Mention the name Chen Youwei, people's first impression is probably unfamiliar, but he is the only son of mathematician Chen Jingrun. Chen Youwei's life experience is not as brilliant and dazzling as his father's, but it also has his own color.
Chen Youwei's learning process is quite rich, chen Youwei in his youth, rebellious personality, independent and independent; he is far away from mathematics, and he chose liberal arts in high school and then studied business.
However, Chen Youwei during his study abroad, realized himself, worked hard, transferred to mathematics and learned a master's degree; after returning to China, Chen Youwei calmly faced the identity of "the son of a mathematician" and was proud.
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Speaking of modern Chinese mathematicians, Mr. Chen Jingrun has written his own legendary story; he is mainly engaged in the research of analytic number theory, and has achieved internationally leading results in the study of the Goldbach conjecture.
He proved the proposition "1+2" in May 1966, taking the proof of the Goldbach conjecture, which had not been solved for more than 200 years, a step further.
In the impression of the neighbors, Chen Jingrun is an introverted and even a little lonely, often alone, or reading a book, or writing something on paper.
Perhaps the world of genius is always lonely, until 1977, Chen Jingrun, who is nearly half a hundred years old, met his future wife Yukun by chance, and their love story began. And 3 years later, they entered the marriage hall. After 1 year of marriage, there was the crystallization of love - Chen Youwei!
The year Chen Youwei was born, Yu Kun was also more than thirty years old, is an elderly mother, Chen Jingrun looked at the wife who had a caesarean section in the operating room so hard, decided to name the child "By Chen Wei". "By Chen" is a surname, and the single name is a "Wei" character.
His wife's last name is in front and his last name is in the back, and he wants the child to remember that he has a great mother. Yu Kun felt that the name was too awkward, and finally Chen Jingrun changed his son's name to the current Chen Youwei.
Chen Jingrun's childhood experience was quite bumpy, his family was poor, and his mother was plagued by diseases. After the death of his thirteen-year-old mother, his father remarried because Chen Jingrun did not feel much warmth brought by the family. Fortunately, in the year of his destiny, he had such a happy family.
In addition to academic rigor, mathematicians can also be tender and romantic, and he gives his full love to his wife and children. You can put down the study to go shopping with your wife and play with your son. I am also full of expectations for my son's future, hoping that he can be better than himself.
When he was a child, Chen Youwei was naughty and naughty, often disassembling his own toys to check the structure inside, and the whole toy was a mess, which made his mother Yukun very mad.
However, his father, Chen Jingrun, admired Xiao Youwei's curiosity and accompanied him like a friend to disassemble and assemble toys to cultivate his ability to explore and discover.
His father's aura was too dazzling, and Chen Youwei became the focus of the world when he was a student, and his every move attracted much attention.
Neighbors often ask him: "You are Chen Jingrun's son, you must have studied mathematics very well, right?" Do you like mathematics, Hua Luogeng Mathematics Competition, have you won the prize, have you enrolled in a math class? ”
If there is a father, there must be a son, and the outside world believes that Chen Youwei must inherit his father's business and develop in the field of mathematics, but everyone ignores that children are rebellious.
The rebellion of adolescence did not care about mathematics; the more the neighbors asked, the more Chen Yuwei wanted to stay away from mathematics. He was even afraid that others would argue that such a problem could not be solved or the son of a mathematician, which would humiliate his father.
His father's achievements gave Chen Youwei a high starting point, and he was worried that if he learned mathematics, he would not meet his father's requirements. Will the father be disappointed, will the outside world be disappointed, what will happen if the new star in the mathematical world they are looking forward to does not rise?
The identity of the mathematician's son has become a shackle, locking Chen Youwei's heart of exploration of mathematics.
Although Chen Jingrun also hopes that his son can inherit his career, he and his wife Yukun enrolled their son in a math class, but Chen Youwei only went to a few classes and stopped going. The son was so rebellious, the mother was angry, and Chen Jingrun was not angry.
He told Yukun that children have their own ideas, he has the right to choose his own life, and we should follow him and respect his choices.
Chen Jingrun did not understand the trumpet that his son learned, and he called the instrument a trumpet. Whenever his son played, he would watch happily from the sidelines.
His father's tolerance and understanding lit up Chen Youwei's student days, when he took the initiative to learn his homework and achieved excellent results. However, the strict management of the mother in the later period made the adolescent boys afraid to learn mathematics. When he was divided into liberal arts and sciences in high school, he resolutely chose the liberal arts.
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On March 19, 1996, more than 10 years after suffering from Parkinson's syndrome, Chen Jingrun finally died of respiratory and circulatory failure at the age of 63 due to aggravation caused by complications of sudden pneumonia. His last dedication to the cause of science was the donation of the remains for hospital autopsies.
He left behind the regret of not fully completing goldbach's conjecture, and also left a concern for his wife and children, that year Chen Youwei was only 14 years old!
