Genius is not inevitable for success.
The word that appears most frequently before the name Tao Zhexuan is "genius". However, behind the word "genius", what is more worthy of our thinking and learning?
The red sun rises, and its path is the bright river flowing down the river and pouring into Wang Yang. "For Tao Zhexuan's family and the mathematics community more than 40 years ago, he was a red sun rising in Ran Ran, which not only shone into his parents' lives, but also brought new light to the whole mathematics community.
There were many theories of child prodigy in ancient China, the most famous of which was "hurting Zhong Yong". Even though Zhong Yong is talented, he will eventually become "unknown" because of his backward education.
Therefore, Tao Zhexuan's mathematical talent is just an innate advantage for him, not an inevitable condition for his ultimate success. More importantly, we should explore and think about Tao Zhexuan's "genius" road, and get more learning and educational enlightenment from it.
Slender lotus leaves, not yet unfolded, hardly appear.
Tao Zhexuan, born in Australia, date of birth: July 1975, is an Australian Chinese.
When Tao Zhexuan was two years old, he showed amazing mathematical talent. At the age of two, he could teach five-year-old children older than him to solve math problems.
His parents sent him to a private primary school when he was three and a half years old. However, Tao Zhexuan is no different from his peers except in mathematics.
After discussion between the couple, parents finally decided to send him back to kindergarten. When she was in kindergarten, Tao Zhexuan taught herself all the courses in primary school.
At the age of seventeen, this talented boy had graduated with a master's degree and entered Princeton University to study for a doctorate.
When a dragonfly landed on its tip.
Looking back on Tao Zhexuan's study and growth along the way, we will find that his ultimate success is inseparable from his acquired education.
Excellent and wise parents provided him with a good living and growing environment. When he was in kindergarten, his parents read many books about gifted education in order to better educate him. Both parents are highly educated intellectuals. They will take young Tao Zhexuan to visit a retired math professor. They will have afternoon tea together and discuss some interesting math problems in life.
Flexible and inclusive schools provide him with a good learning environment. When Tao Zhexuan was five years old, his parents sent him to a public school two miles away from home so that Tao Zhexuan could receive a flexible education.
Tao Zhexuan did not go to grade one step by step, but went directly to grade two. Because of his great talent in mathematics, his math class is in the fifth grade. At the age of 7, he began to teach himself calculus, and ordinary children began to get in touch with it in college. Both parents and teachers respect the child's wishes, and he can skip class whenever he wants.
An open and inclusive society provided him with a good social and academic environment. 1985, Erdos came to Australia to give lectures, met Tao Zhexuan, who was 10 years old, and reviewed the paper written by Tao Zhexuan. Tao Zhexuan once talked about this experience. He thought that Ordos made him feel equal when he was 10 years old. Even if they are decades apart, they are grandchildren, but they exchange views like friends and confidants because of mathematics.
During his PhD, Tao Zhexuan said that everyone around him was older than him, but they all had similar backgrounds and loved mathematics. They respect each other and improve their math level. All these provide a good "soil" for Tao Zhexuan.
Adhere to the correct growth trajectory
Goethe once said: "Independence is the basic feature of genius." Tao Zhexuan's early wisdom and keen interest in mathematics always made him more eager to pursue new mathematical knowledge and solve more difficult mathematical problems than his peers.
Tao Zhexuan's parents didn't choose to "encourage others", but gradually respected their children's opinions. This is obviously an extremely correct decision to avoid repeating the mistakes of "Zhong Yong".
The extremes of things will be reversed, and the extremes will decline. Praise from outside can make people swell, and it can also cause pressure. There are all other people in this world, only one is yourself. Only by shielding external voices, being yourself wholeheartedly and insisting on your independence can we move forward all the way and reach the other side of success. On the contrary, if you can't release the pressure and care too much about the external evaluation, you will easily be swayed, fall into self-doubt and eventually go astray.
The road to transformation of genius
Although Tao Zhexuan's IQ is far superior to others, for him, persistence, diligence and enthusiasm, as well as his efforts in mathematics day after day, are the keys to his achievements today.
In an exam, Tao Zhexuan was on the verge of failure because he was not fully prepared. This experience sounded the alarm for Tao Zhexuan, who had studied smoothly since childhood. This is not only a setback, but also regarded by Tao Zhexuan as a turning point in his career. Breaking a cocoon into a butterfly is sometimes a flash, but it is a lasting beauty and suffocating charm after transformation.
Tao Zhexuan, a "genius", has completed his transformation and become a real mathematician!
A shining star in mathematics.
In 2006, Tao Zhexuan, aged 365,438+0, won the Fields Medal, which is called the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics".
Tao Zhexuan's existence not only shows the world what genius is, but also proves that intelligence lies in knowing how to learn, and genius lies in accumulated learning. The so-called genius, in fact, depends on continuous learning. As Liu Kai wrote in Ask and Say: "There is no specialty in reason, and there is no end to learning."
What kind of person is mathematician Tao Zhexuan? Some people say that he is a young genius, young and famous, with unlimited scenery; Some people say that he is idealistic, and his mathematical theory is rarely used in real life; Someone lifted him to the sky, and someone trampled him on the ground. ...
When evaluating him, his doctoral students all said that he was "humble" because he was born with the aura of "genius", which is also a kind of pressure for him. I hope he can live up to his name. The student also said that he has a strong understanding ability and others can read two articles. He may have read five articles, or he may have written an outline of the topic conveniently.
Happy "ordinary people"
Because of Tao Zhexuan's talent and achievements in the field of mathematics, Tao Zhexuan is called "Mozart in the field of mathematics". However, Tao Zhexuan's personality is quite different from Mozart's. Although Mozart has a high musical talent, his personality is very strange. Many geniuses can be described as weird, but the most commendable thing about Tao Zhexuan is that he is not only a genius, but also a happy "ordinary person".
He is a respected professor outside, but at home, he is like a father in most families. Sometimes I accidentally forget some family chores, and my wife urges me to send my children to school, asking questions all the way. In the eyes of the media and the public, he is a young and famous genius, but who knows how much investment and sweat he has paid privately to live up to the word "genius"?
Many people can only be an ordinary person because they have no choice, but for Tao Zhexuan, he chose to be a happy "ordinary person" out of 10,000 choices in Qian Qian.