最后的数学问题

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• Beneath the bewildering richness of natural phenomena there lies an elegant mathematical unity. How astonishing that the human mind is attuned to this hidden subtext of nature! Mathematics provide the solid scaffolding that holds together any theory of the universe. This may not sound so surprising until you realize that the nature of mathematics itself is not entirely clear. As the British philosopher Sir Michael Dummett once put it: "The two most abstract of the intellectual disciplines, philosophy and mathematics, give rise to the same perplexity: what are they about? The perplexity does not arise solely out of ignorance: even the practitioners of these subjects may find it difficult to answer the question. (查看原文)

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• 在1855年，布尔与玛丽·埃佛勒斯(Mary Everest Boole, 1832-1916)结为夫妻。玛丽的叔叔乔治·埃佛勒斯是一位测量学家，正是他第一次测量了珠穆朗玛峰的高度，因此珠穆朗玛峰在西方被命名为“Mount Everest"。 (查看原文)

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