继续

又是“紧急授课”！
今日又一次完成紧急授课的任务！
“这家伙什么时候才能够退烧？”我在完成任务回来的路上思考着。

代课

查信时不小心被秘书撞到，于是，我只好去替人代课去了。
这学期的“紧急教课”的任务，没想到这么快就要开始执行了。

报案

在从西拉菲特市政厅取得了公证和向西拉菲特警察局报告了信用卡被盗用的事件之后，我又回到了家。
家，甜的家！

周末

这个周末其实有点儿闲，打球看球踢球吃比萨睡觉和完成了一篇评论报告。

行星

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.

冥王星，就这样下台了。

篮球

中国男篮凭借王仕鹏压哨3分以78:77战胜斯洛文尼亚神奇杀进世锦赛16强。

帆船

今日一早，收到瓦列里发来的上次帆船运动的照片若干。

菲奖

——纽约时报文摘

Highest Honor in Mathematics Is Refused
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Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematician who solved a key piece in a century-old puzzle known as the Poincaré conjecture, was one of four mathematicians awarded the Fields Medal today.

But Dr. Perelman refused to accept the medal, as he has other honors, and he did not attend the ceremonies at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid.

Sir John Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, which is holding the conference, told The Associated Press that he did not think Dr. Perelman’s decision to turn down the award was intended as a snub. “I am sure he did not mean it that way,” he said.

The Fields Medal, often described as mathematics’ equivalent to the Nobel Prize, is given every four years, and several can be awarded at once. Three other professors of mathematics were awarded Fields Medals this year: Andrei Okounkov of Princeton; Terence Tao of University of California, Los Angeles; and Wendelin Werner of the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay.

Dr. Perelman, 40, is known not only for his work on the Poincaré conjecture, among the most heralded unsolved math problems, but also because he has declined previous mathematical prizes and has turned down job offers from Princeton, Stanford and other universities. He has said he wants no part of $1 million that the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass. has offered for the first published proof of the conjecture.

Beginning in 2002, Dr. Perelman, then at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, published a series of papers on the Internet and gave lectures at several American universities describing how he had overcome a roadblock in the proof of the Poincaré conjecture.

The conjecture, devised by Henri Poincaré in 1904, essentially says that the only shape that has no holes and fits within a finite space is a sphere. That is certainly true looking at two-dimensional surfaces in the everyday three-dimensional world, but the conjecture says the same is true for three-dimensional surfaces embedded in four dimensions.

Dr. Perelman solved a difficult problem that other mathematicians had encountered when trying to prove the conjecture, using a technique called Ricci flow that smoothes out bumps in a surface and transforms it into a simpler form.

Dr. Okounkov, born in 1969 in Moscow, was recognized for work that tied together different fields of mathematics that had seemed unrelated. “This is the striking feature of Okounkovs’s work, finding unexpected links,” said Enrico Arbarello, a professor of geometry at the University of Rome in Italy.

Dr. Okounkov’s work has found use in describing the changing surfaces of melting crystals. The boundary between melted and non-melted is created randomly, but the random process inevitably produces a border in the shape of a heart.

Dr. Tao, a native of Australia and one of the youngest Fields Medal winners ever at age 31, has worked in several different fields, producing significant advances in the understanding of prime numbers, techniques that might lead to simplifying the equations of Einstein’s theory of general relativity and the equations of quantum mechanics that describe how light bounces around in a fiber optic cable.

Dr. Werner, born in Germany in 1968, has also worked at the intersection of mathematics and physics, describing phenomena like percolation and shapes produced by the random paths of Brownian motion.

The medal was conceived by John Charles Fields, a Canadian mathematician, “in recognition of work already done and as an encouragement for further achievements on the part of the recipient.”

Since 1936, when the medal was first awarded, judges have interpreted the terms of Dr. Fields’s trust fund to mean that the award should usually be limited to mathematicians 40 years old or younger.

上课

今日早起，8：45赶到九点要上的课的教室，发现被取消了。

现场

在回家的路上，途径早上事故现场。
遂摆拍，试图还原那惊心一幕。

事故

今日骑车上学，历时22分钟。
期间出了一次自开始骑车上学这项活动以来最大的事故：我在由Trail进入非Trail地带时，被台阶绊倒，从车上甩了出来。
“看来以后要小心了！”我看着胳膊和腿上的伤痕，意犹未尽的想。