A. Chen Jingrun
B. Wu Wenjun
C. Chen Shengshen
D. Pan Chengdong
Chen Jingrun is a famous mathematician in modern China and an academician of China Academy of Sciences. He has made remarkable achievements in analytic number theory and made a major breakthrough in the study of Goldbach conjecture, a world-famous mathematical problem. Chen Jingrun 1935 was born in a family of post and telecommunications workers in Minhou Town, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. There are many children at home and poor economic conditions.
Chen Jingrun was weak, introverted and unsociable when he was a child, so he was laughed at, abused and even beaten by his friends. But he has a strong interest in mathematics, and once he enters the kingdom of mathematics, he cares nothing. Later, Chen Jingrun entered Huaying Middle School in Fuzhou.
One day, the teacher told the students a famous problem in number theory: 1742. The German mathematician Goldbach found that any even number can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers. He tested many even numbers and the results were all correct. But he can't prove it, he can only call it speculation.
He wrote to Euler, a famous mathematician at that time, asking him to help prove it, but Euler didn't give Goldbach the proof he wanted until his death. For more than 200 years, many mathematicians have tried to prove it, but all failed.