《电化学研究方法》专辑序言

Encouraging More Frogs in Electrochemistry

正确、规范和严谨的研究方法,是科学工作者获取真实数据、做出正确判断的重要保障.二十多年来国家数次发生突发性疫情,倘若有正确、规范和严谨的研究方法和检验流程,避免在发病初期产生误判而及时采取隔离治疗措施,何至于造成巨大的国家资源浪费和社会恐慌,甚至付出生命的代价?

“Some mathematicians are birds,others are frogs.”This is the opening of a famous article written by Freeman Dyson(Dyson,Freeman.“Birds and frogs.”Notices of the AMS 56.2(2009):212-223).He continues:“Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the far horizon.”and“Frogs live in the mud below and see only the flowers that grow nearby.”Hilbert,who listed twenty-three outstanding unsolved problems that shape the course of mathematics in the past century,is a prototypical bird.Yitang Zhang,who targets horrendously difficult problems and recently made a decisive step to prove the Twin Prime Conjecture,is an exemplary frog.