You Should Visit China Again Someday The Learning Life of Qian Xuesen

Chengdong Lv

ISBN 10: 1835208355 / ISBN 13: 9781835208359

Published by LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2023

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Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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• Title: You Should Visit China Again Someday The Learning Life of Qian Xuesen
• Publisher: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1835208355
• ISBN 13: 9781835208359
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Hervorragend
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On June 25, 1956, the opening ceremony of the Third Soviet Congress of Mathematics was held in Moscow. The conference was attended by more than 2,000 Soviet scientists and young scholars, and also by more than 60 leading scholars from the USA, UK, China, France, Italy, Sweden, India, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other countries. The opening session was followed by a breakout session in which a Chinese scientist gave a presentation on The Poincaré-Lighthill-Kuo Method in the session "Mathematical Problems in Mechanics" from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. on June 27. This Chinese scientist was Qian Xuesen (also known as Tsien Hsue-Shen), who had just returned to China from the United States and was by now the Director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Invited by the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Qian Xuesen, together with his wife Jiang Ying, had this visit from June 20 to July 21. Qian was accompanied by his own Russian translator, Wu Hongqing, Assistant Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at Peking University. On June 20, Qian Xuesen and his party arrived in Moscow by plane. They were met by Yuri Ivanovich Shaslov, a staff member of the Foreign Liaison Bureau of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the staff of the Chinese Embassy in the USSR. It was a high-profile reception, and the USSR Academy of Sciences earmarked 53,066 rubles for the reception, covering air tickets, transportation, accommodation, banquet meals, translation fee and admission tickets on the tour. This staff member of the Foreign Liaison Bureau, who participated in the Patriotic War, accompanied him throughout the trip and was responsible for the security of the entire trip. After returning to China from the visit, Wu Hongqing drafted a report entitled "Observations on the visit to the Soviet Academy of Sciences", which was revised and reviewed by Qian Xuesen himself and submitted to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Through this valuable report, people learned the whole process of Qian Xuesen's visit and the reason for his high standard reception by the Soviet Academy of Sciences. From the report, it can be seen that Qian's visit included three kinds of reports, symposiums and visits.