Chapter 141 Morning Star Mathematics Award

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 the Academy of Scientific Research. He only needs to wait for one more selection time before being elected.

This big guy was invited to give a 45-minute report at the 22nd International Congress of Mathematicians.

Those who can give a 45-minute report at the International Congress of Mathematicians are all top-notch experts in the field of mathematics. Even now, there are not many people in China who are qualified.

For example, Zhang Wei, Yun Zhiwei, and Xu Chenyang, three mathematical geniuses of the previous generation who graduated from P University, are known as the golden generation in the history of Chinese mathematics. Even in P University, where mathematical giants gather, it is the mathematical glory of P University.

Among them, Zhang Wei's achievements are particularly outstanding. He is known as the "Great God". He is only in his thirties this year and has the hope of winning the 18th Fields Medal in Mathematics. At the 7th World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, he and Xu Chuan are also the gold medal winners of the Morning Star Mathematics Award.

It was quite a pleasure for Xu Chuan to meet these top mathematicians. He could gain more knowledge and ideas in the subsequent evening parties and exchanges.

There are significant differences between academic conferences at home and abroad. For example, domestic conferences pay more attention to form, and pay attention to the mathematical achievements and identities of the speakers at the conference.

However, some things are the same, that is, academic exchanges are 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 meet others, exchange their inspirations or learn new knowledge.

Ideas need to collide to produce sparks of wisdom, and the same is true for knowledge. Inspiration can only be generated in communication.

Entering the auditorium of Shuimu University, there were crowds of people, and even many foreign faces could be seen.

Being able to hold such a mathematics exchange meeting will have a certain improvement on the reputation of the school and even the entire city.

Because there are three awards at the World Chinese Mathematicians Conference, whether it is the Chern Award, the Morningstar Mathematics Award or the ICCM International Cooperation Award, they are not specifically awarded to Chinese mathematicians, but are aimed at Chinese people all over the world, and many of them come from abroad.

This is a good opportunity to show the strength of universities, economy, and even the economic strength of cities and countries to foreign Chinese mathematicians, and it is also an opportunity to attract foreign Chinese mathematicians to return to China.

So basically, cities that can receive the World Chinese Mathematicians Conference will do their best to complete it, using this to showcase the city and attract talents.

Soon, the 7th World Chinese Mathematicians Conference in China officially kicked off.

After the opening speech in the morning, the most important content of this mathematics conference followed.

The Morningstar Mathematics Award, the Chern Award and the International Cooperation Award of the International Cooperation Conference were awarded to Chinese mathematicians who have outstanding achievements in their research fields and those who have made important contributions to the development of China's mathematics.

According to the ranking, the Morningstar Mathematics Award was awarded first.

Among the three awards of the Chern Award, the Morningstar Mathematics Award and the ICCM International Cooperation Award, the Morningstar Mathematics Award has the highest weight.

Although the Chern Prize is the first mathematics award named after a Chinese mathematician by the International Mathematical Union, and its weight level far exceeds that of the Morning Star Mathematics Award, it actually has two.

One is the Chern 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 is awarded to Chinese mathematicians or Chinese mathematicians, while the latter is not restricted by nationality and is awarded once every four years, and its level is much higher than the former.

The Chern Medal is the fourth major award of the International Mathematical Union, and 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 leading position.

Unfortunately, no Chinese mathematician has ever won the Chern Medal.

After the opening speech, amid deafening applause, Mr. Qiu Chengtong, wearing black round-frame glasses, came on stage and took the microphone from Professor Zhang Shouwu of Shuimu University who hosted the opening ceremony.

"It is an honor to stand here and see so many mathematicians gather together to exchange mathematical knowledge and expand the boundaries of the field of mathematics."

"Next, I will announce the winners of this year's Morningstar Mathematics Award, and present the Morningstar Mathematics Award Gold and Silver Awards."

