Sunday, March 1, 2009
28.02.02
met abigail debbie huixuan joscelin and kiansiang at lot one (alaine and darren were behind the bread shop. called wangs if i'm not wrong to surprise kiansiang) celebrating ks belated birthday. we ate the cake with chopstick. LOL cool right? XDDD
after that we broad the bus 190 to plaza singapura. we met ginnie there and were almost late for the movie
suspect X
The body of a male has been discovered, strangled to death, his face pulverized beyond recognition and fingers burned to a crisp. Assigned to the case are local precinct detective, Kaoru Utsumi, and her ex"colleague from headquarters, Shunpei Kusanagi. It turns out that the neighbor of the victim's ex"wife is a college alumnus of brilliant physicist, Manabu Yukawa, aka “Detective Galileo."He is Tetsuya Ishigami, a high school math teacher whom Yukawa personally considers a true genius. When Yukawa is brought onto help with the case by Utsumi, he begins to suspect that this “true genius"and a with whom Yukawa shares a bond of friendship as an intellectual equal is somehow connected to the murder. Elaborate bluffs, false testimonials, loopholes in logic − all begin to appear in Detective Galileo's way as if intentionally placed as a challenge by someone with mathematical brilliance.
it's nice. but i still prefer the television version. there's more formula. XDD
but for this show, i went to look out for the four colour theorem
four colour theorem
In Greek mythology, the Sirens were sisters whose song lured sailors to their deaths on a treacherous reef. The Four Colour Theorem is to mathematicians what the song of the Sirens was to the sailors of ancient times. Many a mathematician has foundered in attempting its proof .
The problem is deceptively simple. Take a map of the world, a few coloured pens and start colouring in the countries. There's one rule--adjacent countries cannot be the same colour. The Four Colour Theorem is the hypothesis that the maximum number of colours needed to fill the map is four.
It's the kind of problem that, for a mathematician, has the smell of simplicity and elegance about it. You just know that somebody somewhere will have come up with an elegant method that makes the answer apparent.
Except they haven't. In place of an elegant proof is a monstrous machine created by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken, both mathematicians at the University of Illinois, who cracked the problem in 1976. But instead of insight and panache, they used force.
Appel and Haken first worked out that they could reduce the number of possible maps from infinity to just 1,936. They then checked each one against the theory. The task turned out to be so intensive that they needed a computer to do it. Even then, it took hundreds of hours. In a sense, they squeezed the life out of the problem until it gave up its answer, a method known as brute force.
Many mathematicians were deeply unsettled by this result because it offered no new insight into the problem, it could not be checked by a human and above all it offended their aesthetic sense. It was ugly.
Twenty years later, Neil Robertson, Daniel Sanders, Paul Seymour and Robin Thomas produced another proof that whittled down the number of maps to 633, which they then checked on a computer. The piece above shows them all. They are reproduced with the kind permission of Robin Thomas.
The search for an elegant proof of the Four Colour Theorem is ongoing. And while computer-aided proofs have begun to gain acceptance, largely thanks to the Four Colour Theorem, there remains the feeling that beauty, elegance and insight should triumph over the horror of a computer-generated proof.
then we walk all the way to far east. it was like so hilarious during the journey. we kept on trying to snap the shot of abigail and darren together. ginnie manage to snap a nice shot anyway. hahas
the atmoshere was like so tense up when we reached far east.zhikang joined us from there.okay, nothing much to say hence skip. then we went to have our dinner at pastamania. kept on shotting abigail and snapping, hoping to get some 经典照片 but it doens't seems to be the case.
played truth or dare afterwards. it's more like truth or truth. only darren did a dare. it's funny during the questioning. get to know them more XDDDDD
went to kino. hahas, i brought 霹雳mit 小说 && 写真, actually i wanted to but another storybook, but i din't bring enough. so sad T.T but kino is really a heaven XDD hahas.
