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George,Y

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Registered: 2006-03-12

Posts: 1,379

Hi, everybody!

I am a guy curious on almost anything. That's why my first exp here is asking a derivation of 1²+2²+...+n²= n(n+1)(2n+1)/6. I like to ask "why"s and origins, especially in mystical math ones.

I am a Chinese and in my 4th year in university. I guess you gals and guys only know two universities in China, Qinghua and Peking(Beijing)University. Mine is the one perhaps many of you haven't heard of - People's University.  (i was very glad to see it on Herald Tribune once) It's a University focused on Economic, Social and Humanity fields. So my college math isn't very good, though i digged some questions and origins very deep.

Glad meeting all you people!

Oh, my last name is Yan, and my English name is George.

Question shooting:

Q:How do you manage to write English so long?
A:1 I am practicing on it 2 Google is my best teacher!
Q:How do you get those Calculus books?
A:There are some big libraries near my home, and a bookstore for cheap used US textbooks in Qinghua.
Q:Why did you post on US time 8pm
A:I feel a little bit lonely when posting in US mornings. But now i've found many of you are in Europe, so whatever, i decide to post in my evenings instead of at noons.

Last edited by George,Y (2006-03-20 01:00:10)

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Ninja 101

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Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 936

Re: Hi, everybody!

yo, man! nice to meet ya.

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George,Y

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Registered: 2006-03-12

Posts: 1,379

Re: Hi, everybody!

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Ninja 101

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Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 936

Re: Hi, everybody!

yes
wilkommen!
ich sprechen Deutsch und ich bin ein Ninja

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Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being saught. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 46,245

Re: Hi, everybody!

George Y,

Your posts have all been very good. Keep up the good work. Do drop in as often as you can.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

sweetangel786

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Registered: 2006-03-18

Posts: 20

Re: Hi, everybody!

hello george.. nice meeting u..

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practise makes people perfect, but nobody's perfect so why practise...

MathsIsFun

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Registered: 2005-01-21

Posts: 7,711

Re: Hi, everybody!

Hi George, and welcome!

We also have members fairly close to your time zone such as Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. But some people post early in them morning, during the day or late at night, so it gets very confusing

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"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

Ninja 101

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Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 936

Re: Hi, everybody!

Ya! George bist sehr gut an der computer
(yes! George is very good on the computer) by the way.

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Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being saught. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

George,Y

Member

Registered: 2006-03-12

Posts: 1,379

Re: Hi, everybody!

Thanks for your warm welcome

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justlookingforthemoment

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Registered: 2005-05-26

Posts: 2,161

Re: Hi, everybody!

Welcome George. Your posts are interesting!

To Ninja: Do you learn German? Isn't it ja? And George ist sehr gut...

Ninja 101

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Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 936

Re: Hi, everybody!

yes i spelt it wrong. curses.

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Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being saught. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

George,Y

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Registered: 2006-03-12

Posts: 1,379

Re: Hi, everybody!

Hello guys, I am now in Waltham, a place near Boston, persuing my expensive but good  Master's of degree in Finance as an international student.

My school does teach a lot of maths, but they don't tell the whole thing, they just tell how to do this, how to do that, what is this, what is that thing because I am in a Finance Grad Program rather than anything else.

My course work is thus simple in a way, but boring in another perspective. -Hope you have great fun "wasting" your time in adventuring maths when you are still so young at undergraduate or below that, without urgent need for career preparation.

BTW: Does anyone know whether there is a good physics-maths journal or logic-maths journal in the Greater Boston Area? Many thanks in advance.

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