At this time, Chen Youwei became much calmer because of his father's departure, but he was still a teenager after all, and like his peers, he had the willfulness and arrogance of adolescence.
After the death of his father, Chen Youwei also had a short confusion about his life path, without the shroud of his father's mathematician aura, Chen Youwei was also exploring the road he wanted to take while missing his father.
At that time, because of his father's departure, he was unwilling to do anything, and he was immersed in grief and could not extricate himself. Seeing his mother running and working hard for life, Chen Youwei knew that it was time for him to grow up.
As a teenager, he finally grew up, and for the first time, he decided to put down his favorite music and study business to earn money to support his family.
In 2003, Chen Youwei chose to study abroad to study business, and in a foreign country, no one knew him, and no one knew that he was the son of the famous mathematician Chen Jingrun. The word "mathematics" seems to have completely disappeared from his life.
Getting rid of the mathematical shadow that has plagued him for many years, he faced his heart for the first time, at this time he re-understood the aura and shackles that his father had brought to him for many years, a thought emerged, and it was out of control, I wanted my son to inherit his father's business, I wanted to learn mathematics, I wanted to be like my father, to become an excellent mathematician.
Picking up the fragments of memory, it was that afternoon when the father and son were alone, the father was doing research on the side, Chen Youwei was doing homework, and the father suddenly asked him a question: How much is the addition from 1 to 10?
The simple problem of adding numbers did not bother Chen Youwei, he picked up a pen and calculated on the paper: 1 + 2, 1 + 2 + 3 ... When he finished, my father said I will tell you another way of calculating: with 1 + 9, 2 + 8 ... 4 + 6, these are equal to 40, and finally count 5 and 10, the final result is 55.
He told his mother of his choice—to switch to mathematics—and her mother was silent, but did not refute it.
Some things that are destined to escape cannot be escaped.
Finally, Chen Youwei followed the path his father had followed, and Chen Youwei switched from liberal arts to mathematics.
At first, Chen Youwei felt that he had the confidence to transfer to mathematics because his mathematical performance in business was particularly good, but when he really transferred to the mathematics department, the mathematics of the mathematics department and the mathematics of the business department were two concepts.
Mathematics is difficult, but Chen Youwei understands how to get plum blossoms without ten years of cold window, Chen Youwei chose the most stupid learning method: brushing problems. When there is no class, I soak in the library every day to learn, from basic knowledge to professional theory, and slowly absorb.
Whenever he took the exam, he would go to find a copy of "Number Theory" and put it next to him, because it had his father's "Chen's Theorem" on it, as if his father had always been by my side with him.
He also used this to cheer himself up, and quietly told his father in his heart: Bless your son to pass the exam.
Without his father's tutoring, no one knew that he was the son of the famous mathematician Chen Jingrun, and in the first year after the transfer, Chen Youwei had a very difficult life. Perhaps it was the body that flowed with the blood of a mathematician, and his mathematics slowly kept pace.
When he was in graduate school, he once wanted to give up mathematics, but the teacher encouraged him: Your mathematics is getting better and better, it is very promising, keep it up!
In the end, Chen Youwei completed the master's program in mathematics, but stopped at the doctorate, he once said very frankly: Mathematics is really difficult, I admire my father.
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Chen Youwei returned to China to work, his original intention of transferring to mathematics, perhaps the thought of his father, perhaps want to be like his father, walk in the field of mathematics, look at the scenery that his father had seen, and look for the footprints left by his father.
In the seemingly rebellious youth years, Chen Youwei always had a sense of guilt for his father in his heart, and also a reverence for mathematics.
After really learning mathematics, he was able to face his father's expectations calmly and no longer live up to the name of "son of a famous mathematician".
He said to his mother, "Finally I have a face to sweep my father's grave," and when asked, he could proudly say, "Yes, I also studied mathematics."
Chen Youwei did not work in mathematics, and he knew that his father would support his choice, just as he had accompanied him to dismantle a toy. He kept mathematics in mind. While thinking about my father, I can also proudly say to my father: I have also stepped into the land of mathematics and seen the footprints you left behind.
At first, Chen Youwei chose to work in a bank, but later started his own business and opened a medical company to engage in health-related business.
He said: This may be regarded as a child inheriting his mother's business, who was a doctor at Beijing 309 Hospital and is now retired at home.
Choosing the high-quality health and medical management service industry is not only because this is Chen Youwei's favorite career, but also because it is related to his father who has been hospitalized for a long time. Chen Jingrun has been hospitalized since he can remember, and for more than a decade, wherever his father was hospitalized, they went. The hospital was arguably his second home.
My parents met and met in the hospital, and most of their childhood was spent in the hospital. In the hospital, mother and son were separated from their fathers, and since then they have been separated. Today, the hospital has also become a new starting point for Chen Youwei's life...
Chen Youwei inherits the spiritual legacy left by his father in his own way, like his father, shines in his favorite field and contributes to the development of the motherland.