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发帖数: 13519 | 1 小李的数学天赋非常高，他是剑桥三一数学本科第一名，和第二名不是一个数量级的那
种第一名。他的老师，剑桥的数学大师Béla Bollobás还专门找过老李，让他放过小
李，说小李的水平是现象级的，但是老李不让。
于是小李没有读数学的硕士和博士，他说，天才数学家李显龙离开新加坡去往普林斯顿
和哈佛，这样会让新加坡人民得到错误的信号。怪不得拉格朗日他听到自己老爸破产后
喜出望外，因为这样他老爸这样就不会逼迫他继承家业。他才能做数学了，世界多了一
个大数学家，少了一个小商人。
以下是剑桥教授对他评价的原文：
"No, he was truly outstanding: he was head and shoulders above the rest of
the students. He was not only the first, but the gap. I think that he did
computer science (after mathematics) mostly because his father didn’t want
him to stay in pure mathematics. Loong was not only hardworking,
conscientious and professional, but he was also very inventive.
All the signs indicated that he would have been a world-class research
mathematician."
"I’m sure his father never realized how exceptional Loong was. He thought
Loong was very good. No, Loong was much better than that. When I tried to
tell Lee Kuan Yew, “Look, your son is phenomenally good: you should
encourage him to do mathematics,” then he implied that that was impossible,
since as a top-flight professional mathematician Loong would leave
Singapore for Princeton, Harvard or Cambridge, and that would send the wrong
signal to the people in Singapore.
– Prof. Béla Bollobás, University of Cambridge |
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