Chapter 141 Morning Star Mathematics Prize Award
Early the next morning, Xu Chuan followed Rong Zhizhuan to the auditorium of Shuimu University, and met many famous mathematicians along the way.
For example, Professor Li Jun of Sun Moon University is a candidate for academician of the Academy of Science and Technology. He only has to wait for one more selection period before he is elected.
This big shot was invited to give a 45-minute report at the 22nd International Congress of Mathematicians.
Those who can give a forty-five-minute report at the International Congress of Mathematicians are the top experts in the field of mathematics. Even now, there are only a few people in China who have this qualification.
For example, Zhang Wei, Yun Zhiwei, and Xu Chenyang, who graduated from P University, are three mathematical geniuses of the previous generation. These three mathematical geniuses are known as the golden generation in the history of Chinese mathematics. Even in P University where there are many math masters, they are still P University. Big mathematical brilliance.
Among them, Zhang Wei's achievements are particularly outstanding and he is known as the "Great God". He is only in his thirties this year and hopes to win the Fields Medal in Mathematics in 2018. This time, the Seventh World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians Like Xu Chuan, he is also the gold medal winner of the Morning Star Mathematics Award.
Xu Chuan is quite happy to get to know these top mathematicians. He can gain more knowledge and ideas in the subsequent evening parties and exchange meetings.
There are considerable differences between academic conferences at home and abroad. For example, domestic conferences pay more attention to form and the mathematical achievements and identities of speakers at conferences.
But some things remain the same, that is, academic exchange is a place for everyone to communicate and make new friends.
Even in China, in addition to awards and lectures, there are also evening parties and exchange venues to facilitate mathematicians to get to know other people, exchange their inspirations, or learn new knowledge.
Ideas need to collide to produce sparks of wisdom, and the same goes for knowledge, which can produce inspiration through communication.
Entering the auditorium of Shuimu University, there was a huge crowd, and you could even see the faces of many foreigners.
Being able to hold such a mathematics exchange meeting will certainly improve the reputation of the school and even the entire city.
Because there are three awards at the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, whether it is the Chen Shengshen Award, the Morning Star Mathematics Award or the ICCM International Cooperation Award, they are not exclusively awarded to Chinese mathematicians. They are aimed at Chinese mathematicians all over the world. Many people came from abroad.
This is a good opportunity to demonstrate the strength of universities, the economy, and even the economic strength of cities and countries to foreign Chinese mathematicians. It is also an opportunity to attract foreign Chinese mathematicians to return to China.
So basically any city that can receive the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians will do their best to complete it, in order to showcase the city and attract talents.
Soon, the Seventh World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in China officially kicked off.
After the opening speech in the morning, the most important content of this mathematics conference followed.
The Morningside Mathematics Prize, the Chen Shengshen Prize and the International Cooperation Award of the International Competition are awarded to Chinese mathematicians who have made outstanding achievements in the research field and those who have made important contributions to the development of Chinese mathematics.
According to the ranking, the Morning Star Mathematics Award will be awarded first.
Among the three awards: Chen Shengsheng Award, Morning Star Mathematics Award, and ICCM International Cooperation Award, the Morning Star Mathematics Award has the highest weight.
Although the Chen Shengshen Prize is the first mathematics prize named after a Chinese mathematician by the International Mathematical Union, and its weight level is far greater than the Morning Star Mathematics Prize, there are actually two of them.
One is the Chen Shengshen Prize awarded at the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians.
The other is the Chern Medal awarded by the International Mathematical Union at the International Congress of Mathematicians held every four years.
The former awards Chinese mathematicians or Chinese mathematicians, while the latter is not restricted by nationality and is awarded once every four years. The level is much higher than the former.
The Chern Medal is the fourth award awarded by the International Mathematical Union. It is also the highest-level lifetime achievement award in the international mathematics community.
It can be said that those who can win this medal are not only unique in their respective fields, but also the status of the leader.
Unfortunately, no Chinese mathematician has ever received the Chern Medal.
After the opening speech, amid deafening applause, Mr. Qiu Chengtong, wearing black round glasses, came to the stage and took the microphone from Professor Zhang Shouwu of Shuimu University, who presided over the opening ceremony.
"I am honored to stand here and see so many mathematicians gathered together to exchange mathematical knowledge and expand the boundaries of the field of mathematics"
"Next, I will announce the winners of this year's Morning Star Mathematics Prize, and award the Morning Star Mathematics Gold and Silver Medals."
