On November 19th, 2018, Yan Jiaan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the International Association of Mathematical Statistics, was invited to our university to bring a lecture entitled Science and Art in My Mind to the teachers and students at the Postgraduate Report Hall of Bowen House. The understanding of science and art. The report will be chaired by Zhou Jialai, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President. A total of more than 400 teachers and students attended the report.
In the report, Yan Jiaan revealed the natural beauty in science with humorous language. He pointed out that the simple formulas such as Poincaré conjecture, Fermat's theorem and Euler's formula in science contain avenues to simplicity and great beauty. It also cites Laozi's philosophical views and Zhuangzi's aesthetic concepts. He believes that science and art have the commonality of pursuing truth and beauty in creation. He takes Dirac as an example. Dirac boldly proposed anti-particle theory from the perspective of mathematical symmetry to explain the phenomenon of negative energy. He said: Some outstanding scientists, starting from the harmony and succinct requirements of the theory, can present an idea and guess by aesthetic intuition.
Yan Jia'an also highlighted the importance of aesthetic education and art education and the realm of the situation: The realm is the first, the technology is the second. He quotes Wang Guowei's point of view in Human Words, indicating that scientific research and literary research also require realms. The academic taste and depth of the scientific research topic is the realm of the scientific community. He believed that science and art are the same. The two break up in the mountain and meet at the top of the mountain. From the fractal art in mathematics, he realizes that art needs to be scientific; and Fabre's Insects and cards The silent spring of Xuan also suggests that science needs art.
Talking about the university's educational goals, Yan Jia'an emphasized that cultivating students' ability is more important than imparting knowledge. At the same time, it emphasizes that university education also needs art education. Aesthetic education and art education can not only improve people's aesthetics and artistic accomplishment, but also benefit scientific research. He also said: If you don't understand art appreciation, you can't come to the world.
At the end of the report, Yan Jiaan used his own seven poems to encourage the young people to work hard to give up to the students: Flowers can reopen the old days, and people will not return to the youth. Persuaded the king to rest for a long time, waiting for the white head to wake up late.
Yan Jiaan graduated from the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1964. He is a well-known probabilistic, stochastic analysis and financial mathematician at home and abroad. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999, and has influence in the fields of probability theory, stochastic analysis and financial mathematics in China. One of the academic leaders. He has successively won the Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the First Prize of the Natural Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Second Prize of the National Natural Science, and the Nomination of the National Book Award. In August 2002, he was invited to give a 45-minute report at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing. . He has made many fundamental contributions in areas such as probability theory, paradox, stochastic analysis, and white noise analysis.