Frases de Ivar Ekeland

Ivar Ekeland é um matemático francês de ascendentes noruegueses.

Foi palestrante convidado do Congresso Internacional de Matemáticos em Helsinque .





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✵ 2. Julho 1944
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Ivar Ekeland: Frases em inglês

“There is no invisible hand guiding these processes, dealing out victory to the most deserving.
Chance is their leader.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 7, May The Best One Win, p. 144.
Contexto: In the struggle for life, or in the struggle for power, there is no reason why their victory would make the world better than it was. There is no invisible hand guiding these processes, dealing out victory to the most deserving.
Chance is their leader.

“We do not discover mathematical truths; we remember them from our passages through this world outside our own.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 1, Keeping The Beat, p. 6.

“The social world is not driven by natural laws and randomness alone, as the physical world is, but also by human wills.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 8, The End of Nature, p. 162.

“The moment when the scientists became engineers was a historical turning point.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 8, The End of Nature, p. 152.

“The measurement of time was the first example of a scientific discovery changing the technology.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 8, The End of Nature, p. 150.

“The world is full, at every scale, and every scale ignores the higher and lower ones.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 2, The Birth of Modern Science, p. 34.

“The transition from integrable to non integrable systems is quiet interesting to observe.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 4, From Computation To Geometry, p. 100.

“If there is a God, he has left no tracks in the laws of physics; or if he has, he has covered them up very well.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 6, Pandora's Box, p. 122.

“An equilibrium is not always an optimum; it might not even be good. This may be the most important discovery of game theory.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 7, May The Best One Win, p. 141.

“What is needed is courage: it is always so much easier to accept what you are being told than to think for yourself.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 10, A Personal Conclusion, p. 188.

“Many great failures and many great successes are due to chance and not to human folly or ingenuity.”

Fonte: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 7, May The Best One Win, p. 138.