Chapter 119 Morning Star Mathematics Award

A secretly taken photo caused quite a stir on the campus network of Nanjing University.

So much so that the next afternoon, the class group and small group in Xu Chuan's mobile phone were blown up, and he was confused by all the messages about him.

" x-on:Xu Chuan, Chuan Shen, I heard that you have returned to China? Please express your feelings after proving the Weyl-Berry conjecture!""

" x-on:Xu Chuan, Chuan Ge, who is your sister-in-law? When will you bring her over to show us?"

"Where are the wedding candies and red envelopes? Chuan Ge, are you still a human being without some wedding candies and red envelopes?"

Xu Chuan:????

What's going on? I'm in love? How come I didn't know it myself.

Looking at the 99+ messages in the class group, Xu Chuan sent a few question marks and a message with a confused face.

Now, the whole class group instantly became lively.

"Fuck, Chuan Ge! It's a living Chuan Ge!"

"Alive, still alive!"

"Sigh, record history! This is the fourth time that Chuan Ge has spoken in the group since joining the group at the beginning of the school year. ”

“Brother Chuan, don’t deny it. The whole school knows that you are in a relationship now. If you don’t believe me, look at this (picture)”

With a picture posted in the group, Xu Chuan finally knew why so many people in the class group suddenly tagged him.

It turned out that he and his senior sister were having dinner at the Braised Chicken Rice Restaurant last night and were photographed by someone. It was probably uploaded to the campus network.

“We are not in a relationship. It was just a senior sister treating us to dinner. "

Xu Chuan shook his head and explained, it's just a meal, why did this group of people make such a fuss.

Although the senior sister is indeed one of his rare female friends, he has never thought about love.

There are so many difficult problems in mathematics and physics waiting for him to solve, how can he have time for love.

As he personally came out to explain, the love storm subsided in the class group, and everyone's attention gradually shifted to the Weyl-Berry conjecture he proved.

After chatting for a while in the class group, Xu Chuan put down his mobile phone. Part of the papers and materials on the computer had been downloaded.

Connecting to the printer he bought, he printed out this part of the paper materials.

Although the computer can also read, in contrast, he still prefers to hold the paper materials and documents in his hands to read, so that there will be a sense of heavy weight after the knowledge is materialized.

And every book he has read and some very important materials, including some manuscripts, he has the habit of keeping them well.

In his previous life, he had a more than 40 square meters The storage room is filled with bookshelves and all kinds of books.

He has collected and read books on physics, materials, mathematics, music, novels, and some cultural books circulated in China, such as ancient cultural books on ceramics and tea.

After all, those things were one of the few ways for him to understand his motherland during the period when he was blocked in that country.

When Xu Chuan returned to campus, he occasionally appeared in the library and classroom, causing a few sensations, and then the time gradually calmed down.

Although every time he appeared outside, it would still cause heated discussions, but at least it was no longer a sensation. The students of Nanjing University gradually got used to this great god who would randomly drop in the school library, cafeteria or classroom.

Sometimes they would even bet on whether the great god would come to math and physics classes today.

The days passed one by one, and in the blink of an eye, time came to the beginning of March.

In the dormitory, when Xu Chuan was reading the information about the "mystery of the proton radius", his tutor Chen Zhengping called his mobile phone.

"Hello, Xu Chuan, are you busy? If you are not busy, come to my office, there is good news. "

On the other end of the phone, Chen Zhengping smiled mysteriously, not saying what the good news was.

"Well, OK, I'll be there right away."

Xu Chuan responded, grabbed the coat on the chair and went out.

It might be because of the weather. Anyway, the temperature in early March this year is much lower than in previous years, so that the woolen sweater that could be taken off at this time in previous years is still on. If you want to go out, you have to put on a thicker coat.

All the way to Chen Zhengping's office, Xu Chuan knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Pushing the door open, the figures in the office came into Xu Chuan's eyes. Not only his tutor Chen Zhengping, but also the Dean of the School of Mathematics Rong Zhizhuan and Professor Zhou Hai.

"Xu Chuan is here, come, come and sit down."

Before Chen Zhengping spoke, Dean Rong Zhizhuan greeted him enthusiastically.

"Hello tutor, hello dean, hello Professor Zhou." Xu Chuan greeted them one by one, thanked them, and took the chair handed over by Rong Zhizhuan.

"Look at this. "

Zhang Weiping handed over a document with a smile. Xu Chuan took a look and found it was a list of winners.

"List of winners of the Morning Star Mathematics Award at the 7th World Chinese Mathematics Conference in 2016"

[Winner: Xu Chuan, Nanjing University.]

[Award: Gold Award.]

[Main research direction: spectral theory, fractal boundary theory, domain theory, proof of Weyl-Berry conjecture.]

[Winner: Zhang Wei, Columbia University.]

