To Measure
the Changes
(continued from
“The Legacy Codes,”
Nov. 5-6, 2003)
From this morning’s
New York Times:
the Changes
(continued from
“The Legacy Codes,”
Nov. 5-6, 2003)
From this morning’s
New York Times:
Rick Friedman for
The New York Times
The New York Times
“The much-honored
mathematician
Shing-Tung Yau“
Numbers
from the
Keystone State
on October 16:
For interpretations
of 621, see 6/21’s
Beijing String and
Go with the Flow.
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.”
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.” |