’s like when, after a long journey, suddenly a mountain peak comes in full view. You catch your breath, take in its majestic beauty, and all you can say is “Wow!” It’s the moment of revelation. You have not yet reached the summit, you don’t even know yet what obstacles lie ahead, but its allure is irresistible, and you already imagine yourself at the top. It’s yours to conquer now. But do you have the strength and stamina to do it?
Mathematical concepts populate the Kingdom of Mathematics, just like species of animals populating the Animal Kingdom: they are linked to each other, form families and subfamilies, and often two different concepts mate and produce an offspring.
As someone told me later, writing papers was the punishment we had to endure for the thrill of discovering new mathematics.
Mathematics is a way to break the barriers of the conventional, an expression of unbounded imagination in the search for truth. Georg Cantor, creator of the theory of infinity, wrote: “The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.” Mathematics teaches us to rigorously analyze reality, study the facts, follow them wherever they lead. It liberates us from dogmas and prejudice, nurtures the capacity for innovation. It thus provides tools that transcend the subject itself.
In my view, it is the objectivity of mathematical knowledge that is the source of its limitless possibilities. This quality distinguishes mathematics from any other type of human endeavor. I believe that understanding what is behind this quality will shed light on the deepest mysteries of physical reality, consciousness, and interrelations between them. In other words, the closer we are to the Platonic world of math, the more power we will have to understand the world around us and our place in it. Luckily, nothing can stop us from delving deeper into this Platonic reality and integrating it into our lives. What’s truly remarkable is mathematics’ inherent democracy: while some parts of the physical and mental worlds may be perceived or interpreted differently by different people or may not…
Mathematics and science in general are often presented as cold and sterile. In truth, the process of creating new mathematics is a passionate pursuit, a deeply personal experience, just like creating art and music. It requires love and dedication, a struggle with the unknown and with oneself, which elicits strong emotions. And the formulas you discover really do get under your skin, just like the tattooing in the film.
Think about it this way: mathematics and physics are like two different planets; say, Earth and Mars. On Earth, we discover a relation between different continents. Under this relation, every person in Europe gets matched with one in North America; their heights, weights, and ages are the same. But they have opposite genders (this is like switching a Lie group and its Langlands dual Lie group). Then one day we receive a visitor from Mars who tells us that on Mars they have also discovered a relation between their continents. Turns out every Martian on one of their continents can be matched with a Martian on another continent, so that their heights, weights, and ages are the same, but… they have opposite genders (who knew Martians had two genders, just like us?). We can’t believe what we …
In my view, it is the objectivity of mathematical knowledge that is the source of its limitless possibilities. This quality distinguishes mathematics from any other type of human endeavor. I believe that understanding what is behind this quality will shed light on the deepest mysteries of physical reality, consciousness, and interrelations between them. In other words, the closer we are to the Platonic world of math, the more power we will have to understand the world around us and our place in it. Luckily, nothing can stop us from delving deeper into this Platonic reality and integrating it into our lives. What’s truly remarkable is mathematics’ inherent democracy: while some parts of the physical and mental worlds may be perceived or interpreted differently by different people or may not…
Mathematics and science in general are often presented as cold and sterile. In truth, the process of creating new mathematics is a passionate pursuit, a deeply personal experience, just like creating art and music. It requires love and dedication, a struggle with the unknown and with oneself, which elicits strong emotions. And the formulas you discover really do get under your skin, just like the tattooing in the film.
Think about it this way: mathematics and physics are like two different planets; say, Earth and Mars. On Earth, we discover a relation between different continents. Under this relation, every person in Europe gets matched with one in North America; their heights, weights, and ages are the same. But they have opposite genders (this is like switching a Lie group and its Langlands dual Lie group). Then one day we receive a visitor from Mars who tells us that on Mars they have also discovered a relation between their continents. Turns out every Martian on one of their continents can be matched with a Martian on another continent, so that their heights, weights, and ages are the same, but… they have opposite genders (who knew Martians had two genders, just like us?). We can’t believe what we …
This is really a question about the nature of mathematical insight. The ability to see patterns and connections that no one had seen before does not come easily. It is usually the product of months, if not years, of hard work. Little by little, the inkling of a new phenomenon or a theory emerges, and at first you don’t believe it yourself. But then you say: “what if it’s true?” You try to test the idea by doing sample calculations. Sometimes these calculations are hard, and you have to navigate through mountains of heavy formulas. The probability of making a mistake is very high, and if it does not work at first, you try to redo it, over and over again. More often than not, at the end of the day (or a month, or a year), you realize that your initial idea was wrong, and you have to try some…
It’s useful to think about mathematics as a whole as a giant jigsaw puzzle, in which no one knows what the final image is going to look like. Solving this puzzle is a collective enterprise of thousands of people. They work in groups: here are the algebraists laboring over their part of the puzzle, here are the number theorists, here are the geometers, and so on. Each group has been able to create a small “island” of the big picture, but through most of the history of mathematics, it has been hard to see how these little islands will ever join up. As a result, most people work on expanding those islands of the puzzle. Every once in a while, however, someone will come who will see how to connect the islands. When this happens, important traits of the big picture emerge, and this gives a new …
主题是朗兰兹纲领，还特别讲了一点它的量子场论表述，是作者和witten合作的问题。有一些物理词汇翻译得不是很好，夸克禁闭就没翻译出来。
我和“群”真有缘分，从邓稼先的《群论讲义》到徐一鸿《可畏的对称》，再到冯天承《从一元一次方程到伽罗瓦理论》，总是能邂逅“群”这个老朋友。没想到读个《爱与数学》，老朋友又出现了，而且这次是主角。
群，数学的罗塞塔石碑-朗兰兹纲领，伽罗瓦群，自守函数，黎曼曲面，对称，费马大定理，费马猜想，规范场论， x^n + y^n = z^n，所有这些概念就足够吓人了！不过正如最后一章讨论的，数学是一门优美的语言，它独立于人类的存在。作者既研究数学又写剧本拍电影，非常有趣了！所以何必给人生设限，立志成为一个非典型工程师
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