The mathematics of love | Hannah Fry

翻译人员: Zhiting Chen 校对人员: Geoff Chen

Today I want to talk to you about the mathematics of love.

今天我想要和大家谈谈 关于爱情的数学。

我想大家都同意

Now, I think that we can all agree

that mathematicians are famously excellent at finding love.

数学家在寻找真爱上特别在行。

(Laughter)

But it's not just because of our dashing personalities,

但那并不只是因为我们 精力充沛的性格，

superior conversational skills and excellent pencil cases.

超凡的对话技巧， 和极好的笔盒。

也是因为我们真的 花了许多时间精力在数学上，

It's also because we've actually done an awful lot of work into the maths

of how to find the perfect partner.

计算如何找到完美的伴侣。

Now, in my favorite paper on the subject, which is entitled,

现在，在此学科中我最爱的论文，名为

“为什么我没有女友” （笑声）

"Why I Don't Have a Girlfriend" --

(Laughter)

Peter Backus tries to rate his chances of finding love.

Peter Backus 试着 计算他寻得真爱的机会。

Now, Peter's not a very greedy man.

现在，Peter 不是一个非常贪心的人。

Of all of the available women in the UK,

在英国所有适宜的女性对象中，

all Peter's looking for is somebody who lives near him,

Peter 所看的， 就只是那个住在他附近的对象，

某个处于适宜的年龄阶段，

somebody in the right age range,

somebody with a university degree,

某个拥有大学文凭，

somebody he's likely to get on well with,

某个他很有可能相处地不错的对象，

somebody who's likely to be attractive,

某个有魅力的女子，

somebody who's likely to find him attractive.

以及某个认为他也富有魅力的对象。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

And comes up with an estimate of 26 women in the whole of the UK.

结果他估计在全英国 大概有 26 位此类女性。

(Laughter)

It's not looking very good, is it Peter?

这看来很不妙，不是吗，Peter？

Now, just to put that into perspective,

我们好好思考一下这件事，

that's about 400 times fewer than the best estimates

在无数聪明外星生命形式存在的情况下，

of how many intelligent extraterrestrial life forms there are.

那是少于 400 倍数的估计呀。

And it also gives Peter a 1 in 285,000 chance

那也给了 Peter 一个

在某晚遇见一个特别的女子

of bumping into any one of these special ladies

28 万 5 千之 1 的机会。

on a given night out.

I'd like to think that's why mathematicians

我宁愿想着那就是为什么数学家

don't really bother going on nights out anymore.

不再怎么想晚上出去约会了。

重点是，我个人其实并不同意

The thing is that I personally don't subscribe

这种悲观的看法。

to such a pessimistic view.

Because I know, just as well as all of you do,

因为我知道，如同你们所有所知道的，

that love doesn't really work like that.

爱情并不是这样发生的。

Human emotion isn't neatly ordered and rational and easily predictable.

人类的情感不是那样地秩序井然、 干净利落、逻辑清晰，以及容易预测。

But I also know that that doesn't mean

但我也知道那并不意谓着

that mathematics hasn't got something that it can offer us,

数学无法提供帮助，

because, love, as with most of life, is full of patterns

因为爱情，如同生命中多数的事物一般， 充斥着许多规律，

and mathematics is, ultimately, all about the study of patterns.

而数学，最终，就是那讲求规律的学说。

Patterns from predicting the weather to the fluctuations in the stock market,

从预测天候，到 预测股票市场的开高走低，

to the movement of the planets or the growth of cities.

到星球的运转，或都市的发展。

And if we're being honest, none of those things

如果我们对自己诚实的话， 上述那些东西，没有一个是

are exactly neatly ordered and easily predictable, either.

井然有序以及容易预测的。

Because I believe that mathematics is so powerful that it has the potential

因为我相信，数学的力量非常强大， 以至于它让我们得以以新方法

重新看待任何事物。

to offer us a new way of looking at almost anything.

Even something as mysterious as love.

就算是和爱情一般神秘的东西也是。

And so, to try to persuade you

为了试着说服你们

of how totally amazing, excellent and relevant mathematics is,

数学的神妙用处，

I want to give you my top three mathematically verifiable tips for love.

我想要给大家三个最重要的 在数学上可以验证的爱情秘诀。

(Laughter)

好，首先最重要的秘技一：

OK, so Top Tip #1:

如何赢得线上交友的机会。

How to win at online dating.

