Chapter 54 Mathematics City (6)

660 took notes seriously in the audience. Then he heard a word called academic inbreeding, and he understood the deeper meaning of building a mathematics city.

Academic "inbreeding" is to use biological phenomena to point out the "learning structure" problem in the construction of the academic team of faculty in universities and research institutions.

Biology has confirmed that humans are difficult to give birth to healthy and intelligent offspring in breeding.

Some scholars point out that academic inbreeding has destroyed the foundation of academic freedom from within, and has become a fatal injury to my country's academic development, restricting the improvement of academic international competitiveness and independent innovation capabilities.

First, the "family" academic echelon derived under the inbreeding system is highly "homogeneous", which is not conducive to the exchange and collision of different academic ideas and poor innovative thinking.

According to the internationally renowned journal Nature, if the "academic inbreeding rate" is defined as the proportion of graduates from the university faculty, and the number of papers published by a country and the percentage of the world citations to reflect the scientific research productivity of a country, it is found that scientific research productivity is negatively correlated with academic inbreeding rate.

Academic progress mostly depends on the advantages of "hybridization". A student led by an old professor stays on school, and the students led by this student stays on school again - the disciples live together, the academic genes are single and the thinking is closed, which will inevitably lead to academic degeneration and rigidity.

Second, "teacher-student complex" and "face concepts" in many cases hinder normal academic controversy and directly erode the scientific spirit that academics should have.

The collision, exchange, and even controversy and criticism of different academic views are necessary for the healthy development of academics. True academic personality is also nurtured through the intergenerational academic "crossing" academic "crossing" system. The current "tutor system" of the postgraduate recruitment and examination system in my country enables students to devote more of their thoughts to understand the views, thoughts and tastes of their supervisors, rather than paying attention to the shaping of unique personalities and the improvement of innovative ability. They also hope to have intergenerational academic "crossing" behavior, because according to our cultural customs, one day is a teacher and a father for life, not "I love my teacher, I love the truth more", but on the contrary. Generations of scholars study in such an environment, there are few opportunities for contending and colliding between different views, lacking the courage and strength to challenge authority, and academic personality is shrinking.

Some experts are analyzing why the domestic mathematics community cannot produce a world-class mathematical master, Hua Luogeng and Chen Jingrun, who were the world-class mathematical masters, believed that the "inbreeding" phenomenon in the domestic academic community is an important reason, which suffocates the creativity of Chinese mathematicians. According to general laws, the golden period of mathematician creativity is generally between 25 and 40 years old. For example, Professor Shing-Tong Yau, the only Chinese Fields Medal winner, proved the Karabi conjecture and the positive mass conjecture at the age of 33, while Galohua founded the "group theory" with great influence before the age of 20. However, from the domestic situation, young Chinese mathematicians generally lack the courage and spirit to challenge authority, and the short golden creation period flashed and flew away.

Third, it is easy to "form gangs and sects" and "small groups", which makes the academic community sect become more and more sected. When similar titles such as "Liu Sect disciple", "Wang Sect disciple" are endless, it can be imagined that "inbreeding" largely includes the elements of drawing the ground into a prison and rejecting dissent.

Fourth, "inbreeding" will also involve a series of social problems.

If the academic community is sectarian and instructor-oriented, it will have its own advantages to promote academic prosperity. The problem is that today's academic inbreeding has more accelerated the grouping and swamping of interest. A young scholar told reporters privately that some people in the academic circle now have mastered and even monopolized a large number of social resources, and have a great influence in terms of professional title assessment, projects, projects, and funds. Some can even set the tone for an academic conference and decide the right to choose an academic journal. They can recommend their disciples to occupy an important position and can "give" their resources to others.

Excerpted from "Analysis of the "inbreeding" of the academic community from the successor of world-class mathematics masters"

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