October 17, 2006

  • The Emperor's Changes:

    To Measure
    the Changes
     
    (continued from
    "The Legacy Codes,"
    Nov. 5-6, 2003)

    From this morning's
    New York Times:

    The Emperor
    of Math

    Shing-Tung Yau
    Rick Friedman for
    The New York Times

    "The much-honored
    mathematician
    Shing-Tung Yau    "

    Numbers
    from the
    Keystone State
    on October 16:

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    For interpretations
    of 621, see 6/21's
    Beijing String and
    Go with the Flow.

    For an interpretation
    of 596, see Wikipedia,
    596 (nuclear test):

    "596 is the codename of the
    People's Republic of China's
    first nuclear weapons test,
    detonated on
    October 16, 1964."

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    Related material:

    "'In China he is a movie star,' said Ronnie Chan, a Hong Kong real estate developer and an old friend....  And last summer Dr. Yau played the part.... He ushered Stephen Hawking into the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square to kick off a meeting of some of the world's leading physicists on string theory, and beamed as a poem he had written was performed by a music professor on the conference stage. It reads in part:
    Beautiful indeed
    is the source of truth.
    To measure the changes
         of time and space
    the smartest are nothing."

    -- The Emperor of Math