Hua Luogeng struggled in the national disaster all his life. He often said that he had suffered three disasters in his life. Since he was a child, his family was poor, he was out of school, seriously ill and his legs were disabled. During the second disaster in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it was isolated and isolated, and there was a lack of reference books. The third disaster was the "Cultural Revolution". His home was raided, his hands were lost, he was forbidden to go to the library, and his assistants and students were assigned to other places. In such a harsh environment, we can imagine how hard we need to work and make achievements.
As early as 194s, Hua Luogeng was one of the leading mathematicians in the world of number theory. But he's not satisfied, he won't stop, he'd rather start a new stove, leave number theory and study algebra and complex analysis, which he is not familiar with. What perseverance and courage is needed!
Hua Luogeng is good at telling profound truth in a few vivid words. These words are concise, philosophical and unforgettable. As early as the SO era, he proposed that "genius lies in accumulation, and cleverness lies in diligence". Although Hua Luogeng is brilliant, he never mentions his talent, but regards "diligence" and "accumulation" which are much more important than cleverness as the key to success, and repeatedly educates young people to learn mathematics, so that they can always exercise themselves. In the mid-195s, in response to the question that some young people in the Institute of Mathematics at that time were complacent after making some achievements, or kept writing papers at the same level, Hua Luogeng put forward in time: "There must be speed and acceleration." The so-called "speed" means to produce results, and the so-called "acceleration" means to continuously improve the quality of results. Just after the "Cultural Revolution", some people, especially young people, were influenced by bad social atmosphere, and some departments, eager for success, frequently asked for grades, evaluated bonuses and other practices that did not conform to scientific laws, which led to the corruption of the style of study. It is manifested in shoddy work, fame and fortune, and arbitrary boasting. In 1978, he earnestly put forward at the Chengdu Conference in chinese mathematical society: "Early publication, late evaluation." Later, it was further put forward: "Efforts are in me, and evaluation is in people." This actually puts forward the objective law of scientific development and evaluation of scientific work, that is, scientific work can gradually determine its true value after historical test, which is an objective law that does not depend on people's subjective will.
Hua Luogeng never hides his weaknesses. As long as he can learn, he would rather expose them. When he visited England in seventy years of age, he changed the idiom "Don't teach an axe to teach others" to "Teach an axe to teach others" to encourage himself. In fact, the previous sentence is that people should hide their shortcomings and not expose them. When Hua Luogeng goes to a university, does he talk about other people's expertise and get help, or does he turn lectures into formalism because he is not specialized in others? Hua Luogeng chose the former, that is, "if you wait, you will arrive at the door." As early as 195s, Hua Luogeng compared mathematics to playing chess in the preface of Introduction to Number Theory, and called on everyone to find a master, that is, to compete with great mathematicians. There is a rule in chess in China, that is, "Watch chess without saying a word, and be a gentleman without regret". In 1981, in a speech in Huainan Coal Mine, Hua Luokang pointed out: "Watching chess is not a gentleman, help each other; I regret the gentleman and correct my shortcomings. " It means that when you see something wrong with someone else's work, you must say it. On the other hand, when you find something wrong with yourself, you must correct it. This is the "gentleman" and "husband". In view of the fact that some people retreat when they encounter difficulties and lack the spirit of sticking to the end, Hua Luogeng wrote in a banner for Jintan Middle School: "People can't say that the Yellow River will not die, but I said that the Yellow River will be stronger."
it is a natural law that people's energy will decline when they get old. Hua Luogeng knows that age waits for no man. When he was in England in 1979, he pointed out: "The village is old and easy to be empty, and the people are old and easy to be loose. The scientific way is to quit empty and loose. I am willing to stick to it all my life." This can also be said to be his "determination book" to fight against his aging with the greatest determination, so as to spur himself. The patient who suffered from the second myocardial infarction in Hualuosuo still insisted on working in the hospital. He pointed out: "My philosophy is not to prolong life as much as possible, but to do more work during the day." If you are sick, you should listen to the doctor and have a good rest. But his indomitable spirit is still valuable.
In short, all of Hua Luogeng's expositions run through a general spirit, that is, constant struggle and continuous progress.
Hua Luogeng is a modern mathematician in China. Born in Jintan County, Jiangsu Province on November 12, 191, he died in Tokyo, Japan on June 12, 1985. After graduating from junior high school in 1924, he studied in Shanghai China Vocational School for less than one year, dropped out of school because of family poverty, and studied mathematics hard. In 193, he published an article on the solution of algebraic equations in Science, which attracted Xiong Qinglai's attention and was invited to work in Tsinghua University. Under the guidance of Yang Wuzhi, he began to study number theory. In 1934, he became a researcher of China Education and Culture Foundation. In 1936, he worked as a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in England. He returned to China in 1938 and was hired as a professor at Southwest United University.
In p>1946, he visited the Soviet Union for three months at the invitation of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In the same year, he was invited by Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies as a researcher and taught at Princeton University. He has been a professor at the University of Illinois since 1948. After returning to China in 195, he successively served as Professor Tsinghua University, director of the Institute of Mathematics of China Academy of Sciences, member and deputy director of the Department of Mathematics and Physics, director and vice president of the Department of Mathematics of China University of Science and Technology, director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of China Academy of Sciences, vice president of China Academy of Sciences and member of the presidium. He also served as the chairman of chinese mathematical society for many times. In addition, Hua Luogeng was a member of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth sessions of the NPC Standing Committee and vice chairman of the Sixth National Committee of China People's Political Consultative Conference.
Hua Luogeng is an internationally renowned mathematician. His name is listed with a few classical mathematicians in famous museums such as Smithsonian Museum and Chicago Museum of Science and Technology. He was elected as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences, a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was awarded honorary doctorates by Nancy University in France, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois in the United States.
Hua Luogeng has made outstanding contributions in a wide range of mathematical fields, such as analytic number theory, matrix geometry, typical groups, automorphic function theory, multiple complex variable function theory, partial differential equations, high-dimensional numerical integration and so on.
Because of Hua Luogeng's great contribution, there are many theorems, lemmas, inequalities, operators and methods named after him. He has published nearly 3 monographs and academic papers.
Hua Luogeng also advocates applied mathematics and computer development according to the actual situation in China and the international trend. He personally went to twenty-seven provinces and cities to popularize and apply mathematical methods for twenty years, and made great contributions to economic construction.