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Some Fun Problems, Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9

History of Science & Scholarship2006.09.05
Some Fun Problems, Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
Some Amusing Puzzles, III: Taking an Inch and Then a Mile, Cleverly Guessing a Go Piece, a Chaotic Village, Things That Can Only Be Said on Tuesday, and a Super BT Problem Xingding posted on 2006-09-05 13:39:14 Taking an Inch and Then a Mile At a dance, Luoji saw a beautiful woman, so he went up to chat her up and invited her to dance with him. The beautiful woman said, “I hate dishonest people. Tell you what: I’ll listen to one sentence from you. If it’s true, I’ll dance with you; if it’s false, I’ll never speak to you again!” Luoji thought for a moment and said a sentence….
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2006年9月5日
Selected Philosophical Aphorisms

Philosophy & Thought2006.09.02
Selected Philosophical Aphorisms
《蔡志忠哲理漫画》系列，三联书店 Montesquieu: Everyone has a sense of shyness! But one must know how to overcome it, and never abandon it. ////—To overcome it without abandoning it: nicely put. Pascal: It is no shame for a person to yield to pain; it is shameful to yield to pleasure. ////—Much admired. Pascal: Man’s greatness lies in the fact that humanity knows itself to be unhappy; a tree does not know itself to be unhappy. Thus, to know oneself unhappy is unhappiness, but man’s greatness lies precisely in knowing himself unhappy. Pascal: Man is like a reed, the most fragile thing in nature, yet a thinking reed. In the universe, anything can destroy…
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2006年9月2日
It is when the sky is darkest that people see the stars. — Emerson

Life & Notes2006.08.31
It is when the sky is darkest that people see the stars. — Emerson
As the title says.
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2006年8月31日
The Mathematical Roots of Postmodern Thought

History of Science & Scholarship2006.08.25
The Mathematical Roots of Postmodern Thought
[Addendum] Vladimir Tasic: _The Mathematical Roots of Postmodern Thought_, translated by Cai Zhong and Dai Jianping, Fudan University Press, October 2005 Page 5: I think we can subdivide the theoretical edifice of postmodernism. First, one may regard postmodernism as influenced by Romanticism, as a revival—or, to use slightly different terminology, a reinvention—of the ideas of those mathematicians who once challenged logical inductivism; second, one may regard postmodernism as an extreme departure from Romantic humanism, a departure whose roots can in part be traced back to mathematics, and whose postmodern version has become a rather extreme form of formalism. ////——Tasic’s perspective is highly distinctive. Indeed, whenever philosophy discovers that something has…
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2006年8月25日
A Sand County Almanac

History of Science & Scholarship2006.08.23
A Sand County Almanac
[U.S.] Aldo Leopold: Sand County Almanac — Leopold’s Meditations on Nature, translated by Wu Meizhen, revised by Wang Ruixiang, China Social Sciences Publishing House, March 2004 This is the Taiwanese edition of Sand County Almanac (Leopold); it seems to include the most complete set of essays, and should be the best version. From whatever angle you look at it, this book is essential reading. It is praised, together with Walden, as a model of nature-and-humanity writing; it was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the ten must-read books in the humanities in its “Books of the Century” list; it has been called the Bible of ecologism;…
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2006年8月23日
Brave New World

Culture & Public Commentary2006.08.18
Brave New World
[English] Aldous Huxley: *Brave New World*, translated by Wang Bo, Chongqing Publishing House, June 2005 I’d long heard of it, and Teacher Liu had recommended it too, but I still hadn’t read it. Probably just laziness. I really ought to read some literary works too. I’ve always admired and emphasized literature, but that can’t just remain lip service forever, can it? After being reminded once again, I decided to show some decisiveness in my reading—if I think of reading it, I buy it; if I buy it, I read it. The book was just delivered this afternoon, and I finished it in one sitting. It really is excellent—very excellent! Well…
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2006年8月18日
Some Interesting Problems, II: To Change or Not to Change?

History of Science & Scholarship2006.08.13
Some Interesting Problems, II: To Change or Not to Change?
Change or not change? This isn’t a logic puzzle in the strict sense, but it is still a very interesting strategy problem. It suddenly occurred to me: It goes something like this: you are taking part in a game show such as “Lucky 53,” and, fortunately, you win a prize. The host takes you to three boxes and tells you that one of them contains the grand prize—say, a luxury villa—while the other two contain only consolation prizes—say, a jar of doubanjiang. You may choose any one box at will. You choose a box, say Box No. 1. At this point the host opens, say, Box No. 3, and lets…
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2006年8月13日
One of a Few Puzzlers: The Three-Person Peach Juice Problem

History of Science & Scholarship2006.08.05
One of a Few Puzzlers: The Three-Person Peach Juice Problem
During the summer vacation I was supposed to help Bobo prepare a book of logic and reasoning puzzles, so after coming back to Shanghai I went rummaging through the pile of Olympiad math books and recreational math books that I had kept at the bottom of my chest. I had always had the most of this kind of book, so finding several dozen problems was easy enough. Of course, for the sake of originality, I would rewrite both the problems and the solutions. The first thing that came to mind was the classic five pirates dividing the loot problem: five pirates divide 100 gems. The five men in turn propose…
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2006年8月5日
Summer Reading Notes, 2006

Life & Notes2006.07.19
Summer Reading Notes, 2006
2006Summer Reading Notes After wasting a good while, the summer reading plan is finally going to get underway in earnest. But even during that utterly wasted stretch, I still read quite a few books; however decadent one may be, it’s not as if one can stop reading altogether, ha. Today I’ll first finish up the notes on the books I read during the wasted period, and tomorrow I’ll begin to get back on track~ [German]Suzanne Paulson: Eating the Sun, translated by Chen Ying, Sanlian Bookstore, December 2005 Just from the title alone, this book is already incredibly lovely, isn’t it? And indeed it is a lovely book: the prose is…
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2006年7月19日
A Classified Summary of Reference Works on Science and Religion

History of Science & Scholarship2006.06.26
A Classified Summary of Reference Works on Science and Religion
The method of collection was: 1. My own bookshop browsing over time. 2. Looking through the bibliographies and cited works of various relevant writings. 3. Searching keywords such as "science + religion," "science + faith," "science + God," "physics + religion," "evolution theory + religion," and so on, on the major online bookstores (such as Dangdang, Blues, Xidan Book Building, China Book Network, etc.). 4. Searching keywords such as "science + religion + bibliography/reference book" on Baidu. 5. Searching the online catalogs of major libraries, such as the libraries of Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Xiamen University, and so on. 6. Consulting the Yearbooks of Social Science Publications for…
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2006年6月26日