丘成桐先生在香港中文大学的演讲我的数学经历.pptVIP

2001/05/18 Surface parametrizations IMA Workshop on Computer Graphics I grew up in the (farming) countryside of Hong Kong: Yuen Long and Shatin. There was no electricity and no pipe water. I took bath in the river when I was very young. I have eight brothers and sisters and food was scarce. When I was five years old, I took an entrance examination to a good public school. I failed mathematics because I made the wrong convention: I wrote 57 to be 75, 69 to be 96. So I entered a very small village school. There were many rough kids from the farm. In a matter of half a year, I got serious sick because of the intimidation of the rough kids and mistreatment of the teacher. I rested at home for half a year. I started to learn how to deal with difficult situation with classmates and teachers. By the time when I entered sixth grade, I was a leader of a small group of students to wander on the street. My father was a professor. He taught me a lot of Chinese literature at that time. ? However, he did not realize that I did not attend school for a period of time. ? (Perhaps because I did well at home as I can recite most of the essays that he asked me to do.) The reason that I did not go to school was that the teachers did not really teach. I got bored in school. Then after a while I got bored on the street, also. ? There was a joint examination for all primary schools. I did poorly. However, I was exactly on the borderline case. ? The government allowed these borderline kids to apply for private school and gave them tuition. ? I got into Pui Ching Middle School. 校歌 何安東　編　　李竹侯　詞 培正培正何光榮，教育生涯慘淡營，培後進兮其素志，正軌道兮樹風聲，萬千氣象方蓬勃，鼓鑄群才備請纓，愛我培正謨謀遠，永為真理之干城，永為真理之干城！ 青年向上歌 我要真誠，莫負人家信任深。我要潔淨，因為有人關心。我要剛強，人間痛苦才能當。我要膽壯，奮鬥才能得勝。我要膽壯，奮鬥才能得勝。 我要愛人，愛敵人也愛淪落人。我要施贈，心誠、義重、財輕。我要虛懷，不忘我身多弱點。我要向上，學主榜樣做人。我要向上，學主榜樣做人。 This is probably one of the best middle school. ? Nothing was exciting in the first year of middle school. I did not do too well that year. ? However, I learnt much more at