Professor Vitali Milman Department of Mathematics University of Tel Aviv Schreiber Building, Room 334 Tel: +972 (0)3 640 9602 Fax: +972 (0)3 642 7187 Email: milman@post.tau.ac.il |
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Stories in Russian and English before December 2020 about (my) life, art,
consciousness and animals available at this link.
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Past The
Stage of Curiosity (Painted by Jan Rauchwerger) |
Present The Stage of Thinking (Painted by Jan Rauchwerger; 1989) |
Future The Stage of Understanding
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"There are several stages in the development of human knowledge, which are repeated in all small (and even smaller) components, in the directions we discover, in problems and questions we ask and try to solve. First, we are just curious . At this stage we ask natural questions (which are not necessary "good" questions). However, these ``natural" questions force us to start to think about the subject; they slowly prepare us for the next stage. We then begin to think about the subject and our questions become much less ``natural", they become deeper and less predictable, and the answers we accumulate begin to piece together a puzzle. But the picture is not yet complete. The next stage is understanding , and later on there is knowing . Only at the end, do we finally possess our knowledge: we may use it, we may apply it, but, in fact, more than that, we possess it."
The pictures above represent: The Past: "a la" (typical) Fayum portrait (which shows a person from about 2.000 years ago). The Present: a (hopefully typical) modern person. As in almost any portrait of the last 500 years, we clearly recognize "the stage of thinking", and not just "curiousity". The Future: this is the only portrait I found (of course, of Leonardo) which reflect not only "thinking" but already an "understanding". It gives us the hope that we are getting "there", to that stage.
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Celebrating 70-th Anniversary of Israel
with 70 Israeli Scientists
On the 70-th Anniversary of Israel, the Milner Global Foundation (partners with Ha'aretz-TheMarker Newspaper and Tel-Aviv University) selected 70 scholars who are/were Israeli citizens who have made groundbreaking contributions in their respective fields. From the citation: "Prof. Vitali Milman played a crucial role in the discovery and development of the concentration of measure phenomenon in Mathematics, and its implications for geometric analysis. He won the Emet Prize in 2007". |
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