The use of mathematics—Academician Tian Gang gives academic lectures in our school

Time:2019-09-02 

In the morming of 5th November, Tian gang, academician of Chinese academy of sciences, academician of American academy of humanities and sciences and professor of Peking University, visited our school and delivered a lecture entitled "mathematics is useful" in the lecture hall on the third floor of building 8, which attracted many teachers and students to attend.

Academician Tian pointed out in today's lecture that mathematics learning is driven by curiosity and interest. Especially for students majoring in mathematics, it is necessary to understand that "mathematics learning is a combination of action and action". Taking geometry as a clue, it starts from the initial Euclidean geometry and extends to Riemannian geometry and spherical geometry. At last, it briefly introduces the popular modern topology, which makes us feel the charm and fun of mathematics in the lecture with humorous language and easy to understand expression.

Member of field but also Shared their daily life, mountain climbing, scuba diving is an indispensable part of his life, "the mathematician's life is not boring, immutable, a shabby room, live life maybe two or three of the draft paper existed in previous mathematicians body, but it was already gone", field of smile, in fact, most of the time, these activities can let yourself calm down and think more.

In the end of the lecture, Academician Tian leave time for everybody, has carried on the simple interaction with students, for students proposed by "the link" between natural science and mathematics problem, Academician Tian said academician, mathematics itself is independent of the direction of the natural science, is not a one-to-one relationship between, but much of its direction and natural science are closely linked, and many of those branches, are interleaved with development of other disciplines; In the process of learning mathematics, you can also widely dabble in various fields, perhaps the application of mathematics in a certain problem will become our future research direction.

Academician Tian, was born in November 1958, Nanjing, Jiangsu province, 1982 undergraduate course graduated from Nanjing university math department, with a master's degree in Beijing university in 1984, received his Ph.D. In computer science from Harvard University in 1988, in 2001 was elected member of Chinese academy of sciences, 2004 elected member of humanity and academy of sciences of the United States, the Peking University professor and professor at the Massachusetts institute of technology in the United States. Academician Tian was awarded the 19th waterman prize by the national science foundation of the United States in 1994 and the Webster prize by the American mathematical society in 1996.


 

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