The incredible story of the silent pianist gives me an excellent starting point to dissect some of the themes in my mind for quite some time.
On the "Piano Man" the most accredited hypothesis are two: the most likely course is one that provides a simulation, a performance by this young man seeking asylum and publicity un'escamotage to be talked about Etcetera Etcetera.
The most romantic, from which I take as of now, the distances (but for which, of course I'm a fan) is that which makes us more returns to mind the images of Shine and otherwise assumed to autism the boy's capable of expressing only playing the piano, indirect vehicle of communication deep, noble and poetic at the same time. The
I take from this perspective because they always fascinate me and motivate the challenges met by men not on par with their fellows, maybe people afflicted by trauma of various kinds (cultural, physical, psychological) which would find a way to .. . ... hum smelled minefield. Reread and I say, but what the hell you going to bog down the talks to draw isomorphisms? So much was clear from the beginning that you wanted to talk about math, Idiot Savant and the like, idiot that you are nothing, so avoid climbing mirror and stick with topics you care about most. With brains, ah and sorry ...
THE IDIOT Savants
The band: 'The Idiot Savant were highly experimental improvisation, playing toy instruments, wind instruments and electronics.'. assume that they are hippies. Maybe good. I was not referring to them. Medical science defines
Idiot Savant that particular case studies of people, very common among the autistic, in a manner that has the innate ability to perform mentally and with astonishing speed mathematical calculations, or almost impossible without the help of a calculator or paper and pen , ink and lots of patience. Want to know what day of the week happen to your centoquindicimillesimo birthday? Ask them and in no time you'll get the right answer. Without disturbing
Rain Man, the example par excellence gives us the Johann Dase that Martin was not autistic.
lived in the first half of the 800 and used by several European nations to make mathematical calculations of a scientific nature, Mr. Dase had a peculiar trademark: multiply two numbers in mind of 100 digits each greek or calculate pi to the two hundredth decimal approximation .
Gauss (with whom he worked, inter alia, Dase) or Euler enjoyed as children of such amazing capabilities that grow with stabilized and returned to "the base" but this normalization did not prevent them from becoming great mathematicians and to suggest guidelines in the field of number theory (Euler function Φ (n) "know" how many prime numbers less than n there) or likelihood (the famous Gaussian distribution).
Here, Dase but did not discover their own shit. E 'is why I like him. He was an idiot savant.
In Italy, again in the late '800, are having the same capacity in a humble farmer Sicilian Vito Mangiamele. Before the Committee of the Academy of Sciences in Paris calculated in 30 seconds, the cube root of 3'796'416. And then he returned to pasture ...
SRININVASA Ramanujan
In my imaginative representation Ramanujan plays the role of link between the idiot savants and professional mathematicians.
I do not want this to detract from its assumptions and its results (which of course makes him one of the most striking figures in the history of this discipline) yet I consider it one of the key examples of how to approach and experience mathematics in perspective " different and compelling (which is the purpose of this post, along with that self-encouragement that helps me to deal with matters which have shrunk to a life and now I'm studying).
For Herod, a village in southern India, the India of caste and of English domination, was born in 1887 Srininvasa Ramanujan. Normal childhood, it normally defined the poverty of the age classes, and regular course of study in accordance with the results. Avoid mathematics seen as a serious study and specialization until, even a teenager, he happens to old hands a form known as "A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, George Carr.
This was the match of his life, not a woman but a book (and there clearly is a crap).
Sbrocca literally and with his slate begins to find results or rewrite theorems that were present in the form obsolete. Such dedication meant that he was repeatedly rejected at school and made him unable to access the expertise that could easily obtained in the form of scholarship for college.
compared to the first results it was truly exceptional and imaginative approach to his impetuous but methodical approach denoting an extreme sensitivity and an almost childish toys that represented by mathematics. In the book dedicated to him
"The man who saw the endless" is said that the young Srininvasa after becoming aware that some individually individ trigonometry he had already been discovered about two centuries before nientepopodimenochè cited by Euler, to say little annoyed tore his notebooks and hid the remains in the attic of the house.
luck (or misfortune) would have it, some of his correspondence were taken into account by the English mathematician Ramanujan GHHardy which a desperately unhappy and had addressed letters. A stone thrown into a pond.
Srininvasa In 1913 he went to England at the invitation of Hardy and he began an intense working relationship. Its activities, as Hardy says, was never linear, but often intuitive: he often enunciated a result of X who claimed to come directly from dreams or divine inspiration. And the glue that corroborates that report was that these results were often WRONG!: Its fallibility strengthen these results, rather than discrediting them.
Srininvasa then dies. At only 33 years for a serious form of tuberculosis. I think I
briefly summed up the concept. I will be even shorter (really) for conclusions.
This gentleman supports a theory rather encouraging (at least for me that I always take everything in a rather serious). He states that "the extraordinary power of these people, in fact, are present in all of us. The perception of stimuli through the senses in the form of individual information, which are processed by our brains to be a concept, an idea. After few months after the birth of our cerebral cortex begins to function and to develop the stresses of the outside world is through this mechanism that we begin to learn.
This coordination is absent in autistic children is very slow and always incomplete. Individual messages are perceived in isolation, that these people focus their attention on one aspect of the experience without being able to grasp it in its entirety, just grab the details, perhaps imperceptible to others, as if a photograph could see only the pixels or the individual notes of a song. Normal subjects operate on an unconscious level, more or less rapidly, the same subtle breakdown of the stimuli, but their brains have learned to integrate the various data collected from the outside, because individually they would not make any sense: they have no meaning isolated notes if not listening to the melody composing.
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I just have to throw all the books, so I'm a genius.
