Seeing Sun Yuchen’s old photo from his Peking University days really broke me! A classic “immortal showdown” moment from PKU’s Class of 2007!

“Hard to imagine a calculus class with two future Fields Medal winners sitting there, and a 90s-era billionaire!”

In 2007 at Peking University, it was basically a “battle of immortals” scene. In the same year, Wang Hong and Deng Yu, two future giants who would win the “Nobel Prize of the math world” (the Fields Medal), were buried in their calculations, while Sun Yuchen entered the Yuanpei Program with his talent for winning the New Concept Essay contest and a comeback score of 650, later turning around to become a top-tier celebrity millionaire in the crypto world.

From the same classroom, both academic peaks and business legends emerged. With equally top-notch brains put to completely different tracks—this is probably the unevenness of the world.

Do you think it’s harder for academia to change the world, or for business to create wealth? #夏日创作营 $BTC ‌