我国杰出的物理学家严济慈出生在浙江省东阳县黄店镇一个不足50户人家的小村庄——下湖村。这里世世代代一直有着“肯读书做理田,会手艺做得工”的传统美德。在他刚刚学会说话时,他的母亲就在劳作之余,手把手地教他认字、习字。有时候,母子蹲在地上,一起用树枝在沙土上写字。一次,父亲从省城带回一本书当作礼物送给严济慈,鼓励他自学。这本书,是由日文翻译成中文的数学书,名为《笔算数学》。严济慈翻开书一看,犹如天书一般,书上都是他从未见过的字符,根本看不懂。如果是别的孩子,一定 Yan Jici, an outstanding physicist in China, was born in Xiahu Village, a small village of less than 50 people in Huangdian Town, Dongyang County, Zhejiang Province. Here and there has always been the traditional virtues of “willing to study and do science work”. When he had just learned to speak, his mother was working hard and taught him how to read and write words. Sometimes, mother and son crouched on the ground, together with the branches to write on the sand. Once, his father brought a book from the provincial capital as a gift to Yan Jici, encouraged him to self-study. This book is a math book that is translated into Chinese by Japanese, and is called “pen arithmetic.” Yan Jici opened the book a look, like a bible, the book is the character he has never seen, simply do not understand. If it is other children, certainly