There is an old Chinese saying that "a tiger father has no dog son", which is used as a metaphor for a good father who does not give birth to an average child.
In the mainland mathematics community, there is also such a father and son, the father's achievements in mathematics reached the peak, and he ushered in a "prodigy son" when he was 30 years old.
The son is better than the blue, and his achievements far surpass his father at a young age.
At the age of 13, he won the most difficult "Hua Luogeng Gold Cup Award" in mathematics; At the age of 18, he won the world prize, which frightened countless mathematicians in China.
This pair of "gods of mathematics" admired by countless people is Lu Zhujia and his son Lu Yu, who used their personal experience to compose the good story of "Tiger Father No Dog Son".
Grow at the beginning of the year
On November 4, 1986, the Great Hall of the People was full of well-known mathematicians and professors from all over the country.
What is being held here is the first "Hua Luogeng Gold Cup Youth Mathematics Invitational Competition" award ceremony.
This is the largest mathematics competition with the largest number of participants since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there is no doubt that the winners have attracted much attention and have been admired by countless people.
The grand ceremony opened, everyone was waiting with bated breath, and everyone in the silent audience was waiting to announce the winners of the first "Hua Luogeng Gold Cup".
What is Hua Luogeng's Gold Cup, as the highest award in mathematics set up by the mainland mathematician Hua Luogeng, his existence has always been a place of contention for countless talented teenagers.
Source: People's Daily, link at the end of the attached article
To win this award is enough to sit on the title of "prodigy".
However, with the announcement of the award, the name of a teenager resounded throughout the Great Hall and shocked everyone, and there is no doubt that the winner of the first "Hua Luogeng Gold Cup" is Lu Yu, who is only 13 years old.
You must know that more than 1 million children across the country participated in this juvenile mathematics competition, and only 66 people were able to enter the finals in the end, which shows the gold content of the first place.
Lu Yu, from the High School Affiliated to the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, got the first highlight moment in his life, and his name will also be engraved on the "Hua Luogeng Gold Cup".
In the early years, when the Soviet Union shocked the world with the successful launch of an artificial satellite, it was at this time that a worldwide boom in gifted education swept in.
Both at home and abroad have begun to cultivate mathematical geniuses, and the University of Science and Technology of China has pioneered the "Youth Class" of genius education in the mainland.
However, in Beijing, which is more than 1,000 kilometers away from the University of Science and Technology of China, a genius experimental class with mathematics as the leading subject is also quietly being formed.
This school, thousands of students have become the top performers in mathematics competitions across the country and around the world.
Perhaps no one expected that in this middle school full of talents, the genius journey of a shy and quiet teenager has just begun.
Tiger fathers have no dog sons
Speaking of modern people who are most familiar with mathematicians, everyone blurts out that they may be Hua Luogeng, Chen Jingrun and other mathematical gods, but when it comes to Lu Yu's father, Lu Zhujia, his fame seems to be much unfamiliar.
But in fact, Lu Zhujia is the real "god" of the mainland mathematics community.
He was admitted to the University of Science and Technology of China in his early years, and came to work at the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences after graduation.
It is no exaggeration to say that Lu Zhujia has a very high starting point in mathematics research, and he has published many monographs on mathematics research and mathematics teaching, and has published more than 20 papers at home and abroad.
His book "Mathematical Translation" is the only comprehensive mathematical translation journal in mainland China, and now he is the chairman of the academic committee of the Beijing Mathematical Society.
In general, Lu Zhujia is a well-known authority figure in the industry in terms of academic achievements and qualifications.
The so-called "tiger father has no dog son", the children born by such an excellent mathematician are naturally not bad, and for the head of the Lu family, his son Lu Yu is the pride of his life.
Because Lu Zhu's family was obsessed with mathematical research in his early years, he did not give birth to his son Lu Yu until he was close to 30 years old.
Under the strong family atmosphere and mathematical research, Lu Yu studied some simple Olympiad problems under the leadership of his father at a very young age, and gradually he also fell in love with mathematics.
The obscure math books are childhood companions for Lu Yu, but even if he loves them so much, his performance has nothing to do with the "prodigy".
Because in the eyes of the father, the son is really too peaceful.
Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences, link at the end of the article
When he was in kindergarten and elementary school, Lu Yu was no different from ordinary children, and even because of his shy and introverted personality, he was often bullied by other children of the same age.
It is precisely because of this that at the beginning, Lu Zhu's family did not plan to "inherit his father's business" and train his son to become a mathematician as good as himself, he educated his child with the most ordinary attitude of a father, and only hoped that he would grow up healthily.
In his opinion, everyone has their own destiny, everyone has different advantages in different fields, and he can't force anything, he can see it, and he once said that he will support Lu Yu no matter which path he chooses in the future.
Even if Lu Yu does not engage in mathematical research in the future, he will not force it.
However, although the Lu Zhu family thought so, Lu Yu's talent gave his father a great surprise.
After entering junior high school, this seemingly ordinary little boy seemed to have completely opened the second pulse of Ren Du, and he began to be obsessed with mathematical research, and sometimes, his refined way of solving problems and novel ideas shocked the Lu Zhu family.
In a short period of time, Lu Yu's progress in mathematics is almost "the speed of light", and his life has officially begun.
The back wave pushes the front wave
Seeing that his son was so talented in mathematics, Lu Zhu's family also began to tutor his son intentionally or unintentionally, and with the help of his father, Lu Yu's achievements in mathematics were very prominent.
At the age of 13, he participated in the "Hua Luogeng Gold Cup" and won the first place in one fell swoop, in 1988 he participated in the National Junior High School Mathematics League and won the first prize, and a year later he won the first place again in the National High School Mathematics League.
In the following years, he traveled to major competitions, and achieved a lot of results, and in just a few years he became famous in the mathematics world.
Later, he was selected by the National Mathematical Olympiad team for his outstanding mathematical ability, and at the age of 18, he represented the national team in the world-class Mathematical Olympiad.
At that time, a professor said that for such a world-level mathematics competition, our Chinese students could win the championship without having to perform exceptionally in mathematics.
It turns out that Lu Yu went, and he did win the championship for China.
After Lu Yu won the award, he became the object of positive pursuit by countless scientists, but he himself didn't think so, and still lived and studied as before, a little silent and dumbfounded.
It is said that a very interesting thing happened later, once when he and his classmates were taking a bath in a public bathhouse, a classmate in the bathhouse called his name to borrow soap, and Lu Yu gave it to him indifferently.
Unexpectedly, an old man reading the newspaper next to him heard Lu Yu's name, suddenly looked at him, and then looked at the newspaper, stood up and exclaimed, "You are Lu Yu!" It's amazing, win glory for the country! ”
Obviously, the newspaper is publishing the moment when Lu Yu won the award.
Lu Yu's reaction was normal, maybe it was natural for him for something like this to happen to him.
Later, he was admitted to Peking University, and after graduating from university in 1996, he went to Stanford University to study for a doctorate.
Looking at Lu Yu's life in this way, Lu Yu, a prodigy, seems to live the same life as most people under the halo, but on the basis of such an ordinary and ordinary, Lu Yu will also contribute to Chinese mathematics like his father.
The tiger father has no dog son, and we see the story of transcendence and genius in Lu Yu's father and son.
Resources:
1. People's Daily: "Lu Yuhua Luo Geng Gold Cup Engraving of the High School Affiliated to the National People's Congress", 2011-12-28
2. Chinese Academy of Sciences: The Story of the Compound of the Academy of Sciences, 2011-10-24
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