#2023年度创作挑战#
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The mainland is a big country of talents, in recent years, more and more scientific research scholars have gained countless honors and recognition in the world, for these talents, how to retain them is the most critical, many people choose to go abroad because of various attractive conditions abroad, and many people stay there directly after graduation.
In general, the brain drain in the mainland is still relatively serious, but there is a Peking University mathematics genius, a rising star in the scientific research community, but after graduation, he chose to return to China to serve the motherland, but only 6 years, this mathematical genius Xu Chenyang decisively resigned from his position in China and chose to go to the United States.
What is the reason behind all this? Perhaps the three sentences left by Xu Chenyang before leaving can solve our confusion.
A veritable mathematical genius
Xu Chenyang has been an out-and-out scholar since he was a child, and can even be called a genius, he was born in Chongqing in 1981 in an intellectual family, although the family is not very wealthy, but his parents attach great importance to Xu Chenyang's education, and are willing to pay for his Xi.
When he was a child, Xu Chenyang showed a sensitivity to numbers, many people found math problems boring, but Xu Chenyang found them very interesting, and sometimes he could even stare at a problem all day without crying or making trouble.
After his parents discovered his talent in mathematics, he also began to deliberately cultivate this ability, it can be said that Xu Chenyang's success can be described as the right time and place, not only his own talent, he can easily learn more than most people to study hard, his parents are also good at education, timely cultivation of his ability.
During the high school entrance examination, Xu Chenyang was unsurprisingly admitted to the local key middle school - Chengdu Shude College, which is the first batch of key middle schools in Sichuan Province, bringing together almost all the top students in Chongqing, Sichuan, and the students who graduated from this middle school can eventually shine in their own fields.
Although in such a competitive campus, Xu Chenyang is not inferior at all, let alone out of the crowd, but has become more and more dazzling, because it is a key middle school, so Xu Chenyang also has more opportunities to stand on a bigger stage and improve his mathematics level.
When Xu Chenyang was in high school, he participated in many mathematics competitions, passed all the way, and obtained excellent results in almost every game, and then the Sichuan Provincial Mathematics Team took a fancy to him and included him as its own team member.
In 1998, Xu Chenyang participated in the Chinese Mathematical Olympiad Winter Camp, which is a national-level competition that brings together talents from all over the country, but Xu Chenyang once again beat everyone and won the gold medal and was successfully selected for the Chinese Mathematics Team.
In the face of rare mathematical talents, many famous schools are silently paying attention to him, ready to hand him an olive branch, and finally Peking University was the first to take action and sent him an admission notice, when many people were still worried about the college entrance examination, Xu Chenyang had been sent to Peking University.
Xu Chenyang's genius is also manifested in the fact that he completed all the required courses for four years of undergraduate studies in just one year during his college years, and many people think that Xu Chenyang may be compared to China's top universities, but he shocked countless alumni and teachers with his amazing performance.
Everyone is amazed by such a new star, looking forward to him being able to make a career for the development of China's mathematical community, Xu Chenyang is obsessed with academics, and has published many high-quality papers during his undergraduate years, and when he graduated with a master's degree and published a number of core articles, this mathematical genius was only 23 years old.
In 2008, Princeton University handed Xu Chenyang an admission letter, and Xu Chenyang and three other alumni boarded a plane to the United States to prepare for their doctoral Xi.
After graduating from the doctorate, many students who study abroad will face a fork in the road in their lives, whether to return to China for development or accept the attractive conditions of the United States to stay, it is said that the United States at that time in order to retain Xu Chenyang, a mathematical genius, even promised to give Xu Chenyang a green card.
After graduation, several classmates who went with him received invitations to teach at prestigious universities and chose to stay in the United States to work and live, but Xu Chenyang has not been settled, his heart is obsessed with China's scientific research and development, and he also wants to contribute to the development of the motherland.
Finally, in 2012, this high-profile rising star in mathematics chose to return to China, when he was only in his early thirties, but Peking University promoted him to professor, hoping that he could make a difference on the campus of Peking University.