So my favorite online dating website is OkCupid,

我最爱的线上交友网站是 OkCupid （网站名：好吧，丘比特），

not least because it was started by a group of mathematicians.

这并不仅仅因为这网站 是由一群数学家所架设的。

Now, because they're mathematicians,

因为他们是数学家，

they have been collecting data

他们已经搜集了

on everybody who uses their site for almost a decade.

近乎这十年来所有 他们网站使用者的资料。

他们试着寻找

And they've been trying to search for patterns

in the way that we talk about ourselves

我们在线上

and the way that we interact with each other

谈论自己的方式的模式，

以及我们和他人互动的模式。

on an online dating website.

And they've come up with some seriously interesting findings.

他们发现了一些重要的有趣结果。

But my particular favorite

但我特别喜欢的结果之一是

is that it turns out that on an online dating website,

在线上交友网站上

how attractive you are does not dictate how popular you are,

你的魅力程度并无法 预测你的受欢迎程度，

and actually, having people think that you're ugly

事实上，让人们觉得你很丑

can work to your advantage.

可以让你拥有优势。

(Laughter)

Let me show you how this works.

让我向各位展示这是怎么一回事。

In a thankfully voluntary section of OkCupid,

在 OkCupid 的一个志愿栏目中，

you are allowed to rate how attractive you think people are

你可以评价人们的魅力值，

on a scale between one and five.

从 1 到 5 。

Now, if we compare this score, the average score,

现在，如果我们比较这个分数， 平均分数，

to how many messages a selection of people receive,

有多少人收到信息，

you can begin to get a sense

你就可以开始理解

of how attractiveness links to popularity on an online dating website.

在一个线上约会网站上 魅力指数与受欢迎程度有关。

这是 OkCupid 得到的图表。

This is the graph the OkCupid guys have come up with.

And the important thing to notice is that it's not totally true

一件重要的值得注意的事是

that the more attractive you are, the more messages you get.

并不是越有魅力的人， 收到的信息越多。

But the question arises then of what is it about people up here

问题是，为什么上面的这些人

比下面这些人要受欢迎得多，

who are so much more popular than people down here,

even though they have the same score of attractiveness?

即便他们都有相同的魅力值？

And the reason why is that it's not just straightforward looks that are important.

原因是，并不是直观的外貌是重要的。

So let me try to illustrate their findings with an example.

让我来谈谈他们的发现， 以一个案例说明。

So if you take someone like Portia de Rossi, for example,

如果你拿 Portia de Rossi 为例，

everybody agrees that Portia de Rossi is a very beautiful woman.

每个人都同意 Portia de Rossi 是个非常美丽的女人，

Nobody thinks that she's ugly, but she's not a supermodel, either.

没有人觉得她丑，但她也不是超模。

If you compare Portia de Rossi to someone like Sarah Jessica Parker,

如果你拿某个人，比如 Sarah Jessica Parker （译者注：欲望都市女主角）来和她比较

now, a lot of people, myself included, I should say,

许多人，包括我自己，我应该会说，

Sarah Jessica Parker 魅力极为出众，

think that Sarah Jessica Parker is seriously fabulous

and possibly one of the most beautiful creatures

有可能是地表上

to have ever have walked on the face of the Earth.

最美丽的物种之一。

But some other people, i.e., most of the Internet ...

但许多其他人，比如，大多数的网友

(Laughter)

似乎都认为她看起来像马。（笑声）

seem to think that she looks a bit like a horse.

(Laughter)

Now, I think that if you ask people how attractive they thought

如果你问人们他们觉得自己有多美，

Jessica Parker or Portia de Rossi were,

Sarah Jessica Parker 或 Portia de Rossi

and you ask them to give them a score between one and five

你要他们给自己打分，从 1 到 5，

I reckon that they'd average out to have roughly the same score.

我猜他们也会大约给一个 和大家都差不多的数字。

But the way that people would vote would be very different.

但是人们投票的方式各自不同。

因此 Portia 的分数会聚集在 4 分左右，

So Portia's scores would all be clustered around the four

因为所有人都同意，她非常美丽，

because everybody agrees that she's very beautiful,

然而人们对 Sarah Jessica Parker 却有截然不同的意见。

whereas Sarah Jessica Parker completely divides opinion.

她的分差悬殊很大。

There'd be a huge spread in her scores.

And actually it's this spread that counts.

