Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
running nice roots
Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
perfection pursuit pursuit-of-perfection
I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
camouflage predator weakness
When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
challenges trying problem
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
use computer mathematical
I never use a computer.
problem hypothesis mathematician
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
college umpires people
Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
love childhood england
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
greek today proof
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
library problem found
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
work interesting long
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
mind odyssey particular
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
science oil forever
Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.
doctors disease chiropractic
To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.