今天我的邮箱里收到几十封同事们发来的邮件,讨论的是同一件事,那就是萨斯卡切万大学(University of Saskatchewan)大学将一位任职多年的院长开除了。开除的原因据说是该院长与校方领导不合作并公开发表反对意见。此事,连加拿大国家电视台CBC都报道了。详细情况见 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/prof-robe ...
G. H. Hardy (1940), A Mathematician's Apology, 开篇第一段话是这样写的: It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and ...