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
believe reality needs
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 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.
I've got nothing to lose, so I tell myself to just let things happen.
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It was pitch black. The children were sick and wetting their pants. Some elderly people were fainting, dehydrated.
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We are cautious about growth in Europe in 2003,
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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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To have us on the field together is going to be really something special.
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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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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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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.
learn
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.