Richard Duffin was an American physicist and professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his invaluable contributions to electrical transmission theory and geometric programming. While teaching at Carnegie Mellon, Prof. Duffin met a young student who was very much inclined towards pursuing a career in mathematics. He was a bright fellow who received admission with a full Scholarship. Assessing his talent, Prof. Duffin decided to become his advisor and under his guidance, the boy completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in mathematics at the age of twenty. He wanted to earn his PhD and approached Prof. Duffin to write down a letter of recommendation to Princeton. To his request, the professor obliged and wrote down a letter of recommendation for his application to Princeton. The letter of recommendation was remarkably precise and read just one line, “He is a mathematical genius”. With this recommendation, he was accepted into Princeton with a fellowship and earned his PhD at the age of twenty-two. The ‘mathematical genius’ recommended by Prof. Duffin was the great mathematician John Nash. In 1994, Forty-four years after obtaining his PhD, he received the Nobel Prize in Economics for his remarkable contribution to analysing equilibrium in the field of non-cooperative games, popularly known as the Nash equilibrium. https://medium.com/@geet.amrit1992/the-mathematical-genius-f5e3dce62dc
回复 1楼 qkl 的帖子 推荐者的分量肯定不一般。搬运一封史上最牛推荐者和被推荐者的推荐信： Henri Poincare and Marie Curie to the Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich Herr Einstein is one of the most original minds that we have met. In spite of his youth he already occupies a very honorable position among the foremost savants of his time. What we marvel at him, above all, is the ease with which he adjusts himself to new conceptions and draws all possible deductions from them. He does not cling to classical principles, but sees all conceivable possibilities when he is confronted with a physical problem. In his mind this becomes transformed into an anticipation of new phenomena that may some day be verified in actual experiences…The future will give more and more proofs of the merits of Herr Einstein, and the University that succeeds in attaching him to itself may be certain that will derive honor from its connection with the young master. Herri Poincare Marie Curie
gritanwen 发表于 2024-09-20 12:53 回复 1楼 qkl 的帖子 推荐者的分量肯定不一般。搬运一封史上最牛推荐者和被推荐者的推荐信： Henri Poincare and Marie Curie to the Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich Herr Einstein is one of the most original minds that we have met. In spite of his youth he already occupies a very honorable position among the foremost savants of his time. What we marvel at him, above all, is the ease with which he adjusts himself to new conceptions and draws all possible deductions from them. He does not cling to classical principles, but sees all conceivable possibilities when he is confronted with a physical problem. In his mind this becomes transformed into an anticipation of new phenomena that may some day be verified in actual experiences…The future will give more and more proofs of the merits of Herr Einstein, and the University that succeeds in attaching him to itself may be certain that will derive honor from its connection with the young master. Herri Poincare Marie Curie
没仔细看吧，被推荐者是纳什😂
哈哈有文化好可怕！！
没文化真可怕
我觉得genius和ass hole这两个词出现一般都挺真实的。
他后来转专业是因为冯•诺依曼说，你数学不行，改经济学吧
那他到底是不是天才
哈哈 确实是。不到那个段位的都不敢用。而且这俩还会经常用在同一个人身上
相比之下talented就很水
早慧和天才是两码事
还有比这评价更准确和不虚浮的吗？
想起一个故事。
毕业找工作时，HR问那种特虚的问题 你的朋友怎么形容你的？我想说自己很友好 不想用friendly这么随便的词 刚看过 Miss congeniality 就想形容自己congenial。结果脱口而出genius。那人愣住了看了我两眼没说话。结果没过🤣🤣🤣
熟食，所以华人说什么天才班就是搞笑
这位怕是没看懂信里英文说什么了吧？
有资格用 genius 这个词的 推荐人 也不多呀
因为绝大多数人都够不上让推荐人用这个词，genius都配不上，得是genius里的genius人家才好意思用这个词。
并没有转专业，一直都是数学家。Nash equilibrium的文章也是一篇很短的文章，只是在经济学里面有大应用。 冯诺伊曼只是说这个结果trivial，如果看过这个原文，就知道这个证明在数学上确实trivial，但是价值在于这个定义
这俩词儿完全不挨着啊。
话不在多，而在于谁推荐的，以哪种态度推荐。。
这是Nash啊
推荐人肯定很大程度上都不会认为自己是genius, 你就想这个门槛有多高。。。
的确难，咋们ABC出了那么多竞赛牛娃， 不知道有没有一个O娃被数学家，数学教授赞成genius?
没有的话，说明一点，刷题不管用，到了真正高level math， 需要talent, 不是补习班和刷题，能解决的。
推荐者的分量肯定不一般。搬运一封史上最牛推荐者和被推荐者的推荐信： Henri Poincare and Marie Curie to the Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich Herr Einstein is one of the most original minds that we have met. In spite of his youth he already occupies a very honorable position among the foremost savants of his time. What we marvel at him, above all, is the ease with which he adjusts himself to new conceptions and draws all possible deductions from them. He does not cling to classical principles, but sees all conceivable possibilities when he is confronted with a physical problem. In his mind this becomes transformed into an anticipation of new phenomena that may some day be verified in actual experiences…The future will give more and more proofs of the merits of Herr Einstein, and the University that succeeds in attaching him to itself may be certain that will derive honor from its connection with the young master. Herri Poincare Marie Curie
本来天才就不是刷题刷出来的，刷题改变不了先天的level
两者不相关啊。Genius 当然不是刷题刷出来的。同样，不是所有娃刷题都能刷到O。
科普一下： 小约翰·福布斯·纳什（英语：John Forbes Nash Jr.，1928年6月13日—2015年5月23日），美国数学家，前麻省理工学院摩尔荣誉讲师，主要研究博弈论、微分几何学和偏微分方程。晚年为普林斯顿大学的资深研究数学家。
什么工作要问朋友怎么形容你这种bq问题😂
国内有个很牛的院士给个青年学生写的推荐信也只有一句话， 我觉得他挺牛的，你看着办吧。
然后收到推荐信的那个教授，立马把这个学生招成博士了。
因为这个教授曾经是这个院士的博士。
对天才和蠢材是这样，但绝大部分要推荐信的都是庸庸之辈啊， 不写写也不行
我不得不怀疑这个论坛上真的是北美华人吗？
The founder of Game Theory! One of my favorite subjects at college.
beautiful mind. The pen scene!
每次看都泪目
ta估计不知道谁是Nash
哈哈，这封信词还挺多。最后意思是哪个学校有机会傍上爱因斯坦将来都会名垂千史，🤣
记得这个场景。震撼
idiot.
确定你看懂了？这封推荐信正好没有一个字是人情世故，纯粹陈述事实，而且没有一句废话。
推荐这种级别的人才确实不需要多说什么，就一个字天才就够了。
推荐信这么严肃和有底可查的文件里及至的赞和贬肯定不会是随便说的。关键是如果这两个词同时出现，收到信的人会如何处理？哈哈
没被interview过？这是HR甚至普通interviewer的常用问题。虽然你可以编，但是你的回答里还是能一定程度反应出来你的性格和价值观。
我家老二BFF的爸爸做了GO lang 12年的tech lead，最近刚刚退下来。
我跟老公开玩笑说他要是去找工作，简历是不是写个名字就可以了……