Chapter 212 The Four Destinies of Mathematics Journal (4k)
If you ask a mathematician, what is it like to learn mathematics?
Then he will probably be silent for a moment, then stare at you with a look that awakens blood sorrow, and then tell you seriously with an expression that makes you feel hurt.
Don't learn mathematics. Ordinary people will become unfortunate if they learn mathematics.
Because mathematics has never been a paradise for ordinary people.
There is a saying like this that has been circulating for a long time.
Genius is just the threshold to see me.
If you are one of a hundred little math princes, then there will be more than 10 million little math princes in China.
If you are one of a thousand mathematical prodigies, there will be more than one million mathematical prodigies in China.
Even if there is only one genius in a million, there are still hundreds of thousands of people in China.
You are a math genius.
At the age of 9, he won first place in the Mathematical Olympiad competition in the county town.
The 10-year-old is invincible in the city.
At the age of 16, you became the ace player of the provincial Mathematical Olympiad team. There was no serious opponent for you in the whole province.
At the age of 17, you successfully entered the national training team and swept through the talented people of the same age in all provinces across the country. Finally, you stood out from 60 people and became the last 6 people to win glory for the country.
Even the coach of Huaqing Jingda University who leads the team thinks that you are indeed a top-notch mathematical genius.
Then you entered the School of Mathematics at Beijing University, and you found that there were five other classmates with the same honor as you, who were your teammates.
Relying on your own talent and hard work, you have become the number one in the Mathematics Academy. You were praised by the big academicians and said that you will definitely have a place in the field of domestic mathematics in the future.
At the age of 22, you have worked hard and finally been admitted to Princeton University. When you enter this department, which is ranked number one in mathematics research in the world, you will find that you are not the only student who is as talented as you.
But even if you break through the sky in this life and reach the sky step by step.
You feel that you have successfully crushed 99% of the people on the earth, but you find that you are still far away from the four major journals known as "Destiny".
Even if you are in the world's number one mathematics school, even if you claim to be invincible among your peers.
You still find that a genius is just a genius after all.
Because in front of you, you are not the only one who wants to win the crown of the four destiny mathematics journals.
There are also countless heads and leaders of various schools of mathematics, as well as legends of mathematics who live in seclusion around the world, such as Grigory Perelman who proved the Poincaré conjecture. .
There are also people like you who were once the number one young genius in the world of the previous generation, and even the number one young genius in the world of the last eighteen generations, who were also able to overtake their peers.
Because when you are 22 years old, 18 generations later, someone else is only 40 years old and can still win the Fields Medal.
And even if it’s you like this.
In the face of the four destiny of mathematics journals, it will also appear very small.
"ActaMathematica"/"Acta Mathematica"
"Annals of Mathematics"/"Annals of Mathematics"
"JournalOfTheAmericanMathematicalSociety"/"Journal of the American Mathematical Society"
"InventionesMathematicae"/"New Progress in Mathematics"
Geniuses in mathematics are like crucian carp crossing the river.
The world of mathematics is also bustling with strong figures.
But the four major mathematics journals only have so much space.
"Acta Mathematica" is a quarterly magazine with two volumes and four issues each year. Only more than a dozen papers are published in the world every year. It is published by the Mittag-Leffler Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, as of 2009, China has only 3 articles. Accepted by "Journal of Mathematics" are Mr. Li Da, a veteran of modern Chinese mathematics, who was published in 1933, Mr. Su Buqing, a great mathematician who was published as an independent author in 1951, and Mr. Su Buqing, who was published in 2000 and is currently a mathematician at Peking University. Professor Zhu Xiaohua, a professor at the institute and director of the Analysis Teaching and Research Section, is currently visiting the French Center for Advanced Mathematics.
"Annals of Mathematics" is a bimonthly publication, published every two months. It generally publishes no more than 80 articles per year. The difficulty of publishing exceeds the three world's top scientific journals: Natural, Science, and Cell. From 1949 to 2009, in the 60 years, Chinese mathematicians published no more than 20 articles in the "Annals of Mathematics".
Compared with the two major journals, both founded in the 19th century, the other two major journals appear quite young.
The Journal of the American Mathematical Society, founded in 1988, is a quarterly journal. The number of articles per year is limited to 32. It mainly publishes high-level research papers on theoretical mathematics and applied mathematics. It is the youngest among the four top journals.
New Advances in Mathematics, founded in 1966, is a bimonthly journal. It is relatively easy to publish research results among the four top mathematics journals. Chinese mathematicians have published relatively more articles here.
