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The days when I was thinking on Energy Distance Theory 2014
The days when I was thinking on Energy Distance Theory
q.v. Energy and Distance in Language / 31 August 2008
TANAKA Akio
1.
Around 2008, I was thinking on energy in language related with distance in language. Distance is one of the kernel themes of my study of language universals in those days. In simply saying, distance is the result of movement and for movement there must inevitably needs energy. So I had thought that if language have distance, there must be energy or its alike in language that is supposed in mathematical models. But in my ability in 2008, I could not develop the deep and wide range of language from the theme, energy and distance. So Energy Distance Theory was still now unfinished.
- Energy and Distance
- Heat and Diffusion
- Energy and Functional
- Finsler Manifold and Distance
- Word and Meaning Minimum
- Geometry of Word
2.
In another approach of my study on language universals, Edward Sapir's Language, 1921 was one of my favourite books between 1970s and early 1980s. In his book, the most fantastic concept for me was Drift, that indicated the vast movement of language system itself. I ever gave brief account on it.
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Edward Sapir's Language, 1921 showed me the dynamism of language proposing the concept, drift.
Drift shows us the macro phase of natural language and I was hinted by Sapir's this concept and proposed the micro phase of natural language. The paper "Quantum Theory for Language" is my first total proposal paper describing the natural language's model.
Reference
Substantiality Dedicated SAPIR Edward / 27 February 2005
Tokyo
5 September 2014
Sekinan Research Field of Language
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3.
My language study started from the reading of Old China's Qing dynasty's huge linguistic inheritance, "Xiaoxue", in English Small Study , that is contrary to the name, the most basic and difficult study of classical texts of old China. I particularly loved the books written by WANG Guowei and WANG Yinzhi and DUAN Yucai.
The main book list to which I referred in those days between the age 20s and 40s are shown at the next.
Especially I was enchanted with WANG Guowei's work, whose selected papers' title wasGuantangjilin. For him I wrote a short essay as below.
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TANAKA Akio
Guantangjilin is the selection of works by WANG Guowei, which contents contains vast area of history, literature and linguistics. Some people say that his works is a thousand-year peak from Song era’s philosopher SHU Xi. I bought his book at Haifeng shudian, Kanda, Tokyo in my mid 20s. The date of colophon is February 1973, publisher is Zhonghua shuju Xianggang fenju.
Probably I bought it in 1973 or 1974. In those days I frequently went Haifeng shudian bookshop for buying Chinese classics, mainly Qing Dynasty’s linguistic works that is called ” Xiaoxue”, Small study at China. Guantangjilin is a very difficult book to understand by my poor study result.
His study era is from Yin Dynasty to Qing Dynasty some 2,500 years of Chinese literary history. At his vast works I was especially charmed in Qing Dynasty’s ancient Chinese hieroglyphic characters, Jiaguwenzi by Chinese. After 40 years, in 2003 I wrote a small paper on language universals through this ancient Chinese hieroglyphic characters at the view point of written language.
The title is On Time Property inherent in Characters. From at that time 10 years passed by. Now I am still learning on language universals but its style is far apart from the days 2003 or 1973. Ambiguity of approach by traditional linguistics is not for my part. I dare challenge to a new frontier of description for language study using mathematics or algebraic geometry.
Refer to the next.
- On Time Property Inherent in Characters 2003
- From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi-Distance 2012
- Half farewell to Sergej Karcevskij and the Linguistic Circle of Prague 2013
Tokyo 16 November 2013
Sekinan Research Field of Language
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4.
After all, Energy Distance Theory ended in the half-finished situation. But now I still eager to write and develop the papers on energy and distance. The road is long and winding as ever. I always accustomed to delay and stagnate. Some rays of light is emitting in the small study room of mine.
Tokyo
19 December 2014
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Under the Zelkova Trees 2012
Under the Zelkova Trees
TANAKA Akio
There are many fine zelkova trees in the National Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo. There a relative of mine had ever worked as a researcher. I heard that he had studied on anti-psychotic agents as one of the typical researchers at the field in Japan. Several years later he went to Canada for the further studies aiming the top circumstance of the field.
Time passed by, and after returning home, in a short time, he contracted a disease. He had worked as the daily study fighting against the disease, but sadly he died as young as only 55 yeas old in the midst of his research.
Now 20 years already passed away from his death. In front of mine, many zelkova trees have grown so tall and spread their branches widely to the autumnal clear sky with the leaves changing yellow. Ivies on the trunks have become beautiful red.
One of my sons had ever exercised the first bicycle riding at the plaza in front of the research building, in probably his 6 years old days. The place were always calm and enough wide for the son, splendid to training of tottering riding.
Now he is working as a computer science field every day late at night. The time equally passed for all. I also grew up. Or no, became older to the later years in the life. In those days I have struggled for my aim of study on language as for me. But no results could be obtained with letting satisfied myself. Remembering the time, these zelkova trees have seen all the scenes silently above ours.
What work I have done? What papers I have proposed? The answer cannot be seen for me. Only some footsteps on the field could not be abandoned. WANG Guowei, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Sergej Karcevskij. From philological intuition to mathematical descriptions.
From set theory to geometry and still more geometrical algebra and after all returning to geometry and topology, at where now I stand with receiving the deep influence of the Linguistic Circle of Prague on which CHINO Eiichi perfectly taught me in my age 30s, at last leading me to the present study on language.
Keen Applied achievement, NON-COOPERATIVE GAMES 1950 of John F. Nash Jr. on equilibrium point from KAKUTANI Shizuo's fixed point theorem 1941 has encouraged me sufficiently keeping on reading contemporary mathematics results.
12 November 2012
Tokyo
Sekinan Research Field of Language
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