v*******e
发帖数: 3714 | 1 那天拿到一个代数几何课程等讲义，是年轻教授两年前第一次在
我们学校开课时，每次上课前亲手写的。第一课第一句话就是：
As you set out for Ithaka, hope your road is a long one.
by Cavafy
我算得个坏学生，对教程本身缺乏兴趣，却觉得这句话有趣，就
专门拿去找教授问。得知ithaka原来就是ulyses多年流浪的目的
地，而写这首诗的cavafy，则是这位教授最喜欢的希腊诗人。难
怪也，他本人也是希腊来的嘛。
聊到数学的目的和功用问题，这首诗不知怎的又被提起，不过这次
是被教授本人。他指我看全诗－－－google下搜索ithaka＋cavafy
的结果，问我：“从这里面，你读到了什么？” | v*******e
发帖数: 3714 | 2 Mathematics is not an easy road, and supposedly a long one. I know
that I might not be good at it eventually, since I'm always so
doubtful about myself, and that I am impatient in general.
But there's something very touching in mathematics, like everything else
that is involved with metaphysical thinking. It's more like mathematics
is an exclusive world, such that you can take a different look at
certain things only after you are allowed to enter into it.
Quoting a line from the movie by Neil Jo
【在 v*******e 的大作中提到】
: 那天拿到一个代数几何课程等讲义，是年轻教授两年前第一次在
: 我们学校开课时，每次上课前亲手写的。第一课第一句话就是：
: As you set out for Ithaka, hope your road is a long one.
: by Cavafy
: 我算得个坏学生，对教程本身缺乏兴趣，却觉得这句话有趣，就
: 专门拿去找教授问。得知ithaka原来就是ulyses多年流浪的目的
: 地，而写这首诗的cavafy，则是这位教授最喜欢的希腊诗人。难
: 怪也，他本人也是希腊来的嘛。
: 聊到数学的目的和功用问题，这首诗不知怎的又被提起，不过这次
: 是被教授本人。他指我看全诗－－－google下搜索ithaka＋cavafy
| g****d
发帖数: 3461 | 3
Ithaka, if there had been no faithful Penelope waiting,
would you still return, Odysseus?
Ithaka, there is none else waiting in your house but
the suitors going after Penelope.
Are you afraid Odysseus?
Kalypso asked you, Odysseys, what is Penelope like,
what is it that made the glory of Kalypso herself
useless, that you would trade immortality with
mortal reunion with Penelope?
Kirke's charm, Skylla's terror and even the beauty
of Nausika, the fairest woman of all claccical times,
did not move
【在 v*******e 的大作中提到】
: Mathematics is not an easy road, and supposedly a long one. I know
: that I might not be good at it eventually, since I'm always so
: doubtful about myself, and that I am impatient in general.
: But there's something very touching in mathematics, like everything else
: that is involved with metaphysical thinking. It's more like mathematics
: is an exclusive world, such that you can take a different look at
: certain things only after you are allowed to enter into it.
: Quoting a line from the movie by Neil Jo
| g****d
发帖数: 3461 | 4
哪个我引错了, 给衷告的是雅典娜,
For thou knowest what sort of a spirit there is in
a woman's breast; she is fain to increase the house of
the man who weds her, but of her former children and
of the lord of her youth she takes no thought,
when once he is dead, and asks no longer
concerning them. Nay, go, and thyself put all thy possessions
in the charge of whatsoever one of the handmaids
seems to thee the best, until the gods shall show thee a noble bride.
It depends on who are the gods. :-)
If one believes |
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