數學也是宗教

calvin and hobbes 是我最喜歡看的漫畫了

同喜

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同喜

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剛來的那年冬天一下子就愛上了，正好 borders 有 sale，買了好幾本

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俺在考慮是不是買一套精裝硬皮版，九十多刀。

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哪裡？

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http://www.amazon.com/Complete-C ... 21727749&sr=8-2

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謝！

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也講一個笑話：

A ten year old boy was failing math. His parents tried everything from tutors to hypnosis, but to no avail. Finally, at the insistence of a family friend, they decided to enroll their son in a private Catholic school.

After the first day, the boy's parents were surprised when he walked in after school with a stern, focused and very determined expression on his face, and went right past them straight to his room, where he quietly closed the door.

For nearly two hours he toiled away in his room - with math books strewn about his desk and the surrounding floor. He emerged long enough to eat, and after quickly cleaning his plate, went straight back to his room, closed the door, and worked feverishly at his studies until bedtime. This pattern continued ceaselessly until it was time for the first quarter report card.

The boy walked in with his report card -- unopened -- laid it on the dinner table and went straight to his room. Cautiously, his mother opened it, and to her amazement, she saw a bright red "A" under the subject of MATH. Overjoyed, she and her husband rushed into their son's room, thrilled at his remarkable progress.

"Was it the nuns that did it?", the father asked. The boy only shook his head and said, "No."

"Was it the one-on-one tutoring? The peer-mentoring?"

"No."

"The textbooks? The teachers? The curriculum?"

"Nope," said the son. "On that first day, when I walked in the front door and saw that guy they nailed to the 'plus sign,' I just knew they meant business!"

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還別說，歷史上還真有把數學當作宗教的，那就是鼎鼎有名的古希臘大數學家畢達哥拉斯。他創建了一個社團，集神秘和數學於一身。他的學校里有一些稀奇古怪的規則，比如不能吃豆，不能拾掉到地上的東西，不能看鏡子如果傍邊有光的話。。。等等諸如此類。
他認為數學是思維優於感覺，直覺優於觀察的東西。這種觀點對古希臘數學影響很大，當然可以說有點像宗教？呵呵。另外，還有很像的地方是，門徒們不能挑戰畢達哥拉斯的在數學上的權威，而且所有的成績都歸於他本人。他的學生希帕索斯通過勾股定理髮現了無理數，結果卻讓他的門徒給扔進了大海！

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共同進步，共同提高

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據說畢達哥拉斯把數學從一個「人類和大自然做鬥爭的工具」（古埃及和兩河流域）， 「上升」為基於公理的邏輯系統。和宗教的確有類似的地方。

數學確實很有點宗教的影子，數學規則到底是先存的，還是從物理中抽象出來？

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很多數學的分支的確是純抽象的，有些還沒找到物理世界的對照物吧？

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我也這麼想，當然俺數學不好

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比愛因斯坦的好吧？

據說Einstein構思廣義相對論的時候，儘管他的數學家朋友教了他很多Riemann幾何，他的
數學還是不盡如人意。後來，他去過一次Gottingen,給Hilbert等很多數學家做過幾次
報告，他走不久，Hilbert就算出來了那個著名的場方程，Hilbert的數學當然比
Einstein好很多。不久，Einstein也得出來了，有人建議Hilbert考慮這個東西的署名
權問題，Hilbert很坦誠地說：「Gottingen馬路上的每一個孩子，都比Einstein更懂得
四維幾何，但是，儘管如此，發明相對論的仍然是Einstein而不是數學家。」

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呀，這故事真感人

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那可真是一個出英雄的年代，靠的就是個人的興趣。