然而，事实上，就是那分差别具意义，

It's this spread that makes you more popular

那差异让你

on an online Internet dating website.

在交友网站上受欢迎。

So what that means then

所以那意味着

is that if some people think that you're attractive,

如果有些人认为你别具魅力，

you're actually better off

你最好有其他人认为

having some other people think that you're a massive minger.

你很丑。

That's much better than everybody just thinking

那远优于所有人认为

that you're the cute girl next door.

你是邻家的可爱女孩。

当你们开始思考一下 这些寄送信息的人的话，

Now, I think this begins to make a bit more sense

when you think in terms of the people who are sending these messages.

这开始变得合理些了。

So let's say that you think somebody's attractive,

这么说吧，假设你认为那个人很美，

但你同时猜想其他人并不会 和你有同样的审美观。

but you suspect that other people won't necessarily be that interested.

那就意味着，你的竞争对手略少，

That means there's less competition for you

and it's an extra incentive for you to get in touch.

这就给你增加了额外的动机 去与他/她认识。

与之相对的情况是 你认为某人很有吸引力，

Whereas compare that to if you think somebody is attractive

但你猜想所有其他的人 都认为那人很有吸引力，

but you suspect that everybody is going to think they're attractive.

Well, why would you bother humiliating yourself, let's be honest?

嗯，让我们面对事实 为什么要自取其辱呢？

这就是最有趣的部分。

But here's where the really interesting part comes.

因为当人们去选择他们 在交友网站上使用的照片时，

Because when people choose the pictures that they use on an online dating website,

they often try to minimize the things

他们总是试图最小化

that they think some people will find unattractive.

其他人认为不吸引人之处的可能性。

The classic example is people who are, perhaps, a little bit overweight

最经典的例子是， 那些体重略重的人

deliberately choosing a very cropped photo,

故意选择一个 剪裁非常不正的照片，

(Laughter)

例如那些秃顶的男士，

or bald men, for example,

deliberately choosing pictures where they're wearing hats.

故意去选择他们带着帽子的照片。

But actually this is the opposite of what you should do

但你的行为是与你的目标相悖的，

if you want to be successful.

如果你想要在网上交友成功。

You should really, instead,

你真的应该，去选择 让你看起来与众不同的照片，

play up to whatever it is that makes you different,

even if you think that some people will find it unattractive.

即便你认为某些人会对此失去兴趣。

Because the people who fancy you are just going to fancy you anyway,

因为那些喜欢你的人 无论如何都会去喜欢你，

and the unimportant losers who don't, well, they only play up to your advantage.

而那些不重要的路人 只是渲染你的优势。

OK, Top Tip #2: How to pick the perfect partner.

好了，最高秘诀 2 号： 如何选择完美的伴侣。

So let's imagine then that you're a roaring success

让我们想象你的约会

on the dating scene.

精彩成功。

But the question arises of how do you then convert that success

但问题来了 你如何将那成功的约会

into longer-term happiness,

转变成长期的快乐，尤其是，

and in particular, how do you decide when is the right time to settle down?

你要如何选择 在哪个时刻安定下来？

Now generally, it's not advisable to just cash in

一般来说， 并不建议人们立刻

and marry the first person who comes along and shows you any interest at all.

与第一个出现

对你表达好感的人结婚。

But, equally, you don't really want to leave it too long

但是，一般来说，如果你想要 最大化你未来数十年幸福婚姻的机会，

if you want to maximize your chance of long-term happiness.

你也不愿等待太久。

As my favorite author, Jane Austen, puts it,

我最喜欢的作家简·奥斯汀这样说，

"An unmarried woman of seven and twenty

“一个未婚的 27 岁女子

can never hope to feel or inspire affection again."

就别指望再能感受或激发爱情了。”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

这太严重了，简。 你对爱了解多少呢？

Thanks a lot, Jane.

What do you know about love?

(Laughter)

So the question is then,

那么问题来了，

how do you know when is the right time to settle down,

你怎么知道哪个时刻 是该要安定下来的时刻，

毕竟生命中你有很多可能的对象？

given all the people that you can date in your lifetime?

幸好，我们可以运用一点儿数学

Thankfully, there's a rather delicious bit of mathematics that we can use

to help us out here, called optimal stopping theory.

