10月29日，第二屆世界頂尖科學家論壇開幕，全球頂尖科學家匯聚上海，共同探討科學發展前沿問題。據報道，本屆大會還邀請了不少青少年，他們大多出生於2001年到2004年。最年輕的一位就是來自華東師大二附中高一的談方琳同學。
Tan Fanglin realized her dream of meeting top scientists by making a scientific breakthrough. CFP
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Have you ever dreamed of meeting top scientists in person? If so, what would you want to ask them?
你是否夢想著和頂尖科學家面對面交流？如果有機會的話，你會問他們些什麼呢？
For Tan Fanglin, a 15-year-old girl from No 2 High School of East China Normal University in Shanghai, her dream of meeting top scientists has already come true.
對於來自上海華東師大二附中的15歲女孩談方琳而言，她和頂尖科學家見面的夢想已經實現了。
In October, she attended the World Laureates Forum for a second time, which had attracted 44 Nobel Prize laureates and 21 other world-class award winners.
今年10月，她第二次參加世界頂尖科學家論壇，該論壇吸引了44位諾獎得主以及21位獲得世界級獎項的科學家參加。
Tan was by far the youngest participant among the scientists invited to be at the meeting of the world’s sharpest minds. Her discovery about the relationship between the Fibonacci sequence and Bézout numbers has won her many prizes in youth innovation competitions both in Shanghai and elsewhere in China.
在這場全球頂級的科學盛會上，談方琳是受邀科學家中年紀最小的一位。她的研究成果是菲波那契數列與貝祖數的估計，這項發現令她在上海乃至全國的青少年創新大賽上多次獲獎。
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Her research is not just related to some complex concepts, but rather she made a breakthrough for estimating the upper and lower bounds of Bézout numbers. This finding has been praised by the famous Canadian mathematician, Professor Rankin, who provided an estimator in his issue published in American Mathematical Monthly in 2013. According to Guangming Daily, Rankin has been studying the same theme for five years but with no conclusions.
她的研究不僅僅是一些複雜概念，還在貝祖數的最佳上界和下界的估計問題上有所突破。這項發現獲得了加拿大著名數學家蘭金教授的盛讚，2013年，他在《美國數學月刊》上發表的文章中給出了一個估計式。據《光明日報》報道，蘭金研究該課題5年卻毫無頭緒。
From a very young age, Tan has always been fascinated by mathematics. This is largely because of the influence of her father, who teaches mathematics in East China Normal University. But she had not participated in any Mathematics Olympiad exams before, which she finds will be very time consuming.
談方琳從小就對數學著迷。這點很大程度上受其父親的影響，她的父親是華東師範大學的一位數學老師。但她先前並未參加任何數學奧林匹克競賽，她覺得這些比賽很費時間。
According to Xu Jun, Tan’s head teacher from her middle and high school, she doesn』t take after-school classes or too many extra exercises either. Her mastering of Further Mathematics and her good grades in school are thanks to the right study method. Her mother told Guangming Daily that Tan always treats studying and life with a positive mindset so she can feel happy while studying.
據談方琳初中及高中校長許軍介紹，談方琳從來不在外補課，也不刷題。她對高等數學的掌握和在學校里取得的優秀成績都源於正確的學習方法。談方琳的母親在接受《光明日報》採訪時表示，孩子一直都是以積極的心態來面對學習和生活，所以學習的時候很快樂。
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Attending this forum enabled Tan to get more inspiration from top scientists. She even got the opportunity to talk with Gero Miesenbock, the 2019 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize winner and the founder of optogenetics.
參加此次論壇讓談方琳從頂尖科學家的身上獲得了更多啟發。她甚至還獲得了與世界光遺傳學創始人、2019年沃倫阿爾珀特獎獲得者吉羅·麥森伯克交談的機會。
She asked Professor Miesenbock what he considered were the best personal qualities for conducting scientific research.
她向麥森伯克請教科學研究最重要的個人品質是什麼。
Miesenbock encouraged her not to lose her passion and love for what she does. He said that accepting failures is crucial for researchers. He stressed that people all knew that even Thomas Edison went through hundreds of unsuccessful attempts before finally inventing the light bulb.
麥森伯克鼓勵她不要失去對所做之事的激情與熱愛。他表示，對於一個科學工作者而言，接受失敗至關重要。他還強調，大家都知道，愛迪生髮明燈泡還經歷了數百次失敗呢。
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Tan has met many barriers in her research and often feels upset. The words made Tan feel inspired. 「I will keep my curiosity and interests in mathematics and overcome any obstacles in my research,」 she told Chinese Business View.
談方琳在研究中曾遇到過許多困難，常常覺得沮喪。麥森伯克的這番話讓談方琳備受鼓舞。「我會繼續保持對數學的好奇心和興趣，克服研究中遇到的任何困難，」她在接受《華商報》採訪時如此表示。
以上文章英文內容選自《21世紀學生英文報》高三697期
本文英文音頻由我報外籍編輯 Laura Michelle Dutton朗讀