Cedric Villani 2010 Fields Medal winner on Beautiful Mind. A lovely talk that has no mathematics as it is commonly understood but as something more poetic and spiritual in a very down to earth honest manner without making any heavy philosophical argument.
Friday, January 23, 2015
Beautiful People
Cedric Villani 2010 Fields Medal winner on Beautiful Mind. A lovely talk that has no mathematics as it is commonly understood but as something more poetic and spiritual in a very down to earth honest manner without making any heavy philosophical argument.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Ethics and Mathmatics
A documentary on mathematician Grigori Perelman- The Man who proved the Poincare Conjecture. It is one of the unsolved problems for about 100 years until he saw the way through. A glimpse into the world of higher Mathematics, fame adulation money vs the satisfaction of just pure Mathematics.
"Perelman's Million is gone. But he doesn't care if it was a million dollars or a fistful of coins. He lives in a world where mysteries of the universe are unraveled not for money. To take this money meant to betray your principles. He solved the problem that only few in the world can understand. It is ridiculous to think that he is interested in our opinion."
Thursday, January 15, 2015
One of a Kind
I am following this story of a whale with a call that can never be understood by any other of its kind or any other.
Lonely may be but it has definitely been able to reach out to us humans without ever being photographed or sighted. All it has is its unique call. An anomaly they say. A 52 Hz call as against the 20-22 Hz of its related (may be) Baleen Whale genus. This would mean that no other whale may ever know that it is around, needing company. No whale may understand this one. Mutation? Freak? Or is it one of a kind and the only one at that? It may even be the case of a whale who wants to be a little different singing in a note for art's sake.
Baleen whale (Blue, Fin or Humpbacks) have the unique ability of generating low frequency hums thanks to a unique vocal system relying on a respiratory system that obviates frequent need to surface for air. This is because all of the air circulates within the large body of the whale. Blue whale is one among this kind and there are others. If you had seen "Finding Nemo" the scene where Dory and Marlin come in the way of Krills chased by a massive Blue Whale (Movie Still) ultimately finding their way through the filter feed of the large behemoth. That is Baleen for you, they don't have teeth.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute was the first to detect this unique whale song in 1989. From declassified SONAR recordings in 1992 by the US Navy the scientists were able to map the sojourns of this Genius off the coast of California, Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific and then all the way down to Mexico. But then again this is what the detectable map of the Sonar recordings tell us, the range may be much more. In any case what seems to be clear that this too is different from the so far discovered patterns of Baleen whale movements in the region.
Over the years the voice in the song has grown deeper and, as the scientists would have us believe, healthier. Swimming 70 Km everyday foraging and living the one of a kind life, explorer of depths unknown and at peace with it. Our Genius whale's wisdom may perhaps shed light on the mystic of life transcending the rigidity of the reptilian, territoriality of the mamilian vestiges with help of the human cerebral cortex deciphering from what our distant cousin has to say.
This story is still being chased and chances are that there will be a documentary on the search and study of scientists listening in perhaps not entirely to my liking "52: The Search for the Loneliest Whale in the World". Why Lonely? As Neal McCauly (De Niro) in "Heat" once said there is a difference between being lonely and being alone.
Lonely may be but it has definitely been able to reach out to us humans without ever being photographed or sighted. All it has is its unique call. An anomaly they say. A 52 Hz call as against the 20-22 Hz of its related (may be) Baleen Whale genus. This would mean that no other whale may ever know that it is around, needing company. No whale may understand this one. Mutation? Freak? Or is it one of a kind and the only one at that? It may even be the case of a whale who wants to be a little different singing in a note for art's sake.
Baleen whale (Blue, Fin or Humpbacks) have the unique ability of generating low frequency hums thanks to a unique vocal system relying on a respiratory system that obviates frequent need to surface for air. This is because all of the air circulates within the large body of the whale. Blue whale is one among this kind and there are others. If you had seen "Finding Nemo" the scene where Dory and Marlin come in the way of Krills chased by a massive Blue Whale (Movie Still) ultimately finding their way through the filter feed of the large behemoth. That is Baleen for you, they don't have teeth.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute was the first to detect this unique whale song in 1989. From declassified SONAR recordings in 1992 by the US Navy the scientists were able to map the sojourns of this Genius off the coast of California, Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific and then all the way down to Mexico. But then again this is what the detectable map of the Sonar recordings tell us, the range may be much more. In any case what seems to be clear that this too is different from the so far discovered patterns of Baleen whale movements in the region.
Over the years the voice in the song has grown deeper and, as the scientists would have us believe, healthier. Swimming 70 Km everyday foraging and living the one of a kind life, explorer of depths unknown and at peace with it. Our Genius whale's wisdom may perhaps shed light on the mystic of life transcending the rigidity of the reptilian, territoriality of the mamilian vestiges with help of the human cerebral cortex deciphering from what our distant cousin has to say.
This story is still being chased and chances are that there will be a documentary on the search and study of scientists listening in perhaps not entirely to my liking "52: The Search for the Loneliest Whale in the World". Why Lonely? As Neal McCauly (De Niro) in "Heat" once said there is a difference between being lonely and being alone.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
SAID A BLADE OF GRASS - Kahlil Gibran
Said a blade of grass to an autumn leaf, “You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams.”
Said the leaf indignant, “Low-born and low-dwelling! Songless, peevish thing! You live not in the upper air and you cannot tell the sound of singing.”
Then the autumn leaf lay down upon the earth and slept. And when spring came she waked again — and she was a blade of grass.
And when it was autumn and her winter sleep was upon her, and above her through all the air the leaves were falling, she muttered to herself, “O these autumn leaves! They make such noise! They scatter all my winter dreams.”
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