【physical chemistry】

"Physical Chemistry."

Bi Wanqing habitually knocked on the blackboard.

"It is one of the relatively unpopular majors in the four major chemistry, and it is also a major that I studied before, so who wrote it as the most classic textbook recognized in the world?"

"Department of Chemistry??? Teacher, don't you teach physics? ”

"Oh, I've studied a few of them, and then I found out that physics is more interesting." Bi Wanqing replied casually.

'Is it so showy......

Wu Bin scratched his head, imagining that he would be able to pretend to be 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.

【Peter William Atkins】

"Peter Atkins, he is the author of the most classic textbook of physical chemistry, is an old professor at Oxford University, now in his 70s, he has been perfecting this set of textbooks all his life, and has been published and revised many times, it is a very remarkable book."

Speaking of this, Bi Wanqing showed a look of some memory.

"I can say that almost everyone who knows something about the physical chemistry major, or even those who don't know much about it, can have a preliminary understanding of this major and understand a lot of his elaborate ideas after reading the textbooks he wrote."

Speaking of this, Bi Wanqing turned around, "After reading this, and then looking at the Chinese version of the chemistry and physics textbook, there are quite a lot of loopholes, the most important point is that you can't always describe the point, that is, you can't scratch the part that itches you the most." ”

After Bi Wanqing finished speaking, he picked up the chalk again.

"For example, the book says that you now have an internal energy, and then after a while, suddenly a new function is introduced, called enthalpy, and after a few lines a new function is introduced, called Helmholtz free energy, and a few lines later a new function is introduced, called Gibbs free energy."

After writing the last Gibbs free energy, Bi Wanqing turned around and asked Wu Bin, "How would you feel if you saw such a book?" ”

"I want to ask the author, what exactly do you want to introduce?"

"By the way, that's what it feels like, and the other thing is, if you go to the library, you can find a lot of translated scientific works, such as Wiener's Cybernetics, Poincaré's Science and Hypothesis, Fermat's Introduction to Plane and Solid Trajectories, etc., etc., but they are all in English, do you know why I emphasize that?"

"Russian ......" Wu Bin thought for a moment and replied: "Does this mean that there will be deviations when they are translated into Chinese?" ”

Bi Wanqing gave an appreciative look after listening, "That's almost right, but this deviation is not the kind of mistranslation deviation you understand, to translate such a scientific work, the requirements for the translator are very high, the translator must not only be proficient in English, understand all kinds of rare words, but also deeply understand the professionalism of the description of the book he translated." ”

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

[Understanding]

"When a novel is read by different people, they will have different understandings and feelings, and the same is true for scientific works, many translations have actually done a very good job, but they may still express something other than the original author."

"Oh~"

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

After seeing Wu Bin understand, Bi Wanqing put down the chalk and sighed, "Do you know that during the Republic of China, Chinese was almost abolished?" ”

"Of course I do." Wu Bin nodded.

"It was because many people thought that English could better express the scientific system than Chinese, but if you look at it from the current perspective, it is purely a rush to the doctor, to say where Chinese lost, only lost in a late start."

"At that time, or now, all the world's top scholars wrote their own papers, and they had to be translated into English to publish in order to communicate, because English is the most popular language in the scientific community, which led to the entire field of natural science, there are very few good Chinese textbooks, and the more you go to school, the more you need to read foreign textbooks."

Bi Wanqing smiled bitterly after speaking, "Am I ...... It's a bit far. ”

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

Bi Wanqing smiled after hearing this, "It's good that you can think so, I heard Mr. Cai say in detail that you rushed from 0 to full score in physics in one month, among them, talent and hard work are indispensable, so I think you must be a teachable talent, so I want to say something to you." ”

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

"I heard Mr. Cai say that your learning experience is to study 20 hours a day, do you know what my first reaction is after hearing it?"

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

"It's nostalgia." Bi Wanqing slowly walked off the podium, "There are really a lot of students who used to study hard, and many of them make people feel distressed to look at, they are so tired, they are really reading with their lives."

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

IMO Wu Bin has heard that the International Mathematical Olympiad, commonly known as the Mathematics World Cup, is a top platform for top mathematicians from all over the world to compete.

"I really haven't known about this." For the world of learning gods, Wu Bin didn't have the slightest idea of gossiping.

"12 times, 15 years, 12 championships, a brilliant record that makes the world think that all yellow people are born with abacus." Bi Wanqing was full of anger when he spoke.

"Awesome!"

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

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

"Why?"

"You've heard the call to reduce the burden more than once, right?"

"Yes." Wu Bin nodded.

I don't know since when, burden reduction has almost become the most important part of the Education Bureau, and a large number of policies have been introduced related to burden reduction, such as the "Ten Prohibitions" in previous years

It includes that it is strictly forbidden for schools to organize their own examinations for the selection of students, it is strictly forbidden for schools in the compulsory education stage to use all kinds of competition certificates, subject competition results or examination certificates as the basis for enrollment, and it is strictly forbidden for schools in the compulsory education stage to set up key classes, fast and slow classes in any name, and so on.

"I also know the hard work of the children, but I don't let the children learn difficult knowledge, how to select and identify those geniuses, when we are relaxing, other countries are still running forward, last year the IMO won the championship was the South Korean team, people took 170, and we only got 159."

After speaking, Wan Qing added, "After you have an idea of the competition, you will understand what 11 points mean." ”

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