After Hua Yu 1925 graduated from middle school, he was admitted to Shanghai China Vocational School because his father could not afford to go to college. His father tried his best to raise money to send Hua to school, but Hua couldn't adapt to the education here. One day, a teacher put the homework he had just finished reading on the lecture table in class and shouted with an expression:
"China! Why didn't you do such a simple question right? "
Hua looked at the angry teacher and stood up and said, "teacher, I didn't do anything wrong." I did this for a reason. "
"Is there any other reason?" The teacher was even more angry and waved at him and said, "Then come up and talk to me."
So Hua took to the rostrum. He picked up the chalk and wrote his own unique method of solving problems on the blackboard without thinking. Then he turned to the students and told them his idea of solving the problem. After he finished, the students whispered:
"He did nothing wrong. His method is very good, and the teacher must have read it wrong. "
The angry teacher can't get off the stage for a while. He looked at Hua angrily and found a reason to lecture him more than once, which made Hua very dissatisfied with the education in the school. Coupled with the financial difficulties at home, there was no money to pay tuition fees. After studying for a year, Hua dropped out of school and didn't even get a diploma. After Hua came home, he helped to manage the business in the store.
Although Hua stopped going to school, he didn't stop studying math. He often stands at the counter, while selling things to settle accounts, while reading math books, sometimes calculating, sometimes encountering problems and studying day and night. Because he is often absent-minded, the business of the shop is getting worse and worse. Once, a customer came to buy a towel and asked, how much is it?
"26867。" Hua casually said some performances just now without looking.
As soon as the customer listens, he turns away.
Seeing this, father flew into a rage. If he takes it away, he will burn the math book and calculus paper in Hua's hand. He thinks his son is stupid in these things.
When Hua 18 years old, he was unfortunately infected with typhoid fever because of his hard life and poor diet. Although he survived under the careful care of his family, his left leg joint was deformed and he could no longer walk like a normal person. People who know him can't help sighing for what happened to him when they see him limping on the road. However, Hua firmly believes that since I can't do other work, I'd better study math. I don't need any equipment in this business. I just need a pen and a piece of paper.
Since then, Hua has devoted himself to mathematics. He saved money by subscribing to Science magazine, bought many math books, and persisted in studying math. At the same time, he began to write some articles about mathematics and put them in magazines. Although many articles were returned at first, he didn't lose heart and continued to write. 1930, he published a paper in Shanghai Science magazine, questioning the theory of a professor of mathematics. At that time, Xiong Qinglai, head of the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University, saw this article and greatly appreciated it. When he learned that it was from a young man who was only 19 years old, he was shocked and said, "This young man is not simple. He should be invited to Tsinghua. "
193 1 year, under the arrangement of Xiong qinglai, Hua went to Tsinghua to work as a teaching assistant in the Department of Mathematics. His usual job is just sorting out books and sending and receiving documents. In this way, we will have more time to go to class and study math. Under the careful guidance of Xiong Qinglai, China has made rapid progress. He studies hard while working hard. In just one and a half years, he took all the courses in the department of mathematics and taught himself English, German and French. He sent three papers, all of which were published in foreign magazines. At that time, it was difficult for university professors to publish papers in international magazines, so Tsinghua University decided to hire Huawei teachers. In this way, a 24-year-old young man with only a junior high school diploma entered the ranks of teachers in Tsinghua University.
Later, with the help of Xiong Qinglai, Hua got the opportunity to study at Cambridge University in England. He studied hard there, and at the same time wrote a paper on 18, and put forward his own views. Hua's paper made a breakthrough in some outstanding problems in mathematics at that time, which amazed the world-class mathematics authorities at that time.
1950, after returning to China, Hua was hired as Professor Tsinghua University, despite the very difficult working and living conditions: a family of seven people was squeezed into two small old houses. But he still wrote more than 20 mathematical papers and completed a series of academic works under the dim small oil lamp.
Looking back on his own growth process, Hua wrote the following words: hard work is the first, and skill gives birth to hundreds of tricks. Diligence is a good training, and one point of hard work is one point of talent. This can also be regarded as the secret of his growth from a junior high school graduate to a world-famous math master.