天赋一般是不是不适合学数学？ 第1页

是的，我引用一下美国实验物理学家（诺奖得主）Luis Alvarez 的语录：

The world of mathematics and theoretical physics is hierarchical. That was my first exposure to it. There's a limit beyond which one cannot progress. The differences between the limiting abilities of those on successively higher steps of the pyramid are enormous. I have not seen described anywhere the shock a talented man experiences when he finds, late in his academic life, that there are others enormously more talented than he. I have personally seen more tears shed by grown men and women over this discovery than I would have believed possible. Most of those men and women shift to fields where they can compete on more equal terms.

如果天分一般，应该学些更多靠经验和刻苦而非智商的重工程的知识和技能。我本科时知道自己在数学竞赛比出了点小名堂，但真正数学能力离数学家差得很远，离同龄人中最强的也天壤之别，所以不敢（也不能）太认真地考虑数学，学了些编程和软件工程，尽管自己当时的工程直觉从某种角度是极差的。

我记得本科时看到了此Alvarez的语录开始更自卑了，也想我不光数学没多么强，工程能力更差。不过当时还是小孩儿，后来惊喜地发现我的数学天分还是蛮高的，只是发育得偏晚，编程和工程上虽然入门的过程有所坎坷，但最终也抓住了感觉。现在上的一门数学课，有位IMO的同学经常把最难的习题解出来，而我由于至少那种类型的数学的天分绝对不是10万里挑一，也大概率不是万里挑一，大多情况试都不会试的，知道解出的可能性不大则花时间比较划不来。