Chapter 264 Fields Medal Announced!

Ning Chen answered the phone: "Teacher Yang."

"Teacher Ning, are you at school now? If it's convenient, I'll go to your laboratory to talk to you later."

"It's convenient, Teacher Yang, how about I go to your laboratory."

After all, Yang Lianhua had mentored Ning Chen and was Ning Chen's senior. Ning Chen was still embarrassed to let Yang Lianhua come to him in person.

"No need, I just want to do some exercise. Then Teacher Ning will wait for me in the laboratory. I'll be there in a moment."

Seeing what Yang Lianhua said, Ning Chen stopped being polite and stayed in the laboratory waiting for Yang Lianhua's arrival.

Ning Chen felt that Yang Lianhua might be looking for him to talk about something about "Academic Starry Sky".

As the leader of the Mathematics Department of Shengzhou University, Yang Lianhua also plays a relatively important role in the journal "Academic Starry Sky".

Especially after the establishment of the mathematics sub-journal of "Academic Star", Yang Lianhua served as the editor-in-chief of the mathematics sub-journal, controlling the management and operation of the entire mathematics sub-journal.

After a while, Yang Lianhua came to Ning Chen's laboratory and started chatting with Ning Chen.

As Ning Chen expected, Yang Lianhua came here to discuss some issues related to "Academic Starry Sky" with Ning Chen.

Although Yang Lianhua is only responsible for one sub-issue of the journal, Yang Lianhua is also very clear that his task is very arduous.

Because there is no conflict between the main journal and the sub-journals of "Academic Star", even papers submitted to the mathematics category of the main journal can be published in the sub-journals.

According to the expectations of Ning Chen and others, they want to make this mathematically classified sub-journal one of the top academic mathematics journals in the country and even the world.

Through chatting with Yang Lianhua, Ning Chen could also feel Yang Lianhua's serious attitude.

After discussing many details in the journal with Ning Chen, Yang Lianhua was finally satisfied with the final plan.

"Teacher Ning, speaking of which, I have never undertaken such an important job before. I know that I am not a big name in the mathematics community of Xia State. This job is indeed a very important challenge for me. ”

"Teacher Yang is too humble. Without Teacher Yang, the Mathematics Department of Shengzhou University would not be at its current level."

Yang Lianhua was about to go back, but at this moment Yang Lianhua seemed to suddenly remember something and continued to say to Ning Chen:

"By the way, Teacher Ning, do you know that the next International Congress of Mathematicians will be held in Yanjing?"

Ning Chen was also a little surprised when he heard Yang Lianhua's words.

This is not the first time that Yanjing has held an international conference of mathematicians, but it has only been more than ten years since the last mathematics conference was held in Yanjing.

The International Congress of Mathematicians, which can be called the "Olympics of mathematics", is the best opportunity for major mathematicians in the world to come together to exchange mathematical problems.

Normally, the same city would not host another International Congress of Mathematicians in such a short period of time.

Of course, such rules are not dead. As long as everything meets the requirements, this is entirely possible.

"Teacher Yang, I remember that this International Congress of Mathematicians was supposed to be held in South Korea, right?"

"Yes, normally it should be held in South Korea. However, due to some reasons, South Korea cannot afford to host this International Mathematicians Conference, so it can only temporarily change the venue. It just so happens that Yanjing has hosted the International Mathematics Conference before. With the experience of the International Congress of Mathematicians and their interest in holding this conference on an ad hoc basis, the conference finally decided to establish Yanjing as the venue for this International Congress of Mathematicians.”

After listening to Yang Lianhua's explanation, Ning Chen also felt that there were some subtleties in it.

At this time, Ning Chen already had some vague guesses in his mind, but he was still not sure whether the guesses were correct.

"Teacher Yang, do you know the specific reason?"

"The specific reason cannot be determined yet, but according to the gossip I heard, it is not that South Korea voluntarily gave up the right to host this International Congress of Mathematicians. For this International Congress of Mathematicians, South Korea has already made sufficient preparations in advance. I am unlikely to give up this hosting opportunity easily..."

After a pause, Yang Lianhua continued:

"One theory I heard is that this incident is directly related to the previous incident of South Korea's normal temperature superconductivity. This incident has had a strong negative impact on the reputation of South Korea's academic community. This It also made the International Mathematical Union not want this mathematics conference to continue to be held in South Korea. In order to preserve the face of South Korea, they took the initiative to give up the right to host this International Congress of Mathematicians with excuses."

Yang Lianhua's explanation was full of drama and storytelling, but it coincided with Ning Chen's guess just now.

Although the incident of room-temperature superconductivity in South Korea was just a personal act, it had a very bad impact, which also affected the entire academic community in South Korea.

Ning Chen couldn't comment on this matter, but aside from these things, Ning Chen really hoped that this International Congress of Mathematicians could be held in Xia State.

Because if it were held abroad, Ning Chen would never pass easily.

Ning Chen is no different now than when he won the Simons Scholar Award. At that time, Ning Chen had just made his mark in the academic world. Although he had made some good achievements, they were mostly in purely theoretical fields such as mathematics, and were not Not much application involved.

This also prevented Ning Chen from attracting excessive attention, and the safety of going abroad was completely within control.

Now, Ning Chen has already made many application-level results. Even though the results published publicly are of relatively small application value, they still attract great attention at home and abroad.

With such an identity, going abroad easily is undoubtedly full of risks.

Not to mention, Ning Chen has also participated in research projects such as the application of high-temperature superconductor wire strips, Galaxy quantum computers, fighter jet materials, etc.

Although these projects have not been announced to the outside world, it does not rule out the possibility that these things have been known to the outside world.

Even if Ning Chen wins some world-class academic awards again, Ning Chen may not be willing to go abroad to receive the award.

