Hitoshi Takeuchi--1920-7-2--2004-4-20

Hitoshi Takeuchi's glasses

The image of Hitoshi Takeuchi in me is

It is a commentator with characteristic glasses.

In fact, he was like that during his writing activities.

I have published a lot of books, but the work is a tape recorder

It's all about recording to. There is a secretary who wakes up in the text

Work together It's a unique way of writing.

Still, I don't have a bad impression from my personality. It's a personality that people like. Hitoshi Takeuchi is said to have been a strict and child-friendly person. His unique speaking tone was impressive, and he spoke to people with an easy-to-listen voice and an easy-to-listen rhythm. I supervised a lot of biographies for children, and there was a small name of Hitoshi Takeuchi on the cover of "Mrs. Curie's biography" and "Edison's biography". Continuing to think about such enlightenment activities, as the first editor-in-chief of NEWTON, I will make educational books for the general public in Japan as well.

People and Hitoshi Takeuchi

Understanding physics requires individual study, but due to the nature of scholarship, the issue of how people think of everything (modeling and understanding) is indispensable. At the same time as the idea of ​​individual understanding, the process of understanding by the Japanese and humankind is indispensable. The theory is completed when a physical model that can be understood by the general public is created. I collaborated when writing Gibbs' writing, but "the perspectives of mathematicians and physicists are different." If mathematics is a model that is complete as logic, there is no problem even if it does not correspond to reality. That's it. Physics is meaningless without constantly creating a theory that corresponds to reality. Hitoshi Takeuchi cherished such dialogue with the people.

Hitoshi Takeuchi and Geophysics

Considering Hitoshi Takeuchi's achievements, it is the genealogy of Torahiko Terada. Specifically, he is his grandchild who has not received direct lectures or guidance. He has an interest in geophysics and is particularly widespread in plate tectonics theory. As a physicist, he told us about the internal structure and boundaries of the Earth when he actually told us how the ground was moving little by little. He conveyed it with deep knowledge. And above all, I conveyed it with Hitoshi Takeuchi's unique "gentle words."

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