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「The Cosmic Distance Ladder (version 4.1)」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

This week I once again gave some public lectures on the cosmic distance ladder in astronomy, once at Stanford and once at UCLA . The slides I used were similar to the “ version 3.0 ” slides I used for the same talk last year in Australia and elsewhere, but the images have been updated (and the permissions for copyrighted images secured), and some additional data has also been placed on them. I am placing these slides here on this blog, in Powerpoint format and also in PDF for

These slides have evolved over a period of almost five years, particularly with regards to the imagery, but this is likely to be close to the final version. Here are some of the older iterations of the slides:

已知结果和反例

I have found that working on and polishing a single public lecture over a period of several years has been very rewarding and educational, especially given that I had very little public speaking experience at the beginning; there are several other mathematicians I know of who are also putting some effort into giving good talks that communicate mathematics and science to the general public, but I think there could potentially be many more such talks like this.

A note regarding copyright: I am happy to have the text or layout of these slides used as the basis for other presentations, so long as the source is acknowledged. However, some of the images in these slides are copyrighted by others, and permission by the copyright holders was granted only for the display of the slides in their current format. (The list of such images is given at the end of the slides.) So if you wish to adapt the slides for your own purposes, you may need t

证明或构造的主线

( Update , October 11: Version 4.2 uploaded, and notice on copyright added.)

( Update , October 20: Some photos from the UCLA talk are available here .)

阅读时建议盯住的点

(Update, October 25: Video from the talk is available on Youtube and on Itunes .)

值得单独记下的条目

• ( Version 1.0, 2006 ) A text-based version of the slides, together with accompanying figures .
• ( Version 2.0, 2007 ) First conversion to Powerpoint format.
• ( Version 3.0, 2009 ) Second conversion to Powerpoint format, with completely new imagery and a slightly different arrangement.
• ( Version 4.0, 2010 ) Images updated from the previous version, with copyright permissions secured.
• ( Version 4.1, 2010 ) The version used for the UCLA talk, with some additional data and calculations added.
• ( Version 4.2, 2010 ) A slightly edited version, incorporating some corrections and feedback.
• ( Version 4.3, 2017 ) Some further corrections.

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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