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
beauty art block
...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.
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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.
beauty art views
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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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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We are cautious about growth in Europe in 2003,
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The successes of the differential equation paradigm were impressive and extensive. Many problems, including basic and important ones, led to equations that could be solved. A process of self-selection set in, whereby equations that could not be solved were automatically of less interest than those that could.
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I've been trying to work to hit the ball the other way. I've been kind of labeled and just the pull-hitter type.
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We like to think of this as a smart assessment of the European economy. But in reality it is a bet - one that could fail.
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Everything moves on and it is only natural there is another team that will come along and be better. And this one looks like being the one,
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I think he got all kinds of flak for that.
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Right now, I just want to do well and learn from the other guys.
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Loose monetary policy is working its way through the economy and what started as an export recovery is broadening out into domestic demand. There have been false dawns before but this does look encouraging.
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To have us on the field together is going to be really something special.
I've got nothing to lose, so I tell myself to just let things happen.