Chapter 176 Happy New Year

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In the car, Lin Feng noticed something strange about Xu Chuan through the rearview mirror, and asked casually: "What's wrong? Junior Brother Chuan."

Xu Chuan retracted his gaze from the window and said, "It's nothing, I just won the award."

"Oh, what prize?"

Lin Feng didn't care, and then asked, considering this junior brother's achievements, it is normal for him to win awards.

People in the fields of mathematics, physics, and astronomy are basically queuing up to wait for time to award him awards. They just say that this junior brother produces results too fast, and the awarding speed cannot keep up with his scientific research speed.

Have you ever seen a scholar who can make contributions in the three major fields of mathematics, physics, and astronomy within one year?

Although these contributions are basically related to the Weyl-Berry conjecture, the speed is really shocking.

Xu Chuan grinned and said: "The Crafford Prize in Mathematics and the Crafford Prize in Astronomy."

When Lin Feng, who was driving, heard the answer, he nodded subconsciously and said congratulations: "Congratulations, Junior Brother Chuan, you actually won two awards at once! Wait, what did you just say? You won two What award?"

Lin Feng reacted and subconsciously stepped on the brakes. The car suddenly paused and the three people in the car leaned forward. Only then did he come back to his senses, quickly control the car, and then parked it on the side of the road.

Fortunately, this was on a highway in the United States, or on the way out of the city, so the traffic flow was not high.

If we were in China, if we brake suddenly, the car behind us would probably hit him directly.

After taking control of the car, Lin Feng quickly parked it on the side of the road, then turned his head and swallowed, stared at Xu Chuan and asked repeatedly: "Junior brother, what did you just say? What two awards did you win?"

"The Crafford Prize in Mathematics and the Crafford Prize in Astronomy."

Xu Chuan repeated it, and was met with suspicious and disbelieving looks from Lin Feng. Even Nunnally Kessler in the co-pilot cast a doubtful look.

"You said you won this year's Crafford Prize in Mathematics and the Crafford Prize in Astronomy?" Lin Feng stared at Xu Chuan suspiciously.

Xu Chuan nodded calmly.

"You really didn't lie to me?"

"What's the point of lying? The person who just called me is from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences."

Xu Chuan laughed dumbly and shook his head. This news was indeed surprising. He couldn't believe it at first. It was normal for Senior Brother Lin Feng to have such a reaction.

"Xu, can the Crafford Award be awarded to the same person at the same time?"

There was silence in the car for a while, and it was Nunnally Kessler who broke the silence.

"It's impossible. The Crafford Award has never been awarded to the same person in two different awards in the same year. Junior brother, are you afraid you have received a scam call?"

Lin Feng shook his head and suddenly denied it.

The Crafford Prize is also known as the Little Nobel Prize.

Judging from the number of winners, it is even more difficult to win the Crafford Prize than the Nobel Prize.

At least, for the three Nobel Prize categories of physics, chemistry, and medicine, most years there are basically two or three winners in each discipline.

And what about the Crawford Award?

Although it also has five major disciplines: mathematics, astronomy, biological sciences, earth sciences and polyarthritis, it only awards one discipline each year.

And most of the time, only one person wins in a subject.

Now you tell him that this year's mathematics and astronomy prizes are awarded to the same person at the same time. Is this possible?

Totally impossible! There has never been anything like this in history. So Lin Feng would rather believe that this is a scam call.

Xu Chuan shrugged and said, "Then what does this liar want from me?"

Hearing this, Lin Feng was stunned.

Yes, if it is a scam call, what is this scammer trying to do?

After thinking about it, Lin Feng tilted his head and asked, "Trick you into going abroad to receive the award, and then kidnap you?"

"Pfft~"

Xu Chuan couldn't help laughing and said: "Senior Brother Lin, this is the Crafford Award. After I receive the call here, Sweden will officially announce it in two days."

"If it's a scam call, I'll expose it in two days, and I'm not asked to claim the prize right now."

"That's right."

