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A sudden heavy rain, and did not block the audience's enthusiasm. Can accommodate 800 people packed hall of the Shanghai Library report.
White shirt gray pants, gray hair sitting on the stage internationally renowned mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, simple and mild. As the Shanghai Book Fair and the "scholarly China" Shanghai Week cultural forum in Shanghai Library's first lecture, Shing-Tung Yau opened the prelude of this cultural feast.
"Emotional training is essential for big science"
"When I was young, does not like reading, together with their peers, living happily, or even skip school for six months." One began to speak, who said the old man thick Cantonese accent Mandarin, seem to have returned that "in Yuen Long playing with on the plains, hills and waterfront also game in Sha Tin, "the boy.
"During this period, the only burden is the father asked me to study calligraphy, reciting classical poetry, reading modern anthology, also read the works of the West." However, the extremely young Yau love reading novels, from the Jin Yong Liang Yu-Shen work, he read it again.
Because my father is not enough that these elegant works of text, Shing-Tung Yau can steal read. The "Water Margin", "Three Kingdoms", "Dream of Red Mansions" and is publicly read. "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" quick read, but the "Dream of Red Mansions" only read a few times before, there is no way to read on.
Father's death changed the Yau path in life.
"My father died young, and the decline of the family, let me with the" Dream of Red Mansions "in the plot to resonate." Yau began to appreciate and feel Cao Xueqin intensive writing, how to describe with great accuracy out of the feudal society, a great tragedy.
40 years, this great book to read is often used by Shing-Tung Yau, he often imagined in mathematics if they can create the same structure, is how great things.
"Emotional training is the most important part of the learning bigger." Yau said that he is the emotional volatility of the interest of scholarship suddenly become very strong, no duty-bound.
"Gou not over the line of fans, although any injury Dianpei its" Whenever there is a difficulty, Shing-Tung Yau always encourage each other to be Han Yu's article.
"Mortal has sad failure, someone who had become, while others give up the ideal to the end of their body." For Yau, the literature that he has the strength to face difficulties.
"Good math should have access to natural phenomena."
Shing-Tung Yau appears in some people the joy of Theorem, the words short and deep meaning; some theorems able to cause a series of breakthroughs, people on a deeper understanding of mathematics.
To do graduate school, Shing-Tung Yau decided to make geometry and analysis to demonstrate their inner beauty. In collaboration with colleagues, Shing-Tung Yau geometric analysis gradually developed into an important discipline, but also to solve many important problems.
"This is a wonderful experience to go through every aspect of a lot of careful scrutiny before they can be constructed out of the picture."
Shing-Tung Yau won the literature of the fantastic, from time to time it with the mathematical analogy. In his view, mathematical history, only the depth of the theory can be preserved. For thousands of years, theorem after another, but the real name but it is rare to stay later.
Mathematical creation is like writing a novel, can not stay away from reality. "Right now, some scholars, the blind pursuit of the article published in the SCI, to seek funding, but their published content, no practical significance, it is very unfortunate."
"Good mathematics should have access to a variety of phenomena in nature, the only way to in-depth to be able to handed down." Yau said.
"Although the price to pay for research but Happy Wonderland"
Wonderful speech aroused the audience's sympathy here. A high school mathematics master to ask: "How to learn math?"
Shing-Tung Yau, said frankly: determined to be a good start, but learning how to do it is an important issue. To find direction, the need to dig a good question.
Yau said, "steeped in the need to repair to books, lectures and mentoring from the exchange, which research can be found most appropriate. To find the ideal direction, you need to move forward."
He also like to see "Historical Records", "Han", and doing the decision is Yau obtained from reading history books, a valuable asset.
"The facts of history teach us how to do the important moment decision, complex reality of history and scholarship are very similar places, historical figures do the correct decisions, are often able to offer choice compass."
Wang Guowei's "withered Bishu west wind last night, the tower alone, Wang Jin Wandering Road," the realm of life is often a reminder of Shing-Tung Yau, how long-term perspective, the lessons of history is helpful.
Plenty of emotion, curiosity is the driving force of science to explore the unknown. "Although the price to pay for research, but it's infinite happiness." The road of life to explore math, reading classic literature, Shing-Tung Yau own entertainment, find the eyes of the mysteries of the universe. Our reporter Wang Youjia
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