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数学
Math
So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
所以有人告诉我,如果我还不喜欢喝咖啡,到大学毕业的时候,我就得喝咖啡了,因为数学专业太难了,我不得不熬夜到很晚。我需要咖啡来做这个。只是因为他们说,我在大学里从不喝咖啡,从不上瘾,从不需要咖啡。
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
人类最大的缺点是我们无法理解指数函数。
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
可以想象,最终的数学家是一个能在类比之间看到类比的人。
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
纯粹的数学家只是喜欢尝试未解决的问题——他们喜欢挑战。
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
要使数学得到广泛的理解,我们需要强调它的优雅及其应用。有时候,大学似乎想强调这是多么困难!
During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.
在这一年里,我们的学校忙于削减体育课和课间休息时间,以便有更多的时间学习数学。在夏天,我们会因为孩子们会忘记分数而兴奋不已。
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
什么是代数;是那些三角形的东西吗?