I don't like to shop for a number of reasons. But there is an exception to the street, which must be visited every day. On the street, there are eight lanes and nine stranges, there are mourning and joy; there are thousands of forms and dazzling. The street is like this, my heart is like this. Over time, habit has become habitual, and I have to go around the street sooner or later.
This street is called "Pozi Street". It is not an ordinary street market, but a literary supplement of Taizhou Evening News. Why is a Jiang Zuo person so concerned about Jiang Zuo's newspapers? Because there are strange stories and anecdotes on the street, and they are real and grounded, they can often pluck my heartstrings and resonate with me. Just like the other day, I heard the editor-in-chief of the newspaper come to the foreground to guide an article, which made me feel hot and hungry, busy, and difficult to calm down for a long time. It seems that some words are not said, not enough to calm down.
Zhai Ming's editor-in-chief read an article he published in Pozi Street last year. The protagonist in the text is named Liu Hanqing, a native of Houmu Village, Dainan Town, Xinghua City. At the age of 16 (1980), he was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology and became the "proud son of heaven" that everyone envied. At that time, Hitachi University of Technology was a key university, and now "985" and "211" are integrated, which is a "double first-class" famous school in China. What does it mean to graduate from here? Self-explanatory. At that time, he studied heat treatment of building materials, which was also a hot topic at the moment, but he was restless, "not blessed", and did not study number theory properly, and eventually could only return to his hometown. Even if he returns home, he can achieve things, start a family, and live a decent life with his mental strength. But he didn't make a living, didn't think about his family, and spent his days engaged in mathematical research in the wind and rainy tile house, and it was decades. Today, he only relies on the government's low income to survive, but still has not let go of his "wishful thinking". This is anecdote, it is a strange thing. I am afraid that it is an exaggeration to say that there are no ancients before and no comers after, but it seems that it is not satisfactory to describe it as a rare encounter in a hundred years and liao liao.
Could it be insanity? Many people say yes! Zhai Mingwen wrote that one Sunday in 1987, he went to see Liu Hanqing, the door was open, Liu Hanqing was taking a nap, after being woken up, sitting on the edge of the bed, beard pulled, long hair hanging down the shoulders. Next to the bed was a large half-human-tall vat containing rice, dozens of math books were scattered on the lid, and inside an enamel teapot, cigarette butts were piled up into hills. Very cold to people, ask a sentence, answer half a sentence. This is not crazy in the eyes of the average person, what is it?! Many people outside the village said he was a "nerve", and his parents were worried that he would go crazy. Moreover, it is not uncommon for some geniuses in history to "go into the fire". Tao Chengdao at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty was such an obsessive and crazy person. When Tao was young, he loved alchemy and good firearms, and he repeatedly built up his miracles in various wars, and was given the title of "Ten Thousand Households" by Ming Taizu, which can be described as a success. However, he did not love Rongli and still wanted to fly, using gunpowder to make 47 "rockets" with himself tied to a chair, holding two kites in both hands, dreaming of flying into space to see the sky. The subordinates were afraid of the explosion and did not dare to ignite the fire. He looked up at the sky and laughed and said that flying in the sky was my long-cherished wish for many years, even if I was crushed to pieces and blood splashed on the heavens, I would also break out a way to explore the sky for future generations! After igniting the fire, he was unfortunately killed and sacrificed his life. Therefore, recognized by the world as the "ancestor of spaceflight", the International Astronomical Union named a craters on the moon as "Wanhu Mountain". Liu Hanqing loves football and talks about stars, such as several family treasures. Love philosophy, often quote Nietzsche's Zarathustra when talking. Also love poetry, wrote a large book, handwriting Juan Xiu. Of course, his favorite thing is math. He says that the problems he studied are solved, and many of the difficult problems in number theory will be solved. "So you're so reckless?" "No, I study number theory, mainly because number theory is so beautiful. That kind of beauty is not something that ordinary people can appreciate. Obviously, Liu Hanqing is a normal person with faith, pursuit, knowledge, and feelings. How can a person with both figurative thinking and logical thinking ability, and who can abstract the beauty of number theory from figurative number problems, go crazy? In his heart, there is poetry and far away that is not understood by ordinary people, this poem is the beauty of number theory, and the distance is to overcome the world problem of the distribution of prime numbers in natural numbers. "People who haven't cried bitterly in the long night are not worthy to talk about life." Who can say that Liu Hanqing is "nervous"? Taking a step back, even if you have "nerves", you are also very crazy "spiritual"!
