在本世纪的廿年代后期,代表着我国当时科学技术研究水平并在国际上发生影响的《科学》杂志编辑部,收到了江苏金坛县一位初中毕业生,在一家杂货铺当店员的小青年投来的稿件。一篇关于初等数学难题解的稿件,引起了编辑部主任的重视。这位编辑部主任,不以作者学历的低浅,把稿件掷入屉底,使之石沉深渊;也不因作者职位的低微,视来稿不值一渺,退 In the late 1920s, the editorial department of Science, which represented the science and technology research level of that time in China and was influential in the world, received a junior high school graduate from Jintan County, Jiangsu Province, and a young man who worked as a clerk in a grocery store Involved manuscripts. An article on the solution of elementary mathematics problems has aroused the attention of editorial director. The editorial director, not the author’s academic superficial, put the manuscripts thrown into the bottom, so that the stone deep into the abyss; nor because of the author’s low, depending on the draft worthless, retreat