Goldbach's conjecture is still passionate and fresh in the memory of the generation that came in the early days of China's reform and opening up. Xu Chi said in Goldbach's conjecture that it is not easy to understand a person, and it is even more difficult to understand a mathematician. Although as early as 500 BC in ancient Greece, Pythagoras said: "The whole universe is a harmonious system of numbers and their relationships." After him, Plocque Ras also pointed out concisely: "Where there are numbers, there is beauty." Russell, who wrote Principles of Mathematics, regarded mathematics as a science that only music can match. He said: "Mathematics, if viewed correctly, has not only truth, but also supreme beauty, just like the beauty of sculpture, which is a kind of cold and serious beauty. This beauty is not the weak aspect that attracts our nature. This beauty has no ornate decoration of painting or music. It can be pure to a lofty realm, and it can reach a strict and perfect state that only great art can express. " However, over the years, the work of mathematics and mathematicians in the field of literature and art has gained few bosom friends. Even the world-famous mathematical mystery, such as Goldbach's conjecture, which was born more than 200 years ago, is so far away from our daily life and experience that almost no poet, writer or even historian knows it. This "separation" has brought losses to human culture and progress.
Chen Jingrun, a mathematician in China who lived in the 20th century, is a lucky man. His works won him a true bosom friend, and he was also a lyric poet. The poet Xu Chi is also very lucky. He accidentally discovered the beauty of "cold and serious" from a mathematician who almost lived in a forgotten corner. His poems were magical, charming and vivid. He called them "flowers of human thinking", namely "orchids in an empty valley, rhododendrons in a cold place, ginseng in an old forest, snow lotus on an iceberg, ganoderma lucidum on the top, peony with abstract thinking".
A mathematician who understands the logic of thinking as hard as steel. A mathematician who has lived in an unknown world for a long time, a famous scientific proposition written by a relative, also entered thousands of households through the wonderful chapter of the poet, and it was known to women and children almost overnight. We should say that this is a beautiful talk and a blessing in the history of science and literature in China. If more people engaged in humanities and specialized natural science and technology can deepen mutual understanding and cooperate closely to form the trend of mountains and rivers, then the pace of human science and culture towards the future and modernization will be faster and more harmonious. ……