Sun Tzu

Person · Open Library

Born

6th cent. B.C.

Works

313

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Active from

1999

Active to

2013

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

8,532

Total plays

77,983

The legend goes that Sun Tzu was born into minor nobility in what is now Shandong, a part of China north of Shanghai that became famous for Confucius and the really tasty Shandong Chicken. Born "Sun Wu", he was given a good education and like Machiavelli, he wrote a military treatise in order to get noticed and hired by royalty. Unlike Machiavelli, it worked. Sun Wu expanded his 13 chapter Art of War into 82 chapters and trained the army. Eventually he broke the peace by invading the souther

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition

   · 2016 · cited 165,565x

2. Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks

   · 2017 · cited 33,146x

3. Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks

   · 2018 · cited 26,944x

4. Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes

   · 1989 · cited 15,614x

5. Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification

   · 2015 · cited 12,944x

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Quotes

• “兵者，詭道也。故能而示之不能，用而示之不用，近而示之遠，遠而示之近，”
• “實而備之，強而避之，怒而撓之，卑而驕之，佚而勞之，親而離之，出其不意，攻其不備。”
• “夫未戰而廟算勝者，得算多也；未戰而廟算不勝者，得算少也。”
• “將聽吾計，用之必勝，留之；將不聽吾計，用之必敗，去之；”
• “知彼知己，百戰不殆；不知彼而知己，一勝一負；不知彼，不知己，每戰必殆”
• “故用兵之法，十則圍之，五則攻之，倍則分之， 敵則能戰之，少則能守之，不若則能避之。”

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