Adding up the four top journals, the number of articles that can be published in a year does not even exceed 150.
These 150 articles are also broken down into various fields of pure numbers and proper numbers.
Generally speaking, only the absolute kings in their respective fields are qualified to appear in the four top magazines.
If you have to compare it with a number.
At the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians held in Beijing in 2002, a total of more than 4,000 mathematicians participated. This was not the limit of the world's mathematician community, but there were only so many people who were willing to come out for a walk.
More mathematicians, if they don’t need to win awards, don’t even bother to go out.
And the mathematicians I saw were all top geniuses in their own countries.
Face destiny.
It’s as difficult as climbing to heaven.
It can be said that these four destiny of mathematical journals, which can make countless mathematicians bend their backs, are within easy reach in front of Xu Qingshan at this time.
Tian Gang, who was originally anxious to push Xu Qingshan to the "Annual Review of Mathematics", calmed down after listening to Wang Shicheng's words.
Since they are all published on arXiv, there is no need to worry about them.
According to Tian Gang's own understanding, whether it is "Annals of Mathematics" or "Journal of Mathematics", the editors-in-chief and editors of the four top journals are world-renowned scholars. The first thing they do when they wake up every day is to go to Check your email, check arXiv, and search intensively for top papers that deserve to be widely publicized.
"It's already 5:30 now. At this time, everyone in Stockholm gets up and goes to work. At night, it will be dawn over at Princeton. There is really no rush for this moment."
Tian Gang thought for a while and greeted everyone.
"Let's go, Dong Laishun!"
Xu Qingshan sat in front of the computer and looked at other papers on arXiv for a while. He simply selected a few papers with good-looking titles and looked at them, but he found that they were a bit eye-catching.
"What? Let's go and eat. What are you looking at?"
Seeing Xu Qingshan's expression, Chen Dayue on the side came over and took a look.
"Hey, don't read it. Don't pick a paper with a fancy-looking name. Just look at the title. Isn't your own paper just a general proof of the twin prime conjecture?"
"The arXiv has few restrictions and can publish a lot. Anyone with some skills will publish articles here, but as long as the quality is high, they will be noticed soon. Let's go, let's go have a meal. It's rare that Lao Tian says he wants to treat me."
"Okay."
Xu Qingshan shrugged, turned off the computer, stood up and listened to the teachers' inexplicable sensationalism for a while, waiting to go to dinner together.
Although the protagonist is Xu Qingshan. But after Xu Qingshan published the article, they did not quarrel with Xu Qingshan, but a few of them sighed, as if they were lamenting how difficult it was for China's mathematics development in the past few decades.
It’s hard to comment on the behavior of these math tycoons.
But Xu Qingshan was quite happy listening to it.
"Tian Yuan, can I ask my grandma and my old uncle to come with me? They are here too."
Seeing that the opportunity was good, Xu Qingshan put forward his own idea.
He didn't just want to take his grandmother and Lin Chenhua to have a meal with Tian Gang, but he wanted to make good use of his connections while there were so many teachers from Beijing University present.
"Huh? Your family is here too, of course that's great!"
Tian Gang's face lit up and he agreed.
In fact, Tian Gang and Zhang Jiping were still a little bit upset about the fact that many members of the Golden Generation had an unhappy chat with Beijing University that day.
After all, the golden generation was trained by Zhang Jiping, and Tian Gang actually trained them. Both of them spent a lot of effort to see results, and they also really wanted to continue to lay the foundation for the "Chinese Institute of Mathematics at Peking University" in the 21st century. The name and heritage of "First Series".
But who knew it would end up like this.
Thinking of this, Tian Gang felt very uncomfortable. It was a pity that he, a person who had been sent abroad for work since 1984, chose to return to China and join Beijing University in his golden years at the age of 40. He was very aware of the changes in domestic and foreign capitalist society in the early 1980s. There is a huge gap in living standards.
But in this way, he was not left in the United States. In 1998, he resolutely returned to China and was hired as a distinguished professor, and then to a chair professor, until he was qualified to preside over the establishment of the Beijing International Mathematics Research Center.
Tian Gang was not moved to tears at that time.
As a result, who would have thought that few of the proudest students he brought out would come back.
I have been studying abroad for 14 years and have never thought about changing my nationality.
Like Zhang Wei, he has only been out for four years, and he is already ready to stop being Chinese and become an American.
