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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory On February 17, 1978, People's Daily reprinted "Goldbach's Conjecture"
On this day, 47 years ago, on February 17, 1978 (January 11, 1978, the People's Daily reprinted "Goldbach's Conjecture". On February 17, 1978, the People's Daily, the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, reprinted writer Xu Chi's reportage "Goldbach Conjecture". In 1742, the German mathematician Goldbach discovered that every large even number can be written as the sum of two prime numbers. He tested many even numbers and all showed that this was true, but this required proof. Before it is proved, it can only be called a conjecture. Goldbach himself could not prove it, so he wrote to consult Swiss mathematician Euler and asked him to help prove it. Oula did not finish it until his death. For more than 200 years, many mathematicians have tried to prove this conjecture, but failed. There is a saying in the mathematical community: the queen of natural science is mathematics, the crown of mathematics is number theory, and Goldbach's conjecture is the pearl in the crown. In China, there is a young scientist who has become the leader in this competition to pick the "pearl". His name is Chen Jingrun. Chen Jingrun heard the story of Goethe Bachre conjecture in middle school and was deeply attracted by it. From then on, he has been addicted to the ocean of mathematics and regarded conquering the Goldbach conjecture as his goal. Since the early 1960s, in a complex environment, under simple conditions, and amidst people's misunderstanding, he has persisted and struggled to climb the dangerous peak of picking the "pearl". After more than ten years of unremitting efforts, Chen Jingrun has finally achieved fruitful results in this field and become the person closest to the "pearl" in the world. After Chen Jingrun's paper was published, it immediately caused a sensation in the world. His conclusion was called the "Chen's Theorem", and the mathematical community praised the "Chen's Theorem" as the "glorious apex" in this field. A British mathematician wrote a letter to Chen Jingrun,"You moved the mountains!" Once writer Xu Chi's reportage was reprinted by People's Daily, it immediately caused a sensation across the country. It is rare in people's memory for an official newspaper of the Party Central Committee to promote an ordinary intellectual with such a large space and high-standard editorial commentary. Soon, the National Science Conference was held in Beijing, and Chen Jingrun sat on the rostrum as one of the young representatives. As a representative of China's outstanding intellectuals, Chen Jingrun has become a role model for a generation of China youth to learn from; Chen Jingrun's tenacious spirit of daring to climb the peak of science has inspired more and more Chinese people to create outstanding results in their respective positions and win glory for the country. News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/1zcj.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.28-06:58] 访问:68
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