Report title: From seeing to discovering-the third kind of wisdom
Reporter: Professor Cai Tianxin, Zhejiang University
Reporting time: 16:00-17:00, December 4, 2020
Location: Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor, Mathematics Building
School contact: Guo Bin bguo@jlu.edu.cn
Report summary:
On the one hand, our wisdom is derived from tradition, and on the other hand, we learn from the West, but we often overlook the third way, which is the mutual learning between different disciplines, such as science and humanities. Professor Cai Tianxin believes that no matter studying or working, no matter technology, art, or life, there is a process from seeing to discovering. He will combine his research, writing, and travel to share with everyone his science, art and life experience, his methods of understanding and observing the world.
Speaker's profile:
Cai Tianxin, from Taizhou, Zhejiang, graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Shandong University, received a Ph.D. in science at the age of 24, a professor, a doctoral supervisor, and a scholar of seeking truth in the School of Mathematics of Zhejiang University. He proposed concepts such as addition and multiplication equations and form primes. The work on the New Hualin problem was praised by the British mathematician and Fields Medal winner Alan Baker as a "true original contribution", and the extension of Fermat's Last Theorem was in English. The Wikipedia "Fermat's Last Theorem" entry is listed as a reference, and it is currently the only paper written by a Chinese author. In addition, he won the Beirut Naji Naaman Poetry Award and the Dhaka Kathak Poetry Award. In 2015, Cai Tianxin was selected as one of the Top 10 Innovators in Hangzhou. In 2017, his book "Legend of Mathematics" won the National Science and Technology Progress Award; in 2018, "A Brief History of Mathematics" won Wu Dayou's Excellent Original Science Book Award, and was invited by the CCTV "Reader" program and the University of Iowa International Writing plan. In 2019, the courses of "Mathematics and Human Civilization" won the National Teaching Achievement Award.
