Paul Erdos - N is a number (Mathematics Asperger).avi

En film om en liten död man som saknade fast hem och arbete under större delen av sitt liv. Vars hela bohag rymdes i två halvfulla koffertar. De som lät honom vara inneboende för en tid kunde ibland vakna upp vid 5 tiden av att han skvätt ned halva köket med jos, vilket iofs kanske inte är så konstigt för någon som inte kan öppna jospaketet på ett bättre sätt än med en gaffel. Några av hans vänner kunde finna honom utanför sin dörr någon julafton med den energiska frågeställningen -antag att X är likamed …. Och så vidare, tills han lämnade dem utmattade några veckor senare. Han var inte speciellt för fysisk beröring och tålde inte sexuell upphetsning så ni homonormativa och heterosexuella kanske har ett och annat att lära av den genuina asexualiteten? Vad är vitsen med könstänkandet i ett evigt universum? Suck alla dessa, könsstereotyper som är så vanliga för hela neurotypiska spektrat. Gubben gick ofta vilse och kunde inte riktigt ta hand om sina kläder men lärde sig till slut att skära upp sina egna skivor bröd. Hans systrar dog några dagar innan han föddes och livet kanske aldrig var riktigt lätt. Han levde mest på bidrag från en del institutioner och gåvor från vänligt inställda, fick också så småningom lite pengar från föreläsningar. Var en tid förbjuden att resa in i USA på grund av den paranoida amerikanska underrättelsetjänsten FBI. Gubben blev dock den givne monarken av matematisk problemlösning. Han råkade också bli vår tids mest produktive matematiker, kanske inte alltid så välkänd utanför det akademiska fältet, men likväl en man vars arv utvecklat helt nya fält inom matematiken och datasystematiken och så fortsätter göra… Huruvida han kunde ta på sig strumporna själv är dock fortfarande omtvistat av en del. I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. —Sir Isaac Newton A man with no home and no job, Paul Erdös was the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Born in Hungary in 1913, Erdös wrote and co-authored over 1,500 papers and pioneered several fields in theoretical mathematics. At the age of 83 he still spent most of his time on the road, going from math meeting to math meeting, continually working on problems. He died on September 20, 1996 while attending such a meeting in Warsaw, Poland. N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös was filmed between 1988 and 1991. The film opens at Cambridge University's 1991 honorary doctorate ceremony, where Erdös received an award he says he would gladly trade for a "nice new proof." For Erdös, the meaning of life is "to prove and conjecture." In an age dominated by technical wizardry and high tech communications, Erdös was an unusual human link connecting hundreds of people. As he traveled from country to country, Erdös carried with him the latest in mathematical thinking, inspiring others to develop new ideas and, sometimes, entire new fields. In turn, the mathematical community supported this repository of centuries of mathematical knowledge and lore. Every mathematician in the world has an "Erdös Number"-the number of people he or she is removed from having co-authored a paper with Erdös. To pursue this life of wandering and pure scholarship, Erdös relied on a network of other renowned mathematicians-all of whom regarded him as an international treasure. Wherever he touched down, whether in Hungary, Australia or Kalamazoo, Erdös immediately began working on problems with his colleagues. They, in turn, took care of his everyday needs. Ronald Graham, director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Center at AT&T Laboratories, keeps an "Erdös Room" at his home in New Jersey. From here, Graham managed Erdös's financial affairs and coordinated his travels and lectures, trying to maintain a semblance of order in the life of a man who kept no bank accounts and gave money to anyone he felt needed it. In Cambridge, England, Béla Bollobás, an ex-Erdös student, provided another oasis. As the film progresses it becomes clear that mathematicians around the world had more than a professional stake in caring for Erdös. In different ways, each of the many prominent mathematicians in the film expresses dedication to and love for Erdös. The structure of N is a Number is based on Erdös's 50 years of perpetual wandering, "like a bumblebee," carrying news and mathematical information from university to university. Erdös established himself as a serious mathematician at the age of 20 when he devised a more elegant proof for Chebyshev's theorem, i.e., that there is always a prime number between any number and its double. He was at the center of an informal clique of gifted young mathematicians in Hungary, known as the Anonymous Group, because they would meet in a Budapest park under the statue of a medieval historian named Anonymous. Erdös' genius was for the problem that requires little mathematical experience to state and only ingenuity to solve. He cared little for the applications of his ideas... —Jeremy Gray, The Guardian, September 28, 1996 He never had a "proper" teaching job, but constantly traveled around the world, in search of new challenges. Considering material possessions