Chapter 212 The Youngest Winner of the Philippine Prize in History
The Fields Medal is the highest honor a young mathematician can get. It undoubtedly represents honor and is the goal pursued by all young mathematicians.
When Professor Shigefumi Mori, chairman of the International Mathematical Union Committee, spoke again, everyone's eyes fell on him.
Whether it was the audience in the venue or the audience watching the live broadcast on the Internet, they all stared at this thin-looking old man with burning eyes.
The former hoped to hear their own names from him; the latter hoped to hear the names they wanted to hear from him.
Especially those scholars who hope to win the Fields Medal, or those related to it, all looked at the old man on the stage nervously and expectantly.
Even Xu Chuan, when this moment came, couldn't help holding his breath and waiting for the arrival of fate.
Especially for those mathematicians who are much older but hope to touch this medal, such as Zhang Wei and Xu Chenyang of Peking University, and Professor Kochel Birkar of Iran, they are even more nervous, both nervous and expectant.
This year's International Mathematical Congress is the last chance for them to get in touch with the Fields Medal in their careers.
In another four years, they will have exceeded the age limit of 40 for the Fields Medal.
If they don't win this time, they will never have another chance in the future.
Feeling the expectant eyes and tense atmosphere from the audience, Professor Mori Shigefumi pushed 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 whole world.
"He has a very high talent in mathematics, a persistent spirit of research, and extraordinary efforts."
"Since winning the full score gold medal in the International Mathematical 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 criterion conjecture to the Xu-Hodge theorem. He has picked up one epic problem after another from the hall of mathematics and conquered one mountain after another."
"Not only that, he can skillfully apply mathematics to other disciplines. From the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem to the Xu-Hodge theorem, he has also mastered the application of mathematics to other disciplines. From the development of applications, to the use of mathematical methods to complete the calculation of the mystery of the proton radius, to the calculation of the appearance channel of high-energy physical particles"
"His research spans the three major fields of mathematics, physics, and astronomy, and has brought a new method to the astronomical and astrophysical communities, and has lit a bright light for the future of mankind."
"At the age of 20, he has made such great achievements and contributions. I believe that this cannot be explained by an excellent talent. Behind the greatness, there is more sweat and hard work that ordinary people cannot see."
When the award speech was finished, the chairman of the podium, Mori Zhong, glanced at the entire conference hall, and his eyes finally stayed 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 said solemnly: "The first winner of the Fields Medal is Xu Chuan!"
After the words fell, the entire conference suddenly broke out in applause like a mountain torrent, which was deafening and long-lasting.
When this name appeared, he had already become a legend; a 20-year-old Fields Medal winner, the youngest Fields Medal winner in history, and the first Fields Medal winner in China.
When this name appeared, the whole venue, whether it was mathematicians, astronomers, astrophysicists, or ordinary audiences who came from outside to attend this grand event, the whole people were suddenly excited.
In the venue, thunderous applause lasted for a long time, and in the channel broadcast live by CTV media, tens of millions of netizens instantly flooded the entire live broadcast room.
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[Big brother is awesome! Shouting at the top of his voice! ]
[The first Chinese Fields Medal winner, the youngest Fields Medal winner in history, witness the legend! ]
[A strong youth means a strong country! We finally have a Fields Medal, it's not easy. ]
[A 20-year-old Fields Medal winner, it's so scary, when I was 20 years old, I was only a sophomore, and he could already be my mentor. 】
【Laughing sideways, I'm afraid this person can't be your mentor, but can be your mentor's mentor's mentor. 】
【If I remember correctly, the youngest winner of the Fields Prize should be Professor Jean-Pierre Searle, who won the Fields Prize at the age of 27. This time, the record was pushed back by a full seven years. I'm afraid no one will ever break this record. 】
【Horrible, really terrible, so terrible! 】
【Every time I see this, I can realize that I am a fw. 】
【There are three kinds of geniuses in the world, one is born, one is a hardworking genius, and the other is a combination of the two. I am not any of the three. I am just an ordinary person who can't be more ordinary. I work hard every day to move bricks and pay my mortgage. 】
【Sometimes the gap between people is greater than that between people and dogs. 】
In the live broadcast room of tens of millions of people, the barrage is venting like a flood.
