他讲述了他是如何成为一个数学家的，也谈到激发他九岁儿子对数学中的美的兴趣时遇到的挑战。

He describes how he became a mathematician, and talks about the challenge of interesting his nine-year-old son in the beauties of mathematics.

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It was invented by a mathematician called Bellman. And he was at the time being paid by the Defense Department to work on something else. And he didn't want them to know what he was doing. So he made up a name that he was sure they would have no clue what it meant.

一点儿道理也没有,它是一个叫Bellman的数学家发明的,那时受聘于国防部研究一些其它东西,它不想让它们知道她在研究什么,所以它编造了一个,它们不会知道意义的词语。

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