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2024考研英语同源外刊3月:幸运数字

What is your favorite number? Many people may have an irrational number in mind, such as pi (π), Euler’s number (e) or the square root of 2. But even among the natural numbers, you can find values that you encounter in a wide variety of contexts: the seven dwarfs, the seven deadly sins, 13 as an unlucky number—and 42. which was popularized by the novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

你较喜欢的数字是什么?很多人心中可能会有一个无理数，比如圆周率(π)、欧拉数(e)或2的平方根。但即使在自然数中，你也可以找到在各种情况下遇到的数值：七个小矮人、七宗罪、13这个不吉利的数字——还有42.这个数字因道格拉斯·亚当斯的小说《银河系漫游指南》(The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy)而流行起来。

What about a larger value such as 1.729? The number certainly doesn’t seem particularly exciting to most people. At first glance, it appears to be downright boring. After all, it is neither a prime number nor a power of 2 nor a square number. Nor do the digits follow any obvious pattern. That’s what mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877–1947) thought when he got into a cab with the identification number 1729. At the time, he was visiting his ailing colleague Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920) in the hospital and told him about the “boring” cab number. He hoped it was not a bad omen.

更大的值(如1729)呢?对大多数人来说，这个数字似乎并不特别令人兴奋。乍一看，它似乎是彻头彻尾的无聊。毕竟，它既不是质数，也不是2的幂，更不是平方数。数字也不遵循任何明显的模式。这就是数学家戈弗雷·哈罗德·哈代(1877–1947)当他上了一辆车牌号为1729的出租车时所想的。当时，他正在医院看望生病的同事斯里尼瓦萨·拉马努金(1887–1920)，并告诉他那个“无聊”的出租车号码。他希望这不是一个不好的预兆。

Ramanujan immediately contradicted his friend: “It is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.” Now you may wonder if there can be any number at all that is not interesting. That question quickly leads to a paradox: if there really is a value that has no exciting properties, then this very fact makes it special.

拉马努金立即反驳了他的朋友：“这是一个非常有趣的数字，它是可以用两种不同方式表示出来的两个数字立方之和的较小数字。”现在你可能想知道是否有数字是没有趣的。这个问题很快就引出了一个悖论：如果真的有一个数值没有任何令人兴奋的性质，那么这一事实本身就使它变得特别。

 

单词

have sth. in mind 心中有某事;记住某事;

irrational /ɪˈræʃən(ə)l/ adj. 非理性的，不合逻辑的，荒谬的;无理的;

square root 平方根;

encounter /ɪnˈkaʊntər/ vt. 遭遇;偶遇，邂逅;

a wide variety of 各种各样的;种类繁多的;很多的;

context /ˈkɑːntekst/ n. 背景，环境;上下文，语境;

dwarf /dwɔːrf/ n.(神话中有魔法的)小矮人;侏儒，矮子;

sins /sɪnz/ n. 罪恶;

popularize /ˈpɑːpjələraɪz/ vt. 宣传，推广;使普及，使通俗化;

particularly /pərˈtɪkjələrli/ adv. 非常，尤其;特别是;

at first glance 乍一看，初看;第一眼就…;

downright /ˈdaʊnraɪt/ adv.(强调反面的或令人不快的事物)彻头彻尾地，十足地;

prime number 质数;

power /ˈpaʊər/ n. 幂，乘方;

square number 平方数;

digit /ˈdɪdʒɪt/ n.(零到九中的任一)数字;

mathematician /ˌmæθəməˈtɪʃn/ n. 数学家;

cab /kæb/ n. 出租车，的士;

identification number 标识号;识别号;

ailing /ˈeɪlɪŋ/ adj. 有病的，体弱的;处境困难的，每况愈下的;

omen /ˈoʊmən/ n. 预兆，征兆;预兆性;

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