Algebraic geometers

Wu Wenjun

Wu Wenjun (Chinese: 吴文俊; 12 May 1919 – 7 May 2017), also commonly known as Wu Wen-tsün, was a Chinese mathematician, historian, and writer. He was an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), best known for the Wu's method of characteristic set. (Wikipedia).

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The Story of Chinese Character : 介

介 depicts a man standing between two walls, which has the meaning of ‘between’.

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The Story of Chinese Character :姓

姓 composes of a 女 (woman) and 生 (birth). In the past, when China was matriarchal society, surname was given by mother since everyone was bred by mother only. Although now we inherit the surname from our fathers, 姓 is still used to represent the meaning of surname.

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The Story of Chinese Character : 瓜

瓜 depicts a hanging fruit with vines attached.

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Mistify: Automating DNN Model Porting for On-Device Inference at the Edge

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The Story of Chinese Character : 奶

奶 is composed of 女(woman, female) and 乃(to be, therefore). 乃 is the picture of a rope, which has the meaning of pulling and abundance, milk is produced by female animal, full of nutrition, can feed the children.

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The Story of Chinese Character :及

及 depicts a man being grabbed by a hand, thus generates the meaning of reaching something. 及 is also used as a conjunction which has the meaning of "and".

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The Story of Chinese Character : 玉

玉 depicts a string of jade pendants. After symbolization, 玉 looks the same as 王, so a dot is added to distinguish 玉 from 王, but when 玉 acts as an radical, the dot is omitted.

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The Story of Chinese Character : 女

女 is the picture of a woman, she lays her hands and sits solemnly, listens carefully what her husband says.

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The Story of Chinese Character :壺

壺 depicts a pot with a cover on its top.

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The Story of Chinese Character :壆

壆 is composed of a picture of practising divination and 土(mud). With a view to showing respect, divination is performed on a platform in higher level, and such platform is piled by mud.

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Why Does Trump Get So Much Attention? Totalitarian Techniques | Tim Wu | Big Think

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Clickbait and Virality: The Origin Story | Tim Wu | Big Think

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Advertising Hazards: Your Attention is a Commodity That Can Be Manipulated | Tim Wu | Big Think

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EASTERN PHILOSOPHY: Wu Wei

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A Bird's Eye View of Audubon's Annual Christmas Bird Count (SciFri Live Zoom Call-in)

The Audubon Society's Annual Christmas Bird Count began this season on December 14th! Rewatch our conversation with Geoff LeBaron, Dudley Edmondson and Joanna Wu to discuss this birdwatching tradition, 120 years in the making. We also talk about this year’s bird sightings, advice for wint

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The Story of Chinese Character : 艱

艱is composed of the variant of 堇(the picture of a man who wears jade ornaments walking in mud) and艮(the picture of a man twisting has neck and staring back), both actions are not easy to be done.

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