a nuisance, he lived for over 60 years out of half-full suitcases, which he never learned to pack. His discarded suit was rejected by Oxfam. —Béla Bollobás, The Independent, October 3, 1996 He succumbed to the seduction of every beautiful problem he encountered. —Joel Spencer, Courant Institute, New York University, January 1997 A mathemetician of unique style and vision, Erdös will remain on the short list of those whose work defines the mathematics of our century. Erdös' interests covered a multitude of branches of mathematics. Foremost among them are number theory, finite and transfinite combinatorics, classical analysis (especially by the theory of interpolation), and discrete geometry, but his work extends to many other fields, including probability theory, topology, group theory, complex functions, and more. —László Babai, "Paul Erdös (1913-1996): His Influence on the Theory of Computing," Symposium on the Theory of Computing Conference, 1997 He became the most prolific mathematician of his generation, writing or co-authoring 1,000 papers and still publishing one a week in his seventies. His research spanned many areas, but it was in number theory that he was considered a genius. He set problems that were often easy to state but extremely tricky to solve and which involved the relationships between numbers. He liked to say that if one could think of a problem in mathematics that was unsolved and more than 100 years old, it was probably a problem in number theory. —The Times, September 25, 1996 Paul Erdös was well known even outside mathematical circles for his singular dedication to mathematics, which resulted in his living as a "mathematical pilgrim" for much of his life. He was known as a poser and solver of problems, but his problems often seemed to lead to deep theories, which were then explored by others. By his trips and by his collaboration with other mathematicians, Erdös stimulated an enormous amount of mathematical activity. His contributions to number theory and to combinatorics were immense. —Fernando Q. Gouvéa, Editor, MAA Online, October 5, 1996 If the Martians had made contact with earth during the lifetime of Paul Erdös he would have made a good choice as this planet's ambassador. The aliens would have appreciated his unearthly intelligence. He spoke the universe's common tongue, the theory of numbers, with fluency and wit. Importantly, Mr. Erdös would never have missed the trappings of this world. He had no chldren, no wife, no house, no credit card, no job, no change of shoes, indeed nothing but a suitcase containing a few clothes and some notebooks. Neither was he fussy about food, as long as he had coffee. —The Economist, October 5, 1996 In more than six decades of astonishing activity, Erdös made fundamental contributions to number theory, probability theory, real and complex analysis, geometry, approximation theory, set theory and, especially, combinatorics. Perhaps his genius shone brightest in number theory and combinatorics. He practically created the areas of probabilistic number theory, partition calculus for infinite cardinals, extremal graph theory and the theory of random graphs..."Another roof, another proof" was his legendary motto, and from his twenties he hardly ever slept in the same bed for seven consecutive nights...But it was as a source of problems that Erdös was in a class of his own: in the entire history of mathematics there is nobody remotely like him. He has left behind hundreds of attractive problems that are easy to state but that usually turn out to have pinpointed the heart of the matter...Paul Erdös lived as he wanted to: he "proved and conjectured" to the great benefit of mathematics. He kept up the flood of exciting results well into his seventies, and remained phenomenally productive until the day he died. —Béla Bollobás, Nature, October 17, 1996 He would bring the mathematical news, pose problems, inspire the locals with his brilliant ideas, and depart in a few days, leaving behind his exhausted hosts to work out the details of their joint work. His open mind, his ability to see the unexpected, and his willingness to wrestle with complications without the help of well-established tools made him a welcome guest wherever he went...Perhaps his greatest contribution to mathematics was that he realized and demonstrated (decades before it came to be accepted) the importance of seemingly contradictory properties, such as efficient networks with few connections. These methods are of paramount importance in computer science, though Erdös himself never touched a computer. —The Daily Telegraph, October 4, 1996

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FTW2000 (2008-09-18)

Its nice with some change from the usual stuff. Many Thanks!!!

bluuurp (2008-10-03)

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mansouri2k (2008-11-28)

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Aspy (2008-12-11)

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TeapotTempest (2010-06-02)

I don't understand why this video is tagged as related to Asperger's Syndrome. There is no mention of A.S. in the video, and I've found no evidence that Erdos had A.S. So... ???