A gifted and intelligent teenager
Chen Jingrun was born in an ordinary rural family in the 40s, and his parents were both farmers and simple farmers. I don't have too high a pursuit of life, I just hope that my son can study hard and find a stable job in the future.
However, this taciturn child was born with an amazing talent for mathematics that was different from ordinary people. When he was still sitting on the small bench in the kindergarten, Chen Jingrun liked to count things very much, whether it was stones or crops, counting again and again.
When he entered elementary school, he quickly became a well-known boy in his class.
Chen Jingrun would calculate the square and cube of a large string of numbers without thinking. Or a few arithmetic problems that were casually named by the teacher, he could also write standard answers in one go.
This made the division commanders all amazed and amazed.
However, the introverted Chen Jingrun always doesn't say a word in class. Except for mathematics, other subjects are not prominent. His classmates and teachers also regarded him as an outlier.
"Weird boy who counts again!" When Chen Jingrun was silently playing abacus alone, a few naughty students would laugh like this. However, Chen Jingrun, who has an extraordinarily developed brain, doesn't care about the ridicule of others at all.
He's immersed in the sea of numbers, and he's never tired of it.
You don't know what to do
In 1948, Chen Jingrun, who performed well, was admitted to the High School Affiliated to Fujian Normal University. Finally, he had the opportunity to devote his whole heart to the study of mathematics.
In the three years of high school life, Chen Jingrun lived a very full and happy life, completely immersed in the world of numbers and equations.
However, the good times did not last long, after the college entrance examination, the school wanted to retain this good seedling, and actually arranged for Chen Jingrun to stay in school to teach mathematics. Unexpectedly, Chen Jingrun, who has a withdrawn personality, is completely unsuitable for podium work, and the class is boring and boring, and the students are chatting and napping.
Chen Jingrun's teaching was quickly criticized, and he left the pulpit in disgrace within a year.
However, for Chen Jingrun, this seemingly failed teaching experience has achieved the most significant turning point in his life. The principal at the time, Wang Yanan, clearly recognized Chen Jingrun's potential, and he arranged for Chen Jingrun to work as a library administrator.
In this way, Chen Jingrun has a lot of time to read and Xi, and further his studies and improvement. He spent most of his life in the library, with thousands of books. Wang Yanan's arrangement made Chen Jingrun's academic career take off.
It was in these few years that Chen Jingrun devoted himself to studying Hua Luogeng's mathematical works. He questioned and put forward his own views on certain important theories. Unexpectedly, his own doctrine attracted Hua Luogeng's attention.
The master decided to train Chen Jingrun himself and take him to the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
After some twists and turns, Chen Jingrun finally embarked on the academic road. He made up his mind to repay Hua Luogeng for his kindness, and he must make a difference.
Go through hardships to fulfill your wishes
In order to repay Hua Luogeng's kindness and prove himself, Chen Jingrun made up his mind to overcome the famous "Goldbach conjecture" in the history of mathematics.
This problem has puzzled the mathematical community for nearly 200 years, but no one has been able to give a satisfactory proof.
Since then, Chen Jingrun has been working day and night, sleeping less and eating less, locking himself in the office all day long, burying his head in calculations. Those complicated and difficult mathematical formulas have become in his blood and have become a part of his life.
His colleagues jokingly called him a "math maniac."
In order to prove this problem, Chen Jingrun even disregarded his own health. He is often seen in every corner of the Institute.
10 years of hard work has made his face gray and his eyes sunken.
"As long as I hold on for a while, the problem in front of me can be solved......" Whenever his colleagues advised him to pay attention to his body, Chen Jingrun always said to himself.
Finally, in the early morning of 1966. Chen Jingrun's hands trembled, holding a ballpoint pen, and he wrote scratch paper.
In the end, Chen Jingrun spent three years summarizing a monograph of hundreds of thousands of words - "The Proof of Goldbach's Conjecture". This paper stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and the entire international mathematical community was shocked.
For a time, Chen Jingrun became famous and became one of the world's top mathematicians.
