Yi Lin

I am also known as Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest (for more books published in this name, please click on my author page under this name). In the first 30+ years of my academic career, my publications appear mostly in the name of Yi Lin, and in my current period of my career, my works are mostly published under the name of Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest or Jeffrey Forrest. Currently, I am a professor in mathematics, systems science, economics, and finance. My scholarly publications, totaling over four hundred research pieces and nearly fifty monographs and edited special topic volumes, cover a wide range of knowledge areas.

Some of the interesting problems I try to address throughout my career include:

1. Are Newton's laws of motion truly correct? (If your answer is yes, then stand still and let me punch you once in the face.)

2. How can mathematical induction be correct? (For a proposition stated in a variable that takes a natural number as its value, if we imagine the set of natural numbers as an infinitely long ladder on which the proposition is stated, then the basic step of the induction says that we can somehow get on the ladder, and the inductive step says if we are on step k then we can get onto step k+1. Where in these steps of argument can we see the slightest hint that we can actually finish climbing the (infinitely long) ladder?)

3. How is the current science in the "state of art"? Is that because when we predict with attached probability, our prediction is always right no matter what actually occurs?

4. When a talent designs and produces a smart device, other people will mostly likely be able to introduce a similar device based on the theories of natural science even though they do not know the exact idea behind the design of the original device. However, in business the situation is very different, where recognized successes, such as developing self-sustaining momentums of economic growth, cannot be generally replicated by using established theories. Then important and interesting questions arise: What is the matter with the developed economic theories? Are they not scientifically sound?

If you are interested in exploring the answers to these and other related problems, please read my books. As I have always said, together we can make things better for all people involved.