Yes, maybe China people have a talent for mathematics. For thousands of years, the Chinese nation has added wealth after wealth to the world's mathematical treasure house: Shang Gao discovered Pythagorean theorem in BC; There are very incisive geometric propositions about two continuous axioms in the ancient book Mo Jing, and modern geometric theory was not introduced by the German mathematician Hilbert until the end of 19. China has many great mathematical works, such as Zhou Zhi's suan Jing, Nine Chapters of Arithmetic, Sun Zi's suan Jing and Nine Chapters of Arithmetic. Liu Hui wrote Chopping Wood; Zu Chongzhi calculates pi. ...
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the people of China continued to make remarkable achievements in the field of mathematics. This brilliant history and brilliant reality complement each other, which aroused people's strong interest in the field of mathematics in China. It is against this background that Hua was invited to Japan for an academic visit. After the speech, the audience burst into prolonged applause to pay tribute to the great scientist from China.
However, before the applause stopped, Hua suddenly fell sideways from the chair and slowly slid to the floor-he had been suffering from heart disease for years. That night, a bad news came back to China: Professor Hua Jiao died in a Japanese hospital at 6:5438+00 pm!
This mathematician left a lot of research works for people, and at the same time 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."
In the late 1940s, Hua was employed by the University of Illinois and became a professor. Hua's living and research environment is very good. His house has four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a living room, which can accommodate fifty or sixty people for a reception. The university also provided him with four assistants and 1 typist.
However, when the news of the founding of New China came, China no longer attached to the superior conditions of the United States and embarked on the journey of returning to China. He said, "In order to choose the truth, I should go back! I should go back for the sake of my country and nation.
! Serve the people, I should go back! "
/kloc-one day in 0/950, the famous professor, then director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote the words "graduated from junior high school" in the column of "education" when filling in the household registration book. Although this surprised many people, it is true: he really only has a junior high school diploma. Almost all of this master's mathematical knowledge is obtained through self-study!
1983 10, Hua revisited the United States and accepted the honorary title of foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences. This is the first time in the history of American Academy of Sciences 120 that this honorary title has been awarded to a scientist in China. The president of the American Academy of Sciences paid tribute to China and said, "He is a self-taught man, but he has educated millions of people."