However, his body was also weakened. For this achievement, Chen Jingrun did not hesitate to spend half of his life's energy. I can no longer even work and live normally like ordinary people.
He burned himself for only one belief - the development of mathematics requires such madness and persistence as he did.
Bosom friends are hard to find
Until the age of 47, Chen Jingrun was still single and had never been in a formal relationship.
His relatives and friends who cared about him, seeing that he was always immersed in academics, had long persuaded him to find a confidant to marry and have children. However, Chen Jingrun turned a deaf ear, and he had already devoted all his emotions and energy to his beloved mathematics.
This year, Chen Jingrun had physical problems at work and had to go to the hospital for a physical examination. Only then did he realize that his body that had worked hard for many years was no longer as good as before.
At this time, a 29-year-old female doctor, You Kun, appeared. She is beautiful and moving, serious and responsible in her work, and she knows at a glance that she is a well-informed woman. When You Kun examined Chen Jingrun, the two looked at each other, Chen Jingrun's heart moved, and he immediately fell in love with her at first sight.
"Am I going to fall in love with a woman too?" Chen Jingrun asked himself. He began to passionately pursue Yukun and treat her like a girl in his first love. However, Yukun has always been suspicious of the age gap between the two, and she doesn't know if the relationship can cross that gap.
In order to impress You Kun, Chen Jingrun tried his best. He even sold his property to propose to Yukun just to buy a diamond ring. You Kun was still hesitant, so Chen Jingrun squatted downstairs in her house for a long time, and he also wanted to see her in the cold winter.
Finally, one day, Yukun was touched by Chen Jingrun, and she realized that true love can cross any obstacle. The two eventually became married, and Chen Jingrun also found a soulmate who could spend his life together.
The son is diligent and his father is gracious
Chen Jingrun and You Kun's son is called Chen Youwei. In 1996, Chen Jingrun died of illness at the age of 63. And Chen Youwei was only 15 years old at that time, which was the age when he needed his father's love and teaching.
The death of his father brought a huge blow to the young and immature Chen Youwei. He went to Canada to study alone, and his heart was full of thoughts of his father.
At first, Chen Youwei, who had a lively personality, chose to major in liberal arts. Later, under the persuasion of his teacher, he switched to business Xi. Unexpectedly, Chen Youwei's business grades are very good, and his mathematical talent is also very outstanding.
This reminded Chen Youwei of his father's life's work. He suddenly made up his mind to switch to mathematics and inherit the digital kingdom that had been passed down from generation to generation by the Chen family.
However, the start of a science career was not as smooth as expected. All kinds of complicated and difficult math problems made Chen Youwei feel very difficult, and his grades were good and bad, and his progress was very slow.
Whenever he encounters Xi problems or prepares for exams, Chen Youwei will always carefully read the monograph "Number Theory" published by his father during his lifetime. The book records my father's essence of the "Chen's theorem".
Through those vicissitudes of words, Chen Youwei seemed to see his father by his side, guiding him to learn Xi as always.
Every theorem and every formula left to him by his father is a gift of his love for Chen Youwei. This made Chen Youwei, who was studying in a foreign country, feel warm and powerful.
Passing on the torch to the next generation, the grand wish is eternal
Compared with those anonymous number masters in ancient China, the generation of Chinese mathematicians represented by Chen Jingrun is more valuable.
Because they strive to climb the academic peak, not for personal glory, but to strengthen the country and enrich the people as their own responsibility, to benefit the people of the country as their grand wish.
It is precisely with generations of sons of the motherland like Chen Jingrun, who have never forgotten their original aspirations and forged ahead, that Chinese mathematics has burst out with incomparably brilliant light in just a few decades.
The countless high-tech products that we rely on in our lives today rely on the painstaking efforts of these unborn mathematicians.
Chen Jingrun is one of the outstanding members. Although he has passed away for many years, his spirit of forging ahead and passing on the torch will always inspire future generations.
We, the post-scholars of Chinese mathematics, should regard your sages as models and references. In addition to pioneering and innovating, we must not forget our roots, so as to carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future and write a more brilliant chapter of Chinese mathematics.