[HN Gopher] A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
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A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
Author : haltingproblem
Score : 91 points
Date : 2021-01-31 18:02 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| nxpnsv wrote:
| He's a fantastic math personality...
| klyrs wrote:
| I read this hoping to find a neat collection of math and physics
| surprises. I was surprised to read a biographical interview that
| only drops a couple of hints about the things he finds nifty.
| jacobolus wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tadashi+tokieda
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| https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI9eDSJREzp...
| mrob wrote:
| The title says "collector", not "collection".
| Causality1 wrote:
| I really despise these article that pretend to be about some
| interesting phenomena but are really just a biographic essay and
| contain no real information relating to the headline.
| Treblemaker wrote:
| Well I guess I'm one of today's lucky 10,000 and grateful to
| have discovered him through the article.
| haltingproblem wrote:
| Despise? This is not reddit so please save words like _despise_
| for other forums. This is a high quality Quanta, an independent
| online magazine supported by the Simons Foundation.
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| Feel free to:
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| 1- Post your own articles
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| 2- Write and post your own content
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| 3- Failing all else, downvote
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| Just don't post nasty remarks.
| wrnr wrote:
| Its more like a positive movie review, just an endorsement of
| the man's work. The videos on YT about his work are fun to
| watch.
| alephu5 wrote:
| When I was at university he gave a seminar for professors and
| postgraduates entitled "Proving theorems with physics" where he
| used principles like the conservation of momentum or absence of
| bulk charge to prove a range of otherwise difficult theorems.
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| It was a really fun and interesting talk, the guy is extremely
| smart and charismatic.
| Orochikaku wrote:
| I was first introduced to Tadashi Tokieda on Numberphile, he's
| incredibly charismatic. Here's[0] a playlist of videos in which
| he appears in.
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| [0]
| https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI9eDSJREzp1wvO...
| supernova87a wrote:
| While watching some of his videos (and of YT channel
| "Numberphile") I discovered that the man also speaks fluent
| French (enough to give a public lecture in mathematics), as well
| as his Japanese + English. Pretty damn impressive.
| magneticnorth wrote:
| The article mentions that English is his seventh language!
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| And there's a charming series of quotes about his journey from
| being a linguist to a mathematician - "The book was in Russian,
| and I didn't know Russian, but a young linguist is not afraid
| to pick up another language."
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| ...
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| "Oxford was the only place that would allow you to rush through
| an undergraduate program in two years. I didn't know English,
| but a linguist is not afraid to pick up another language."
| quakeguy wrote:
| His CV really is something to behold.
| leoc wrote:
| The article mentions that French was his first foreign
| language. He picked up Russian to read his first calculus book,
| then English to do an Oxford maths degree. And you're unlikely
| to be a doctoral student in philology and know only one foreign
| language, so he had undoubtedly learned at _least_ one other
| language between the French and the Russian. People don 't
| always realise just how scary serious students of linguistics
| are.
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