For China, this is a carnival. The 20-year-old Fields Medal winner not only broke the embarrassing situation that China has never had a native Fields Medal winner, but also directly broke the record of the youngest Fields Medal winner, unprecedented and unmatched.
A Fields Medal represents more than just a gold medal and 15,000 Canadian dollars.
It also represents that scholars from this country have stepped onto this international stage and made their own voices; it also represents that the country's mathematical level is in line with international standards, and has even taken the lead in some areas.
In the conference hall, the applause was like a tide and lasted for a long time.
Amid the applause, Xu Chuan stood up with a smile on his face, bowed slightly to the audience in the conference hall behind him to show his respect, and then walked onto the stage amid even more enthusiastic applause.
Surrounded by the eyes and cameras of the audience, he walked onto the stage and stood in the center.
After hugging Xu Chuan with a smile, Shigefumi Mori, president of the International Union of Mathematicians, took a golden badge from the staff and put it on him personally.
Xu Chuan bowed slightly to facilitate the old man in front of him to put on the medal for him.
"Congratulations, Professor Xu Chuan."
After putting on the medal, the old professor shook hands with Xu Chuan again and congratulated him on behalf of the International Union of Mathematicians.
With the golden medal, Xu Chuan smiled and thanked him, and stood in the center of the stage, and the media from all over the world took pictures of this commemorative scene.
With the announcement of the first winner, the award ceremony continued.
Without any suspense, the second winner was 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 doctoral studies, he created his own mathematical tool "quasi-complete geometry".
When he was a professor, he not only fully applied geometric methods to the field of algebra, but also solved several difficult problems in the field of algebraic geometry through this method, and further optimized "quasi-complete geometry" and promoted it to "P·S domain-geometry theory".
Using "P·S domain-geometry theory", Schulz successfully built a solid bridge between geometry and algebra, and made a major breakthrough in the Langlands program, one of the three major programs in mathematics.
Such a top boss, the contribution to 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 the opportunity to break Professor Jean-Pierre Searle's record.
But unfortunately, the mathematical community was not familiar with his "P·S field-geometry theory" at the time, so he missed this opportunity.
After this great man made a series of major breakthroughs in the Langlands program using the "P·S field-geometry theory", no one could doubt the excellence of this theoretical tool.
If it weren't for the rising star Xu Chuan who proved the Hodge conjecture and brought the "algebraic variety and group mapping tool", he should have been the first person to be awarded the Fields Prize this year.
As for the third winner of the Fields Prize, it was Professor Kochel Birkar, a scholar from Iran.
This is a mathematician who came out of the war.
When he came up from the stage, Xu Chuan cast an interested look.
He didn't know if history would repeat itself again.
This Professor Kochel Birkar is the mathematician who has "won" the Fields Prize twice in history.
The reason is that the medal was stolen just over half an hour after he stepped down from the stage after winning the award.
The current staff failed to find his medal, but after the International Mathematical Union discussed it, the organizing committee held a special ceremony and re-awarded him the Fields Medal.
So Professor Kaucher became the only mathematician to win the Fields Medal "twice".
Xu Chuan knew about this and had contact with the professor yesterday.
But he did not remind the professor to keep his briefcase.
Winning the Fields Medal twice can be said to be a "legendary" story in the mathematics community. Anyway, the professor did not lose anything. The briefcase was eventually found, and the wallet was also found. The only loss was a medal and a little money.
The medal was eventually reissued. Rounding it off, it is equivalent to not losing anything, and also winning the "unique" two Fields Medals, which is still very good.
As for the fourth Fields Medal, it was awarded to Professor Akshay Venkatesh from Australia in recognition of his contributions to comprehensive analysis of number theory, homogeneous dynamical systems, topology and representation theory, and solving long-standing problems in the distribution of arithmetic objects.
The other Fields Medal winner this year, Professor Alessio Figali of Italy, unfortunately missed this year's Fields Medal because of Xu Chuan's appearance.
But he is not without a 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 and chose Professor Aksayi Venkatesh over him.
After all, Professor Aksayi Venkatesh is already 37 years old. If he waits for another four years, he will miss the Fields Medal.