went back home by MRT. alaine left first to meet her parents. began my parparizze carrer -- snapping ginnie ! cause she kept on taking ugly photo of us. but she's too fast for me to snap. but manage to take a few through joscelin's phone XDD
okay, i'm lazy to transfer the photo from my phone to the computer. thus, photo will be updated when i'm free XDD
bye X)
ps. there's something wrong with the posting. it will show 2 post. just ignore the second one :)
met abigail debbie huixuan joscelin and kiansiang at lot one (alaine and darren were behind the bread shop. called wangs if i'm not wrong to surprise kiansiang) celebrating ks belated birthday. we ate the cake with chopstick. LOL cool right? XDDD
after that we broad the bus 190 to plaza singapura. we met ginnie there and were almost late for the movie
suspect X
The body of a male has been discovered, strangled to death, his face pulverized beyond recognition and fingers burned to a crisp. Assigned to the case are local precinct detective, Kaoru Utsumi, and her ex"colleague from headquarters, Shunpei Kusanagi. It turns out that the neighbor of the victim's ex"wife is a college alumnus of brilliant physicist, Manabu Yukawa, aka “Detective Galileo."He is Tetsuya Ishigami, a high school math teacher whom Yukawa personally considers a true genius. When Yukawa is brought onto help with the case by Utsumi, he begins to suspect that this “true genius"and a with whom Yukawa shares a bond of friendship as an intellectual equal is somehow connected to the murder. Elaborate bluffs, false testimonials, loopholes in logic − all begin to appear in Detective Galileo's way as if intentionally placed as a challenge by someone with mathematical brilliance.
it's nice. but i still prefer the television version. there's more formula. XDD
but for this show, i went to look out for the four colour theorem
four colour theorem
In Greek mythology, the Sirens were sisters whose song lured sailors to their deaths on a treacherous reef. The Four Colour Theorem is to mathematicians what the song of the Sirens was to the sailors of ancient times. Many a mathematician has foundered in attempting its proof .
The problem is deceptively simple. Take a map of the world, a few coloured pens and start colouring in the countries. There's one rule--adjacent countries cannot be the same colour. The Four Colour Theorem is the hypothesis that the maximum number of colours needed to fill the map is four.
It's the kind of problem that, for a mathematician, has the smell of simplicity and elegance about it. You just know that somebody somewhere will have come up with an elegant method that makes the answer apparent.
Except they haven't. In place of an elegant proof is a monstrous machine created by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken, both mathematicians at the University of Illinois, who cracked the problem in 1976. But instead of insight and panache, they used force.
Appel and Haken first worked out that they could reduce the number of possible maps from infinity to just 1,936. They then checked each one against the theory. The task turned out to be so intensive that they needed a computer to do it. Even then, it took hundreds of hours. In a sense, they squeezed the life out of the problem until it gave up its answer, a method known as brute force.
Many mathematicians were deeply unsettled by this result because it offered no new insight into the problem, it could not be checked by a human and above all it offended their aesthetic sense. It was ugly.
Twenty years later, Neil Robertson, Daniel Sanders, Paul Seymour and Robin Thomas produced another proof that whittled down the number of maps to 633, which they then checked on a computer. The piece above shows them all. They are reproduced with the kind permission of Robin Thomas.
The search for an elegant proof of the Four Colour Theorem is ongoing. And while computer-aided proofs have begun to gain acceptance, largely thanks to the Four Colour Theorem, there remains the feeling that beauty, elegance and insight should triumph over the horror of a computer-generated proof.
then we walk all the way to far east. it was like so hilarious during the journey. we kept on trying to snap the shot of abigail and darren together. ginnie manage to snap a nice shot anyway. hahas
the atmoshere was like so tense up when we reached far east.zhikang joined us from there.okay, nothing much to say hence skip. then we went to have our dinner at pastamania. kept on shotting abigail and snapping, hoping to get some 经典照片 but it doens't seems to be the case.
played truth or dare afterwards. it's more like truth or truth. only darren did a dare. it's funny during the questioning. get to know them more XDDDDD
went to kino. hahas, i brought 霹雳mit 小说 && 写真, actually i wanted to but another storybook, but i din't bring enough. so sad T.T but kino is really a heaven XDD hahas.
went back home by MRT. alaine left first to meet her parents. began my parparizze carrer -- snapping ginnie ! cause she kept on taking ugly photo of us. but she's too fast for me to snap. but manage to take a few through joscelin's phone XDD
okay, i'm lazy to transfer the photo from my phone to the computer. thus, photo will be updated when i'm free XDD
bye X)
ps. there's something wrong with the posting. it will show 2 post. just ignore the second one :)
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get a haircut
A trip to taiwan
