Tolle et lege

Saint Augustine is crying and in complete turmoil. He throws himself on the grounds and begs for God’s assistance. In a state of weeping, bitter contrition Augustine hears a child’s voice from a nearby house say, in a sing-song way, “Take it and Read it” Augustine, taking it as a sign, opens the nearest book, which was Paul’s letter to the Romans and reads. Says Augustine, “it was as though my heart was filled with a light of confidence and all the shadows of my doubt were swept away.”

Sunday, May 30, 2010

El secreto de las paradojas

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El secreto de las paradojas

via Tito Eliatron Dixit by Tito Eliatron on 5/23/10

Al igual que los buenos trucos, [las paradojas] nos causan tanto asombro que inmediatamente queremos saber cómo se han hecho. Los ilusionistas no revelan jamás cómo hacen lo que hacen, pero los matemáticos no tienen necesidad de guardar el secreto.

Martin Gardner (21/10/1914-22/05/2010)

Esta cita está extraída del prólogo del gran libro Ajá! Paradojas del recientemente fallecido Martin Gardner. No sé vosotros, pero yo estoy plenamente convencido, que el secreto de las paradojas es el propio Martin Gardner, ya que con sus libros y acertijos, ha sabido llevar esta complicada parte de las matemáticas y la lógica, a un plano divulgativo en el que muchos han podido encontrarse. Yo, entre ellos.

Queden estas líneas y este post, como mi humilde homenaje a un GRANDE de las matemáticas.

D.E.P.

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"Stay Young" General MacArthur, 1945

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair, these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

Whether seventy or seventeen there is in every beings heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement of the stars and the starlight things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events and the childlike appetite for what’s next, and the joy and the game of life.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man, and from the infinite, so long you are young.