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[J]ust as many people... correctly worry about biodiversity, I get... emotional and upset... whenever linguistic diversity in particular, and cultura… - Tadashi Tokieda
" "[J]ust as many people... correctly worry about biodiversity, I get... emotional and upset... whenever linguistic diversity in particular, and cultural diversity in general, decreases... is threatened... [T]he history of evolution tells us that... you get interesting diversity and... life forms because of . Whenever diversity decreases and one single species or... idea or... way of doing things starts taking over, usually the world is headed for destruction. ...Monkeys that call themselves humans might do some optimization calculations... in their foolishness, and they say, "Oh, ...we have times this ...and that means we have to do it this way. Everyone should be behaving this way..." and so on... [T]hen they end up doing this and in some sense the invention of money doomed us to go in that direction. But I do believe that that way lies madness. ...[F]or me, madness means you abandoned diversity and ...everyone started running in the same direction, and that's really dangerous. So I am... a great partisan of people doing things their own cultural ways, and I don't want, for example, English to take over the entire world.
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About Tadashi Tokieda
(Japanese: 時枝正; born 1968) is a Japanese mathematician, working in mathematical physics. He is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University; previously he was a fellow and Director of Studies of Mathematics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is also very active in inventing, collecting, and studying toys that uniquely reveal and explore real-world surprises of mathematics and physics. In comparison with most mathematicians, he had an unusual path in life: he started as a painter, and then became a classical philologist, before switching to mathematics.
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When you learn mathematics, you learn a lot of definitions. And let's say that you have a certain number of definitions - maybe you learn 100 definitions. Also, there are a number of theorems, and a number of examples to which the theorems apply. Now, a good piece of mathematics should have many more theorems than definitions. And you should have many more examples than theorems - that's a good situation. Unfortunately, everywhere in the world, it happens that in textbooks, in classrooms - You learn 100 definitions (you have memorize definitions!) And then you learn 10 theorems;
And then there is only one example.
It should be that you have one definition, ten theorems, and 100 or even 10,000 examples to which the theorems apply.
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So I'm not such a great believer in talent. Maybe I'd rather use the word ... because... I find that the people talk too much about the genius, and... correspondingly to the... in music and... mathematics... That's a dangerous word, and I'm not sure that it's socially beneficial to talk about... whether it exists or not. ...Maybe scientifically you can talk about the concept of genius, but it... does more damage sociologically, than it does good.
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