In October 2019, the 2nd World Laureates Forum was held in Shanghai. During the meeting, a young girl in a suit with a young face attracted the attention of many people.
Everyone thought that she had come to see the world with the invited parents, but when she took a seat in the guest seat, everyone was surprised to find that she was the invited guest herself.
This girl's name is Tan Fanglin, she is only 15 years old this year, and she has solved a world problem to become an invited guest at this forum. But when the CCTV reporter said that she wanted to do an exclusive interview with her, she politely declined, the reason was: "Don't let my mother see it!."”
This "Top Scientists Forum" is not a nickname given by the outside world, the forum itself is called that. The World Laureates Forum, as the name suggests, is a forum initiated by the World Laureates Association and is held every year.
Forums usually invite scientists who have won various top awards to gather together to discuss a variety of scientific topics. It is not easy to be invited to this forum, you have to be a person who has made great contributions to science.
So, what kind of experience does Fang Lin have?What kind of world problems did she solve?And why refuse to be interviewed?
Mathematics may be a subject that many people have a headache since childhood, but Tan Fanglin has been very interested in mathematics since she was a child.
Her parents found her to have a strong aptitude for mathematics and a sensitivity to numbers. Abstract symbols, which are boring to ordinary people, seem to her to be beautiful musical notes.
Tan Fanglin's math scores are naturally among the best all year round, and she has long left her peers behind, and she also took the initiative to sign up for several math competitions to make up Xi classes to allow herself to study mathematics in depth.
Tan Fanglin's family environment is also quite good, her parents are teachers at East China Normal University, especially her father is a mathematics teacher, who can give Tan Fanglin a lot of guidance.
But as Tan Fanglin grew older, her father was surprised to find that many of the questions raised by his daughter could no longer be answered by himself, so he had to ask professors at the school to teach Tan Fanglin.
Tan Fanglin's ** on mathematics has become a virtuous circle, out of her love for mathematics, she can devote a lot of time every day to study various complex mathematical problems, and indulge in them.
And every time she solves a problem, she gets a huge sense of accomplishment, which makes her love mathematics even more.
After entering junior high school, Tan Fanglin's research on mathematics has become deeper and deeper, and she has begun to study the difficult problems of mathematics.
Tan Fanglin's father found that his daughter's good at mathematics could no longer be summarized as talented, and she was simply a "mathematical prodigy".
However, although Tan Fanglin is so talented, she also has her own troubles. Tan Fanglin has always had a serious phenomenon of "partial subjects", that is, her mathematics level is far beyond her peers, but she is relatively weak in other aspects, so her overall grades are not particularly good, and she is often reminded by teachers to pay attention to partial subjects.
Tan Fanglin herself was very worried about this, but her parents were quite optimistic, and they gave her great support and encouraged her to do what she wanted to do.
In 2018, Tan Fanglin was 14 years old, and by this time she had developed the Xi of reading mathematics journals every day. On this day, she saw a mathematical problem in the American Mathematical Monthly magazine called "Estimation of Fibonacci Sequences and Bezu Numbers".
Most people can't understand this term, let alone go deep, but Tan Fang Lin is very interested in it.
The article mentions that a professor named Rankin has given a rough estimation formula for this topic, which is the only formula calculated by the mathematical community at present, which condenses Professor Rankin's five years of hard work, and there has been no more precise and concise formula in the mathematical community on this difficult problem since then.
However, after calculating, Tan Fanglin believes that this formula is still too cumbersome and the results are not precise enough.
After thinking about it all night, Tan Fanglin had a bold idea, she wanted to improve this formula to make it more concise and accurate!
You must know that at this time, Tan Fanglin is just a junior high school student, and at an age when most people are still worried about homework, she has already set her goal to make an unprecedented breakthrough in the mathematics world.
Just do it, Tan Fang Lin immediately threw himself into the nervous calculation. It's just that she is not a professional mathematician, and she usually has to go to school, so she can only use her spare time to calculate.
But it was in this spare time that she consulted a lot of information. In order to conduct in-depth research, Tan Fanglin even consulted a large number of English materials.
In order to understand these materials, she practiced English hard, and finally reached the level where she could basically understand English journals.
After repeated calculations, Tan Fanglin actually gave a more concise and accurate estimation formula for the number of Bezu in 2019!
Tan Fanglin then published the results, and the mathematicians verified that the formula was indeed feasible, far exceeding the previous estimation formula.
In this way, Tan Fanglin solved this world problem. Her results shocked the entire mathematical community, which is why she was invited to participate in the second World Laureates Forum.
At the forum, Tan Fanglin behaved appropriately and generously, and was already able to communicate with foreign scientists in English without barriers.
Sitting next to her was Giraud Maxenberg, the founder of the world's optogenetics, who had heard about Tan Fanglin's achievements and was amazed.
Mason Burke taught Tan Fanglin a lot of experience and encouraged her to pursue her dreams and do even greater things in the future.
However, Tan Fanglin has always been very humble, and in the interview, Tan Fanglin admitted that he was mainly interested in the mathematical modeling part, and in fact, he didn't understand a lot of other content.
She only studied this aspect of mathematics, and was not a mathematician in all aspects. Tan Fanglin said that she still has a lot to learn, and the biggest gain from coming to the forum this time is that she has gained the opportunity to communicate with scientists in various fields and Xi learned a lot of experience.
After the forum, the CCTV reporter also found Tan Fanglin and said that he wanted to do an exclusive interview with her, but Tan Fanglin politely refused.
She laughed and said, "Don't let my mom see it." Although talented, Tan Fanglin has always kept a low profile, which is why she has such achievements but is not too famous.
And this is also thanks to the education of Tan Fanglin's parents, who were both happy and worried after discovering Tan Fanglin's talent.
Because they also know the story of "Hurt Zhongyong", many talented teenagers indulge themselves after becoming famous, and as a result, they are lost in fame and fortune, so that their talents are exhausted, and they finally "disappear from the crowd".
They don't want their daughter to repeat the mistakes of the past, so it is enough to teach her from an early age not to care about how much attention she gets, and to concentrate on doing her own thing.
Indeed, it is probably more meaningful to provide a platform for the research of geniuses so that they can better pursue their careers than to have them attend endless events.
This is more conducive to their development, and it can also give them peace of mind to engage in research, so as to produce more results to give back to society.
And talking about Fang Lin's "partial science" also caused netizens to think, that is, for such geniuses, is it necessary for them to "develop in an all-round way"?Is it necessary to "correct" their bias?
Perhaps, they should not be cultivated in the same way as ordinary students, and they do not need to be allowed to learn so much knowledge Xi other subjects, as long as they are given a certain amount of moral and common sense education.
Allowing them to concentrate on their hobbies and work in their professional field may be a better way for them and for society.
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