Chapter 263 This is a major achievement at the Fields Medal level!
"After a while, I will always remember Tsinghua University and your kindness in helping me learn something. Thank you, principal." Zhuang Qian made a bow and bowed, and gave a student salute to Mei Yiqi.
"Okay." Mei Yiqi nodded and accepted the student's gift.
Just when Zhuang Qianding was about to say goodbye and leave, suddenly, the assistant to the principal ran over in a hurry, holding a telegram in his hand, came to Mei Yiqi, quickly handed the telegram in his hand to Mei Yiqi, and said quickly
: "Principal, news from the editorial board of the journal, the paper co-written by our school professor Hua Luogeng and student Yu Hua has appeared on the front page of the 25th Week of "Annals of Mathematics"!"
"What, didn't Yu Hua just join the school not long ago?" Hearing the news, Mei Yiqi was startled for a moment, keenly grasping the key points, and was very surprised. As the president of Tsinghua University, Mei Yiqi certainly understood Princeton University's "Annual Report of Mathematics"
》The significance and weight of journals.
Yu Hua, who had just entered school, published an article in the Mathematics Annual Report and made it to the front page.
The Annual Report of Mathematics consists of core articles and regular articles that make up the entire magazine. For students, it is a great honor to have the articles they write be included in the regular article pages and be published. Core articles are even more unthinkable and often belong to
The position of top mathematicians.
However, Yu Hua actually won the core article as a recommended student of Tsinghua University.
"Professor Hua is the corresponding author, and Yu Hua is the first author." Mei Yiqi took the telegram and read it. After a few seconds, he looked at Zhuang Qianding next to him, and his words contained a hint of disbelief.
One work!
The most influential and important work!
"First author?!" Zhuang Qianding next to him widened his eyes. At this moment, he was no longer calm. If being published on the front page of "Annals of Mathematics" was not enough to arouse Zhuang Qianding's surprise, then, this
The title of a work actually reveals a lot of things.
The first author is internationally recognized as the person who has made the greatest contribution to scientific research results. He is the main initiator and author of the paper, covering the research progress and the preparation of the entire paper. The actual contribution exceeds 70%.
Zhuang Qianding knew that Yu Hua's mathematics level and calculation ability were very powerful, but he found that he still underestimated this student.
This is one of the core articles on the front page of the Annual Report of Mathematics!
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The twenty-fifth week of "Annals of Mathematics" journal, front page - [The impact and role of asymmetric cryptography on cryptography]
At the end of the entire paper, the comments of the editor-in-chief and reviewers of the Annual Report of Mathematics on the core articles of this issue are written.
[This is a revolutionary and groundbreaking achievement. Professor Hua Luogeng and Professor Yu Hua proposed the unprecedented concept of public keys and private keys. The security of information transmission has improved exponentially. Our information security will finally not be stolen by rats. This is a
Very huge theoretical contribution. - Hermann Weyl"
[The theory of asymmetric cryptography is so perfect that it is unbelievable. On this day, cryptography has opened a new era. We can finally achieve a major victory in the battle between encoding and deciphering. This is a Fields Medal.
A major achievement at the level of ——John von Neumann]
[History is always witnessing. Fortunately, I personally witnessed the history of the development of cryptography. Symmetric cryptography will go into the garbage dump. No one can know the content of the telegram I sent to my wife. - Solomon·, editor-in-chief of the Annual Report of Mathematics
Lefshetz.】
Weyl, Neumann, and Lefshetz, three veterans of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the World Mathematics Center, jointly evaluated a core article, which is extremely rare for core articles in previous issues of the Annual Report of Mathematics.
The Annual Report of Mathematics publishes so many core articles, but only a very small number of papers with extremely high gold content will be jointly evaluated by the editor-in-chief and reviewers.
The most important thing is the identity of the three veteran figures.
Take a look and see who these people are?
Hermann Weyl, one of the most important mathematicians in the first half of the 20th century, the successor of Hilbert, the king of mathematics, and the leader of the Göttingen School, proposed gauge field theory to provide a theoretical basis for general relativity.
Today in 1937, Weyl is a recognized master in the international mathematics community, and his influence is equal to that of Hardy.
John von Neumann, a mathematical genius and leader of the Göttingen School, provided a rigorous mathematical foundation for early quantum mechanics and further functional analysis. He was the youngest among the six senior figures at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Involving research in operator theory, resonance theory, quantum theory, set theory, etc., he is the father of future computers and the father of game theory.
Solomon Lefshetz, a top mathematician in academia, professor of mathematics at Princeton and editor-in-chief of the Annals of Mathematics, a topology master, has single-handedly made the Annals of Mathematics the world's top academic journal.
The two reviewers and the editor-in-chief of the Annual Report of Mathematics formed a super luxurious lineup to stand for the results of asymmetric cryptography. Where they stood, they symbolized authority.
