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长夜中的闪光--丘成桐作于剑桥的一首诗

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长夜中的闪光

作者:丘成桐(2006年于剑桥)译诗:长夜中的闪光


有一次,我站在桥边

漫步湖岸

试图抓住你遥远的目光

那无以伦比的惊艳

 

有一次,我攀登高阁

试图寻找一条通向天际的路

渴望一窥你的秀发[1]

那妙不可言的存在

 

如万仞丝绸一般

你的轻盈不可抑制

月神徜徉而去

她的影子宽广铺开

 

无垠的天空,绵绵不绝的渊流

微波粼粼,无以停息

完全激发了不可探测的深度

我们称之为永恒

 

道路漫长,双眼模糊

为千万根绳索缠住

追求真理,不停辛苦

你确是我梦寐以求的

 

但灵感闪烁,时间轮回

将我们提升于巨人肩上

从欧几里得到笛卡尔,牛顿到高斯

黎曼到庞加莱

 

噢!万物的幽灵

白昼难以猜测

于是突然当光芒暗淡

便显露出她隐藏的形式

 

一次偶然相遇,无比的辉煌

来自经年的天赋

让我们庆祝宇宙的诗篇

及其歌颂的几何

(译者:郑中)

译注:[1]秀发,喻指纤维丛理论。

附录 英文版(摘自丘成桐、斯蒂芬*纳迪思《内空间之形:弦论与宇宙隐卷维度的几何学》)

A FLASH IN THE MIDDLE OF A LONG NIGHT

Shing-Tung YauCambridge, 2006

 

Once I stood on the edge of a bridge,

strolled along the lakeshore,

striving to catch from afar

a glimpse of your matchless beauty.

 

Once I climbed atop a pavilion,

seeking a road at land’s end,

yearning for a vision

of your fair, ineffable presence.

 

Ten thousand yards of silk

your lightness cannot contain.

The moon hovers miles away,

its shadow broad, expansive.

 

The boundless sky, the neverending stream,

waves breaking without surcease.

All excite the unfathomable depth

of which we call eternity.

 

The road is long, the view obscured,

with thousands of threads entangled.

Pursuing the truth, you toil endlessly.

In dreams you’ve surely been there.

 

Yet inspiration has struck, time and again,

lifting us onto the shoulders of giants.

From Euclid to Descartes, Newton to Gauss,

and Riemann to Poincaré.

 

O! The phantom of all things,

So hard to divine in daylight’s glare.

Then suddenly, when the radiance dims,

she reveals a glimpse of her unseen form.

 

A chance encounter, unrivalled splendor,

from genius through the ages.

Let us celebrate the poetry of the universe

and the geometry through which it sings.



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