Note: Článek obsahuje výtah z přednášky B. Kvasila, rektora ČVUT, na zasedání ÚV JČSMF v listopadu r. 1973.

Note: The article is based on a lecture of B. Kvasil, the rector of the Czech Technical University, held at the meeting of the Central Committee of Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists in November 1973.