On the stage, Qiu Chengtong turned over the entry card in his hand and spoke slowly. "The first winner is Professor Zhang Wei from the University of Columbia. His main scientific research achievements are original contributions to logarithm theory and automorphic forms, and he solved the problem of modularity in Kudara's conjecture. He won this world Morningside Mathematics Gold Medal of the Chinese Mathematicians Conference ”
Amid warm applause, Zhang Wei, who was sitting in the front row, stood up, walked to the stage, took the golden medal and certificate from Qiu Chengtong, and then delivered a speech.
After the warm applause, Qiu Chengtong flipped through the entries and continued: "The second winner is Professor Li Si from Shuimu University."
“The main scientific research achievements are the introduction of gauge field renormalization method into complex geometry and Hodge theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds, proposing the quantization theory on Calabi-Yau space, and establishing compact Calabi-Yau manifolds. The mathematical foundation of quantum topology B-type and high-standard mirror symmetry won the Morningside Mathematics Gold Medal at this World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians. ”
Warm applause erupted again in the auditorium, and Li Si from Shuimu University came to the stage to accept the award and delivered a speech.
After the applause ended, Qiu Chengtong pushed up his round glasses on the bridge of his nose, with a rare smile on his face.
The “last” winner of the Morningside Mathematics Gold Prize is Xu Chuan from Jinling Sanjiang Normal University. ”
"The main scientific research results are the weakened form proof of the Weyl-Berry conjecture, the comprehensive proof of the Weyl-Berry conjecture, and the method of accurately calculating the parameter information of distant celestial bodies."
Compared with the number of scientific research achievements of the first two winners, Xu Chuan's main scientific research achievements are only three, but each one is heavyweight.
Hearing the name of the third winner, the auditorium became quiet for a moment. The mathematicians who could come to this mathematics exchange meeting were all familiar with the name Xu Chuan, or at least they had heard of it.
The proof of the weak Weyl-Berry conjecture, the proof of the Weyl-Berry conjecture, and the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem are not only achievements in mathematics, but also achievements in astronomy, all of which have made everyone familiar with this name.
But most people were quite surprised when they heard this name at the Morningstar Mathematics Gold Medal Award Ceremony.
Otherwise, the owner of this name is too young, so young that when Qiu Chengtong announced the winning name, he used classmate Xu Chuan instead of Professor Xu Chuan.
If everyone here remembers correctly, Xu Chuan only entered college in September last year. He has not finished his freshman year this year and is not yet 19 years old.
Compared with the previous two winners, he is too young.
Incredibly young, so young that people are surprised and even surprised that he won the Morning Star Mathematics Award this time.
Although it is definitely enough in terms of his achievements, it is a world-class mathematical conjecture problem that many mathematicians cannot even touch in their entire lives.
But in China, he was able to win the Morning Star Mathematics Award at the age of eighteen, which can be said to have broken the previous rules.
Because whether abroad or domestic, academia is a place where qualifications are important. It's just that compared to foreign countries, domestic 'qualifications' are more special and serious.
Mathematicians who had not received the award list in advance were surprised that he could win the Morning Star Mathematics Award at the age of eighteen.
This is the top mathematics award known as the Chinese Fields Prize. All previous winners are in their thirties, and almost none are under thirty.
For example, Zhang Wei is thirty-five years old this year, and Li Si is thirty-eight years old this year.
In comparison, Xu Chuan is nearly twice as old as him and nearly 20 years younger. It is simply unimaginable that such a young man could win the Morning Star Mathematics Award.
Although almost no one would deny that this winner will definitely win the Morning Star Mathematics Medal or even the Fields Medal in the future, most people attending the conference did not expect that he would be able to win the prize at this year’s mathematics conference. Just get this award.
What does this make other mathematicians who are already in their thirties, or even close to forty-five and still waiting, think?
For example, Professor Yin Wotao, who was accidentally squeezed out of the Morning Star Mathematics Gold Medal by Xu Chuan this time, felt very unhappy.
For this year's Morningstar Mathematics Gold Medal Award, he prepared a lot and visited many mathematicians.
According to the original historical trend, he could win the gold medal this year, but Xu Chuan came out of the blue and directly pushed him to the silver medal.
Although they are both Morningstar Mathematics Awards, there is a huge gap between the Gold Medal and the Silver Medal. The former can be said to be the top mathematics professor in the world, while the latter can only be said to be the top in the country.
