China's huge population base determines that there are countless geniuses born in China. However, there is also an insurmountable gap between genius and genius. Among these geniuses, Yin Xi is obviously the more prominent one.
Yin Xi was once a student in the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China, as we all know, the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China is a place dedicated to providing teaching for some talented teenagers, and the people inside are all genius teenagers who are rare in a hundred years.
First, the young genius, the first signs
Genius, as the name suggests, is a natural talent. Yin Xi is similar to other geniuses in that he has shown a super talent for learning at a young age. It is said that Yin Xi was already fascinated by the university calculus course when he was in his second year.
Yin Xi's mother had a very clear plan for his daily study courses when he was a child. His mother's plan for him was to take some interest classes on Saturdays and then go out to the park on Sundays and get in touch with the natural environment.
However, every Sunday, Yin Xi always stayed at home and did not go out, often holding a book in his hand, and it was a long time to read. The seemingly endless act of holding a book is a very strange thing for a second-grader.
After all, children in elementary school are rarely able to find fun in books, because they are mostly playful. However, at a young age, Yin Xi showed his interest in being different from ordinary people, which also made his mother understand the differences in his children.
When Yin Xi's mother found that the textbook in her child's hand was actually a calculus course to be studied at the university, she was shocked and angry at the same time, because she thought it was a waste of time, after all, how could a second-year student understand the university curriculum?
Therefore, Yin Xi's mother quickly put away several related calculus books, and she did not want her children to look far away without laying a good foundation and read some books that were not beneficial to his current development.
But after Yin Xi's mother returned home from a week's business trip, she found that her children had read books about calculus again. It turned out that during the time when his mother was not at home, Yin Xi persuaded his father to let himself read these books.
In the end, Yin Xi's mother was also persuaded by him. Because in Yin Xi's view, reading these books not only will not be incomprehensible, but also enjoy it. After yin xi's mother experienced these things, she finally realized that her child was different from others.
At first, Yin Xi's mother just thought that her child was smarter than the other children, so she would agree with her child's idea of skipping grades. But a series of subsequent events show that she still underestimated Yin Xi's intelligence.
Because Yin Xi, the child, is not just a little smarter than the usual child, he is simply a genius among geniuses, and his ability to absorb and understand knowledge is even far beyond some adults.
Second, enter the children's genius class, and then be admitted to the University of Science and Technology of China
It didn't take long for Yin Xi to skip the third grade and become a transfer student. At that time, the Chinese teacher did not understand his transfer class very well, because in the eyes of this Chinese teacher, the language learning between the second and third grades was more critical, and it was not achieved overnight.
But then, after Yin Xi's composition won the first prize, the teacher also recognized yin Xi's difference from other ordinary children. Later, when Yin Xi was nine and a half years old, he was officially admitted to the extraordinary education experimental class of beijing eighth middle school at that time.
Every child in this extraordinary education experimental class of Beijing No. 8 Middle School is one of the smartest children, and Yin Xi, who is only nine and a half years old, is the younger of these more than thirty children. Every time the class was taken, he had to stand in the first row.
After entering this extraordinary education experimental class, Yin Xi's achievements in mathematics and physics burst out at a speed visible to the naked eye. Perhaps this interest in science stemmed from the calculus course books he watched in the second grade of elementary school.
But sometimes surprisingly clever, but also bring some unnecessary misunderstandings. For example, Once, Yin Xi's math teacher complained to Yin Xi's mother, saying that he never took notes in math class and did not change his teaching.
After learning about the situation, Yin Xi's mother quickly conducted a conversation education for Yin Xi. She sees this behavior as an act of pride and complacency and disrespect for the teacher. But Yin Xi said that he had already memorized it all in his head and did not need to take notes at all.
In order to confirm the authenticity of his words, Yin Xi quickly took a piece of paper, and then began to draw on the paper, all the auxiliary lines were out, and each topic was clearly written.
After this incident, they no longer had too many requirements for Yin Xi's class performance. After all, for such a genius, his ability to listen carefully to the lectures is enough to show the importance of classroom knowledge. Conversely, it means that the content of the class is tasteless to him.
