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Different cultures... until recently, used... science in different styles... [M]athematics, which is supposed to be the most universal of these... If… - Tadashi Tokieda
" "Different cultures... until recently, used... science in different styles... [M]athematics, which is supposed to be the most universal of these... If you do zoology or geology or things like that which are geographically constrained, different countries might so things differently, but mathematics is... as universal as any human endeavor can get... [N]onetheless... the Russians... write and think about mathematics in a way very different from how Americans thought and wrote, and the French wrote... and thought mathematics in a way very different from how the Japanese did, and so on... [Y]ou can tell instantly which school, which culture, it came from.
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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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I don't believe that I'm a good communicator. I believe that lots of other people are simply very bad communicators... I don't think other people are thinking. It's completely common sense. I have no intention of claiming any credit for what I do, and if you think this passionately, and if your agenda is not some of the other things I described earlier... [I]f your agenda is to share surprises and to share, if possible, some of the joy to make people understand, there are obvious things that you can do... I'm very surprised that people aren't doing it... [I]t's absolutely obvious to anybody.
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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