By the way, Professor Yin Wotao graduated from the Department of Mathematics at NTU and is Xu Chuan’s senior brother. He made fundamental breakthroughs in sparse optimization, ill-posed inverse problems and compressed sensing, and developed a number of optimizations. Methods and algorithms, widely used in data science and engineering.
This kind of achievement is fully worthy of a Morningstar Mathematics Gold Award, but compared with Zhang Wei and Li Si, the achievements are still far behind.
The former is one of the popular candidates for the 2018 Fields Medal.
The latter constructed the quantization theory of topological string field theory and solved the "Landau-Ginzburg mirror symmetry conjecture", which is a profound achievement in mathematical physics.
As for Xu Chuan, it is even more incomparable. The Weyl-Berry conjecture is a world-class mathematical problem. If Xu Chuan's achievements in mathematics were not a bit monotonous and his age was a bit too young, the Fields Medal in 2018 would definitely be His, not possible.
In this case, it would not be unfair for him to be eliminated.
After all, academia is still about performance. No matter how awesome the unspoken rules are, they can't compare to the dazzling achievements of others.
After a brief silence, applause sounded like thunder.
Although they were surprised that the Morningstar Mathematics Gold Medal would be awarded to an 18-year-old boy against convention, many mathematicians in the audience were not convinced by the man standing on the stage.
Being able to prove the world-class mathematical difficulty Weyl-Berry conjecture, his achievement has surpassed more than 99.99% of mathematicians.
Not to mention young scholars under the age of forty, even the vast majority of older scholars who have been doing mathematics research for fifty or sixty years have not achieved such achievements.
As the applause rang out, Xu Chuan stood up and walked along the red carpet on the ground to the stage.
"Congratulations, classmate Xu Chuan."
On the podium, Qiu Chengtong took the golden medal and red certificate from the hostess and presented them to the youngest Morning Star Mathematics Gold Medal winner in history.
Taking the medal and certificate from the old man, Xu Chuan bowed politely and said thank you.
Qiu Chengtong smiled, handed over the microphone in his hand, and said: "Let's talk a few words. You are the youngest winner in history. I don't think anyone will be able to beat your winning age again in the future."
Xu Chuan did not hesitate, took the microphone, and faced hundreds of mathematicians in the auditorium.
"First of all, I would like to thank my alma mater, Nanjing University, for nurturing me. I would also like to thank the Chinese Mathematical Society and the Morningside Mathematics Award jury for their recognition of me."
"People who work in science want to be recognized, especially those they respect. The Morningside Mathematics Award jury awarded me this award, which is a great encouragement to me."
"I hope that every time I win an award, I will regard it as a boost to move forward and encourage me to look forward. I hope that I can make more breakthroughs and achieve higher achievements on the road of mathematics and academics."
"Thank you."
His acceptance speech was very brief, without too many remarks or impassioned speeches. He just silently transformed the Morning Star Mathematics Award into his own motivation and steps, using it to pave the way towards a broader world of mathematics. .
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In the auditorium, applause continued like a surging tide.
In his seat, Rong Zhizhuan, dean of the School of Mathematics at NTU, looked at the young man on the stage with approval. This was probably the best student since NTU was split.
On the side, Zhang Weiping clapped gently, looking at Xu Chuan on the stage, he sighed softly in his heart. He finally missed such a student.
But then he felt relieved. It didn't matter where he studied, as long as he didn't bury his talent.
If young people are strong, the country will be strong; if young people are wise, the country will be wise; if young people are prosperous, the country will be prosperous.
It doesn't matter even if you haven't studied under him. At his age, he has seen a lot of things and is already comfortable with most things.
As for those things that he didn't take lightly, he still kept his attention and hoped to see them in this young man.
There is nothing better than this.
Next to Zhang Weiping, Hu Xingjian stared at the stage dumbfounded. He didn't come back to his senses until the thunderous applause in the auditorium burst out, and he clapped violently along with him.
The figure standing on the stage was several years younger than him, but he had already received the medal that he had longed for in his life.
That figure, standing there quietly, left an indelible mark in his heart and gave him a goal to strive for.
As a teenager, no one will feel that they are worse than others.
Hu Xingjian believes that he can also stand on that stage one day.
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Good news: Batsuo should be almost recovered. The antigen test for two consecutive days was negative. Today, the community management came to do a nucleic acid test. If there is no problem, I can go out tomorrow.
There should be another chapter in the evening, but it may be later, after all, it is not that fast to recover from the coding state.
(End of chapter)