Yuan Miao - Miscellanea

Resources

First ever paper on "star-triangle relation" by A. E. Kennelly in 1899
Ludwig Faddeev's Les Houches lecture "How Algebraic Bethe Ansatz works for integrable model"
John Cardy's Les Houches lecture "Conformal Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics"
Greg Kuperberg's brilliant proof of the alternating sign matrix conjecutre
Lectures "A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Free-Fermion Solvability" by Adrian Chapman: Lecture I , Lecture II
"Remembering Hans Bethe" (a precious collection of interviews with Hans Bethe)
An inspiring biography of Lars Onsager
The autobiography of Rodney J. Baxter

My Erdős number is 5: Paul Erdős → Daniel Kleitman → Elliott Lieb → Ian Affleck → Vincent Pasquier → Y.M.

My Einstein number is 5: Albert Einstein → Peter Bergmann → Joel Lebowitz → Bernard Derrida → Vincent Pasquier → Y.M.

Quotes

"The great tragedy of Science [is] the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by a [experimental] fact." ---- T.H. Huxley, Biogenesis and abiogenesis, (1884)
"With this wild beginning, I hope to have convinced the reader that whereas there may be nothing practical about the subsequent calculation, I find it meaningful in a happily nebulous, philosophic sense." ---- Elihu Lubkin, J. Math. Phys. 19, 1028 (1978)
"Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: `I will give you this powerful machine, it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul: give up geometry and you will have this marvellous machine.'" ---- Michael Atiyah
La superficialità mi inquieta ma il profondo mi uccide. ---- Alda Merini