张益唐: 速食店员竟然是数学天才

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速食店员竟然是数学天才

张益唐 (1955 – ) : 北京大学 – 美国数学博士。因为执着数学理论的真理, 得罪美国大学台湾籍论文教授, 毕业后找不到大学教职, 在朋友的 Subway 速食店做会计8年, 潜心业余思考世界数学大难题: Twin Primes Gap, 终于攻破。

他的下一个目标是Riemann Hypothesis, 困扰数学家百年的难题: “素数 (Prime numbers)的分布”都集中在 Zeta function complex plane的 实轴(real = 1/2) 上。大数学家David Hilbert说如果五百年后复活, 第一件事会急着问 “Riemann Hypothesis” 证明了吗?

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The Arrival of New Era of “Knowledge Sharing”

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2010 Steve Jobs declared Post-PC era has arrived with iPhone/iPad/iCloud,  little did he know that he had accidentally also brought the Post-TV & Post-Publication (books, Newspapers) on iPhone/iPad/iCloud platforms for YouTube, ebooks.
Today,  you don’t have to sit on sofa at scheduled time to watch TV programmes,  buy/loan/housekeep books, subscribe to political-biased  newspapers.

The advent of Web 2.0 and “Internet of Things (IoT)” will open up the new era of freedom of “Knowledge Sharing”:

1. Instead of reading 100 books to understand a complex economics /politics / history / science topic, you can go YouTube to attend free seminars by TED, MOOC (Coursera,Khan Academy…), or follow YouTube series by book expert reviewers (罗辑思维,袁腾飞, 百家讲坛, 宋鸿兵货币战争)…
2. You can ask any questions on “Quora“. Anybody with the expertise will volunteer to teach you.
3. You can keep your reading notes in…

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Goldbach Conjecture & Theorem Chen

陈景润 不是天才, 只是浓厚的兴趣和痴迷数学, 作出世界第一流的数学突破 1(+2) : 陈氏定理 。文化革命时他躲在臭气冲天的农村厕所里, 用卫生纸写下500页的Goldbach Conjecture证明 ! 为了保护他的手稿不被红卫兵烧去, 他被推出宿舍高楼窗外, 幸好电线挡住身体, 大命不死。后来医治他的女医生嫁给他…

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It said: “(The above) Prof Yang was a long time colleague of Chen Jingrun (陈景润). He revealed that Chen was, by nature, not a Math genius, his success in climbing the Math Summit was through sheer determined hardwork — especially during the decade long cruel Cultural Revolution when the intellectuals were persecuted — sustained by a very strong interest in Math.”

“Math journey is not a short 100-meter sprint but a 20-year marathon run.”

“He critised the crazy rush of Math Olympiad training in whole China, not only adding extra school burden on kids, it also kills their interest in Math.”

Note: Recently China government bans IMO training in schools.

Chen Jingrun (陈景润), a student of Hua Luogeng (华罗庚), proved in 196x during The Cultural Revolution: (1+2) Goldbach Conjecture.

Goldbach Conjecture:

Any Even Integer = 1 prime + 1 prime

eg. 12 = 5+7 = “1+1”

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韩语 “入声” = (唐宋)中古汉语 << 南方方言

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入声 [-p], [-t], [-k]: 古汉语音尾韵, 明朝之前的金, 元外族统治中国时, ‘入声’消失。现在还保留在地理群山封闭的南方不受外族影响 (粤闽), 和5次逃难移迁的客语。

韩语 (语音) = (唐宋)’中古汉语’ << 客语 << 粤语 << 闽语 (福建, 潮州)

<< 靠近 (越左越像: 客语比粤语, 粤语比闽语, 更靠近韩语)

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韩语 入声 [-p = ㅂ ]:
例子: Korean Mixed Rice (Bibimbap ) 비빔밥

汉语分3阶段:
1. 上古汉语: 秦汉时期
2. 中古汉语: 隋唐宋时期
3. 近代汉语: 清民国到今 (普通话).

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Julia Child The American French Chef- Your Own French Onion Soup

Julia Child’s 2 masterpiece books (below the blog) are worth keeping in your kitchen shelf: 500+ recipes. .. may be you try to cook all of them in 1 year like the brave secretary in the movie did 🙂

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Julia Child was a legendary american lady who became a French Chef against all odds. She worked as a USA spy in WW II based in China where she was first attracted to food by the Chinese cuisine, then after the war living in Paris where she enrolled herself in “Le Cordon Bleu” French Chef School. She was honored as the Cover Lady of the Time Magazine for transforming Americans’ kitchen, also received Honorable Doctorate Degree from Harvard University.

I remembered taking the hot French Onion Soup in a Parisian restaurant, near the 1,000 year-old Cathedral “Notre Dame de Paris” (where Victor Hugo’s story about the “Hunched man and the Beauty” took place), in cold 2005 winter. With the melted cheese and french bread covering the serving cup of onion soup, it was very delicious!

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I had a very late lunch with my family who visited France first time…

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“Proof School” For Math Kids

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San Francisco new “Proof School” for Math kids 
The Math Syllabus : Topology,  Number Theory, …
IT: Python programming

Proof School Website
http://www.proofschool.org/#we-love-math

What is Proof School?

https://www.quora.com/What-is-Proof-School/answer/Alon-Amit?srid=oZzP&share=50c583a6

Math Syllabus:

http://www.proofschool.org/course-descriptions-1#math-courses

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徐霞客 – 遊必有方

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明朝万历年间 (1607 AD), 20岁的徐霞客 科举失败, 决志遊遍天下, 考察地理。 持家有道, 经营纺织生意的寡母在经济和精神上支持他 “男儿志在四方”, 成就了中国和世界史上第一位地理考察家, 留下30年珍贵的遊记。

《徐霞客》CCTV (1/3):

他是第一位发现长江的源头是青藏高原。

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馬雲這席話倒不假

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★★ 馬雲這席話倒不假:
Jack Ma immutable Quote

世界一直變,
沒有人會在原地等你,
告訴您的孩子吧!
World is changing
Nobody is waiting for you here
Please inform your kids!

打火機出現, 火柴消失。
When lighters appear, matches disappear

計算機出現, 算盤消失。
When calculators invented, abacus vanishes!

CD出現, 錄音機消失。
When CD emerge, radio recorder totally lost

數位相機出現,
膠卷底片市場沒了…
When digital camera appear, film industry perfectly gone!

消費者直購出現,
傳統市場生意萎縮了。
When consumers direct purchasing from vendors/manufacturers, traditional middlemen business contracting

智慧手機出現, 4G出現,
回家不用電腦了。
When smart phone invented, especially in 4G era, PC world end, hardly see someone use it at home!

微信, whatsapp出現,
簡訊沒人要發了。
Short message, whatsapp emerge, nobody use SMS anymore!

並非誰奪走誰的生意,
而是人們更懂得接受
新事物!
It is not being someone intend to steal or destroy somebody business, instead, we must always prepare to accept new things/business/megatrend/thinking

有人問馬雲, 你為什麼
那麼成功?
Q : Someone ask Jack Ma, why are you so successful?

很簡單:
《我在做、你在看!》
很多人一生輸, 就輸在
新事物。
A : very Simple!   a lot of people…

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