1. Hua Luogeng?
In 1910, Hua Luogeng was born in Jintan, a small county in Jiangsu Province. When he was a child, his family was poor. His father opened a small grocery store in a small town and bought silk for others. The family lived a half-starved life. When Hua Luogeng was in junior high school, he developed a special interest in mathematics. His teacher Wang Weike valued this smart young man very much and often tutored him alone and gave him some difficult problems to solve, which benefited the young Hua Luogeng a lot. ?
After Hua Luogeng finished junior high school at Jintan Middle School, because his family could no longer afford to send him to school, he had to drop out and study in his father's small grocery store to help with the store management. But this young man who loves mathematics, although he is standing in front of the counter, he is always thinking about mathematics. Teacher Wang Weike lent him several mathematics textbooks: one in algebra, one in analytic geometry, and one in calculus.
Hua Luogeng followed these teachers who could not speak and entered the door of advanced mathematics. When Hua Luogeng was 18 years old, with the help of teacher Wang Weike, he worked as an accountant and in charge of school affairs at Jintan Middle School. He once recalled the difficult life at that time: "In addition to the heavy workload at school, I had to help with the affairs of the store in the morning and evening.
I couldn't go home until about 8 o'clock every night. I had to clean up the accounts of the store. After finishing his studies, he could study mathematics, often late at night. "Soon, typhoid fever was prevalent in Jintan County, and Hua Luogeng unfortunately fell ill and was bedridden for half a year. Later, the disease gradually recovered, but his left foot became bent and deformed, leaving him with a lifelong disability of lameness. ?
Hua Luogeng studied hard on his own while he was poor and ill. Not only did he read many books, he was also diligent in independent thinking and dared to challenge authority. When he was 19 years old, he discovered that a university professor had made a mistake in his paper.
So he wrote his own opinion into an article titled "The Reasons Why Su Jiaju's algebraic solution to the quintic equation cannot be established", which was published in the "Science" magazine in Shanghai the following year. Subsequently, Hua Luogeng published several mathematical papers in succession, signed as "Jintanren". ?
This "Jintan man" who rose to prominence on the mathematics forum attracted the attention of Professor Xiong Qinglai, chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University. When he found out that this mathematical prodigy turned out to be a young man who had only attended junior high school, he was deeply shocked and wrote a letter inviting Hua Luogeng to come to the Mathematics Department of Tsinghua University in Peking as an administrator.
After arriving at Tsinghua University, Hua Luogeng made faster progress. He taught himself English and German. At the age of 24, he was able to write mathematics papers in English. At the age of 25, his paper had attracted the attention of the foreign mathematics community.
At the age of 28, he became a professor at Southwest Associated University. Later, he was recommended by Professor Xiong Qinglai to study at the University of Cambridge in England. ? Hua Luogeng succeeded! After going through the bumpy road of self-study, he became a world-famous mathematics master. The foreign mathematics community commented on him: "The range of Professor Hua Luogeng's research works is enough to make him one of the top mathematicians in the world. one".
In the late 1940s, Hua Luogeng was hired by the University of Illinois as a professor there. Hua Luogeng had an excellent living and scientific research environment there: his house had 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a living room that could accommodate fifty or sixty people for a cocktail party. The university also equipped him with four assistants and a typist. ?
However, when the news of the founding of New China came, Hua Luogeng no longer missed the excellent conditions in the United States and embarked on a journey back to his motherland. He said: "In order to choose the truth, I should go back! For the sake of the country and the nation, I should go back! To serve the people, I should go back!"?
One day in 1950, this man already served as the chairman of the Chinese Academy of Sciences The famous professor who is the director of the Institute of Mathematics wrote the words "junior high school graduate" in the "educational level" column when filling out his household registration book. Although this surprises many people, it is a fact: he indeed only has a junior high school diploma.
Almost all of this mathematical master’s mathematical knowledge was acquired through self-study! ? In October 1983, Hua Luogeng returned to the United States and accepted the honorary title of foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences. This is the first time in the 120-year history of the National Academy of Sciences that this honorary title has been awarded to a Chinese scientist.
When paying tribute to Hua Luogeng, the President of the National Academy of Sciences said: "He is a self-taught person, but he has educated millions of people.
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2. Newton
When it comes to Newton, people may think that he must have been a “prodigy” or “genius” with extraordinary intelligence when he was a child. In fact, this was not the case. Newton was thin in childhood. , his mind is not bright. When he was studying in his hometown, his academic performance was second-rate, but his interests were wide-ranging and his game skills were higher than those of ordinary children.
He usually likes to make mechanical models, such as windmills, waterwheels, sundials, etc. He carefully made a water clock, which was highly praised for its accurate timekeeping.
Sometimes, his method of playing was very strange. One day, he made a lantern and hung it on the tail of the kite. When night fell, the lit lantern rose into the sky with the help of the kite's rising force, and people were excited. Shocked, he thought it was a comet. Despite this, he was often discriminated against because of his poor academic performance.
At that time, the British feudal society was very hierarchical. Discriminating against students who were not good at studying. During a recess game, when everyone was having fun, a good student kicked Newton and called him a fool. Newton was very angry because of this stimulation. /p>
He thought, we are both students, why should I be bullied by him? I must surpass him! From then on, Newton made up his mind to study hard and study hard. ? After hard work, Newton's academic performance continued to improve, and soon surpassed the classmate who had bullied him and ranked at the top of the class.
