Chen JingrunWhat is the parents' occupation and family background?
Chen Jingrun was born 89 years ago today, and his upbringing and family education had a profound impact on the cultivation of his mathematical talents. We can learn from his story that a person's gifts and talents are important, but also acquired education and hard work are indispensable.
His parents may not be engaged in mathematics-related careers, but through their own diligence and perseverance, as well as their patient education and guidance for their children, Chen Jingrun has made amazing achievements in the field of mathematics.
Therefore, we should not only cherish and explore our own talents and talents, but also pay attention to our own education and efforts, only in this way, can we maximize our self-worth.
Many sources about Chen Jingrun's youth vary, and many student books portray him as a heroic scientist: despite his poor background, he studied hard and was sensible and ......motivatedOnly an author who conducts a personal survey can tease out the basic facts about a person's growth.
Xiamen writer Shen Shihao once spent three months visiting the place where Chen Jingrun lived, and wrote a biography of Chen Jingrun based on it. Therefore, this article will refer to the biography of this writer to give you a brief introduction to Chen Jingrun's juvenile growth process.
On May 22, 1933, the famous Chinese mathematician Chen Jingrun was born in Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province. His hometown is located in Yulei Town, 15 kilometers south of Fuzhou City, which has given birth to celebrities such as Chen Kezhong, Minister of Education, and Chen Shaokuan, Doctor of Chemistry.
Chen Jingrun's family was not poor, his father, Chen Yuanzhong, was the director of the Fuzhou Post Office, and his two uncles also held important positions in the State Post Office and the Provincial Postal Union.
During the ** period, postal and customs were among the most respected trades, so Chen Jingrun's family conditions were quite advantageous at that time. He is the third child of the Chen family, with an older brother and an older sister, and his name Jingrun symbolizes his parents' good expectations for his future life.
In the 1930s, in a university in the south, Chen Jingrun's father liked to raise turtles, which were very large, and Jingrun often stood on the back of the turtle with his older brothers and sisters to see who could stand longer.
He was thin, silent, a lover of reading, and a fond of hide-and-seek. He often hides in a place where others can't find a book, and reads quietly alone, and others slowly forget about him.
Although living in a war-torn **, Chen Jingrun still got a good education due to his superior family background. In 1937, when Japan invaded China and Fuzhou fell, Chen's father moved to Sanming City, Fuzhou with his family.
There, they lived in Cangshan Trinity Primary School, a well-equipped church school and Chen Jingrun's first school. Here, his intellect allowed him to excel at a very young age, and after two years of schooling, he began to skip grades.
There was a shortage of water near his house, so the brothers went to fetch water from afar, and Jingrun was weak, so he was responsible for scooping water. While scooping water, he translated English into the Fuzhou dialect and made it into a smooth mouth, so that everyone couldn't help but laugh out loud when they heard it.
Chen Jingrun's life began with a tragedy. When he was ten years old, his mother died of illness. However, the difficulties of life did not stop, and my father married a young and caring kindergarten teacher.
But due to the family's opposition, the father and the new mother moved to a rented apartment outside. Chen Jingrun completed his junior high school education in Sanming City, and with the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he followed his father back to Fuzhou.
Fuzhou Cangshan Yinghua Academy is Chen Jingrun's high school, which is now Fuzhou Senior High School and was once a church school. In February 1948, 15-year-old Chen Jingrun was studying here in the spring class of his first year of high school.
He wasn't good at words, he just laughed it off. His image of kindness, honesty and love of reading deeply touched everyone. However, his reading habits caused him to be nearsighted, and in order to facilitate reading, he put on glasses, but one leg of the glasses was crushed, so he tied it with a thread and continued to use it.
Therefore, his classmates affectionately call him "booker", which is the transliteration of the nerd in the southern Hokkien dialect.
Chen Jingrun was not the most prominent student in his class, but he had an amazing talent: he had a strong memory. He once memorized a book in its entirety in front of the whole class and his classmates.
Of all subjects, he is most passionate about mathematics. His library card records the college books he read in high school, including advanced scientific monographs such as Calculus and Duff Physics.
In this year, he met an important mentor in his life, Shen Yuan. Shen Yuan is the director of the Department of Aeronautics at Tsinghua University, a Ph.D. in the UK. In this year, Professor Shen's father died, and he was stranded here during his return to Fuzhou for his funeral, when the north-south traffic was interrupted due to the Liberation War.
So, he returned to his alma mater, Anglo-Chinese College, and invited him to come and teach the students. In a limited number of lectures, Professor Shen introduced the general content of Goethe's conjecture to Chen Jingrun, which made him interested in the kingdom of mathematics.
From that moment on, the teenager's mind was aroused.
In 1949, Fuzhou was liberated, and 16-year-old Chen Jingrun, as a member of the "Chaoyang Class", showed great potential. Chaoyang class, as the name suggests, is a class that gathers outstanding students, similar to the current experimental class, fast class, etc.
Chen Jingrun is undoubtedly one of the best. At the turn of the spring and summer of 1950, although he had not yet graduated, under the recommendation of his teacher, he applied for Xiamen University as "equivalent academic ability" and was successfully admitted to the Department of Mathematics and Physics.
This marked the beginning of a life of intensive study of mathematics.
Judging from Chen Jingrun's experience, there is no special method or special tutorial class for cultivating a mathematician. Even, in many cases, he was not the best student in the class.
However, the key to his success lies in two things: one is that he is very smart, from childhood to adulthood, both students and teachers think he is very smart; The second is that his family was wealthy, and even in turbulent times, he was able to receive a good education.
This is what we should understand on Chen Jingrun's birthday.