Xueba's Sea of ​​Stars

Chapter 28 The Burning Flame

【statistical physics】

"Statistical Physics"

Bi Wanqing tapped on the blackboard habitually.

"Its role is to study the macroscopic motion laws of a large number of particles, atoms, and molecular assemblies, and it is a very important branch of physics."

"Teacher, is this what you learned?" Wu Binfa asked.

"Well, I have learned a little bit." Bi Wanqing replied casually.

'I always feel that this point...contains the universe. '

Wu Bin scratched his head, imagining that he would be able to pretend such a perfect comparison in such a natural tone in the future.

After answering Wu Bin's question, Bi Wanqing wrote another name on the blackboard.

【LD Landau】

"Landau, I recommend the textbooks written by him the most in statistical physics, because he himself is a master of condensed matter, and later published classic textbooks on mechanics, classical field theory, and non-relativistic quantum mechanics."

Speaking of this, Bi Wanqing showed a look of reminiscence.

"His teaching materials cover a very wide range, and his descriptions are very clear, and he has continued to revise and publish them until now. It can be said that he has become a book."

Speaking of this, Bi Wanqing changed the subject, "After reading this book, when I look at the Chinese version of physics statistics textbook, there are quite a lot of loopholes. The most important point is that I can't always describe the key points. It's the kind that can't be scratched. When it comes to your most itchy part, some even give you the feeling that he wrote it upside down, making students completely confused when learning.”

"You said that I asked you to read calculus as soon as you start mathematics, and then learn functions, can you understand?"

"Definitely not." Wu Bin kept shaking his head.

"And some textbooks give people this feeling. Another point is that when you go to the library, you can find many translated scientific works, such as Wiener's "Cybernetics", Poincare's "Science and Hypothesis", Fermat's "Introduction to Trajectories in Planes and Solids" and so on and so forth, but they're all in English, you know why I'm emphasizing that?"

"Russia..." Wu Bin thought for a while and replied, "Does this mean that there will be deviations when they are translated into Chinese?"

After hearing this, Bi Wanqing gave him an appreciative look, "It's almost right, but this deviation is not the deviation of wrong translation as you understand. To translate such scientific works, the requirements for translators are very high. Translators must not only be proficient in English, understanding various rare words, and at the same time having a deep understanding of the professional nature of the description of the book he translated.”

Bi Wanqing turned around and wrote two more words on the blackboard.

【understand】

"For a novel, different people will have different understandings and feelings when reading it. The same is true for scientific works. Many translations have actually been done very well, but they still may not express the meaning of the original author."

"Oh~"

Hearing this, Wu Bin completely understood what kind of position English occupies in the scientific world.

Seeing that Wu Bin understood, Bi Wanqing put down the chalk and sighed, "Did you know that Chinese language was almost abolished during the Republic of China?"

"Of course I know." Wu Bin nodded.

"It was because many people believed that English could better express the scientific system than Chinese, but if you look at it from the current point of view, it is purely a case of rushing to the doctor. If you want to say where the Chinese is lost, it is only lost in the late start. .”

"At that time, or it is the same now, after all the top scholars in the world wrote their papers, they had to translate them into English and publish them before they could communicate, because English is the most popular language in the scientific community, which led to the whole nature In the field of science, there are very few good Chinese textbooks, and the more you go to school, the more you need to read foreign textbooks.”

After finishing speaking, Bi Wanqing gave a wry smile, "Am I... going too far."

"No, teacher, what you said was very profound and helped me a lot." Wu Bin replied seriously.

After hearing this, Bi Wanqing smiled, "It's good if you can think so. I heard Teacher Cai tell you in detail that you went from 0 in physics to a full score in a month. Talent and hard work are indispensable, so I I think you must be a teachable talent, so I want to say something to you."

"Thank you teacher for teaching." Wu Bin said respectfully.

"I heard from Teacher Cai that your learning experience is to study 20 hours a day. Do you know what my first reaction was when I heard it?"

"I...don't know." Wu Bin shook his head, thinking that he probably thought I was bragging.

"It's nostalgia." Bi Wanqing walked off the podium slowly, "There are really many students who studied hard in the past, many of them make people feel distressed when they look at them, they are too tired, they are really studying hard.

"But after paying such a price, the rewards are naturally huge. Do you know how many times Hua Guo won the IMO championship in the 2000 years from 2014 to 15?"

IMO Wu Bin has heard of it. The International Mathematical Olympiad, commonly known as the Mathematical World Cup, is a top-level platform for mathematical elites from all over the world to compete.

"This, I really don't know about it." Regarding the world of learning gods, the former Wu Bin didn't have the slightest idea of ​​gossip.

"12 times, in 15 years, won 12 championships, a brilliant record that made the whole world think that people of the yellow race were born with abacus in mind." Bi Wanqing spoke with great enthusiasm.

"Brilliant!"

After listening to Wan Qing's words, Wu Bin felt a sense of national pride spontaneously.

"But from 2015 to 2017, Huaguo has not won the championship for three consecutive years." Bi Wanqing sighed again.

"why?"

"The call to reduce the burden, you should have heard it more than once, right?"

"En." Wu Bin nodded.

I don’t know when burden reduction has almost become the most important aspect of the Education Bureau. A large number of policies have been introduced related to burden reduction, such as the "Ten Prohibition" a few years ago

This includes strictly prohibiting schools from organizing self-selection examinations, strictly prohibiting schools at the compulsory education stage from using various competition certificates, subject competition results, or grade test certificates as the basis for enrollment, and strictly prohibiting schools at the compulsory education stage from setting up key classes, fast-slow classes, etc. in any name.

"I know that the children are working hard, but if the children are not allowed to learn difficult knowledge, how to select and identify those geniuses? When we are relaxing, other countries are still moving forward. The Korean team won the IMO championship last year. , people took 170, but we only took 159."

After finishing speaking, Wan Qing added, "After you have a concept of the game, you will understand what 11 points means."

After hearing this, Wu Bin fell into silence, but his heart was burning like a flame.

(End of this chapter)