| Математики о языках (математических) |
[Mar. 20th, 2007|07:19 pm] |
Many people think that I am slow, almost stupid. Yes, it takes time
for me to understand what people are saying to me. To understand
a mathematical fact, you have to translate it into a mathematical
language which you know. Most mathematicians use three, four
languages. But I am an old man and know too many languages.
When you tell me something from combinatorics, I have to trans-
late what you say in the languages of representation theory, inte-
gral geometry, hypergeometric functions, cohomology, and so on,
in too many languages. This takes time. (И.М.Гельфанд)
( О стиле Гельфанда из недавней веб-книги Боровика )
One of the reasons why research mathematicians are so sensitive to
mathematical language issues is that they can see dramatic changes in
the languages used over their working life.
Кстати, сегодня обедал --- за соседним столом обедал муж А.Меркель, немецкой канцлерши. |
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