每当面对美好事物,我的心中总会充满惊讶与感激。捧着这部凝聚了众多人心血与希望、受了许多称赞的书时,心情亦是如此。作为这部书的责任编辑,也是该书的最初创意者和策划人,回顾这部书的出版过程,感受到的是历史的厚重和中国科学界整体力量的强大。还有就是必然性和偶然性辩证逻辑的神奇。说起该书的创意因由,在编后记中我曾写道:“这部书的最初创意,始自我的恩师之一的赵树智老师为我的另一套丛书写的一本小册子——《现代数学巨人——希尔伯特》中所引用的希尔伯特的学生外尔的一句话:‘希尔伯特这个吹笛人所吹出的甜蜜的芦笛声,诱惑着无数老鼠,跟着他投入了数学的深河。’是外尔这句饱含感念、哲理、文化、沧桑和幽默的诗一般的语言的火花,点燃了我心中早在20年前就已为尊敬的徐迟先生的不朽名篇《哥德巴赫猜想》所铺就的干柴……在1900年世界数学家大会上,希尔伯特所提出的著名的23个数学难题指引了数学一个世纪的研究方 When faced with the good things, my heart will always be full of surprise and gratitude. Holding this is a lot of people gathered together the painstaking and hope, praised by many books, the mood is also true. As the editor in charge of the book, the original creator and curator of the book, he reviewed the publishing process of this book and felt the heavy history and the overall strength of the Chinese scientific community. There is also the magic of necessity and contingency dialectical logic. Speaking of the creative reasons for this book, I wrote in the postscript: ”The original idea of ​​this book, from one of my mentors, teacher Zhao Shuzhi, a booklet for another of my series - A quote from Hilbert's student quoted in “The Modern Mathematical Giant: Hilbert”: "The sweet reed whistled by Hilbert, the piper, seduces innumerable rats, Followed him into the depths of mathematics. 'Is a foreign language full of feelings, philosophy, culture, vicissitudes and humorous poetic language spark ignited my heart as early as 20 years ago has been respect for Mr. Xu Chi In the world mathematician conference of 1900, Hilbert's famous 23 math problems drew the math a century of research