来帮助我们计算解决这个问题， 名叫 “最优停止理论”。

那么让我们来想象一下，

So let's imagine, then,

你在 15 岁的时候开始交往，

that you start dating when you're 15

and ideally, you'd like to be married by the time that you're 35.

理想状态下，你在 35 岁的时候会结婚。

And there's a number of people

你的人生中

有很多潜在的约会对象，

that you could potentially date across your lifetime,

and they'll be at varying levels of goodness.

他们都有各自的优点。

Now the rules are that once you cash in and get married,

规则是，你一旦跳进婚姻，

you can't look ahead to see what you could have had,

你就不能继续前进寻找 你可能可以有的对象，

and equally, you can't go back and change your mind.

你也不能回头来改变你的主意。

In my experience at least,

我个人的经验看来，

I find that typically people don't much like being recalled

一般人们不希望

years after being passed up for somebody else, or that's just me.

在被拒绝又过了多年后被找回来， 也许只有我这样想。

So the math says then that what you should do

数学告诉我们

in the first 37 percent of your dating window,

你应该拒绝认为会和 在你人生约会周期

you should just reject everybody as serious marriage potential.

前 37% 时段出现的任何人 有严肃认真的婚姻关系。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

And then, you should pick the next person that comes along

接着，你要选择下一个人，

that is better than everybody that you've seen before.

那个比你以前约会对象都好的人。

So here's the example.

这里举个例子。

Now if you do this, it can be mathematically proven, in fact,

如果你这么做，从数学证明来看 可以认为，事实上

that this is the best possible way

这可能是最好的选择

of maximizing your chances of finding the perfect partner.

来最大化你找到完美伴侣的机会。

Now unfortunately, I have to tell you that this method does come with some risks.

现在不幸的是，我必须告诉你 这个方法也是有风险的。

For instance, imagine if your perfect partner appeared

比如，想象一下，假设你的完美伴侣

during your first 37 percent.

出现在你约会历程的前 37%

Now, unfortunately, you'd have to reject them.

那就很不幸了， 你会拒绝他们。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

如果你相信数学，

Now, if you're following the maths,

恐怕你不会再找到

I'm afraid no one else comes along

that's better than anyone you've seen before,

比你以往见过更好的对象，

你就会持续拒绝每个人 然后孤独终老。

so you have to go on rejecting everyone and die alone.

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Probably surrounded by cats ...

可能会被猫咪包围 一点点啃食你的遗骸。

(Laughter)

nibbling at your remains.

OK, another risk is, let's imagine, instead,

好，另一个风险是， 让我们想象，相反的，

that the first people that you dated in your first 37 percent

你约会历程前 37% 里第一个对象

are just incredibly dull, boring, terrible people.

极度愚蠢，无聊又很糟糕。

That's OK, because you're in your rejection phase,

没事，因为你还在拒绝对象的阶段，

so that's fine, you can reject them.

没问题， 你可以拒绝他们。

But then imagine the next person to come along

但想象一下，下一个出现的人

is just marginally less boring, dull and terrible ...

只是没那么无聊，愚蠢

(Laughter)

than everybody that you've seen before.

比你以前的对象都略好那么一点儿。

Now, if you are following the maths, I'm afraid you have to marry them ...

如果你遵循数学， 恐怕你要和他们结婚

(Laughter)

然后沉浸在一段， 实话说，次优的关系中。

and end up in a relationship which is, frankly, suboptimal.

Sorry about that.

很抱歉。

But I do think that there's an opportunity here for Hallmark to cash in on

但我认为，机会还是有的

贺曼公司迎合市场需求

and really cater for this market.

A Valentine's Day card like this.

出售这样的情人节贺卡。 （笑声）

(Laughter)

“我亲爱的丈夫，你没有

"My darling husband, you are marginally less terrible

than the first 37 percent of people I dated."

我约会历程中前 37% 的男士 那么糟糕。”

(Laughter)

这比一般的贺卡浪漫很多。

It's actually more romantic than I normally manage.

(Laughter)

OK, so this method doesn't give you a 100 percent success rate,

这个数学方法不能保证 100% 的成功率，

but there's no other possible strategy that can do any better.

但也没有更好的策略了。

And actually, in the wild, there are certain types of fish

事实上，在动物界， 某个特定种类的鱼

遵循使用这样的策略。

which follow and employ this exact strategy.

