Via “ How to be genius ?“ New Scientist ,15 September 2006 - David Dobbs My mother, rest her merry, brainy soul, convinced me early on that I was - as she liked to put it, quoting the cartoon character Yogi Bear - “SMARRR-ter than the average bear!” I happily assumed that my Yogi-like intelligence would ensure great things. My sense of entitlement grew when I easily won good marks in school, then grew some more when three different college professors told me I had a talent for writing.

“ Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go ” - T.S. Eliot

Such is the way of the world You can never know Just where to put all your faith And how will it grow Gonna rise up Burning back holes in dark memories Gonna rise up Turning mistakes into gold Such is the passage of time Too fast to fold And suddenly swallowed by signs Lo and behold Gonna rise up Find my direction magnetically Gonna rise up Throw down my ace in the hole

You see inequalities in any discipline. In math-fin area specifically, most of the times, the inequalities are derived from a basic set of inequalities such as Cauchy’s, AM-GM, Jensen’s,Holder’s, Minkowski’s Inequalities. One typically comes across inequalities in some math course where one is asked to prove a specific inequality. Typically one solves them just like one learns the grammar and syntax of a language. Sadly ,the principles behind them are conveniently forgotten as one does not actually use then in some practical context.