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Chung-Chih Li
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Assistant Professor,

My Statements

To our family and friends we love

Mathematicians and Philosophers  Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

School of Information Technology, Illinois State University

Office: 105, Old Union
Office Hours: TTH 2:00 -- 3:30 PM
Tel: (309) 438-7952
E-mail: cli2 (at) ilstu.edu
Home  Address: 
1206 Moss Creek Road
Bloomington, IL 61704
USA
E-mail: chungchih.li (at) gmail.com

Research   My current research and publications Courses  
Current Semester ISU Courses
Archive:  Lamar, Colgate, and Syracuse Universities
Book   Problems on Discrete Mathematics,
            by Chung-Chih Li and Kishan Mehrotra
Table of contents (pdf)
Chapter 2, Logic (pdf)
Chapter 3, Mathematical Inductions (pdf)
Chapter 6, Integers (pdf)
Awards  
Texas ARP Grant 2006
Lamar REG, 2004
Lamar REG, 2003
LePage Award, 2001
SU Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 1998


My homeland -- TAIWAN
A brieg History of Taiwan

Map is from http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/

A country under construction:

Republic of Taiwan


My Statements:

To me, nothing substantial beyond naming can be found in the entire humanity that we'd been trying so hard to sustain; and words, that should be taken as a projection of our mind where the profanity dwells.

Fundamentally, I'm so skeptical of history which does not fit my notion of knowledge in any sense.  I insist that a human as the agent of him/herself should have the innate right to claim his/her liberty of any kind; if that causes trouble, let trouble come. This is the most compelling force for me to stand by the Taiwan Independence movement among others. Speaking of politicians, they just confuse me, not less than history, if not more.

-- Chung-Chih Li --
       

Quotes:

I have not been an early riser
Society seems to have invaded and overrun me
I have drank tea & coffee
and made my-self cheap and vulgar
-- H.D. Thoreau --

One can always make a theory, many theories, to account known facts,
occasionally even to predict new ones. The test is aesthetic.
-- George Thomson --

The principal interest is philosophical;
not to confine oneself to what is necessary for (current) practice,
but to see what is possible by way of theoretical analysis.
-- G. Kreisel --

Perspicuity is part of proof.
-- L. Wittgenstein --

Reason is the slow and tortuous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.
The heart has its own reasons which reason does not know.
-- Blaise Pascal --

It is true that a mathematician, who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.
-- Karl Weierstrass --


Where I once belong:  
Computer Science Department, Colgate University
Computer and Information Science Program
Dept.of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University


Dandelion


Last updated Dec. 27, 2001
by
Chung-Chih Li