In addition, "Hardy's Disciple" Hua Luogeng serves as the corresponding author to further provide support in the academic field.
The 25th Week of Mathematics Annual Report was officially released on July 2nd. It was only released three days ago. This core article occupying the front page has caused a sensation and intense discussion in the international mathematics community. Many password codes
After reading this paper, experts confirmed that asymmetric cryptography is indeed effective after the most rigorous and demanding repeated verifications.
Regarding this verification result, some coding experts cried with joy, and some coding experts were excited.
It's not easy, it's really not easy. In the competition between coding and deciphering, which belongs to human intelligence, coding has long been at a disadvantage. No matter how carefully written the code is, it will always be broken by the decipherer.
Now, the balance of victory has finally tilted towards the coding camp. This groundbreaking and revolutionary achievement in the asymmetric era will become the most offensive weapon in the hands of cryptography experts.
Of course, some people are happy, others are sad, and cryptography experts are crying...
As three top mathematicians commented on asymmetric cryptography, the security of information transmission using asymmetric cryptography has been exponentially improved, and the difficulty of deciphering has reached unprecedented levels.
If the Enigma machine currently used by the German army has a theoretical deciphering probability of about 0.01%, then the asymmetric code created by Hua Luogeng and Yu Hua may increase to 0.001%.
How exaggerated is it that such a high degree of difficulty in deciphering is required?
Due to the sensitivity and ultra-high practicality of cryptography, this sensational atmosphere quickly transitioned from the mathematics and cryptography circles to the journalism and military fields. When Tsinghua University received the news today, intelligence organizations from various countries had already
Begin systematic research and discussion on asymmetric cryptography results.
At the same time, the media also began to rush to report on the academic results of asymmetric cryptography.
For many journalists, asymmetric cryptography, which belongs to the advanced field of mathematics, contains a lot of professional content that is hard to understand, but this does not prevent them from reporting on it.
The reason is very simple. Annual Report of Mathematics; Weyl, Neumann, Lefshetz; ultra-high information security; the Chinese created this achievement, so many keywords and hard-core content, making asymmetric cryptography achievements more popular
Extremely high.
Especially the last one.
"Newsweek" commented on the results of asymmetric cryptography in this way: It is hard to believe that this academic achievement of Fields Medal level was actually created by two Chinese people, one named 'hua luo geng' and the other named 'yu
Hua', what is our Princeton doing?
Although the Fields Medal is a relatively new mathematics award, its influence and authority in the field of mathematics is no less than that of the Nobel Prize next door.
In 1924, the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Toronto. Fields proposed using the remaining funds from the academic conference as a fund to establish an international mathematics prize. This initiative was unanimously supported by mathematicians from all countries in the conference.
Fields unfortunately died of illness in 1932. At the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Zurich in the same year, the decision to establish the Fields Medal was adopted. The first Fields Medal will be awarded every four years to 2 to 4 young mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions.
It was assessed in 1936 and has now been assessed and promulgated.
The academic achievement of asymmetric cryptography fully meets the evaluation criteria for the Fields Medal.
Newsweek gave a sour and discriminatory evaluation. The Washington Post, the British Times, the Journal of the University of Göttingen, which is affiliated with the traditional mathematics power, and other newspapers did not add much subjective will, but objectively reported very
The importance of symmetric cryptography achievements.
The two names Hua Luogeng and Yu Hua have reached the ears of many people.
When Mei Yiqi and Zhuang Qianding learned about the news, there was also quite a stir in the domestic mathematics community. However, it was not reflected in the news media. The response from domestic news media was mediocre, with only "Science"
The magazine reported the news.
As for why there was a mediocre response, the reason is very simple. Foreign journalists at least understand some academic fields and professional knowledge and can compile articles.
The development of the domestic mathematics community is inherently weak, and if you want to report, apart from reprinting, newspaper reporters who want to write articles must have a certain degree of professionalism in mathematics to meet the requirements.
And the reality is...
More than 99% of domestic journalists did not have this kind of literacy. In 1937, the country did not know what the Fields Medal was, let alone what asymmetric cryptography meant.
For these reporters, paying attention to the development of Chinese mathematics and international mathematics is far less important than paying attention to the anti-Japanese situation.
Although the response from the domestic media has been mediocre, fortunately, the treatment that Yu Hua deserves has not been reduced at all. With the influence of the Princeton Mathematics Annual Report and the continuous heated discussion of this core paper in the domestic mathematics community, Yu Hua, as the first author of the article
, he soon gained what he had planned - fame and influence, and became Professor Yu Hua in people's mouth.
However, at this moment, "Professor" Yu Hua, who was in the nuclear physics laboratory racking his brains for the air separation equipment, knew nothing about these things.