Teaching and educating people is not the most important task for Xu Chenyang, but he still prepares lessons very carefully, imparts what he has learned and thinks to students with simple and easy-to-understand words, and often invites students to take the initiative to ask him questions after class, don't be shy.
In addition to teaching, Xu Chenyang has devoted almost all of his time to scientific research, participated in core scientific research projects for many times, and his published papers have also been included in core journals, which has played a certain role in promoting the development of mathematical sciences in China, and various awards for young scientists have also been soft.
The seniors value him, the juniors admire him, it can be said that Xu Chenyang's life is very beautiful, and the future is also a smooth road, but only six years have passed, Xu Chenyang resigned from Peking University and chose to teach abroad again.
After much consideration, he chose to accept, and then returned to the United States alone, becoming a tenured professor at MIT.
Lift the fig leaf of the academic community
Some people say that Xu Chenyang finally chose to stay in the United States, and his original move to return to China was all for show, and many people's minds were shaken, and they felt that Xu Chenyang was no different from those who were greedy for pleasure.
In Xu Chenyang's view, there are three major chaos in China's academic circles, one is academic corruption, you must know that the mainland's annual allocation of funds for scientific research projects is not small, but does this money really reach the hands of scientific researchers?
In invisible places, some people with ulterior motives will embezzle scientific research funds, which seriously hinders the smooth progress of scientific research projects, and many people will "buy" papers and certificates through monetary bribes or power.
But if he didn't open this live broadcast, would he not be discovered in this life, and then continue to enjoy the aura and preferential treatment brought to him by the character of the scholar? In fact, this phenomenon is not uncommon, forging resumes and false experiments, these behaviors are not uncommon in academic circles, and Xu Chenyang is deeply troubled by this.
Academic corruption is rampant, no one concentrates on scientific research, only thinks about how to make money and how to make profits, which is a heavy blow to a scholar who is dedicated to academic research.
The second chaos is that the phenomenon of seniority in China's academic circles is very serious, just because they have high-level titles or titles, many so-called seniors begin to pretend, and even suppress juniors, hoping that through these threats will make the juniors willingly "honor" him and flatter him.
Because many people or institutions do not really care about scientific research, if a paper is published, many people first pay attention not to the main content of the paper, but to the title and status of the author, which leads to many capable newcomers must find the name of a senior to rank in the position of the first author when publishing a paper, and the juniors who have contributed to the majority can only be ranked in the position of the second author.
Because only in this way can you make your research valued, but after the paper is included or discussed, the achievements are also the credit of the predecessors, which also leads to the fact that people with high professional titles will be higher and higher, while these newcomers in the scientific research community have been suppressed, and even lost confidence and motivation.
Many newcomers must learn to "pat on the back" before officially starting their scientific research life, and only by pleasing those so-called seniors can they be willing to take themselves, otherwise it is difficult to have a future in this academic world that suppresses newcomers everywhere, so the standard for measuring whether a person can be reused has changed from real talent to a glass of liquor on the wine table.
Xu Chenyang is not a person who is good at dealing with people, but fortunately, his ability and status do not require him to compromise and seek perfection, but he can only do it to this extent, if he wants to change it by himself, it is very difficult.
The third is that the academic evaluation system is unreasonable, relative to the quality of papers, in many cases, the mainland attaches more importance to the number of papers, which also leads to many scientific research scholars in order to improve their professional titles, so as to choose many simple and repeated research analysis, just to meet the quantitative requirements, but ignore innovation, resulting in the stagnation of scientific research results.
Many people choose to "cut" their research and publish multiple different papers in different journals, just to be able to make up the "grand slam" of these high-level journals.
Xu Chenyang's three sentences lifted the fig leaf of the academic circle, and compared with a series of research needs provided to him by the United States, we can understand the choice of this mathematical genius, he does not want science to be tarnished by interests, and chooses a purer path.
This incident is bound to arouse our sufficient attention, the reform of the academic circle is imperative, and we must not let it go unchecked, resulting in more brain drain!
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