I just read Ising's interesting introduction of Multiferrotics several days ago. Today there is a coloquium about it by professor Jeroen van den Brink of University of Leiden. So I post the introduction of his speech here for those who are interested. =========================================== ...
歌德曾言,真正的大学,不是去修的学分的课程,而是阅读和领会一整套全面的经典书籍。即使是象印度拉马努金( Ramanujan )那样的数学天才,也是在阅读 Synopsis of elementary results in pure mathematics ( G. S. Carr )以后,才激发了其对数学天才的理解。所以,一套好的阅读,对学者的影响生死攸 ...