About Alex Yuan Gao

Alex Yuan Gao is a Ph.D. student, who wants to live in a world filled with innovative businesses, robots, books that come bundled with extra hot chocolate and a steampunk-styled force field around his keyboard that repels cats.

Nous voulons, tant ce feu nous brûle le cerveau, Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du nouveau!
--Charles Baudelaire

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty.
--Albert Einstein

天下事有难易乎? 为之, 则难者亦易矣; 不为, 则易者亦难矣。
--彭端淑(Duanshu Peng)

That fondness for science, ... that affability and condescension which God shows to the learned, that promptitude with which he protects and supports them in the elucidation of obscurities and in the removal of difficulties, has encouraged me to compose a short work on calculating by al-jabr and al-muqabala , confining it to what is easiest and most useful in arithmetic.
--عبد الله محمد بن موسى الخوارزمی(al-Khwārizmī)