So they reject every possible suitor that turns up

在交配期，它们拒绝

in the first 37 percent of the mating season,

出现在前 37% 的每个求婚者，

and then they pick the next fish that comes along after that window

接着它们选择 37% 后出现的下一个

that's, I don't know, bigger and burlier

比所见过的鱼

than all of the fish that they've seen before.

体型更加庞大，更加结实的鱼。

I also think that subconsciously, humans, we do sort of do this anyway.

我想作为人类 我们潜意识里也在做同样的选择。

We give ourselves a little bit of time to play the field,

我们给自己更多时间寻找，

get a feel for the marketplace or whatever when we're young.

在我们年轻的时候 感受婚恋市场。

And then we only start looking seriously at potential marriage candidates

我们只有在 20 岁年龄段的中后期

once we hit our mid-to-late 20s.

才会很真寻找潜在的结婚对象。

I think this is conclusive proof, if ever it were needed,

我想这证明了， 即使不确定是否需要，

每个人的大脑 都预配了点儿数学能力。

that everybody's brains are prewired to be just a little bit mathematical.

OK, so that was Top Tip #2.

好，上述就是最高秘诀 2 号。

Now, Top Tip #3: How to avoid divorce.

现在，最高秘诀 3 号：如何避免离婚。

好的，让我们想象一下 你找到了你的完美对象

OK, so let's imagine then that you picked your perfect partner

你和他/她进入了一生的婚姻关系。

and you're settling into a lifelong relationship with them.

Now, I like to think that everybody would ideally like to avoid divorce,

我假设每个人都不希望离婚，

apart from, I don't know, Piers Morgan's wife, maybe?

当然，也许除了 Piers Morgan 的太太？

(Laughter)

But it's a sad fact of modern life

可是，现代婚姻一个悲伤的事实

that one in two marriages in the States ends in divorce,

就是美国离婚率高达 50%，

with the rest of the world not being far behind.

世界其他国家也离这个数据不远。

Now, you can be forgiven, perhaps

当然，你可以认为

for thinking that the arguments that precede a marital breakup

婚姻破裂的原因

are not an ideal candidate for mathematical investigation.

不是数学运算理想的数据源。

一方面来说，很难了解到

For one thing, it's very hard to know

你该去测量什么 或者是你该去量化什么。

what you should be measuring or what you should be quantifying.

但这并没有阻止心理学家 John Gottman 做这样的研究。

But this didn't stop a psychologist, John Gottman, who did exactly that.

Gottman observed hundreds of couples having a conversation

Gottman 观察了数百对夫妇的对谈

and recorded, well, everything you can think of.

尽可能录下来所有信息。

So he recorded what was said in the conversation,

记录了对话的内容，

he recorded their skin conductivity,

皮肤的传导性，

he recorded their facial expressions,

面部表情，

their heart rates, their blood pressure,

心跳，血压，

basically everything apart from whether or not the wife was actually always right,

基本上除了“太太永远是对的” 以外的所有东西，

which incidentally she totally is.

当然，太太永远是对的。

But what Gottman and his team found

但是，Gottman 和他的团队发现

was that one of the most important predictors

最能够准确预测

这对夫妻是否未来会离婚的

for whether or not a couple is going to get divorced

是双方在对话过程中 积极还是消极。

was how positive or negative each partner was being in the conversation.

Now, couples that were very low-risk

那些离婚风险很低的夫妻

scored a lot more positive points on Gottman's scale than negative.

在 Gottman 的测试中得到了 更多正面而不是负面的分数。

Whereas bad relationships,

相反的，在糟糕的关系中，

by which I mean, probably going to get divorced,

我是指那些可能离婚的夫妻，

他们发现自己沉浸在消极的漩涡中。

they found themselves getting into a spiral of negativity.

Now just by using these very simple ideas,

就用这些非常简单的方法，

Gottman and his group were able to predict

Gottman 和他的团队能够准确预测

whether a given couple was going to get divorced

一对夫妻是否会离婚,

with a 90 percent accuracy.

准确率高达 90%

但是，直到他与 数学家 James Murray 联手，

But it wasn't until he teamed up with a mathematician, James Murray,

that they really started to understand

他们才真正找出

what causes these negativity spirals and how they occur.

那些消极漩涡是 如何产生，为什么产生的。

And the results that they found,

结果是他们发现

I think, are just incredibly impressively simple and interesting.

