Chapter 211 The youngest Philippine Award winner in history
The Fields Medal, as the highest honor a young mathematician can receive, is undoubtedly the mother of honor it represents and is the goal pursued by all young mathematicians.
When Professor Shigebumi Mori, Chairman of the International Mathematical Union Committee, spoke again, everyone's eyes fell on him.
Both the audience at the venue and those watching the live broadcast on the Internet were all staring at this old man who looked quite thin.
The former hopes to hear his own name from his mouth; the latter hopes to hear the name he wants to hear from his mouth.
Especially those scholars who hoped to win the Fields Medal, or those related to it, looked nervously and expectantly at the old man on the stage.
Even Xu Chuan couldn't help but hold his breath when this moment came, waiting for his fate to come.
Especially for those mathematicians who are much older but have the hope of touching this medal, such as Zhang Wei and Xu Chenyang of Peking University, Professor Kaucher Bierkar of Yinlang... and others.
I was very anxious, nervous and looking forward to it.
This year's International Mathematics Congress is the last chance for them to receive the Philippine Prize in their careers.
In four more years, they will have exceeded the age limit of 40 years for the Philippine Award.
If you don’t get it this time, you will never have another chance in the future.
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Feeling the expectant eyes and tense atmosphere in the audience, Professor Shigebumi Mori pushed up his glasses and spoke slowly.
A solemn and steady voice sounded in the venue, and the award speech of the first Fields Medal winner spread from the podium throughout the venue, and then to the entire world.
"He has extremely high talent in mathematics, a perseverance in research, and extraordinary efforts."
"Since winning the perfect gold medal in the International Olympiad, this young scholar has never stopped pursuing mathematics and even science."
"From the Weyl-berry conjecture to the Xu-weyl-berry theorem, from the Hodge standard conjecture to the Xu-Hodge theorem. He has solved one epic problem after another in the palace of mathematics and conquered one mountain after another.
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"Not only that, he is also able to skillfully apply mathematics to other subject areas. Starting from expanding the application of xu-weyl-berry theorem, to using mathematical methods to complete the calculation of the mystery of the proton radius, and then to calculating high-energy
The emergence channel of physical particles..."
"His research spans the three major fields of mathematics, physics, and astronomy, bringing a brand new method to the astronomy and astrophysics circles, and lighting up a beacon for the future of mankind."
"To be able to make such great achievements and contributions at the age of twenty, I believe this cannot be explained by an excellent talent. Behind the greatness, there is more sweat and effort that ordinary people cannot see."
When the award speech was finished, the host on the podium, Senzhong, glanced at the entire conference venue, and finally his eyes rested on a young man in the front row for a moment.
After a pause, the chairman of the International Mathematical Union Committee took a deep breath and continued in a solemn tone: "The first winner of the Fields Medal is...Xu Chuan!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire conference suddenly erupted in applause like a torrent and an earthquake, which was deafening and long-lasting.
When this name appeared, he had already become a legend; a Fields Medal winner at only 20 years old, the youngest Fields Medal winner in history, the first Fields Medal winner in China...
When this name appeared, everyone in the entire venue, whether they were mathematicians, astronomers, astrophysicists, or ordinary spectators who came from outside to attend this event, suddenly became excited.
In the venue, the thunderous applause lasted for a long time, and in the channel broadcast live through CTV media, tens of millions of netizens instantly overwhelmed the entire live broadcast room.
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【Big old bull pen! Breaking voice and shouting!】
[The first Chinese Fields Medal winner, the youngest Fields Medal winner in history, witness the legend! 】
[A strong young man will make a country strong! We finally have a Fields Medal, it’s not easy.]
[It’s scary to be a 20-year-old Fields Medal winner. When I was 20 years old, I was only a sophomore, and someone could already be my mentor.]
[Smile sideways, I’m afraid this is not a mentor for you, but a mentor of your mentor’s mentor. 】
[If I remember correctly, the youngest Philippine Prize winner should be Professor Jean-Pierre Serre. He won the Philippine Prize at the age of 27, which pushed the record forward by seven years.
time, I’m afraid no one will be able to break this record in the future.】
【Horrible, so scary, so scary!】
【Every time I see this, it makes me realize that I am a fw.】
[There are three types of geniuses in the world. One is born, one is a hard-working genius, and the other is a combination of the two. I am none of the three. I am just an extremely ordinary person who works hard every day to pay off the mortgage.
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[Sometimes the gap between people is bigger than that between people and dogs.]
In the live broadcast room with tens of millions of people, the barrage was released like a flood.