[Award: Gold Award]

[Main research direction: number theory and automorphic forms.]

[Winner.]

"The list of winners of the Morning Star Mathematics Award? Why is it out now?"

Looking at the document in his hand, Xu Chuan asked curiously.

The Morningside Mathematics Award is a mathematics award established in the capital in 1998 by Qiu Chengtong, chairman of the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, and Chen Qizong, founder of the Morningside Group.

Known as the "Chinese Fields Medal", the award is for Chinese mathematicians under the age of 45 who have made outstanding achievements in basic mathematics, applied mathematics and computational mathematics.

Every three years, the award is divided into gold and silver awards, with prize money of 25,000 US dollars and 10,000 US dollars respectively.

The review committee is composed of Harvard University professor, Chinese mathematician Qiu Chengtong and eight other non-Chinese top mathematicians.

He won this award in his previous life, and knew that the award ceremony would be in late July and early August of the award year. Now it is only March, and the list of winners has been in his hands.

This is almost three months ahead of the previous years when the list of winners would not be released until May or June.

Chen Zhengping smiled mysteriously and said, "Well, considering some things, this year's list of winners and award ceremony are released earlier than in previous years. The award ceremony has been moved from the end of July to the end of May. It can be regarded as some preparation for you. You should know it after a while."

This aroused Xu Chuan's curiosity, but he did not ask more questions because he could almost guess it.

With his current achievements, it is nothing more than related to the Xu-Ver Berry theorem, and there are only a few items related to this world-class problem.

For example, the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal two years later are mathematical awards that Chinese scholars have never won.

It is probably paving the way for these things.

A Xu-Ver Berry theorem can 100% make him nominated for the Fields Medal, but whether he can win the award is not certain.

First of all, he is too young. Even two years later, he is only 20 years old.

And the youngest Fields Medal winner, Professor Jean-Pierre Searle, was 28 years old when he won the award.

Not everyone is willing to reduce the age of the Fields Medal winners by eight years. Many mathematicians who are eligible to be nominated for the Fields Medal are already close to 40 years old.

For example, the winner of the Morningstar Mathematics Award, Zhang Weiwei, a tenured professor at Columbia University who graduated from P University, is already 35 years old this year.

The mathematics conference two years later is his last hope. If he misses it, he will be 41 years old when he waits for the mathematics conference in 2022. By then, the Fields Medal will be completely isolated from him.

On the other hand, in mathematics, international mathematicians pay more attention to the ideas, results, and mathematical tools that are born in the process of solving conjectures or solving problems than solving conjectures.

For example, Professor Peter Schultz's "P·S field-geometric theory" tool, even if Professor Schultz has not solved a big conjecture in mathematical conjectures, he still firmly occupies a place in the Fields Medal two years later with this tool.

When reviewing the Weyl-Berry conjecture, Professor Feferman mentioned in his review comments that he hoped he could sort out the ideas and methods to prove the Weyl-Berry conjecture in this regard.

This is actually telling him implicitly that if he wants to win the Fields Medal two years later, the ideas and methods to solve mathematical problems are very important.

It’s not that solving mathematical conjectures is not important. If he can solve a T1-level or true T2-level mathematical conjecture, then he will definitely win the Fields Medal.

But to be honest, although the Weyl-Berry conjecture is indeed difficult and close to the difficulty of the conjecture at the end of the T2 level, it should be classified as the T3 level to be precise.

In addition, the value that can be born by solving it is not very great. The age and value are added together, and in addition to the Weyl-Berry conjecture, he has no other mathematical achievements.

So Xu Chuan is not sure whether he can win the Fields Medal two years later with this conjecture.

The list of winners of the Morning Star Mathematics Award was determined and awarded in advance, probably to build momentum for him, hoping to make him more famous and to drive other mathematics awards to be awarded to him within two years, so as to increase the bargaining chips.

However, Xu Chuan did not comment on this matter.

He never thought of using the state machinery to build momentum for himself and then strive for the Fields Medal two years later.

Reputation and fame can be faked, but mathematical strength cannot be faked.

In mathematics, if you understand, you understand. If you don’t understand, even if the Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Gauss Prize, Wolf Prize and other top mathematics awards are all awarded to you, you can’t understand.

So compared to reputation, Xu Chuan hopes that he can understand more things.

In fact, if it is Professor Zhang Wei who solves the Weyl-Berry conjecture this time, then the Fields Medal in two years will not be able to escape.

Because Wei Shen has made a lot of contributions to the mathematics community, whether it is number theory or automorphic forms, he has made a lot of contributions, and the only thing he lacks to solve a famous big problem is to win the Fields Medal.

In Peking University, there is only one Wei Shen (Wei Shen) recognized by the campus, and that is Zhang Wei, not the more famous and better known Wei Dongyi in later generations.

The gap between the two should be very clear to those who study mathematics.