几个星期前,看纽约时报评论专栏,著名经济学家Krugman介绍这本新书——《二十一世纪的资本论》(Capital in the Twenthy-First Century),几天后又在加拿大全球邮报Global and Mail里见到另一篇关于此书的书评。于是在亚马逊下单,昨天拿到这本巨著(magum opus). 仔细地读了读本文概要以及最后的结论一章,中间快速地 ...
G. H. Hardy (1940), A Mathematician's Apology, 开篇第一段话是这样写的: It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and ...