Lin Feng responded blankly, then reacted and asked excitedly: "In other words, you really broke the historical record this time and won the Crafford Prize in Mathematics and the Crafford Prize in Astronomy at the same time?"

"If there is nothing wrong with the caller, it should be yes." Xu Chuan thought for a while and then replied: "Whether it is true or not, we should know in two days."

"After all, according to tradition, the Crafford Prize, like the Nobel Prize, calls the winner one week before the announcement."

"Yes, then just wait a few more days."

Lin Feng nodded, restarted the car and headed towards Princeton.

The news of winning the Crafford Prize in Mathematics and the Crafford Prize in Astronomy at the same time is really amazing. If it comes to anyone, I am afraid that everyone will have doubts and reservations before there is a real official announcement. Including Xu Chuan, who had already received the call.

After returning to Princeton from Geneva, Xu Chuan put down his luggage and immediately went to Professor Deligne's office to visit his mentor.

After all, he had promised to come back in about a month, but it turned out that he stayed at CERN for almost four months.

However, Deligne didn't care about this at all. On the contrary, he was very interested in how Xu Chuan applied mathematics to physics and calculated the energy level channel of the Higgs and third-generation heavy quark Yukawa coupling phenomenon.

He has been studying this for some time.

This may be related to the fact that Xu Chuan showed the calculation data of the proton radius mystery to the old professor some time ago.

There are also some techniques for integrating mathematics and physics on it. Later, Witten taught the old professor some physics knowledge, which may have stimulated his interest in mathematical physics.

Mathematics is a very special subject. Everything is basically inseparable from mathematics.

But cutting-edge mathematics is too far away from ordinary science, and it is basically a state of self-entertainment.

Xu Chuan's ideas and techniques for integrating mathematics and physics brought some new ideas to Professor Deligne. It also made him sigh that he was old.

After all, he is over 70 years old. He is no longer the young man who can study a mathematical problem for days and nights, and he doesn't have the energy.

At his current age and experience, it is difficult to learn a new subject and then integrate it with mathematics.

However, he taught Xu Chuan some of his thoughts, hoping that he could expand on this path on his behalf.

Fortunately for Deligne, he accepted a good student who was still young and had enough ability to try to expand.

He could go on this path on his behalf to see whether the end was an unknown ocean or a solid wall.

After gaining some new knowledge from Professor Deligne, Xu Chuan returned to campus with all his heart.

After adjusting to the time difference for two days in Princeton, he successfully regained the feeling of studying on campus before. He started to attend classes every day and study mathematics with Professor Deligne.

In the blink of an eye, a week passed.

That afternoon, while Xu Chuan was studying mathematics with Professor Deligne in his office, a call came to his mobile phone.

After giving his mentor an apologetic look, Xu Chuan answered the call.

As soon as the call was connected, a "noisy" sound came from the other side.

"Fuck, Junior Brother Chuan, have you read the news? You really won the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics and the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy at the same time! That's amazing, breaking the historical record, the first person in history!!!"

The machine gun-like words quickly burst out from the phone, and the deafening sound made Xu Chuan couldn't help but move the phone a little further away from his ears, but he also knew that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the Crafoord Prize today.

The caller who called him before was not a fake call, he really won the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics and the Astronomy Prize at the same time.

After exchanging a few words with Senior Brother Lin, Xu Chuan quickly hung up the phone and opened the official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on his mobile phone. Sure enough, it officially announced the list of this year's Crafoord Prize.

In the blank table, the winners of the two award-winning disciplines were both written with his name.

【Xu Chuan~】

Seeing this familiar name, Xu Chuan felt at ease.

After all, this is the Crafoord Prize, a world-class award. The mathematics prize and astronomy prize will be awarded to the same person in the same year, which can be said to be the first time that breaks the historical record.

Not to mention that Senior Brother Lin Feng was so surprised and skeptical at first, even he himself was full of doubts at first.

But now, the doubts in his heart have dissipated, leaving only joy.

After staring at the list of winners on his mobile phone for a long time, Xu Chuan raised his head and took a long breath, calming his accelerated heart, but there was still a smile on his face that he couldn't hide.