For China, this is a carnival. The 20-year-old Fields Medal winner not only broke the embarrassing situation in China that there has been no local Philippine Medal winner, but also directly broke the record of the youngest Philippine Medal winner.
,unprecedented.
A Fields Medal represents more than just a gold medal and Canadian dollars.
It also means that scholars from this country have stepped onto this international stage and made their own voices heard; it also means that this country’s mathematics level is in line with international standards and has even taken the lead in some fields.
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In the conference hall, the applause like waves lasted for a long time.
Amidst the applause, Xu Chuan stood up with a smile on his face, bowed slightly to show respect to the audience behind him, and then walked onto the stage amidst even warmer applause.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Surrounded by the eyes and cameras of the audience, he walked onto the stage and stood in the center.
Shigefumi Mori, President of the International Union of Mathematicians, hugged Xu Chuan with a smile, took a golden badge from the staff, and put it on for him with his own hands.
Xu Chuan bowed slightly so that the old man in front of him could put the medal on him.
"Congratulations, Professor Xu Chuan."
After putting on the medal, the old professor shook hands with Xu Chuan again and sent congratulations on behalf of the International Union of Mathematicians.
With a golden medal, Xu Chuan smiled and thanked him, and stood in the center of the stage. Media from all over the world captured this memorable scene.
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The awards ceremony continued with the announcement of the first winner.
There is no suspense, the second winner is Peter Schulz from Germany.
This is a German professor who is known as the Mozart of mathematics and the genius of the century, and is known as the successor of Pope Grothendieck.
During his Ph.D. period, he created his own mathematical tool "like complete geometry".
When he was a professor, he not only fully applied geometric methods in the field of algebra, and solved several difficult problems in the field of algebraic geometry through this method, but also further optimized the 'quasi-complete geometry' and promoted it to 'p·
s progressive domain-geometric theory'.
Using the 'p·s progressive-geometric theory', Schulz successfully built a solid bridge between geometry and algebra, and also made a major breakthrough in the Langlands Program, one of the three major programs in mathematics.
The contribution of such a top leader in the field of arithmetic algebraic geometry is obvious to all.
In fact, at the International Mathematical Congress four years ago, Schulz, who was only 27 years old at the time, had a chance to break the record of Professor Jean-Pierre Serre.
But unfortunately, the mathematical community was not familiar with his 'p·s progressive field-geometric theory' at the time, so he missed this opportunity.
And after this talented man made a series of major breakthroughs in the Langlands program using the 'ps progressive-geometric theory', no one can doubt the excellence of this theoretical tool.
If Xu Chuan, a rising star, had not proved the Hodge conjecture and brought the ‘algebraic varieties and group mapping tools’, he would have been the first person to be awarded this year’s Philippine Prize.
As for the third recipient of the Philippine Prize, Professor Kaucher Birkar, a scholar from Yinlang.
This is a mathematician who emerged from the war.
When he came up from the stage, Xu Chuan cast a rather interested look.
He didn't know if history would repeat itself again.
Professor Kocher Birkar is a mathematician who has won two Philippine Prizes in history.
The reason was that just over half an hour after he stepped down after winning the award, the medal was stolen.
The current staff failed to recover his medal, but after discussions with the International Mathematical Union, the organizing committee held a special ceremony and re-awarded him a Fields Medal.
As a result, Professor Coucher became the only mathematician to win the Philippine Prize "twice".
Xu Chuan knew about this and had contact with the professor yesterday.
However, he did not remind the professor to keep his briefcase.
Winning the Philippine Prize twice, this can be said to be a "legendary" story in the mathematics community. Anyway, the professor did not suffer any loss. The briefcase and wallet were eventually recovered.
Just a medal and a little money.
The medals were finally reissued, rounded up, which meant that nothing was lost, and we also received two "unique" Philippine awards, which is still very good.
As for the fourth Philippine Medal, it was awarded to Professor Aksayin Venkatesh from Australia in recognition of his contributions to comprehensive analysis of number theory, homogeneous dynamical systems, topology and representation theory, and his solutions to
It solves long-standing problems in the distribution of arithmetic objects.
Another Philippine Prize winner this year, the Italian Professor Alessio Figali, unfortunately missed this year's Fields Medal due to Xu Chuan's appearance.
But it is not that he has no chance. He is only 34 years old this year. If he waits for another four years, he still has a chance to win the Fields Medal.
Perhaps the neighborhood committee of the International Mathematical Union took this into consideration before choosing Professor Aksayin Venkatesh and him.
After all, Professor Aksayin Venkatesh is already 37 years old. If he waits for another four years, he will miss out on the Fields Medal.