The story of mathematician Hua The famous mathematician Hua is from Jintan, Jiangsu. He was born on June 5438+09 10 165438+ 10/2. His rough life experience is legendary. His diligence and experience shaped his personality and career. He devoted all his life to the cause of mathematics in the motherland, published nearly 300 papers or monographs, and made outstanding and great contributions to human mathematics research. Hua has been fascinated by mathematics since he was a child. 1925 after graduating from junior high school, he was unable to enter senior high school because of his poor family, so he had to study accounting in the Chinese vocational school founded by Huang Yanpei in Shanghai, in order to find a job similar to accounting to support his family. In less than a year, due to the high cost of living, I was forced to drop out of school and go back to Jintan to help my father manage the grocery store. In the monotonous life of standing at the counter, he began to teach himself mathematics. Recalling the time when he studied hard, his sister Hua Lianqing said, "Although it was winter, Luo Geng was still reading his math book at the checkout counter. When the nose ran down, he wiped it with his left hand and threw it aside. He didn't shake it off. He just held out his hand and kept writing with his right hand ... "At that time, Luo Geng stood in front of the counter, waiting for customers to come, and helped his father do business, calculate abacus and keep accounts. As soon as the customer left, he buried himself in reading and solving math problems. Sometimes I am in a daze, forget to receive the customer, and even take the calculation result as the payment payable by the customer, which surprises the customer. Because similar inexplicable things often happen, after a long time, his neighbors treat him as a joke, and everyone has nicknamed him "Luo Daku". Whenever something happens that neglects customers, my father is angry and anxious, saying that he is too tired to read the "heavenly book" and wants to burn the book forcibly. When an argument occurs, Hua always clings to the book. Once, a woman went to buy cotton. Hua is solving a math problem. How much does it cost to buy a bag of cotton? However, diligent Hua didn't hear it, so she answered the calculated answer. The woman screamed, "Why is it so expensive?" At this time, Hua knew that someone was coming to buy cotton, so he said the price. The woman bought a bag of cotton and left. When Hua was about to sit down and continue to calculate, he found that the toilet paper that had just been calculated was taken away by the woman. China is anxious to catch up desperately. A rickshaw master asked him to chase by car and finally caught up with him. Hua said shyly, "Aunt, please … please give me back the toilet paper." The woman said angrily, "This is the money I paid, not you." Hua was in a hurry and said, "How about this! I paid for it. " When she reached out for money in China, the woman seemed to be moved by the child. She not only asked for money, but also returned the toilet paper to him. At this time, HuaCai slightly relieved. After returning home, he counted it again ... when he was young, he was disabled due to illness, and he almost fell into a desperate situation. After lying in bed for half a year, although he recovered, he left a lifelong disability-deformity of the left leg joint and limping. He was only 19 years old at that time. In that confused, confused and almost desperate day, he remembered Sun Bin who wrote The Art of War after his legs were crippled. "The ancients can still be physically and mentally disabled. I'm only 19 years old, so there's no reason to give up. I want to replace my imperfect legs with a sound mind! " Young Hua is so tenacious in fighting against fate. During the day, he dragged his sick leg, endured severe joint pain and worked with crutches. In the evening, he taught himself late into the night under the oil lamp. 1930, his paper was published in Science magazine, which alarmed Professor Xiong Qinglai, head of the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University. Later, Tsinghua University hired him as a teaching assistant. He taught himself English, German and French in four years, published ten papers, and worked as a teaching assistant in the famous Tsinghua campus. By the time he was 25 years old, he was already an internationally renowned young scholar. 1936 went to Cambridge University for further study. Hua is also a patriot. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he resolutely returned to China to teach and take part in anti-Japanese activities. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, due to the bad domestic political environment, he went to the United States at the invitation of Boston University in the autumn of 1946, and was hired as a professor to conduct mathematics research while teaching. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he responded to the call of the motherland, broke through many obstacles with a heart of serving the country and returned to the embrace of the motherland at the beginning of 1950. After returning to China, he successively served as Professor Tsinghua University, Director of the Institute of Mathematics of China Academy of Sciences, Director and Vice President of the Department of Mathematics of China University of Science and Technology, Vice President of China Academy of Sciences, Vice President of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress. During the ten-year catastrophe, China was not spared and became the object of dictatorship of the Gang of Four. What "smelly Laojiu", "reactionary academic authority" and "external relations". Although the Gang of Four was protected by Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou, they still interfered in secret, spread rumors and slandered, hid in a dark corner, and framed and personally attacked China. Even in that dark day, Hua never gave up theoretical research and persistent pursuit of his career. It embodies a scientist's infinite loyalty to the party and the people. After the downfall of the Gang of Four, science in China ushered in a spring of great development. Hua worked selflessly in spite of illness. Even in the hospital ward, he studied day and night, regardless of rest, and wrote tens of thousands of words of "Mathematical Methods and National Economy, Preface and Theory of China" for comments. 1985 during a visit to Japan to give lectures in June, he collapsed on the platform due to a heart attack and completed a long, tortuous, complicated and changeable life journey. In seventy-four, he entered the resplendent hall of knowledge from poor and remote towns; Wandering overseas from the devastated old China, he broke through many obstacles and returned from overseas. In order to find the road to prosperity in China, he made numerous explorations. He galloped in the "kingdom of mathematics" all his life, and finally finished his life in the mathematics forum and realized his promise: "I will work until the last moment." What does Hua's life experience tell us? My answer is: it is difficult to produce bright, fragrant, cold-resistant and proud snowflakes in the greenhouse. Only when people are tempered by hardships can they hope to succeed. China has left us precious spiritual wealth, inspiring us to love our country and science, strive for self-improvement and strive for progress.