After Einstein's death, scientists preserved his brain and conducted anatomical research to try to find out what made his brain so different.
We often use "as smart as Einstein" to describe excellent children. Tao Zhexuan, a mathematical genius, is such a typical example. His IQ is as high as 230, and the average IQ of ordinary people is 100. Einstein's IQ is around 165, and Tao Zhexuan's IQ is about 65 higher than Einstein's! According to statistics, only one in a million people will have such a high IQ. Who's Tao Zhexuan?
A genius who started studying calculus at the age of seven.
His father Tao and his mother Liang Huilan both graduated from the University of Hong Kong. They moved to Australia on 1972. Three years later, Tao Zhexuan was born. The child showed unusual intelligence soon after birth. At the age of two, Liang Huilan found that his son often taught older children to count, and his family immediately discovered Tao Zhexuan's unusual understanding and memory.
When he was three and a half years old, his parents sent him to primary school, but Tao Zhexuan still didn't know how to get along with other children two years older than him. After several weeks' probation, his parents took him back again and again to continue studying in kindergarten.
Tao Zhexuan's parents are wise, and his fragile seedlings need someone to protect him. Although Tao Zhexuan showed his talent in mathematics, his mind is still immature. During his years in kindergarten, his mother tutored him at home and completed all the primary school math courses by herself.
At the age of five, Tao Zhexuan entered a public primary school, which promised to tailor courses for him according to his actual situation, and each course was arranged according to his schedule. He took math and science classes in the fifth grade, but his level of homework was almost equal to that of his peers.
Once the teacher assigned him a composition, writing "My Family". He went home room by room and made a list of everything. He explained that he had no know-how in this field, and he was good at dealing with things with rules to follow.
At the age of seven, the principal of his primary school asked his parents to let Tao Zhexuan go to a nearby middle school for a middle school math class, and at the same time he began to teach himself calculus. After that, Tao Zhexuan finished his first book, explaining how to calculate the perfect number with Basic.
/kloc-entering the university at the age of 0/4, genius can't encourage.
After Tao Zhexuan showed his talent in mathematics, his parents began to take the initiative to learn how to cultivate a gifted child. His father later recalled that Tao Zhexuan had been studying mathematics in middle school since he was seven years old. At that time, he thought that he should finish college courses as soon as possible, like other gifted children. However, after communicating with education experts, he changed his mind. There is no point in studying just to break the record. To build a stable pyramid, the wider and stronger the first layer of the pyramid, the more superstructure it can support.
The growth track of some talented teenagers disappears after they finish their college studies. They are like a rapidly rising cylindrical building with unstable foundation, which naturally becomes a model of "an hour old may not be good".
Tao Zhexuan has been studying physics and mathematics at Flinders University since he was eight years old. At the same time, I participated in the mathematics part of the American SAT and got a high score of 760 points. The SAT is equivalent to the national college entrance examination in the United States, and the level of Tao Zhexuan is completely enough to enter universities.
In the following years, he also won the mathematical Olympic champion many times. However, Tao Zhexuan didn't officially become a full-time student at Flinders University until he was 65,438+04, because he didn't want to encourage others. It took him two years to complete his undergraduate studies and another year to get his master's degree. When he entered Princeton University for his doctorate, he was still much younger than most of his classmates. Here, he finally feels that he can study academic problems with a group of like-minded companions.
At the age of 2 1, Tao Zhexuan graduated from Princeton University with a doctorate. After graduation, he joined UCLA as a math teacher. Three years later, at the age of 24, he was hired as a full professor by the University of California, becoming the youngest mathematics professor in the history of the university.
At the age of 3 1, Tao Zhexuan won the Fields Medal, becoming the second China native to win this honor.
At the age of 32, Tao Zhexuan was promoted to Professor James and Carol Collins at UCLA; This year, he also won the MacArthur Genius Award.
At the age of 33, Tao Zhexuan won the Allen wortmann Prize from the National Science Foundation.
Maybe this is in line with Fu Tao's pyramid theory. Tao Zhexuan, a genius who started slowly, is like a treasure chest, and people will always witness new miracles in him.
What is the status quo of genius?
One of the most criticized things about Einstein is that he didn't get any scientific achievements for 40 years, and all his perjury failed. People always like to say that he has "wasted the smartest brain" for so many years. What about Tao Zhexuan? What happened to him who won numerous awards?
In 20 15, Tao Zhexuan published his paper on the world's largest preprint website (arXiv.org), which proved the existence of the Erdos difference problem, which was put forward by Paul Erdos in 1932 and puzzled the world for more than 80 years!
In 20 19, Tao Zhexuan and three physicists discovered a brand-new formula for solving eigenvectors, and Tao Zhexuan proved the correctness of the formula in three mathematical ways. This incident caused a sensation in mathematics, and the story behind it was even more amazing.
At first, Tao Zhexuan received emails from three strange physicists, who claimed to have found a new formula for solving eigenvectors, hoping that Tao Zhexuan could help them prove it mathematically. Tao Zhexuan thought that the formula was too simple, and if it was true, it should have been "written in the textbook" a long time ago, and decisively rejected this "interruption".
But the three physicists insisted that he give the proof process. Tao Zhexuan spent two hours committing perjury with wrong formula, but the perjury was not found. Instead, I found three ways to prove the correctness of the formula, which shocked the mathematics community at once. This formula reveals the new theory of basic mathematics and will really change the existence of textbooks. Tao Zhexuan proved its correctness in two hours.
Summary:
Can only say that genius is still on the road to openness. Although Tao Zhexuan's road to genius can't be copied, there are still many places worth learning from.
First of all, love from parents. Too many people died, such as Roger Yi, 12, who finished his math degree at Boyce State University. Tao Zhexuan's father chose a broader road for him, which kept him interested in mathematics and gave young Tao Zhexuan enough time to develop his physical and mental health. Only an excellent brain without a matching body can not go far on the road of scientific exploration.
Tao Zhexuan's two younger brothers are equally excellent, but they said they didn't want to be the second "Tao Zhexuan", so their father let them live their own lives and just silently supported them. It is difficult to be a genius, and it is not easy to be a gifted parent. Tao Zhexuan's parents are undoubtedly very wise.
Secondly, Tao Zhexuan's own efforts are also a very important factor. Many people only see his clever brain and IQ of 230, but they can't see the efforts behind his success. Tao Zhexuan once said that there are three stages in learning mathematics well. In the first stage, you will get a mathematical idea that comes from your experience and intuition. At this stage, talent is very important.
In the second stage, you will be guided by formalism, what is the right and wrong way to deal with it. This is an important stage to eliminate false intuition, but without a lot of training, you will get "junk conclusions" Good intuition is as important as formal training.
Once you reach the formal stage, you can enter the third post-rigor stage and complete the details of your idea. It was in the repeated training and verification of his mind that he came to the final correct answer.
Although we don't have an IQ of one millionth, we can stand on the shoulders of giants and get very good encouragement and inspiration in educating children and studying hard.