18 February 2010

Ridiculous expression

I read that a certain university offered an honorary title to a certain mathematician for his
"outstanding scientific research activity and his achievements in a scientific field of mathematics"
This is a translation from the Greek text (the particular phrase appears in yellow here) which itself contains silly grammatical (circled in red) and syntactical errors.

One wonders therefore: the above implicitly implies that the "fields of mathematics" are classified into "scientific" (for which the award was given) and "non-scientific" (for which, presumably, no award will ever be given).

The question is: What are the non-scientific fields of mathematics?

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T H E B O T T O M L I N E

What measure theory is about

It's about counting, but when things get too large.
Put otherwise, it's about addition of positive numbers, but when these numbers are far too many.

The principle of dynamic programming

max_{x,y} [f(x) + g(x,y)] = max_x [f(x) + max_y g(x,y)]

The bottom line

Nuestras horas son minutos cuando esperamos saber y siglos cuando sabemos lo que se puede aprender.
(Our hours are minutes when we wait to learn and centuries when we know what is to be learnt.) --António Machado

Αγεωμέτρητος μηδείς εισίτω.
(Those who do not know geometry may not enter.) --Plato

Sapere Aude! Habe Muth, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen!
(Dare to know! Have courage to use your own reason!) --Kant