Zhu Hongbo was not at all surprised by Li Zheng and Lin Yujing's attitude, and even felt a bit of schadenfreude.
If they were only looking to prep some mathematical tricks out of sheer pragmatism, they would indeed be missing the point.
Tricks, no matter how deeply you drill into them, do not require emotions,
but scholarship, no matter how superficial, needs the support of faith.
A person who loathes driving can still easily learn to drive.
Yet, a person with no love for mathematics will never truly encounter it.
However, love alone is far from enough.
Li Zheng and Lin Yujing were currently full of enthusiasm for learning.
24 years ago, Zhu Hongbo had been no different, right?
He had even been much more fanatic than these two before him.
He loved the elegance of Gauss, the acumen of Euler, the shyness of Riemann.
He loved the broad vision of Hua Luogeng, the tenacity of Zu Chongzhi, the obsessiveness of Chen Jingrun.
