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「Upgrading old Java applets?」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 post is going to be of a technological nature rather than a mathematical one.

Several years ago (long before the advent of “ Web 2.0 “), I wrote a number of Java applets (in Java 1.0 !) to illustrate various mathematical operations (e.g. Mobius transforms or honeycombs , the latter being a joint project with Allen Knutson ), or to help my undergraduate students self-test their mathematical knowledge (via my multiple choice applet that tested them on several prepared quizzes ). I had generally received quite positive feedback on these (the logic quiz on

已知结果和反例

And now it appears that these applets are slowly becoming incompatible with modern browsers. (IE7 still seems to run these applets well enough, but my version of Firefox no longer does (in fact, I should warn you that it actually freezes up on some of these applets), and only certain versions of Sun Java Virtual Machine seem to run the applets properly.) It also appears that the Java language itself has changed over the years; I have found that the most recent Java compilers

But I would be interested in seeing some version of these applets (or at least the concepts behind these applets) to persist in some more stable and modern form (which presumably would mean using a different language than Java 1.0), as they seem to occupy a niche (viz., interactive demonstrations and testing of higher mathematical concepts) that does not appear to be well represented on the internet today. Given that I have much less time to devote to these things nowadays, I

证明或构造的主线

[Also, any suggestions for relatively quick fixes that would allow these applets to be runnable on most modern browsers without too much recoding on my part would be greatly appreciated.]

阅读时建议盯住的点

先写出对象、假设和失败的例子，再进入证明。没有反例的直觉，很容易把局部技巧当成一般定理。

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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