The International Congress of Mathematicians that Yang Lianhua just mentioned is not only a communication platform for the world's top mathematicians, but also a number of major awards in the field of mathematics, including the Fields Medal, the Gauss Medal, the Chern Medal, etc. will be awarded at the conference. .

Ning Chen also understood why Yang Lianhua looked so excited when he talked about this matter.

"Teacher Ning, if you can really win the Fields Medal smoothly, you can receive it at home. Such a moment will be the glory of all us Xia people."

Before this, no native of Xia had been able to win such a major award in mathematics.

Because Ning Chen successfully solved the existence and smoothness problems of the Navier-Stokes equation, everyone knows that Ning Chen has a very high probability of winning the Fields Medal this time.

Ning Chen also knew about this matter, but before the award was officially announced, Ning Chen would not open the champagne in advance to celebrate.

"Teacher Yang, just let this matter take its course. If I really get the Fields Medal, it will be an honor for me. If I don't get it, it doesn't matter. I will continue as usual. Conducting my various researches.”

Ning Chen still maintains a very good attitude towards the selection of the Fields Medal.

No matter what the final result is, it will not have any impact on Ning Chen's personal research path. It is just an experience in his life.

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What Ning Chen didn't know was that during this period, the International Mathematical Union had begun the selection process for the next Fields Medal winner.

Unsurprisingly, Ning Chen successfully entered the first batch of candidate nominations.

In fact, even if Ning Chen did not study the Navier-Stokes equation, just three papers solving Qiu Chengtong's conjecture would be enough to be nominated as one of the candidates for the Fields Medal.

Just solving a Qiu Chengtong conjecture is not enough to give Ning Chen a high probability of winning the Fields Medal. The competitiveness of winning the award still needs to be somewhat lower.

But when Ning Chen completely solved the existence and smoothness problems of the Navier-Stokes equation, everything became completely different.

Achievements of this level can no longer be simply described as Fields Medals, because recent winners have never solved problems of similar difficulty.

In other words, it is already an honor for the Fields Medal to award Ning Chen the Fields Medal.

But in the subsequent selection rounds, Ning Chen continued to win the favor of the judges.

After further selection by experts from the International Mathematical Union, Ning Chen received support from all experts and became the only nominee to receive unanimous votes.

After all, the problem Ning Chen solved is one of the seven major mathematical problems of the new millennium. Even if he only solves part of one of the problems, he may even win a prize.

The remaining problems may not be solved by anyone else within the next hundred years.

Before the next Fields Medal was officially announced, the organizing committee sent an email to Ning Chen’s email, inviting Ning Chen to take the stage to give a lecture on the Navier-Stokes equation at this International Congress of Mathematicians. Report.

Thanks to Xiaozhi's message reminder function, Ning Chen learned the news immediately.

Ning Chen knew what this invitation meant. Although this did not mean that Ning Chen had won the next Fields Medal, winning the award was already a certainty.

If the International Mathematical Union really invited Ning Chen to give a report on the Navier-Stokes equations, but did not award Ning Chen the Fields Medal in the end, such a move would be criticized by the world's academic community. Criticized.

In everyone's eyes, the only possibility that Ning Chen could not win this Fields Medal was that the International Mathematical Union had completed the nomination of the winners before Ning Chen published his results. In this case, Ning Chen could only postpone it to the next one. Selected for the 2016 Fields Medal.

Next, Ning Chen carefully prepared the content of this report meeting.

As time goes by, the list of winners of this Fields Medal will soon be announced.

In accordance with the requirements of the International Mathematical Union, two to four winners of each Fields Medal will be selected and finally awarded the Fields Medal.

According to the habits of recent years, the final number of winners is usually set at four.

As the time for the announcement of the Fields Medal approaches, many people who are paying attention to this matter are constantly refreshing the interface of their mobile phones or computers, looking forward to the announcement of the final list of winners.

Because Ning Chen has a great chance of winning the award, this selection for the Fields Medal has attracted the attention of a large number of people in Xia.

Finally, the list of the four final winners of the Fields Medal this year has been officially released.

As everyone expected, Ning Chen from Xia Kingdom successfully won this year's Fields Medal!

When everyone learned the news, they started discussing it enthusiastically on the Internet.

"We Xia people finally won the Fields Medal, the highest award in mathematics! This time it is no longer a Chinese mathematician who wins, but a mathematician born and raised in our country!"

"This award is as important as the Nobel Prize, and even more difficult to obtain than the Nobel Prize! The number of mathematicians who have won the Fields Medal in history is only in double digits."

"This is not an unexpected result. In fact, I think Ning Chen is probably the most uncontroversial winner in the history of the Fields Medal. Even if only one winner is selected this time, Ning Chen Chen Ye will undoubtedly receive this award."

Because some things cannot be accurately quantified and can only be judged subjectively, which makes it impossible for everyone to draw a unified conclusion.

However, Ning Chen's award this time did indeed create a new record.

Ning Chen also won the Fields Medal at the age of 23, setting a record as the youngest winner since the Fields Medal was established.

The mathematicians who have won the Fields Medal are relatively young. This is because the Fields Medal has strict age requirements for the winners, and the award will only be awarded to mathematicians over the age of 40.

However, most of the winners were between 30 and 40 years old when they won the award, because it is difficult for mathematical researchers who are too young to produce world-class major results even if they have strong academic abilities. .

To be able to win the Fields Medal before the age of thirty is already an incredible feat.

Ning Chen's award-winning age has undoubtedly once again refreshed the world's understanding of mathematical geniuses.

Normally at Ning Chen's age, many people have just graduated from university, or have just entered the workforce, or have just entered the postgraduate stage.

Ning Chen, in the same age group, has actually won the highest award in mathematics.