Friday, September 20, 2013

Twin prime conjecture

The problem of  Twin Prime Conjecture  had been  known only to the math  community until Dr Yitang Zhang was known to the world  in May this year  due to his breakthrough toward this problem.  His story touches  me for his spirit for pursuing truth persistently  &  lonely for about  20 years.

I did not know that  my Pitt math classmates Aiping and Luyang (王鲁燕) were  Yitang's  classmates at Peking University until  I visited Pittsburgh in August ..  they chatted about Dr Zhang's work proudly. I wish I had a classmate like Dr Zhang too. The world is small that I have only 2 connections away from Zhang... That is not what I want to say.

This moving math story inspires me for two thoughts:
1.  Dr Zhang is what the first word of Pitt's motto means:  Veritas.    I hope one can write a novel about his story, and produce a movie or TV series from it.   It is like the "beautiful mind"...  even more.
2.  I started to have an ambitious yet elegant dream:  as a humble math  entrepreneur,  I should  work harder to become wealthy or influential ...  I shall  raise enough fund one day to establish  an academic institute ... it will host 50 great minds like Dr Zhang in math and theoretic physics ....  full time in early stage of  their career.   That would be a great objective for me to do in  next 20 years or beyond ....   that is what is calling me from my heart... that reflects Pitt  motto's 2nd word Virtus.

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