1. Hermite was a problem student since he was a child. He always likes to argue with the teacher in class, especially some basic questions. He especially hates exams.

He said it himself. He said: "Math class is a pool of smelly water and a pile of rubbish. People with good math scores are second-rate people because they only know how to move garbage. " He pretends to be a first-rate scientific madman.

Richard thanked his teacher. He said, "You need God's grace and persist in completing your studies, so that you won't be sacrificed by the traditional education that you think is rubbish." So, he failed again and again, but continued to take the exam.

Hermite did not drop out of school because of his physical disability, but transferred to the Department of Literature (reason: one year after Hermite entered the technical college, the French education authorities suddenly ordered that people with physical disabilities should not enter the engineering department. Hermite had to transfer to the literature department. Mathematics in the literature department was much easier, and as a result, he still failed in mathematics.

5. Bertrand, a good friend, hurried to help him with the math he needed in school, so that he could graduate from college with marginal results at the age of 24.

Unable to cope with the exam and continue his studies, he had to find a school as a teaching assistant to correct students' homework. He has been doing this job for 25 years, because he can't take exams and has no higher education.

7. When Hermite was 49 years old, Paris University asked him to be a professor. In the next twenty-five years, almost all the great French mathematicians came from his door. We don't know how he attends classes, but one thing is certain-there is no exam.

8. Some people really appreciate him. Don't despise him because he is physically disabled and doesn't have a prestigious degree. People who appreciate him are also famous in the field of mathematics, including Cauchy, who is famous for studying the convergence and divergence of infinite series and differential equations, Jacoby, who is famous for publishing elliptic functions and determinant theory, and joseph liouville, editor-in-chief of Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. These are experts, who appreciate each other. People who are really experts can support a loser to go a long way more than a little false glory in getting high marks.

Finally, times are changing. In the school system more than 100 years ago, the school ranking may not be static, so there is no need to be too correct.