Fermat'nın Son Teoremi'nin ünü, sadece ispatlanmasının zorluğundan gelir. Bir de tabii Amatörler Prensi'nin, kuşaklar boyunca profesyonel matematikçileri uğraştırıp duran bu ispatı yaptığını söylemiş olmasından. Arithmetika'nın sayfalarına rasgele yazdığı notlar, onun dünyaya meydan okuması gibi anlaşılmıştır. O Son Teorem'i ispat etmişti; acaba onun zekâsına ulaşacak başka bir matematikçi daha çıkacak mıydı?
İlginç bir mizah duygusuna sahip olan G.H. Hardy, başka hangi mirasın bu denli huzursuz edici olabileceğini sormuş ve bunu tasarlamaya girişmişti. Düşündüğü şey, deniz yolculuğu korkusunu aşmasına yarayacak bir tür sigorta poliçesiydi. Böyle bir yolculuk yapması gerektiğinde, bir meslektaşına şu telgrafı yollayacaktı:
RIEMANN HİPOTEZİNİ ÇÖZDÜM STOP
AYRINTILARI DÖNÜNCE VERECEĞİM STOP
Riemann hipotezi 19. yüzyıldan beri matematikçilerin başına bela olmuş bir problemdi. Hardy bu durumda Tanrı'nın asla boğulmasına izin vermeyeceğini, çünkü ikinci bir korkunç hayaletin ortaya çıkıp matematikçilerin hayatını karartmasına razı olmayacağını düşünmüştü.
When I feel in that way, I stop talking
What had taken place between Tanaka and me wasn’t a conversation, but an attack.
0-30p: Kontrollü okuyucu 📖
40-70p: Hafif bağımlı 👀
80p+: Geçmiş olsun, kitaplar seni ele geçirmiş 😅
After a wide-ranging study of conditions in the Church of Rome, the commission issued in 1537 a formal report, Advice . . . concerning the Reform of the Church . Disorder in the church, the report said, could be traced directly to the need for reform. The papal office was too secular. Both popes and cardinals needed to give more attention to spiritual matters and stop flirting with the world. Bribery in high places, abuses of indulgences, evasions of church law, prostitution in Rome: these and other offenses must cease.
When the pope countered Henry’s move by excommunicating him, Henry realized that papal authority in England had to be overthrown. The king knew the antipapal sympathies in England were running high. At Cambridge, for example, certain instructors were so taken with Luther that the favorite gathering place, the Inn of the White Horse, was called Little Germany. So the king calculated that he would face little popular opposition so long as he renounced papal authority in England and avoided troublesome doctrinal questions.
Henry moved briskly on a series of fronts. He discovered an old fourteenth-century law prohibiting dealings with foreign powers and used it to insist that the English clergy stop their dealings with the pope. The clergy offered surprisingly little resistance.
A year later, in 1534, the Act of Supremacy declared, “The king’s majesty justly and rightly is and ought to be and shall be reputed the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England called Anglicana Ecclesia .”
Parents don’t make any sense. My dad works to save people, but he can’t even stop smoking. My parents send Joey to rehab, but my mother can’t sleep without a pill.
Bütün kitap beklediğim sayfa :))
“Riley—”
“Nathan—”
We both stop and laugh. Omg, this is awkward. I have to get the words out now before they’re lodged in my throat forever.
“I’m totally crazy about you,” I blurt out, and lean back to gauge his expression. His eyes crinkle at the corners and he doesn’t try to stop me, so I push on. “I have been for…I don’t even know how long. You’re going to homecoming with Sophia, and I don’t know what that means for us, but I need you to know that I’m out of my mind over you.”
The last sentence comes out in a rush and I swallow hard, my nerves about to snap and unravel.
Nathan cocks his head. “You stole my speech. I’m out of my mind over you.”
