古为今用、自主创新的典范——吴文俊院士的数学史研究

A Model of Making the Past Service the Present and Independent Innovation——Professor Wu Wen-tsun's Studies in History of Mathematics

论述了吴文俊院士在数学史研究方面的成就与贡献,阐述其数学史研究思想对中国数学史研究的影响和意义.吴文俊院士的工作标志着中国数学史研究的一个新阶段的开始,为数学史研究提供了新思路和新方法,他所建立的"吴文俊数学与天文丝路基金"正在发挥着重要作用.吴文俊院士还把数学史研究成果应用于数学研究中,取得了一系列自主创新成果,是古为今用、自主创新的典范.

This paper surveys Professor Wen-tsun＇s contribution to the history of mathematics and explains significance of his idea and research work to the development of the history of mathematics in China. Wu＇s achievements opens a new epoch and provides some new approaches and methodology for the study of the history of mathematics in China. He sets up The Silk Road Foundation on Mathematics and Astronomy,which is playing an important role to encouragement of the study of the mathematical and astronomical relations among East Asia, Arab, and West. He also applies his history study to his mathe- matics studies and obtains a series of important achievements. Wu is indeed a model scientist of making the past service the present and Independent Innovation.