Retired elderly travel to the mathematics kingdom

Fuzhou News Network Hearing Many people will choose to raise birds, flowers, shot ball, painting and other ways of leisure heterotrophic. However, Fuqing's Lindong has a very special hobby. He is interested in numbers and is busy studying "big prime numbers" and "big ordinals" when he is free. In this year's "Science and technology information" and other academic journals, he actually published 6 consecutive articles related to professional, the neighborhood is very impressed. On the 29th, Lindong a number of yellowed books, notes, and manuscripts from his home, telling reporters his obsession with numbers.

Young, fascinated by Goldbach conjecture

Lindong told reporters, he studied "big prime number" "Large ordinal", is subject to "Goldbach conjecture" this reportage influence.

Lindong is Fuqing Fishing Creek Former Pavilion Village People, 1971 into the Fujian Post and Telecommunications school Telecom Professional Learning, 1972 allocated to located in Jiangle remote mountain area of Fujian communication two stations, 1983 Repatriation Fuqing Telecommunications Bureau. In Jiangle, Linton's spare time was fascinated by "Hua number theory", "the Optimal Method" and Tsinghua University 1966 edition of "Advanced Calculus Foundation." In order to reach more and broader mathematical problems, he often squeezed money out of his thin salary to buy math, number theory books, and even the British mathematician who borrowed from the Jiangle library. I b Beveridge's "Art of scientific research" was copied down.

1978, Xu published "Goldbach conjecture", Lindong was deeply shaken. He pondered over the question: is the prime number and prime number added equal to the even number, in real life, production and practical application value? As a result, he began to contact the "1+1" Application research and application of trial topics, walking think, car think, eat to think, an inspiration to write, remember. If in the middle of the night half to wake up with inspiration, he hurriedly climbed up from the quilt to write down a few pens, and so on, and then carefully study. His lover said that years in his pocket, filled with numbers of notes, a few years down the calculation draft enough to pack two large sacks.

On the way to school and master

Because of his lack of foundation, Lindong is eager to get the guidance of mathematicians who have influence in mathematics.

In 1984, Lindong learned from the newspaper that Chen's teacher, Professor Li Wenqing of Xiamen University, was the director of the Applied Mathematics Committee at the Fujian Provincial Mathematical Council. So Lindong want to worship Professor Li as a teacher, and with disturbed mood sent his own mathematical manuscript. On the May 18, 1985, Professor Li wrote back to Lindong and instructed him how to get started.

With the help of everyone in mathematics, Linton Chess gradually found the direction of research. 1998, in the second Japan International Light industrial products, export products (technology) fair, Linton Chess shows his research results, "equivalent additive (1+1) linear law and" large prime number "" Large ordinal "fast, high level of projection technology and on the FX small microcomputer operation, by Japan, Canada and the United States Edison Invention Center jointly assessed, won the "International Gold Award."

He retired in 2001, but his obsession with numbers has not changed. At home, he arranged a study for a new mathematical thesis.

Influenced by Linton Chess, his two sons also love math research. After graduating from the physics department of Nanjing University, the second son is now studying for a Ph. D. In condensed matter Physics from Toronto University in Canada. Father and son are often using the network to explore some advanced theories.

(Fuzhou Daily reporter He Peng)