Tan Zerui's Experience

Tan Zerui has never participated in any extracurricular training since he was a child, including overwhelming training in Olympic Mathematics, but he has a strong interest in mathematics. In the third grade of primary school, he decided to teach himself programming. Tan Zerui asked his mother to take him to the library to borrow a programming book. Looking at the thick professional books, the librarian asked him, "Do you understand?"

Tan Zerui not only understood, but also saw out of control. He began to buy his own textbooks and teach himself more advanced mathematics content. By grade three, he had finished the complex variable function by himself, which is a compulsory course for undergraduates. From the third grade, he even bought an English version of American mathematics book and studied the original textbook.

Tan Zerui, a senior three student, was admitted to the middle school attached to Normal University. Because of his outstanding mathematics, he was selected into the mathematics competition group, majoring in mathematics Olympic Games. After studying for a semester, Tan Zerui said to his mother, "I don't like this life of doing problems every day. I just like studying math quietly. I want to quit the Olympics class. " Mother Chen Hong didn't agree with her son's resignation at that time. They quarreled for a long time that winter vacation, and finally her mother compromised. "No matter whether there are achievements in the future, happy and healthy study is the most important thing." In this way, Tan Zerui transferred to high school attached to hunan normal university International course center in the second semester of senior one. In this place where there is no pressure of college entrance examination and Olympic Games, Tan Zerui settled down to study number theory. Don't go to a training class without a teacher and solve the problem independently.

To learn mathematics, Tan Zerui relied entirely on self-study, without learning from teachers or attending any training courses. Tan Zerui's learning level far exceeds that of his peers, and he has no confidant in learning. However, he felt that he was not alone. "I will still find some math topics to discuss with my classmates." Every time after class, he will write all kinds of formulas on the blackboard and discuss them with other "schoolmasters". Taking part in this competition, Tan Zerui's greatest achievement is to meet a group of like-minded friends.

Most people will choose to ask for help when they encounter problems that cannot be solved, but Tan Zerui's four methods are independent solutions when they encounter problems: 1. Access to information; 2. Put it on hold for a while and watch it later, maybe it will be solved automatically; 3. Reference to different books in the same field, with different emphases, cross-understanding and different observation angles; 4. Try to solve it yourself. You can't remember your mobile phone number without playing mobile phone or WeChat.

Unlike his peers, Tan Zerui doesn't play mobile phones or WeChat. QQ is only used to contact math lovers and friends. He doesn't even remember his mobile phone number. When the reporter asked for his number, he thought for a long time and said, "If there is an uncertain number, we will change it to X,13x ..." Tan Zerui said that no matter which university he goes to in the future, it must be because that university is particularly strong in mathematics. When the reporter asked about his dream university, Tan Zerui thought about it for a long time, but still didn't answer, because he felt that "it was very lax to say these things before deciding which university to go to". "He is not a genius, and Chinese is a weakness."

Chen Hong doesn't think his son Tan Zerui is a genius. "He is not good at every subject, and Chinese is his weakness. But every time I tell him that I have to master Chinese, he will answer me four words: he is an artist. "

Chen Hong said that his son didn't come to live with him until the third grade of primary school. "I used to live with his grandparents and live in my cousin's house. My cousin is a local math teacher. Tan Zerui's mathematical enlightenment should have started from then on. " Chen Hong said that his son was good at math, but he never knew what level he was studying. Chen Hong was surprised to win the gold medal in this competition: "I didn't expect him to learn mathematics so deeply. He said that he would study mathematical theory instead of applied mathematics in the future, and I support him. "