Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
mean solutions
Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
work interesting long
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
math long attention
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
mind odyssey particular
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
children relax way
The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
school problem problems-in-school
I loved doing problems in school.
mean track goal
I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal
library problem found
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
morning sleep science
I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.
greek today proof
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
morning sleep night
I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
science oil forever
Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.
college umpires people
Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
beautiful simple years
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. [Fermat's] Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.