Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart
Ian Kenneth Stewartis a former American professional baseball third baseman. He previously played for the Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth5 April 1985
CityLong Beach, CA
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This is symptomatic of a stronger global economy.
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After going behind we started to pass the ball around and that led to us getting back into the game and pushing home our advantage.
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Labor costs are moderating, productivity is rising and pricing indicators are all very subdued.
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For those two reasons, his candidacy is, if not doomed, unlikely too succeed.
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I hit off him since I was a little kid so (facing left-handers) seems normal.
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I had a full-strength squad until three of my first team picked up knocks at training on Thursday.
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The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.
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First is first, and second is nowhere.
technology ideas missing
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too closely on too limited an application of a mathematical idea, you rob the mathematician of his most important tools: analogy, generality, and simplicity. Mathematics is the ultimate in technology transfer.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.
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Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something works, that it is a good way to proceed, or even that it is true. We need to know why it's true. Otherwise, we won't know anything at all.
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I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.
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Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts and techniques, and anything that might divert them from doing so is deemed unnecessary. Putting mathematics into its cultural context, explaining what is has done for humanity, telling the story of its historical development, or pointing out the wealth of unsolved problems or even the existence of topics that do not make it into school textbooks leaves less time to prepare for the exam. So most of these things aren't discussed.
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...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians are just beginning to understand these basic building blocks of change and to analyze how they combine. The methodology involved has a very different spirit from traditional modeling with differential equations: it is more like chemistry than calculus, requiring careful counterpoint between analysis and synthesis.