The Little Prince
"What is essential is invisible to the eyes.."
Beloved book by many, both kids and grown-ups alike.
http://littleprince.8m.com
http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Rhodes/1916
FERMAT'S ENIGMA
An account for the Andrew Wiles' work on a solution of Fermat's last theorem, the problem that puzzles mathematicians for more than 300 years.
Simon Singh did a very good job on explaning a difficult topic in a field of number theory to general public.
www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/fermat.shtml
ZERO: The biography of a dangerous idea
"The Babylonains invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. For century, the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it become the most important too in mathematics. Zero follows this number from its birth as an eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe and its apotheosis as the mystery of the black hole. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time, the quest for the theory of everything. Elegant, witty, and enlightening, Zero is a compelling look at the strangest number in the universe - and one of the greatest paradoxes of human thought."
From backcover of the book
Palmer: By doing this, you're willing to give your life, you're willing to die for it. Why?
Ellie: For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something, some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we? if this is a chance to find out even just a little part of that answer... I don't know, I think it's worth a human life, Don't you?
[This movie is based on novel by Carl Sagan. This is only one science friction book he wrote]
Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Leonard Shelby: I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my action still have meaning ... even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there.
[On Red's harmonica playing]
Andy: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget. Forget that there are places in the world that aren't made out of stone. that there's some thing inside that's yours, that they can't touch.
Maximillian Cohen: 11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the languge of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, pattern emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature.
