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经济作家提姆·哈福德研究复杂的系统，他在成功的事例中发现了意想不到的链接：它们都经历了试验和不断排除错误的过程。 在这个精彩的TEDGlobal 2011 演讲中，他呼吁我们接纳随机性并开始学会犯些有益的错误。
v. & n. 推测，臆测
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- And you sometimes need to be shocked out of that.
- 而有的时候我们需要把这种感觉抖掉。
- Now I'm not going to pretend that this is easy. It isn't easy. It's incredibly painful.
- 现在我不想假装这是件容易的事情。这并不容易。这会是个痛苦的过程。
- And since I started talking about this subject and researching this subject,
- 自从我开始谈论这个话题，研究这个话题，
- I've been really haunted by something a Japanese mathematician said on the subject.
- 我的脑海里一直萦绕着，一个日本数学家在这个话题上说过的话。
- So shortly after the war, this young man, Yutaka Taniyama,
- 战争一结束，这个年轻人，谷山丰，
- developed this amazing conjecture called the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture.
- 提出了惊人的推测，称作“谷山-志村猜想”。
- It turned out to be absolutely instrumental many decades later in proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- 结果为几十年后证明费马大定理，奠定了基础。
- In fact, it turns out it's equivalent to proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- 事实上，它和费马大定理是等效的。
- You prove one, you prove the other. But it was always a conjecture.
- 你证明了一个，就证明了另一个。但是它只是一个猜想。
- Taniyama tried and tried and tried and he could never prove that it was true.
- 谷山丰试了一遍又一遍，但是他无法证明它就是正确的。
- And shortly before his 30th birthday in 1958, Yutaka Taniyama killed himself.
- 1958年的他，刚刚过了30岁生日，谷山丰结束了自己的生命。
- His friend, Goro Shimura -- who worked on the mathematics with him -- many decades later, reflected on Taniyama's life.
- 他的朋友，和他一起研究数学的志村五郎——几十年后回顾谷山丰的生平时，
- He said, "He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes.
- 他说：“他不是一个很仔细的人，作为一个数学家，他犯了很多错误。”
- But he made mistakes in a good direction. I tried to emulate him,
- 但是他能朝好的方向犯错。我想效仿他，
- but I realized it is very difficult to make good mistakes." Thank you.
- 但是我发现能朝好的方向犯错，很难。”谢谢。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| conjecture | [kən'dʒektʃə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| pretend | [pri'tend] | 联想记忆 | ||
| emulate | ['emjuleit] | 联想记忆 | ||
| absolutely | ['æbsəlu:tli] | |||
| equivalent | [i'kwivələnt] | 联想记忆 | ||
| instrumental | [.instru'mentl] | 联想记忆 |
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