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Ivar Ekeland

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French mathematician

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  • Le syndrome de la grenouille
  • The cat in numberland
  • Exterior differential calculus and applications to economic Theory
  • Sayilar Diyarindaki Kedi
  • Convex Analysis and Variational Problems

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Quotes

  • The optimist believes that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this might be the case.
  • We do not discover mathematical truths; we remember them from our passages through this world outside our own.
  • The world is full, at every scale, and every scale ignores the higher and lower ones.
  • So every possible reality, once God gives it existence, will reveal its own identity. Its life will unfold slowly, whereas God encompasses it at a single glance.
  • Nowadays, however, we are much more aware of the fact that the best proof in the world is worth no more than its premises: every scientific theory is transitory and provisional, in wait for a better one, and accepted only as long as the experimental results conform to its predictions.
  • It is a testimony to the power of education that classical mechanics could operate for so long under a mistaken conception. Teaching and research concentrated on integrable systems, each feeding the other, until in the end we had no longer the tools nor the interest for studying nonintegrable systems.

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Ivar Ekeland
date of birth
1944-07-02
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