On the stage, Qiu Chengtong flipped through the entry card in his hand and spoke slowly. "The first winner is Professor Zhang Wei from Columbia University. His main scientific research results are original contributions to number theory and automorphic forms. He solved the problem of modularity in the Kudala conjecture and won the Morningstar Mathematics Award Gold Award at this World 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 gave a speech.

After the warm applause, Qiu Chengtong flipped through the entry and continued: "The second winner is Professor Li Si from Shuimu University."

"His main research achievements include the introduction of gauge field renormalization method into complex geometry and Hodge theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds, the proposal of quantization theory on Calabi-Yau space, and the establishment of the mathematical foundation of quantum topology type B and high-order mirror symmetry of compact Calabi-Yau manifolds. He won the Gold Prize of Morningside Mathematics Award of this World Chinese Mathematicians Conference."

Warm applause broke out again in the auditorium. Li Si from Shuimu University came to the stage to receive the award and gave a speech.

When the applause ended, Qiu Chengtong pushed the round-frame glasses on his nose and showed a rare smile on his face.

The "last" winner of the Gold Prize of Morningside Mathematics Award is Xu Chuan from Jinling Sanjiang Normal University. "

"His main research achievements include the weakened form proof of Weyl-Berry conjecture, the comprehensive proof of Weyl-Berry conjecture, and the method of accurately calculating the parameter information of distant celestial bodies. ”

Compared to the number of scientific research achievements of the first two winners, Xu Chuan has only three major scientific research achievements, but each of them is of great significance.

When the name of the third winner was heard, the auditorium was quiet for a while. Mathematicians who were able to attend this mathematics exchange meeting were all familiar with the name Xu Chuan, or at least 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, which make everyone familiar with this name.

But most people were quite surprised to hear this name at the Morningstar Mathematics Award Gold Award ceremony.

Nothing else, the owner of this name is too young, so young that Qiu Chengtong announced the name of the winner. The name used was Xu Chuan instead of Professor Xu Chuan.

If everyone present remembers correctly, Xu Chuan only entered university in September last year, and he has not yet finished his freshman year this year, and he is not yet 19 years old.

Compared with the previous two winners, he is really too young.

So young that it is incredible, so young that it is surprising and even surprising that he can win this Morningstar Mathematics Award.

Although his achievements are definitely enough, a world-class mathematical conjecture is a difficult problem that many mathematicians cannot even touch in their entire lives.

But in China, he can win the Morningstar Mathematics Award at the age of 18, which can be said to have broken the previous rules.

Because whether it is abroad or in China, the academic world is a place that values ​​qualifications.

It’s just that compared with abroad, the "qualifications" in China are a little more special and serious.

No advance The mathematicians who received the list of winners were all surprised that he could win the Morningstar Mathematics Award at the age of 18.

This is known as the top mathematics award of the Chinese Fields. The age of previous winners is in their thirties, and almost no one is younger than 30.

For example, Zhang Wei is 35 years old this year, and Li Si is 38 years old this year.

In contrast, Xu Chuan is nearly twice as old, nearly 20 years younger. It is hard to imagine that he can win the Morningstar Mathematics Award at such a young age.

Although almost no one will deny that this winner will definitely win the Morningstar Mathematics Award or even the Fields Medal in the future, most of the people attending the conference did not expect that he could win this award at this year's mathematics conference.

This makes those who are already in their thirties, or even close to forty-five, still waiting. What do other mathematicians think?

For example, Professor Yin Wotao, who was unexpectedly squeezed out of the Morningstar Mathematics Prize by Xu Chuan this time, felt very upset.

For this year's Morningstar Mathematics Prize, he prepared a lot and visited many mathematicians.

According to the original historical trend, he could have won the gold medal this year, but Xu Chuan suddenly appeared and directly squeezed him to the silver medal.

Although both are Morningstar Mathematics Awards, the gap between the gold medal and the silver medal is very large. The former can be said to be the world's top mathematics professor, while the latter can only be said to be the top domestically.