我认为不可思议太令人惊叹 的简单而有趣。

So these equations predict how the wife or husband is going to respond

这些算式，他们用来预测 妻子或是丈夫是如何去回应

in their next turn of the conversation,

他们下一段对话，

他们的积极或消极程度是多少。

how positive or negative they're going to be.

And these equations depend on

这些算式，取决于

当他们独处时各自的情绪，

the mood of the person when they're on their own,

the mood of the person when they're with their partner,

当他们和伴侣在一起时候的情绪，

但最重要的是，

but most importantly, they depend on

how much the husband and wife influence one another.

取决于丈夫和妻子相互间的影响。

在这个阶段我认为最重要的是，

Now, I think it's important to point out at this stage,

that these exact equations have also been shown

这个一模一样的算式

同时也可以完美预测

to be perfectly able at describing

what happens between two countries in an arms race.

两个国家是否会开战。

（笑声）

(Laughter)

So that an arguing couple spiraling into negativity

因此一对沉浸于消极情绪

and teetering on the brink of divorce

在离婚边缘摇摆的夫妻--

is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.

实际在数学上等同于 即将开始一场核战争。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

事实上，这个算式最重要的部分

But the really important term in this equation

is the influence that people have on one another,

是人们给对方带来的影响，

and in particular, something called "the negativity threshold."

尤其是消极阈值。

消极阈值，

Now, the negativity threshold,

you can think of as how annoying the husband can be

你可以认为它指的是 丈夫讨厌到什么程度

before the wife starts to get really pissed off, and vice versa.

就能惹到妻子真的暴怒， 或者是相反。

Now, I always thought that good marriages were about compromise and understanding

我一直认为美好的婚姻 是基于妥协和理解

and allowing the person to have the space to be themselves.

并且给对方留足独处空间。

So I would have thought that perhaps the most successful relationships

我会想，最成功的关系是

were ones where there was a really high negativity threshold.

当那里有非常高的消极阈值时

Where couples let things go

夫妻共同选择不去理会这些问题。

and only brought things up if they really were a big deal.

只有在非常严重的时候 才会严肃讨论。

But actually, the mathematics and subsequent findings by the team

事实上，团队得出的 数学运算结果和后续研究成果显示

have shown the exact opposite is true.

完全相反的结果。

The best couples, or the most successful couples,

最完美的夫妻， 最成功的夫妻，

有着很低的消极阈值。

are the ones with a really low negativity threshold.

These are the couples that don't let anything go unnoticed

这些夫妻不会忽视矛盾

and allow each other some room to complain.

给对方抱怨的空间。

These are the couples that are continually trying to repair their own relationship,

这些夫妻持续努力 修复他们的关系，

that have a much more positive outlook on their marriage.

他们对自己的婚姻 有着非常积极的预期。

Couples that don't let things go

他们不会忽略矛盾

and couples that don't let trivial things end up being a really big deal.

他们不会让一件件琐碎的小事 堆积成为巨大的问题。

Now of course, it takes a bit more than just a low negativity threshold

当然，这不仅仅是 一个低消极阈值

and not compromising to have a successful relationship.

和对成功关系毫不妥协的态度。

But I think that it's quite interesting

但我认为，很有趣的是

to know that there is really mathematical evidence

真的有数学证据

to say that you should never let the sun go down on your anger.

来证明你永远不该长时间 积攒愤怒，太阳要下山了。 （译者注：这句话出自圣经）

So those are my top three tips

上述就是我的三条最高秘诀，

of how maths can help you with love and relationships.

有关数学如何让你有 更美好的爱情和关系。

But I hope, that aside from their use as tips,

我希望，除了作为爱情秘诀，

they also give you a little bit of insight into the power of mathematics.

它们也展示了数学的力量。

Because for me, equations and symbols aren't just a thing.

对我来说，算式和符号 不仅仅是一样东西。

They're a voice that speaks out about the incredible richness of nature

它们表达出 自然令人赞叹的丰富性

and the startling simplicity

以及简化

in the patterns that twist and turn and warp and evolve all around us,

那些我们身边 扭曲，旋转，包围，进化的事物，

from how the world works to how we behave.

从世界是如何运作的， 到人类行为举止。

So I hope that perhaps, for just a couple of you,

我希望，也许你们中的一部分人

a little bit of insight into the mathematics of love

能够了解一些 爱的数学运算，

能够让你爱数学稍微多一点。

can persuade you to have a little bit more love for mathematics.

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（鼓掌）