Transnational Mathematics and Movements: Shiingshen Chern, Hua Luogeng, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study from World War II to the Cold War

This paper reconstructs,based on American and Chinese primary sources,the visits of Chinese mathematicians Shiing-shen Chern陈省身(Chen Xingshen)and Hua Luogeng华罗庚(Loo-Keng Hua)4 to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in the United States in the 1940s,especially their interactions with Oswald Veblen and Hermann Weyl,two leading mathematicians at the IAS.It argues that Chern’s and Hua’s motivations and choices in regard to their transnational movements between China and the US were more nuanced and multifaceted than what is presented in existing accounts,and that socio-political factors combined with professional-personal ones to shape their decisions.The paper further uses their experiences to demonstrate the importance of transnational scientific interactions for the development of science in China,the US,and elsewhere in the twentieth century.

跨学科背景下我国高等研究院的现状与趋势

对近年来我国成立的自然科学与社会科学高等研究院进行了梳理,总结了我国大学高等研究院的特点和问题,认为高等研究院发展将从粗放走向集约,人文社科高等研究院可能会继续繁荣,跨地区、跨学科、跨单位的高等研究院将会有所突破,政府对高等研究院将加强管理,高等研究院的内涵将进一步模糊。