It is shocking to me to see celebrated mathematicians rushing to pologize for saying privately what they truly thought about Chairman Yau. What can possibly Yao do to the "Simons Professor of Mathematics at MIT" (Stroock), or the rest of apologetic sprinters? Now I better understand how seemingly good folks like Helmut Hasse and Wilhelm Blaschke also ran -- in the 1930s -- to join the Nazis...
The apologizers then blamed the journalilst, Sylvia Naser, for all the ills in the maths community. Can't you comprehend that Syliva did not create moral problems, but reflected their existence? "Biased and Distorted Article," Iread. Is this all the gents have to say about Sylvia Nasar?
The truth (as I see it) is, Sylvia proved having much bigger balls than the apologetic gents. We all ought to thank Nasar for doing such an enormous favor to the maths community. Thank you, Sylvia! I am sorry that maths folks afraid of their own shadow. Expand your article to a book, show the world what mathematicians are made of. Expose these claims of entitlement to perks and privilege without assuming the slightest civic obligation and responsibility.
How can anyone make fun of Perelman, who expressed the ultimate contempt for privileges and perks everyone else so badly lusts for, and Chairman Yau most of all! Isn't Perelman absolutely right when he speaks about most mathematicians tolerating immorality?
I hope this story will serve as a wake-up call, but I am skeptical about awakening a dead body.
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It is shocking to me to see celebrated mathematicians rushing to pologize for saying privately what they truly thought about Chairman Yau.
What can possibly Yao do to the "Simons Professor of Mathematics at MIT" (Stroock), or the rest of apologetic sprinters?
Now I better understand how seemingly good folks like Helmut Hasse and Wilhelm Blaschke also ran -- in the 1930s -- to join the Nazis...
The apologizers then blamed the journalilst, Sylvia Naser, for all the ills in the maths community. Can't you comprehend that Syliva did not create moral problems, but reflected their existence?
"Biased and Distorted Article," Iread. Is this all the gents have to say about Sylvia Nasar?
The truth (as I see it) is, Sylvia proved having much bigger balls than the apologetic gents.
We all ought to thank Nasar for doing such an enormous favor to the maths community.
Thank you, Sylvia!
I am sorry that maths folks afraid of their own shadow.
Expand your article to a book, show the world what mathematicians are made of.
Expose these claims of entitlement to perks and privilege without assuming the slightest civic obligation and responsibility.
How can anyone make fun of Perelman, who expressed the ultimate contempt for privileges and perks everyone else so badly lusts for, and Chairman Yau most of all!
Isn't Perelman absolutely right when he speaks about most mathematicians tolerating immorality?
I hope this story will serve as a wake-up call, but I am skeptical about awakening a dead body.