3. Hawking?
Talent is not innate, it is earned through perseverance and hard work. The world-famous scientist Hawking is a good example.
Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England on January 8, 1942. He was terminally ill when he was young, but he persevered and overcame the pain and became a famous scientist at home and abroad.
After graduating from Oxford University, Hawking went to Cambridge University to study for graduate school. He was diagnosed with "Lou Gehrig's disease" and soon became completely paralyzed. In 1985, Hawking underwent tracheal surgery for pneumonia. After that, he was completely unable to speak and relied on a small conversational machine and speech synthesizer installed in a wheelchair to communicate with him. People can talk;
Reading must rely on a machine that turns the pages of a book. When reading a document, you need to ask someone to spread out each page on a big table, and then he drives the wheelchair like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves. Read page by page...
But Hawking will not give up his desire to learn because of the torture of a small illness. It is in this unbelievable difficulty for ordinary people that he has become a world-recognized gravity force. A giant in physical science.
Hawking holds the position of Lucasian Chair Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University where Newton once served. His theory of black hole evaporation and quantum cosmology not only shocked the world of natural science, but also had a profound influence on philosophy and science. Religion also has a profound influence.
Hawking also published "A Brief History of Time" in April 1988, which has sold 5.5 million copies in 33 languages. Today, in the West, if people who claim to be educated have not read it. If you read this book, you will be looked down upon.
4. Kuang Heng used the light to read by chiseling a wall
Kuang Heng was a famous Confucian scholar in the Western Han Dynasty. He loved studying since he was a child and worked hard, but his family could not afford lamp oil and could not study at night. One night, while he was lying in bed silently reciting the "Book of Songs" he had read during the day, he noticed that the lights in his neighbor's house were brightly lit. Kuang Heng envied people who read under the light. He had an idea and borrowed the light from his neighbor's house to study.
Kuang Heng was thinking about how to borrow light to read. The light cast huge figures onto the wall, resembling monsters, dangling weirdly on the wall. Little Kuangheng had an idea: If I secretly dig a hole here, the light from next door can pass through the wall and shine into my small house. Can't I use this light to study?
He happily climbed out of bed, found a chisel, and dug a small hole in a remote place under the wall. In an instant, the light illuminated a small area. Kuang Heng quickly took out the "Book of Songs" from the bedside, moved to the small piece of precious light, and began to read it with concentration. Kuang Heng's parents were particularly pleased to see Kuang Heng working so hard, and at the same time they felt sad.
From then on, Kuang Heng helped adults with farm work in the fields during the day, and studied tirelessly at night with the help of a small beam of light borrowed from the house next door. After unremitting efforts, he finally became a generation of scholars.
5. Chen Jingrun studies seriously
When Chen Jingrun was a child, he often played hide-and-seek with his brothers and sisters. However, Chen Jingrun is a bit special when it comes to hide and seek. He often holds a book and hides it in a corner or under the table where others cannot easily find it. He reads with relish while waiting for others to "catch" him. As he watched, he forgot about others, and others forgot about him.
During school, Chen Jingrun loved mathematics. When the teacher explains math problems, he always concentrates and listens carefully. He also took the exercises assigned after class seriously. Chen Jingrun had endless fun in the process of solving problems. Mathematics is a test and contest of the mind. Chen Jingrun has always spared no time and energy in solving problems.
When Chen Jingrun doesn’t understand, he just asks. Although he is usually taciturn, he is not shy or timid when asking the teacher for advice. His way of asking for advice is very special: when he sees the teacher going out or the teacher going from the high school to the junior high school, he will chase after him and walk with the teacher for a while, asking questions while walking.
When Chen Jingrun was studying at Fuzhou Yinghua Middle School, he was fortunate enough to listen to Professor Shen Yuan of Tsinghua University’s class. Professor Shen Yuan told the students about a difficult mathematical problem in the world: "About 200 years ago, a German mathematician named Goldbach proposed that 'any even number can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers', referred to as '1' +1' theory.
But he did not prove it when he was born. Goldbach passed away with a lifetime of regrets, but left this mathematical problem for a long time. The mystery of the conjecture has attracted many mathematicians, but there has been no result, and it has become a major unsolved problem in the world of mathematics."
Professor Shen Yuan gave a vivid metaphor to the "Goldbach Conjecture". He likened mathematics to the queen of natural sciences and "Goldbach's conjecture" to the jewel in the queen's crown! The "Goldbach's conjecture" explained by Professor Shen Yuan attracted Chen Jingrun like a magnet.
Many years later, Chen Jingrun finally got his wish and entered the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1966, he published "Representing a large even number as the sum of a prime number and the product of no more than two prime numbers" (referred to as "1+2"), which was a milestone in the history of research on the "Goldbach Conjecture".
The theorem he proved shocked the international mathematical community, and was later named "Chen's theorem".
In learning, you need to have the spirit of hard work like Chen Jingrun. Only in this way can you overcome difficulties one after another and achieve great achievements. Teenagers will encounter some difficulties in their studies, so what should they do? Here are two methods for reference:
1. Prompt method: Let police officers and friends supervise themselves, and they should try their best to cooperate.
2. Self-control method: Find a goal for yourself. This goal must be what you care about most and are afraid of losing. Then work hard towards that goal. And you can post your goals in a conspicuous place to remind yourself.