It is said that children with excellent IQ always have a clear plan for their future, and Yin Xi is the best proof. At an age when other children were obsessed with playing, he had already determined his goal of entering college in three years.
After Yin Xi was admitted to the children's class, he had already decided that he would enter the university in three years. His teacher also agreed to this request after carefully analyzing his learning ability and the level of learning in all aspects.
As a result, Yin Xi, who studied in the children's class, had more choices and personal free learning space. It is said that when Yin Xi and his mother went to see the examination room, an interesting thing happened.
The staff in the examination room at that time thought that the young Yin Xi was a child who ran here to play, and almost blew him out. It was not until after the explanation that people knew that this young child was actually a genius who wanted to take the college entrance examination.
After the college entrance examination, 12-year-old Yin Xi entered the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China as desired. He was very popular on campus at a younger age, and those who were older than him liked to touch his head when they looked at his youthful appearance.
3. Study in the United States and become a professor at Harvard University
After studying the curriculum of the University of Science and Technology of China, Yin Xi was admitted to the Harvard University School of Physics for a doctorate in 2001. Yin Xi, who entered Harvard, is more obsessed with learning, and every day he tirelessly absorbs fresh knowledge, sometimes even to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep.
During the winter break of a particular year, the professor assigned a bunch of homework on string theory. The professor's original intention was actually to let the students complete as much as they could, after all, it was almost impossible to complete it all.
Yin Xi obviously did not think so, because he had devoted almost all his time and effort to this area of great interest to himself. He spent almost every day of his winter vacation doing problems, and often did not sleep until three or four o'clock in the morning.
But after not sleeping long, Yin Xi will wake up again, even if he is hungry, he will continue to do the problem. In order to save time for eating, his meals are relatively simple most of the time, and he will choose to fill his stomach quickly and then continue to do the problem.
By the end of the vacation, Yin Xi had finally completed all the topics the professor had given, and even the professor was very surprised. His winter vacation assignments are full of more than eighty pages, which bring together all the learning results of his entire winter vacation.
Later, Yin Xi stayed at Harvard for postdoctoral work. He said that the reason why he stayed at Harvard was mainly to stay in the open learning atmosphere there, and he believed that his study at Harvard was not over, and he could learn more knowledge here.
Therefore, Yin Xi has not returned to China until now, and he also joined the United States during his stay in the United States. Such a physical genius who stayed in the United States did cause many people to be dissatisfied. But freedom to come and go is the most basic right of the people, and no one can interfere with his decisions.
More importantly, Yin Xi's status in the United States is actually not low. In 2006, he was invited to give a 30-minute lecture at the International Conference on String Theory.
At that time, more than 600 scientists from all over the world were sitting under the stage and listening, but Yin Xi could talk calmly and calmly on the stage, and his ability was really admirable, worthy of being a genius teenager who had attracted every attention since childhood.
Since 2008, Yin Xi has served as an assistant professor and associate professor in the physics department of Harvard. As an associate professor at Harvard University, he was not satisfied with his current achievements, and he never gave up research in the field of physics that interested him.
For example, black hole entropy in quantum gravity, and supersymmetric bound states in string theory, etc., are his research areas. It was his absolute seriousness and responsibility for his work and research that earned him the Sloan Prize for Research in 2013.
With a serious attitude and excellent talent, Yin Xi was officially promoted to full professor at Harvard University on September 4, 2015. It is worth mentioning that Yin Xi is the youngest Chinese full professor in the history of Harvard University.
epilogue
Although many people are still angry about the physical genius staying in the United States to teach talent and provide research results in the United States, the determined Yin Xi has not paid the slightest attention to and cared about this.
For Yin Xi, his personal hobbies and physics research are the focus of life, and the discussion of others will not have any impact on him, and this mentality is also the main reason why he can always move forward in the field of physics.
Of course, Yin Xi, who focuses on physics research, has not forgotten his personal life. It is said that he was already married and his daughter was already a teenager. Therefore, today's Yin Xizhen can be described as a career and family.
Yin Xi once said that he was not satisfied with the academic research environment in China, so he still preferred the relatively free academic research environment in the United States. However, I still hope that he can understand that serving the motherland is always the best choice.