Frases de Ingrid Daubechies

Ingrid Daubechies es una matemática y física belga. Ha realizado importantes aportaciones en el campo de las ondículas en imágenes. En 2020 recibió el Premio Princesa de Asturias de Investigación. En 2023 le conceden el premio Wolf en matemáticas, y es la primera mujer que lo ha recibido.[1] Wikipedia

✵ 17. agosto 1954

Ingrid Daubechies: Frases en inglés

“Mathematicians have various ways of judging the merits of new theorems and constructions. One very important criterion is esthetic — some developments just “feel” right, fitting, and beautiful. Just as in other venues where beauty or esthetics are discussed, taste plays an important role in this, but I think I am not alone in being especially excited when apparently different fields suddenly meet in a new concept, a new understanding. It is often of the sparks of such encounters that our esthetic enjoyment of mathematics is born.
Another important criterion for according merit to some particular piece of mathematics is the extent to which it can be useful in applications; this is the criterion almost exclusively used by nonmathematicians.”

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Ingrid Daubechies

(1995) Wavelets and Other Phase Space Localization Methods. In: Chatterji, S.D. (ed.). Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Basel. [10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_8]