毛林繁博士在印度加尔各答

“高等数学进展、数学科学和数学模型国际学术交流大会”

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致辞英文稿中文译稿如下：

女士们、先生们，大家早上好！

我很高兴在这里参见加尔各答数学会举办的“高等数学进展、数学科学和数学模型国际学术交流大会”上遇到许多老朋友，见到许多新朋友。

朋友们！请允许我先问大家几个问题。您为什么要学数学？又为什么要研究数学？是因生活所迫还是因兴趣所在？我想，不同的人对这些问题的回答一定有所不同。对我自己来说，我研究数学的原因是希望从客观上把握世界上各种物质的自然真实。

今年5月份，我读了一本在国际十分畅销但饱受争议的一本书《科学的终结：面对科学认知极限的暮光来临》，作者是《科学美国人》专栏作家，麻省理工学院的J.霍根教授。我曾与其通过信交流过一些观点。他在写作这本书前曾拜访过许多哲学家、物理学家、宇宙学家、生物学家、社会学家和神经科学家，并要求他们就各自专业的未来给出评估。然而，这些人无一例外地断言其领域在不远的将来将会终结。

为什么会出现这种情形？难道科学，特别是数学真的在不远的将来会终结吗？实际上，每个人的生命在世界上是短暂而有终点的。对于那些仅关心某一个抽象问题的人，其研究生涯一定会终结。然而，我绝不认同科学或者数学会终结的说法，除非人类已在宇宙中不复存在。因为如果您祈求发现物质的真实面孔，您每日就会饱含热情的从事着研究工作，研究生涯也就绝不会终结。怎样才能做到这一点呢？这就需要多参加数学活动，需要更多的新思想、新观点丰富您的专业领域，也需要您多与其他数学家或者科学家不断交流去扩大自己的专业领域。而我认为，参加数学交流会议是最好的选择。

故此，我希望所有与会者用好这次加尔各答数学会举办会议的机会充分交流，展示出您自己的想法和获得的成果，同时，更多的从其他学者那里学习一些新思想和新观点。那么，您的数学研究就一定不会有终点。

最后，我预祝这次会议圆满成功！

谢谢大家！

致辞英文稿如下：

Talk in Inauguration of ICAHMMSMM-2016 by Dr.Linfan MAO

Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Morning!

I am very pleasant to meet old friends and many new friends here for International Conference on Advances in Higher Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences and Mathematical Modeling, organized by CMS.

Dear Friends! Please allow me to ask a few questions in the first. Why do you learn mathematics? Why do you research mathematics? Is it just because of living or for your interesting? I think different persons will answer these questions differently. For myself, I research mathematics for holds on the reality of matters in the world.

In May of this year, I read a very popular but highly controversial book  “The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age”, written by Prof.John Horgan of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a professional writer for Scientific American. I exchanged ideas with him in letter once. He visited many famous philosophers, physicists, cosmologists, biologists, sociologists, neuroscientists before he wrote this book, and asked them to evaluate the future of their professional fields. However, each of them claimed that the end of his field will coming soon.

Why is this happening? Is it really coming soon the end of science, particularly, the mathematics? In fact, the lifetime of each person in the world is limited. Particularly, for researchers only on an abstracted problem, it must has an end for his scientific career. However, I never agree that there is an end of science or mathematics unless humans disappeared in the universe. Because if you wishes to find the truth of matters in the world, you will passionate your researching everyday and never be ended. How does it appear? It needs more mathematical actives, and you need new notions and new ideas on your professional fields. You need more commutations with other mathematicians and other scientists to enlarge your field. I think attending mathematical conference or meeting are the best choice.  

So, I wish all attendant will use this opportunity organized by CMS to exchange well, display your thinking and results, learn more new notions, ideas from others and then, there must be no end on your mathematics.

Finally, I also wish this conference a complete success!

Thanks to everyone!