In the office, Professor Deligne cast a slightly puzzled look.

With such a calm character of this disciple, it is rare to be so happy.

Noticing the mentor's gaze, Xu Chuan grinned and shared the joy: "Mentor, I won this year's Crafford Prize in Mathematics and Astronomy."

Hearing this, Deligne was stunned for a moment, and asked hesitantly: "Crawford Prize in Mathematics and Astronomy?"

"Yes, at the same time." Xu Chuan nodded vigorously.

"This is really surprising. I didn't expect the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to make such a bold decision."

Deligne was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses from the news.

"I was almost 45 years old when I won the Crafoord Prize. Even Terence Tao was 36 years old. You have pushed the record forward by nearly 20 years."

After sighing, Professor Deligne smiled and looked at Xu Chuan and congratulated him: "Congratulations, you have set a historical record."

"No one has ever broken your record before, and it is estimated that no one will be able to break your record in the future."

The Crafoord Prize winner is less than 19 years old, and the Crafoord Prize for Mathematics and Astronomy are both awarded at the same time. It is even more difficult for anyone to break the record. This world record may not be broken for at least a hundred years in the future.

And from now on, he is destined to win the Fields Medal in 2018.

It will be another moment to create a historical record.

Looking at the student in front of him, Deligne was a little emotional.

Even though mathematics is gradually becoming younger, young mathematicians such as Terence Tao and Schultz have successively supported a new sky, but there is no such exaggeration as this student in front of him.

If it was just the simple proof of the Weyl-Berry conjecture, with only this achievement, the Fields Medal jury might still consider whether to postpone it for another four years.

But Xu Chuan not only proved the Weyl-Berry conjecture, but also extended it to the field of astrophysics, and established a series of mathematical methods based on the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem. The importance has increased a lot.

After all, although mathematics is praised as the foundation of science, it is ultimately just a tool.

As a tool, how to play a role in mathematics or other disciplines is the greatest value that a tool can reflect.

The selection principle of the Fields Medal also attaches great importance to this point.

So it can be said that Schultz and Xu Chuan have already booked the Fields Medal in 2018.

The former created the theory of p-adic perfect space and used this theory to make a major breakthrough in the famous Langlands program in mathematics.

The latter not only proved the world-class problem of the Weyl-Berry conjecture, but also established a series of mathematical methods for calculating celestial parameter information based on the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem, which affected the entire astronomical community in one fell swoop.

Thousands of miles away, China.

When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Crafoord Prize, the first to react was not the Central Bank or the major news media, but Xu Chuan's alma mater, Nanjing University.

After receiving the news, Nanjing University immediately hung banners at the school gate and on campus.

[Congratulations to Xu Chuan, a 2016 doctoral student of our school, for winning this year's Crafoord Prize in Mathematics and Crafoord Prize in Astronomy! ]

The huge banner was not only hung at the school gate, but also in front of the teaching building where Xu Chuan used to take classes, for fear that the students of Nanjing University would not see it.

The school leaders of Nanjing University were excited and excited, and the face of the president Liu Gaojun was full of smiles. Xu Chuan was recruited by him personally.

The Crafoord Prize, the little Nobel Prize, has never been won by a Chinese.

This time, not only did he win it, but he also won two at once.

If Xu Chuan was not still studying at Princeton, the leaders of Nanjing University would have wanted to pull him onto the stage right now, hold two lectures, and invite the coquettish bitches from Shuimu, Peking University, and Sun Moon University to come and see.

The mathematics department of Nanjing University can also produce top talents!

Following the action of Nanjing University, the media also responded quickly, and rushed out the news release on the same day, and urgently put it on the online media.

The news that night also temporarily used two or three minutes to broadcast the news and made some brief introductions to Xu Chuan.

Of course, it’s not that they don’t want to make it more formal, but the incident happened suddenly, and the winner was not in China, and they hadn’t interviewed him yet, so they just chose to broadcast it temporarily.

However, the reporters and relevant personnel of the Central Radio and Television Station in the United States have already bought tickets to Princeton.