计算数学在中国的创建

计算数学是20世纪40年代随着电子计算机的诞生和发展，逐渐引人瞩目并得到快速发展的一个现代数学分支。计算数学的起源很早，中国古代数学有着悠久的数值计算传统，但自宋元之后开始落后。20世纪初，中国数学开始重新起步。经过几代数学家的共同努力，到20世纪40年代末，中国已逐步引入了纯粹数学的绝大多数分支，但在计算数学方面仍是空白。新中国成立后，中国数学开始考虑立足自身、全面发展的问题，中国计算数学正是在这一时期完成了创建（20世纪50年代），并发展成为今天欣欣向荣的局面。.本项目将在搜集原始档案的基础上，辅以相关数学家的访谈，梳理总结中国计算数学的创建历程，追忆当年数学家创办计算数学机构与专业的人和事儿，出版一部著作《计算数学在中国的创建》。项目的开展对于中国现代数学史研究、数学一流学科的建设、数学文化的传播普及与爱国主义的宣传教育具有非常重要的作用和意义。

Computational mathematics is an important branch of modern mathematics, which has gradually attracted attention and developed rapidly with the birth of electronic computers in the 1940s. The origin of computational mathematics dates back to the earlier time, and Chinese ancient mathematics enjoyed a glorious tradition of numerical calculation, but began to fall behind after the Song and Yuan dynasties. In the early 20th century, Chinese mathematics commenced anew. By the late 1940s, efforts of mathematicians for generations had gradually introduced into China most of the branches of pure mathematics, but a blank remained in computational mathematics. After the founding of new China, Chinese mathematics embarked on a programme of self-based comprehensive development. It was in this period that computational mathematics finished its founding process (1950s), and gained today's prosperity..With original archives collected and interviews of related mathematicians supplemented, this project will order and summarize the founding course of Chinese computational mathematics, recall the people and things in the founding of computational mathematics institutions and subjects at that time, and publish a book “The Founding of Computational Mathematics in China”. In addition, this project is of great significance to the study of the history of Chinese modern mathematics, to the construction of mathematics as the first-class discipline, to the communication and popularization of mathematical culture, and to patriotic public education.