Ouyang Xiu, 1007, a native of Ji 'an County, Jiangxi Province. His father died when he was four years old. My mother gave Ouyang Xiu a strict education in order to revive his family business when he grew up. In order to save money, mother used reeds and charcoal as pens to write on the sand and taught Ouyang Xiu to read. Two years later, at the age of six, he had learned thousands of words. Later, his mother had nothing to teach him, so he had to teach himself. He borrowed other people's books and copied them back to others within the specified date. Recite the book after copying it. He/kloc-could write poetry when he was 0/0. Later, many people came to him to teach their children. He made outstanding contributions to China literature when he grew up.

Hua, a mathematician, left a lot of research works for people, and also left a footprint of self-taught.

19 10, Hua was born in Jintan, a small county in Jiangsu province. When I was a child, my family was poor, and my father opened a small grocery store in a small town to buy silk for others. The family lived a semi-starvation life. When Hua was in junior high school, he had a special interest in mathematics. His teacher, Wang Weike, attaches great importance to this clever boy and often tutors him alone and gives him some difficult problems to do, which benefits him a lot.

After finishing junior high school in Jintan Middle School, Qiu Luogeng had to drop out of school to help run the restaurant business in his father's small grocery store because his family couldn't afford his schooling. But this young man who loves mathematics, although standing in front of the counter, has been thinking about mathematics. Teacher Wang Weike lent him several math textbooks: a big algebra, an analytic geometry and a calculus. Hua followed these dumb teachers into the door of advanced mathematics.

/kloc-at the age of 0/8, with the help of teacher Wang Weike, Hua went to Jintan Middle School as an accountant and was responsible for school affairs. He once recalled the hard life at that time: "In addition to the heavy affairs of the school, I have to help manage the affairs of the small shop sooner or later. I can't go home until around 8 o'clock every night. After cleaning up the account of the small shop, you can go to learn math, often late at night. "

Soon, typhoid fever was prevalent in Jintan county, and Hua was unfortunately ill and stayed in bed for half a year. Later, the condition gradually improved, but the left foot was bent and deformed, leaving a crippled leg for life.

Hua studied hard in poverty and illness, not only reading widely, but also being diligent in independent thinking and daring to challenge authority. /kloc-when he was 0/9 years old, he found that a university professor had written a wrong paper. He wrote his own opinion in an article entitled "Why the quintic equation solution of Su Jiaju's algebra can't be established", which was published in the second year of Shanghai Science magazine. Subsequently, Hua successively published several mathematical papers, signed "Jintan People".

This "Jintan Man", who made his mark in the mathematical forum, attracted the attention of Professor Xiong Qinglai, the head of the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University. When he learned that the math wizard turned out to be a teenager who had only attended junior high school, he was deeply shocked and wrote to invite Hua to be an administrator in the math department of Tsinghua University in Peiping at that time.

After arriving in Tsinghua, China has made even faster progress. He taught himself English and German. At the age of 24, he was able to write a math paper in English. At the age of 25, his thesis has attracted the attention of foreign mathematics circles. At the age of 28, he became a professor at National Southwest Associated University. Later, he was recommended by Professor Xiong Qinglai to go to Cambridge University for further study.

Hua succeeded! After a bumpy road of self-study, he became a world-famous master of mathematics. The foreign mathematics community commented on him like this: "Professor Hua's research works are wide enough to make him among the top mathematicians in the world."