By the way, this Professor Yin Wotao graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Nanjing University and is Xu Chuan's senior. He has made fundamental breakthroughs in sparse optimization, ill-posed inverse problems and compressed sensing, and has developed a number of optimization methods and algorithms that are widely used in data science and engineering.

This achievement is completely enough for a Morningstar Mathematics Prize, but compared with Zhang Wei and Li Si, the achievement is still far behind.

The former is one of the hot candidates for the 18th Fields Medal.

The latter constructed the quantization theory of topological string field theory and solved the "Landau-Ginzburg mirror symmetry conjecture", and his achievements in mathematical physics are extremely profound.

As for Xu Chuan, there is no comparison. The Weyl-Berry conjecture is a world-class mathematical problem. If Xu Chuan's achievements in mathematics were not a little monotonous and he was not a little too young, the Fields Medal in 2018 would definitely be his, not a possibility.

In this case, it is not unfair for him to be eliminated.

After all, the academic world is still a place where achievements are emphasized. No matter how powerful the unspoken rules are, they cannot match the dazzling achievements of others.

After a short silence, applause rang out like thunder.

Although they were surprised that the Morningstar Mathematics Award Gold Prize would break the convention and be awarded to an 18-year-old boy, many mathematicians in the audience were not dissatisfied with the person standing on the stage.

Being able to prove the world-class mathematical problem Weyl-Berry conjecture, his achievements have surpassed more than 99.99% of mathematicians.

Not to mention young scholars under the age of 40, even most of the elderly scholars who have been doing mathematical research for 50 or 60 years have not achieved such an achievement.

Applause broke out, and 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 etiquette lady and presented it to the youngest winner of the Morning Star Mathematics Gold Award in history.

After receiving the medal and certificate from the old man, Xu Chuan bowed slightly politely and said thank you.

Qiu Chengtong smiled, handed over the microphone in his hand, and said: "Let's chat for a few words, the youngest winner in history, I don't think anyone will be able to break your winning age in the future."

Xu Chuan did not hesitate, took the microphone, and faced the hundreds of mathematicians in the auditorium.

"First of all, I would like to thank my alma mater, Nanjing University, for its cultivation of me. I would also like to thank the Chinese Mathematical Society and the Morningside Mathematics Award Committee for their recognition of me."

"People who do academic research hope to be recognized, especially those who they respect. The Morningside Mathematics Award Committee gave me this award, which is a great encouragement to me."

"I hope to regard every award as a boost to progress, encouraging me to look forward, and 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 words of gratitude or inspiring speeches. He just silently transformed the Morningside Mathematics Award into his own motivation and stepping stone, using it to pave the way and move towards a broader world of mathematics.

Papapapa...

In the auditorium, applause continued like a surging tide.

In his seat, Rong Zhizhuan, the dean of the School of Mathematics of Nanjing University, looked at the boy on the stage with approval. This was probably the best student since the split of Nanjing University.

On the side, Zhang Weiping clapped his hands gently, and sighed softly in his heart when he saw Xu Chuan on the stage. He finally missed such a student.

But then he was relieved. It didn't matter where he studied, as long as he didn't bury his talent.

If the youth is strong, the country will be strong; if the youth is smart, the country will be smart; if the youth is prosperous, the country will be prosperous.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't study under him. At his age, he has seen a lot of things and is calm about most things.

As for those things that he didn't look down on and still kept paying attention to, he also hoped to see them in this young man.

There is nothing better than this.

And beside Zhang Weiping, Hu Xingjian stared at the stage in amazement, and didn't come back to his senses until the applause in the auditorium sounded like thunder, and then he applauded violently.

The figure standing on the stage was several years younger than him, but he had already won the medal that he had been longing for all his life.

That figure, standing there quietly, left an indelible mark in his heart and brought him a goal to strive for.

In youth, no one feels inferior to others.

Hu Xingjian believes that he will also be able to stand on that stage one day.

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Good news: Yao should have recovered almost completely. The antigen test was negative for two consecutive days. 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 takes a long time for the writing state to recover.