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Sep. 3rd, 2011 12:35 pm
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Недавнее обсуждение роли математики в жизни животных перекликается с воспоминаниями об Арнольде, которые должны появиться в Notices AMS (а пока доступны для желающих с приватного сайта - first, second).Вплоть до бессмертных строк нашего дедушки, помянутых в "ХВ" (выше по ссылке). Арнольд процитировал их по-русски в своём интервью журналу "Квант" в 1990 году (переведённом для Notices Хесиным и Табачниковым), а для широкой мировой общественности Саша Гивенталь (см. илл.) пере-перевёл ещё и классический первоисточник. Перевёл настолько вдохновенно и прекрасно, что нет никакой возможности удержаться от пере-перепечатки. Enjoyся кто может:
The hog under the oak
A Hog under a mighty Oak
Had glutted tons of tasty acorns, and resigned
To nap in Oak's shade. But when awoke,
Then with persistence and the snout of a swine,
It Oak's roots began to undermine.
"You'll damage it! With roots exposed"
A Raven on a branch arose --
"The tree may perish -- don't you worry?"
"So what?" the Hog replied, "Yet,
It's no reason to be sorry.
The tree is useless. Be it dead
Two hundred fifty years, I won't regret a second.
Nutritious acorns: that what's only reckoned!"
"Ungrateful pig!" -- the tree exclaimed with scorn --
"Should have your mug been fit to turn around
You'd have a chance to figure out
That acorns are on oaks born."
Likewise, a know-nothing in defiance
Is scolding scientists and science,
And all preprints_at_lanl_dot_gov,
Aware not that he's partaking fruit thereof.
А читать про Арнольда, конечно, нужно всё.A Hog under a mighty Oak
Had glutted tons of tasty acorns, and resigned
To nap in Oak's shade. But when awoke,
Then with persistence and the snout of a swine,
It Oak's roots began to undermine.
"You'll damage it! With roots exposed"
A Raven on a branch arose --
"The tree may perish -- don't you worry?"
"So what?" the Hog replied, "Yet,
It's no reason to be sorry.
The tree is useless. Be it dead
Two hundred fifty years, I won't regret a second.
Nutritious acorns: that what's only reckoned!"
"Ungrateful pig!" -- the tree exclaimed with scorn --
"Should have your mug been fit to turn around
You'd have a chance to figure out
That acorns are on oaks born."
Likewise, a know-nothing in defiance
Is scolding scientists and science,
And all preprints_at_lanl_dot_gov,
Aware not that he's partaking fruit thereof.