摘要
自第二次鸦片战争至中日甲午战争的三十余年间,中国展开了一场称为"自强运动"的革新。这场革新带动了学习西方科学技术的热潮。1872年在《中西闻见录》第五号刊登了一道问题:给定一个三角形,构作三个不重迭的圆,使得每个圆都与三角形的两条边及其余两个圆相切。这道问题在西方世界是一道著名的数学问题,于1803年由意大利数学家马尔法蒂(Malfatti)提出。这道题目在《中西闻见录》提出后,引起热切的公开学术交流。透过在该段时期对"马尔法蒂问题"的讨论历程,可见中国学者在"自强运动"期间对学习西方科学技术的热切追求。
The ＂Self-strengthening Movement＂ took place in China for more than thirty years between the second Opium War and the first Sino-Japanese War. This movement urged the Chinese to learn Western science and technology. Through the story of a discourse among Chinese scholars and students in solving a specific geometric problem, namely the Malfatti Problem, the enthusiasm of the Chinese in learning Western science and technology during the ＂Self-strengthening Movement＂ is illustrated. In 1872, a problem published in Issue Number 5 of the Peking Magazine asked for three non-overlapping circles placed inside a given triangle, each touching two sides of the triangle as well as the other two circles. This well-known problem in the Western world, proposed in 1803 by the Italian mathematician Gian Francesco Malfatti ried on in the public domain after its , led to a fervent exchange of academic discussion car- appearance in the Peking Magazine.
出处
《自然科学史研究》
CSCD
北大核心
2014年第1期64-69,共6页
Studies in The History of Natural Sciences
关键词
自强运动
新教传教士
《中西闻见录》
马尔法蒂问题
Self-strengthening Movement, Protestant missionary, Peking Magazine,Malfatti Problem
