Mathematical Legends: From Thales to Erdős
暫譯: 數學傳奇：從泰勒斯到厄爾德什

Cai Tianxin was born in Taizhou, in southeastern China in 1963. He received his doctorate in science in 1987 from Shandong University, and currently serves as an outstanding professor at the School of Mathematics at Zhejiang University. In his capacity as a professor of mathematics, Cai proposed a class of Diophantine equations that was hailed as a "truly original contribution" by the British mathematician and recipient of the Fields Medal Alan Baker. He is also a poet, writer, and photographer, who has published more than forty literary and scholarly works, translated variously into more than twenty languages, including nine works translated into English. For his poetical and literary works, Cai was awarded the Naji Naaman Poetry Prize (Beirut) in 2013, and the Kathak Literary Award(Dakar) in 2019. As a speaker, he has delivered more than 600 public lectures on Mathematics throughout the world.

蔡天新於1963年出生於中國東南部的台州。他於1987年在山東大學獲得科學博士學位，目前擔任浙江大學數學學院的傑出教授。作為數學教授，蔡提出了一類被英國數學家、菲爾茲獎得主艾倫·貝克（Alan Baker）稱讚為「真正的原創貢獻」的丟番圖方程。他同時也是一位詩人、作家和攝影師，已出版四十多部文學和學術著作，並翻譯成二十多種語言，其中九部作品被翻譯成英語。因其詩歌和文學作品，蔡於2013年獲得貝魯特的納吉·納阿曼詩歌獎（Naji Naaman Poetry Prize），以及2019年達卡的卡塔克文學獎（Kathak Literary Award）。作為演講者，他在全球進行了超過600場數學的公開講座。