2024年4月8日下午，爱尔兰都柏林大学爱尔兰中国研究院院长王黎明教授受邀莅临我校，在图书馆321叙述堂以“李约瑟之谜新解：汉语、数学思维与脑功能的关系”为题，为我校师生分享了其在语言与多学科的交叉研究成果。讲座由我校国际交流处、国际教育学院主办。讲座由国际教育学院院长孙艳主持，学校汉语言和英语专业的师生共同参加了此次学术盛宴。
Professor Liming Wang, the director of the UCD Irish Institute for Chinese Studies, delivered a lecture about New Solution to the Needham Puzzle: The Relationship between Chinese Language, Mathematical Thinking, and Brain Function on April 8, 2024, sharing his research achievements in the intersection of language and multidisciplinary for our teachers and students. The lecture was hosted by the International Exchange Office and the School of International Education of SSPU. Sun Yan, the dean of the School of International Education, presided over the lecture, and students and faculty members of Chinese language and English majors attended this academic feast.
王黎明教授以著名的“李约瑟之谜”作为引子，让大家主动思考起“尽管古代中国曾对人类科技的发展与进步作出了重要贡献，但为何科学与工业革命未在中国发生？”这一振聋发聩、引人深思的问题。
Started with the well-known “Needham Puzzle”, Prof. Wang leaded us to think about the profound question “Why did the scientific and industrial revolution not happen in China, even though ancient China has made important contributions to the development and progress of human science and technology?” at the beginning of the lecture.
接下来，王教授通过海量的实际案例、科学的统计方法和可靠的实验数据，基于汉语（声调和象形文字）与西语（拼音文字）对脑语言功能特征的影响差异，探讨了不同语言对数学思维模式以及大脑神经机制的影响。
Then, based on the different influences of Chinese (tones and pictograms) and Spanish (phonetic script) on the functional characteristics of the brain, Prof. Wang demonstrated numerous practical cases, scientific statistical methods and reliable experimental data to explore the effects of different languages on mathematical thinking patterns and brain neural mechanisms.
纵观整场讲座，王教授高屋建瓴、立意深远，从全新的视角，即汉语、数学思维与脑功能之间的内在联系，对“李约瑟之谜”进行了深入且独到的解读和诠释。
During the lecture, Prof. Wang conducted an in-depth and unique insight and interpretation of the “Needham Puzzle” from a new perspective of the internal connection between Chinese language, mathematical thinking and brain function.
在问答环节中，师生就自己的所疑所惑或提问求教，或分享交流，气氛热烈。王教授旁征博引，娓娓道来，就问题、谈方法、谈解答、谈未来，互动讨论实质深入。
During the Q&A session, students and faculty members asked for advice on their own doubts and questions, and shared their minds with each other which encompassed the lecture with the heated atmosphere. Prof. Wang quoted extensively, spoke eloquently, and explained comprehensively on the questions, conducting a deep-going interactive discussion with participants.
本次学术讲座对语言智能多学科交叉有着诸多启示，不仅拓展了师生的视野，助力我校优势学科链的融合交叉，更是为汉语的国际教育与推广探寻了新思想和新方法。
With its plentiful enlightenment on the multi-disciplinary interdisciplinary of language intelligence, the lecture not only expanded the horizon of teachers and students which boosted the integration of the dominant discipline chains in our school, but also probed into the creative thoughts and methods on the internationalization and promotion of Chinese.
王黎明教授现任爱尔兰国立都柏林大学爱尔兰中国研究院院长。全球中国经济大讲堂学术委员会主任，欧洲中国经济学会秘书长，爱尔兰中国研究会会长，国务院侨务办公室专家咨询委员会委员，北京市海聚人才及特聘专家，北京工业大学经济管理学院特聘教授。2012年4月，被爱尔兰主流媒体《爱尔兰独立报》评为“爱尔兰最具影响力的六十人之一”。2014年3月，应中国政府邀请作为海外列席代表出席全国政协十二届二次会议。曾任国际期刊《Journal of Chinese Economic and Business studies》的编辑(2014-2021)，现任国际期刊《Energies》的专题顾问(2021至今)。主要研究领域为发展经济学、国际贸易学、金融学、能源经济学及粮食经济学。现已出版十部专著及国际期刊专刊，六十余篇学术论文。
Professor Liming Wang is the director of the UCD Irish Institute for Chinese Studies, the Chairman of Global Lecture Series on Chinese Economy Committee and the Association for Chinese Studies in Ireland, the Secretary General of the Chinese Economic Association in Europe, the Advisory Committee of the Overseas Chinese Affairs of the State Council of the P.R.C, a Haiju Talents and Special Experts, the Chair Professor of the College of Economics and Management at Beijing University of Technology. In April 2012, Prof. Wang was awarded by Irish Independent, the mainstream media in Ireland, as the “Most Powerful 60 People in Ireland”. In March 2014, at the invitation of the Chinese government, he attended the second session of the 12th CPPCC National Committee as an overseas delegate. He has been worked as a Co-Editor for Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (2014 -2021) and he currently works as a Topic Editor for the international journal Energies (since 2021). His primary research interests are in development economics, international trade, financial contagion, energy economics, agricultural and food economics, with the publication of ten monographs and special issues of international journals, and more than 60 academic papers.