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ChungChih Li    A short bio Ph.D., Syracuse University Professor, School of Information Technology, Illinois State University E-mail: cli2@ilstu.edu Tel: (309)438-7952 Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

2025 Spring    IT 328   IT 428   Office: Old Union 211 Office Hours: TTh 9:30-10:30 AM & Wed 2:00-3:00 PM Mathematicians and Philosophers Book and some writing in Chinese

Research	My current research and publications
Other courses	Java Jars and Applets Archive:  ISU, 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) Chapter 8, Recurrence Relations and Generating Functions(pdf)
Awards	NSF 2009-2013 Texas ARP Grant 2006 Lamar REG, 2004 Lamar REG, 2003 LePage Award, 2001 SU Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 1998

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.

Discrimination all started from taking anecdotal facts out of their context and deliberately generating them into a norm in order to characterize individuals not of our kind.

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 --

My homeland -- TAIWAN
A brief History of Taiwan

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

A country under construction:

To our family and friends we love 1998 2001 2002-2003 2004-2005 2006 2006 (with bg) 2006 (bigger fonts) 2007-2008 Pics 2009 Greeting Select year

Where I once belonged:

Computer Science Department, Lamar University 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

• Why do I have a homepage? What was I doing in 1996?
• Mathematicians as philosophers
• My very old Bookmarks
• Some of my writing in Chinese
• Ambiguity and Immorality on Taiwan Policy (5-2-01), pdf
• LTH in my eye (7-4-01), pdf