Frasi di Ingrid Daubechies

Baronessa Ingrid Daubechies è una matematica e fisica belga, conosciuta per il suo lavoro sulle wavelets nella compressione delle immagini. È stata la prima donna presidente dell'Unione Matematica Internazionale e la prima donna a ricevere il Premio Wolf per la matematica. Wikipedia

✵ 17. Agosto 1954

Ingrid Daubechies: Frasi in inglese

“Mathematicians have various ways of judging the merits of new theorems and constructions. One very important criterion is esthetic — some developments just “feel” right, fitting, and beautiful. Just as in other venues where beauty or esthetics are discussed, taste plays an important role in this, but I think I am not alone in being especially excited when apparently different fields suddenly meet in a new concept, a new understanding. It is often of the sparks of such encounters that our esthetic enjoyment of mathematics is born.
Another important criterion for according merit to some particular piece of mathematics is the extent to which it can be useful in applications; this is the criterion almost exclusively used by nonmathematicians.”

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Ingrid Daubechies

(1995) Wavelets and Other Phase Space Localization Methods. In: Chatterji, S.D. (ed.). Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Basel. [10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_8]