陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「2006 ICM: Étienne Ghys, “Knots and dynamics”」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

Almost a year ago today, I was in Madrid attending the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). One of the many highlights of an ICM meeting are the plenary talks , which offer an excellent opportunity to hear about current developments in mathematics from leaders in various fields, aimed at a general mathematical audience. All the speakers sweat quite a lot over preparing these high-profile talks; for instance, I rewrote the slides for my own talk from scratch af

I didn’t write about these talks at the time, since my blog had not started then (and also, things were rather hectic for me in Madrid). During the congress, these talks were webcast live , but the video for these talks no longer seems to be available on-line.

已知结果和反例

A couple weeks ago, though, I received the first volume of the ICM proceedings, which is the one which among other things contains the articles contributed by the plenary speakers (the other two volumes were available at the congress itself). On reading through this volume, I discovered a pleasant surprise – the publishers had included a CD-ROM on the back page which had all the video and slides of the plenary talks, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies! This was a v

Of course, I won’t be able to put the data on that CD-ROM on-line, for both technical and legal reasons; but 一个常见想法是 I would discuss a particularly beautiful plenary lecture given by Étienne Ghys on “ Knots and dynamics “. His talk was not only very clear and fascinating, but he also made a superb use of the computer, in particular using well-timed videos and images (developed in collaboration with Jos Leys ) to illustrate key ideas and concepts very effectively. (The video o

证明或构造的主线

The slides for Étienne’s talk can be found here , although, being in PDF format, they only have stills rather than full animations. Some of the animations though can be found on this page . (Étienne’s article for the proceedings can be found here , though like the contributions of most other plenary speakers, the print article is more detailed and technical than the talk.) I of course cannot replicate Étienne’s remarkable lecture style, but I can at least present the beautifu

The main theme of Étienne’s talk was how the topology of a continuous dynamical system (i.e. a vector field on a manifold) could be profitably understood from the perspective of knot theory; in particular, it was useful to think of the vector field which determines the dynamics as being like the tangent field for an infinitely long knot. This philosophy lets one build and understand several important topological or differential invariants of such dynamical systems, such as he

阅读时建议盯住的点

Étienne began by recalling the paradigmatic example of a strange attractor from chaos theory, namely the Lorenz attractor discovered in 1963. Here is a picture of this attractor from Wikipedia:

This attractor (also known, for obvious reasons, as the Lorenz butterfly ) arises from a fairly simple dynamical system in , namely the Lorenz equations, originally introduced as a simplified model for convection in the atmosphere. Here is what these equations look like, for a typical choice of parameters:

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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