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

LV, Chengdong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1835208355 ISBN 13: 9781835208359

Publisher: Indie Publisher, 2023

Synopsis

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

activities: reports, symposiums and visits.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indie Publisher
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1835208355
• ISBN 13: 9781835208359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194