Is Liu Hanqing a loser? Many people think, yes. He has been obsessed with the study of number theory for decades, what are the results? In this moment when the process is not important, only the result, but the hero is based on success or failure, who can see through and think through? But I think he has results, a kind of achievement that is difficult for ordinary people to understand and figure out! He had written a 15-page paper, but it could not be published and was recognized by authority. The details of the "two letters" in the text are intriguing to read. One was sent from the Internet by a Norwegian mathematician who said he had always been interested in the problem Liu Hanqing studied. After reading the paper, there is a place on the fifth page that is not very clear, and I hope that the author will make further explanations; one was written by a professor surnamed Pan of Peking University, who pointed out that there was an error on the fifth page of the paper, saying that "there is no need to read it next." In this regard, Liu Hanqing gave an explanation, this question or error, but he did not expand the discussion. "I'm solving a problem that no one has solved for hundreds of years. Who judges right from wrong? Even if someone could judge, he did not dare to take a stand casually. Who would take the risk for an unknown person like me? "Then why not add to it? Liu Hanqing wrote an explanation of the question raised by the Norwegian mathematicians, but unfortunately, many years later, "the mud cow entered the sea"; to the direct denial of Professor Pan, Liu Hanqing's answer was also very crisp, and there was no need to add to the discussion, because "he had already concluded that I was wrong before reading my paper." "For me, a number blind, whether Liu Hanqing's statement is appropriate or not, there is no way to judge, it is impossible to infer. But I imagined that page 5 of this "damn" could be a "hurdle" or a "stem." Whether it is a can or a stem, the 15-page paper actually lets the "scholars" see page 5 to find the problem, which is not an ordinary result. Perhaps, this is a stepping stone on the road of number theory, or a ladder to ascend after learning. Admittedly, this may just be my wishful thinking and whimsy.
Is there no "confidant" of Liu Hanqing in this world? No, there are, and not many. He postponed his studies for a year, but he also failed to graduate, and a female professor shed tears of regret, representing the tolerance and enlightenment of the school; his classmate Chen Guoying made a special trip to hit the Harbin Institute of Technology to persuade him to study, and later published Liu Hanqing's thesis on the Internet, which attracted the attention of international scholars; and Corporal Ding Xiemin Lixian, a "parent official", personally inquired about Liu Hanqing's numerical theory research in a busy time, and gave great affirmation and help as much as possible; and a class of classmates opened a classmate association for Liu Hanqing in Beijing and jointly funded the renovation of Liu Hanqing's three old houses Even the professor surnamed Pan, who spared no time to read Liu Hanqing's papers, seemed to be an encouragement and encouragement. Unfortunately, Liu Hanqing did not have Zhang Yuliang's luck and was fortunate to meet Pan Zanhua; not to mention the mathematical talent Luo Geng, who was so lucky that he was gracious to be invited to Tsinghua University to specialize in number theory. Fortunately, Liu Hanqing met Zhai Ming, a classmate who had only been in the same window for one year. In the text, Zhai Ming did not pay much attention to himself, but I could see that the sincerity, thickness, and dedication of liu Hanqing made people strangle their wrists and make people cry. It was he who walked into Liu Hanqing's humble house many times and turned an untrimmed scruffy ghost into a white-faced scholar with a beard who shaved his beard frequently; it was he who, running in all directions and lobbying in many places, let a dying enthusiast live in this world with dignity although he was not very decent; it was he, decades later, who did not forget his original intention, was always consistent, and still tirelessly drummed and shouted with the compassion that a media person should have. Mr. Liaozhai said that if you have a heart for good, you will not be rewarded for good; if you have no heart, you will not be punished if you have no heart for evil. Over the past few years, Zhai Ming's intention to Liu Hanqing is not to be good, it can be said that his intention is to forget himself and even know that he is selfless; Liu Hanqing's troubles with Zhai Ming and others are not evil in his heart, but is a mirror and a good deed for society. Love is priceless, love is deep. Forgive me for sitting in the well for a long time, unable to accurately express the emotions between Zhai Ming and Liu Hanqing. But I also saw a ray of light in it, a light like a star. It is this light that illuminates Liu Hanqing's way forward. Only with more such light will there be more such righteousness, great love, and great beauty in the world.
At this point, the sky was bright, and a ray of sunlight came from the south window. I would also like to say that basic scientific research requires someone to sit on the cold bench, and even a fanatical devotee who does not care about gains and losses. For people like Liu Hanqing, not only do they need "low protection", but also "special protection". I also hope that Liu Hanqing, who is nearly a year old, can usher in the warm winter sun of life and walk on the road of number theory research with dignity...