| 英文摘要: |
The Department of Mathematics of National University of Chekiang was established in 1928. At first it lacked professional mathematical teachers and had weak power among all departments of mathematics of universities in China. However, it had gradually risen since the early 1930s, and became one of the China’s important departments of mathematics of universities before the National University of Chekiang west-moving as the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. Its rise is a successful practice for the department of mathematics of university introduced into China’s modern education system against the backdrop that the institutionalization of modern mathematics carried forward worldwide. At the same time, its rise embodies the rapid development of China’s modern mathematical undertaking during the previous decade of the National Government of Nanking from one side. Besides the positive impact of external factors, the key to the rise of the department is that the department obtained the talented teachers, Kien-Kwong Chen and Buchin Su and under their leadership the department gradually enhanced teaching staff and improved curriculum system, while emphasizing basic training. Furthermore, it strictly carried out the guiding education idea that teaching must be combined with scientific research by introducing the course of mathematical research from Japan as an approach. Another important reason is that after their teaching, the teachers such as Kien-Kwong Chen and Buchin Su were enamoured with scientific research which had exemplary effect on the department’s young teachers. This history reflects the efforts and attempt for building China’s first class department of mathematics made by students returning from abroad represented by Kien-Kwong Chen and Buchin Su, and reveals the close relationship between individual mathematicians and education style of a department of mathematics of university. The effect on students’ academic development by taking the attitude of apprentice system to cultivate students in its rising process also reflects the limitation of departments of mathematics of universities at that time. |
