Laurens Gunnarsen

Mathematical physicist and mentor to mathematically talented youth. Talent is that which bridges the gap between what can be taught and what must be learned.

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@grosvenorpiano @ChopinInstitute Reminiscent of Cziffra! Amazing stuff.

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@zoink This is the single most important fact about Newton, as he himself acknowledged. When asked how he had arrived at this theory of universal gravitation, Newton answered, "By thinking on it constantly," which was doubtless the literal truth. His powers of concentration were immense

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@PhysInHistory All of them, alas.

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@gammaofzeta Thermodynamics is almost impossible to understand until you realize that it requires Cartan's theory of exterior differential calculus (and Frobenius' integrability condition) for its proper formulation. The best extant exposition of these ideas is in Bamberg & Sternberg, Vol. 2.

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@AMAZlNGNATURE A king cobra.

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@CaitlinPacific Only the last step seems the least bit intimidating.

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@CaitlinPacific Anyone who has ever worked in a hospital knows that the duration of life is as unpredictable as the manner of its conclusion.

Having babies is for optimists and adventurers.

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@littmath Chern's lectures were extraordinary: they always made everything seem not just clear but blindingly obvious. Your main reaction to the material he presented was always the same: acute embarrassment that you hadn't thought of it yourself.

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@LauraDeming Indeed, once you've learned to see the meaning of a thing, it can be (and often is) all but impossible to remember your former blindness to it.

https://t.co/5IbWYqvYp6

This is sometimes called the curse of expertise.

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@CaitlinPacific Nostalgia is a poor substitute for patriotism.

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@carhatcyborg Absolutely nothing.

https://t.co/u3s3sYNYWC

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@nguyenhdi Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky ...

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@phalpern Father of Edward and Matthew.

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@JoyceCarolOates Life is short, and regret is useless. I recommend catnip to Lilith. Catnip, and a lot of long, dreamless naps.

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@JoyceCarolOates Salutary reminder that markets, even when efficient, are very far from prescient.

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@darren_dyck Do your students find this assignment onerous?

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@CaitlinPacific @MrDanielBuck "Love is a sport in which the hunter must contrive to have the quarry in pursuit."

~ Alphonse Karr

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@elvislevel @jaycaspiankang Ouch.

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@carhatcyborg Beethoven was a superb improviser -- clearly one of the best who ever lived -- but even he was better when he sat down and brooded tensely over every note. What occurs to you in the moment may be striking and fresh, but it is seldom optimal. And such things seldom cohere.

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@abakcus 10^2 + 11^2 + 12^2 + 13^2 + 14^2 =
(12 - 2)^2 + (12 - 1)^2 + 12^2 + (12 + 1)^2 + (12 + 2)^2 =
5*12^2 + 10 =
5(12^2 + 2) =
5*146 =
5*73*2 =
365*2.