If it weren't for Xu Qingshan's presence, Tian Gang felt that he would have to be quiet for at least two or three years before he could devote himself to cultivating students as before.
After the day is over.
Tian Gang had a drink and chat with Zhang Jiping for a long time.
The two of them doubted whether they had neglected the students' ideological construction and their care for the students' families.
Now that Xu Qingshan is willing to let his family come over, Tian Gang is naturally more than happy.
As for Xu Qingshan, who was able to prove the "general form of twin prime conjecture" as a student of Peking University, Tian Gang was willing to go to the leader to pass the special talent plan so that Xu Qingshan could stay at the school as a professor after graduating from the undergraduate program.
"Thank you Tianyuan."
Xu Qingshan smiled.
During the dinner in the evening, all the teachers from the School of Mathematics at Beijing University met Xu Qingshan’s grandmother and uncle.
It's just that unlike Xu Qingshan's calmness and confidence, the little old lady seemed a little reserved in front of so many teachers. She seemed to be worried that her words, deeds, and cultural level were not enough, and doing something inconsistent with her status would embarrass her grandson. elements.
Lin Chenhua had always been quiet, accompanying his old mother to take care of her.
"Auntie, we at Beijing University are very grateful to you for raising Qingshan well."
Xu Qingshan was very surprised.
At tonight's dinner, after he brought his grandma here, Tian Gang not only made his grandma sit at the main seat, but also stood up and brought a tea cup to his grandma to offer tea.
An academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice president of the School of Mathematics at Beijing University personally serves tea. What kind of treatment is this?
Tian Gang had a nice smile and a very kind attitude.
In fact, Tian Gang had thought about it a lot, and what Xu Qingshan said that day was right.
China currently does not offer many top scientists in terms of scientific research benefits, and neither the resources nor the environment can match those of top foreign universities.
But the Chinese people have something deep in their bones that is rare abroad.
That is the sense of homeland identity.
Although I don’t know if Xu Qingshan has the idea of going abroad and staying abroad.
But Tian Gang would never dare to bet that Xu Qingshan did not have such thoughts.
For Peking University, no matter whether Xu Qingshan specializes in mathematics or not, Xu Qingshan will be a shining star for Peking University’s School of Mathematics. Tian Gang believes that as long as he is guided correctly, with Xu Qingshan’s talent and ability, he can win Winning the Fields Medal may just be a matter of time.
So far, no one from China has won the Fields Medal.
There are two Chinese people. One of them, Tian Gang, doesn't want to mention it. The other one has nothing to do with China except being of Chinese descent.
In addition to the Fields Medal, the same is true for the Abel Prize, Wolf Prize, and Crafford Prize. Although Mr. Chen Shengshen later returned to China to preside over the work of the Balitai Institute of Mathematics for several years, he had already joined the Balitai Institute of Mathematics in 1961. Got American citizenship.
The Chinese mathematics community has really been longing for those honors for a long, long time.
Even Tian Gang himself.
He felt that he might not have any further opportunities in many places.
But he also hopes to see a Chinese who is 100% made in China, a pure Chinese, who can stand on those high platforms on behalf of China.
"No, no, it's all Qingshan's own efforts."
Lin Mi looked at the teacher who looked like a big leader serving tea to him, and suddenly became a little confused.
"Hey, Auntie, you don't have to, I can just drink it. I would like to thank you mainly on behalf of our Beijing University."
Tian Gang quickly stopped him.
"Auntie, my surname is Wang, you can just call me Xiao Wang. I am from Rongcheng, and we are all fellows from Fujian and Yue. Are you here to accompany Qingshan? If you want to go to day school, that's fine. We at Peking University are very strict about student life. Very loose.”
Wang Changping on the side also spoke, he was very serious about getting closer.
Speaking of which, he is the current dean of the School of Mathematics at Beijing University.
According to Xu Qingshan's growth rate, Wang Changping feels that Xu Qingshan will be able to become a professor in his hands before he leaves office.
"I'm here to keep him company, and he keeps asking me to go to the hospital for a checkup. I will continue to go to the hospital in two days."
"Hospital? Auntie's body looks very good. Is there anything that needs to be checked?"
"No, it's just an old problem. When Qingshan was still in the first grade of junior high school, I was found to have lymphoma when I was cooking for him in Longjiang."
The little old lady said clearly.
Unexpectedly, these people, who heard that their youngest son was the best math teacher in the country, suddenly became solemn when they heard his words.
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(End of this chapter)