I finished my Cand.Scient. (M.Sc.) degree in mathematical modelling and image analysis at the interventional centre at Rikshospitalet, Oslo August 2003.
* -> Foreign education (Uppsala
University, Sweden)
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Some citations and poetry
One persons constant is another persons variable.
--Susan Gerhart--
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand
years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann
hypothesis been proven?
--David Hilbert--
If you don't read poetry,
how the hell can you solve equations?
--Harvey Jackins--
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts
for support rather than illumination.
--Andrew Lang--
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
C++ makes it harder,
but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
--Bjarne Stroustrup--
Som när ett fattigt barn med en varm kopparslant smälter
ett litet hål i isen på den rimfrusna rutan och genom hålet
ser ut från det kalla och trånga rummet mot stadens oräkneliga
ljus, så ser jag i vinterkvällen mot den stad med millioner hem
som kallas världsalltet.
--Verner von Heidenstam--
For we were young, and we
knew that we could never die.
--Thomas Wolfe--
Clearly the naked ape is the sexiest primate alive
--Desmond Morris--
A lie gets halfway around the world
before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
--Sir Winston Churchill--
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstein--
Love is like Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle,
if you really love someone deeply,
you must forget a little about the rest of your life,
and if you look to close at the complement of your love,
then the love becomes uncertain.
--Daniel Bengtsson--
The use of COBOL cripples the mind;
its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
--Edsgar Dijkstra--
The only difference between me and a madman
is that I'm not mad.
--Salvador Dali--
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
--Paul Erdos--
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
--Steven Wright--
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
--Carl Sagan--
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use?
Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
--Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing--
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself.
I have nothing else to learn.
--Pablo Picasso--
---- Satan is a mathematician ----
The tattoo demon laughed.
"I shall inscribe you with pi
a pi whose digits are fractal glyphs
of transcendental agony, whose serifs
are inflourescent with infinities.
And I shall render it with all
the panache of a pointillist
creating continua from the discrete.
But where to begin? The umbilicus
or the anus? The alpha or the omega?"
"Hey, wait a minute!" cried
the mathematician, and the demon
raised an eyebrow. "Pi's an irrational number
with a nonrepeating decimal.
Such a task would take an eternity!"
"Imagine that," said the demon,
and smiling smugly, it poised a talon
tapering a single atom, plucked lint
from the navel of it flinching victim.
Playing his last card, the mathematician
rose up on his elbow. "Have you really
thought about this? When the flesh
of one man emblazoned subsumes the infinite,
you will have modeled God from numbers
and I will destroy you!"
The other eyebrow twitched. "Well then,
I shall adorn you with the closest
rational approximation of pi."
"Shit!" said the mathematician.
"As you whish," replied the demon,
and began with the anus.
--Keith Allen Daniels--
Last update at Sun Nov 16 03:20:20 2003 CET (GMT+1 or UTC+1)
