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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Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of mathematics." Queens are regal, but they are also largely decorative, and this nuance was not lost on Gauss.
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Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.
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During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.
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The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical reality. Equations model deep patterns in the outside world. By learning to value equations, and to read the stories they tell, we can uncover vital features of the world around us...
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Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.
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One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism and formality, its baffling terminology, its apparent delight in lengthy calculations: these tend to obscure its real nature. A musician would be horrified if his art were to be summed up as "a lot of tadpoles drawn on a row of lines"; but that"s all that the untrained eye can see in a page of sheet music... In the same way, the symbolism of mathematics is merely its coded form, not its substance.
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Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.
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If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.
lying science conclusion
Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.
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I am not sure that the ECB has been anything but pragmatic in the last five years. It is heading for its sixth year of inflation above its 2 percent ceiling and had not tightened credit for five years. If this is monetary orthodoxy, I would be interested to see what the new ECB pragmatism looks like.
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I keep track of these guys. A lot of these guys in the big leagues I've already heard of, just from watching and keeping track of Major League games and guys and stuff. It's fun to come out and face these guys that I've read about.
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The gain in French business confidence is a positive sign because of the political unrest and the setback for the government on labor market reform. It's a very strong reading and sets the theme for the rest of the confidence data this week.
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The forecasts have been a bit too sanguine, given that the lead indicators of input prices have been quite strong.
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A guy of his caliber to say he enjoys watching me hit is pretty special.