Reborn Tech Scholar

Chapter 588 Wei Shen?

Enjoying a sumptuous lunch, I have to give a thumbs up to the catering ancestor of the conference. In addition to the eight major Chinese cuisines, there are also a variety of delicacies, including French cuisine, Japanese cuisine, etc., and many of the venues have realized the use of robots to cook dishes , Delivering food, the mathematicians who attended the meeting were amazed.

There are all kinds of exquisite watches worn by Chinese people. No one takes a mobile phone anymore. An exquisite watch has all the functions of a smart phone, and has more functional experiences. 5G communication technology supports artificial intelligence. And more application scenarios, such as miniature holographic projection
And smart watches like this are currently only sold in China, and overseas sales have not yet been officially launched, because the production capacity is currently limited.

After enjoying a sumptuous lunch, Qin Yuanqing decided to wander around the conference site.

The reports at the World Congress of Mathematicians are usually of high quality. In addition to the 1-hour reports and 45-minute reports that start at a fixed time, there are also many 30-minute reports and 10-minute reports. Apply on the group.

There are more than 20 subject groups in the conference, and more subdivisions can be divided.

Unlike any previous World Congress of Mathematicians, this time the World Congress of Mathematicians received strong support from Huaxia, and various lecture halls were opened, enough for each subject group to have a special lecture hall.

The one-hour report meeting that Qin Yuanqing was invited to was placed on the last report meeting of the last day as the finale, and his report meeting was not held in any subject-specific lecture hall, but in the largest auditorium, using holographic projection technology It is carried out simultaneously in each branch hall, with holographic projection technology, the effect is much stronger than the experience of online live broadcast.

Qin Yuanqing came to a number theory lecture hall. At this time, a young mathematician was conducting a 10-minute report meeting. This kind of 10-minute report meeting is mainly for ordinary scholars. As long as you apply to the conference, the conference will make arrangements as much as possible. Allow scholars to communicate with each other as much as possible.

At this time, the young mathematician who is giving a report above the stage is Wei Shen from Huaxia Yanda University. He once exploded on the Internet because he was holding a bottle of mineral water, two steamed buns, and wearing extremely simple clothes. Established by Yanda as a model for publicity, he is now a full professor in the Department of Mathematics of Yanda.

Qin Yuanqing remembered that this mathematician who was a year younger than himself, whose main research fields were partial differential equations and geometric analysis, was invited to give a 45-minute report at the conference.Looking at the report meeting that Wei Shen is conducting on the stage at this time, it is about number theory, to be precise, some insights about Qin Yuanqing's paper proving Riemann's conjecture.

Qin Yuanqing capped the building of Riemann's conjecture, and completely picked up the bright pearl of number theory. Although the influence is not as good as that when he and Perelman jointly proved the quasi-Riemann's conjecture, there is no doubt that this achievement Still bright enough and bright enough.

If we look at the whole process again, it can be said that Qin Yuanqing completed the proof of Riemann's conjecture by himself. This great achievement is great enough. If other people complete the proof of Riemann's conjecture, it is enough to become the greatest mathematician candidate of an era people.

There are countless scholars who study Riemann's conjecture all over the world. As soon as Qin Yuanqing's proof paper on Riemann's conjecture came out, these scholars started researching one after another. In this short period of time, there were as many as a thousand papers on Riemann's conjecture. It is not an exaggeration to say that a paper by Qin Yuanqing feeds most of the scholars in the field of number theory.

Although it was only a 10-minute report, Qin Yuanqing listened carefully and watched Wei Shen write down calculations and some esoteric words with chalk on the blackboard.

When it became popular on the Internet, some people were criticized very badly, because there was only one lecture video, he lectured to the students on the podium, but during the lecture, he was basically in a state of talking to himself , which is called 'self-closing teaching style', basically no interaction with students.And the students below didn't seem to be very interested in Wei Shen's lectures. Not only were there not many students, but the state of the students' listening to the lectures was also very average, and they didn't seem to be eager for knowledge.

Because of this, many people began to question the level of "Wei Shen"'s lectures. Some people thought that because he didn't learn Chinese well, the lectures were vague and emotional.Some people think that his way of speaking needs to be further improved, so that the students will be more interested in his class and can hear more clearly when listening to the class.Some people even think that Yanda is a top university in China, so the teachers teaching here should be top-notch in all aspects, so they feel that Wei Shen is not worthy of being a teacher at Yanda.

In fact, this kind of statement is all partial and self-conceived, without understanding the real situation, and directly transfers the requirements for teachers in elementary, middle and high schools to university teachers.Looking at all the university teachers in Huaxia, how many of them can make the courses lively and interesting, make students interested, and understand immediately?
According to this standard, at least 95% of Huaxia University's teachers will be moved to the unqualified list.

In college, teachers teach lectures, you can understand well, if you don’t understand, you have to study hard in advance and review after class, if you are diligent, you can go to the office to ask the teacher for advice.If you think that the teacher will revolve around you, hold you in his hands and take care of you, then you can only say that you are thinking too much.

Teachers in other disciplines are like this, and mathematics majors are even more outrageous. There are tens of thousands of mathematics majors across the country every year, but in the end they continue to study mathematics and become mathematics scholars. There are hundreds of thousands a year. Those who can stand out and become famous may not necessarily have a few in one session.

For teachers majoring in mathematics, if they use graphics, formulas, and symbols on the blackboard when lecturing, in the eyes of ordinary people and other professionals, it is really like reading a book without words and listening to Hongjun’s sermons. It is simply a fog Water, being able to not sleep is already considered excellent.

Mathematics is the most talented of all subjects!
This was the case before, and it is the same now!
It hasn't changed!

The 10-minute report will be over soon.

Qin Yuanqing found that compared with his attainments in partial differential equations and geometric analysis, this Wei Shen can only be said to be average in number theory, not outstanding.What he just said about the Riemann conjecture made Qin Yuanqing realize that his thinking was not clear and close.

But this is also normal. The 10-minute report meeting is said to be a report meeting, but it is actually an opportunity and a platform for communication with ordinary scholars, increasing their sense of participation, so as not to feel that they are being ignored.

Even if it is a 30-minute report meeting, it can actually be regarded as a relatively good and valuable mathematical theory.

Only the 45-minute report meeting and the 1-hour report meeting are truly first-class papers with high mathematical research value.

Each Fields Medal winner is basically selected from a one-hour report meeting.

Being able to be invited by the World Congress of Mathematicians to give a one-hour report is undoubtedly considered a world-class mathematician, which is enough to become an academician.

"Academician Qin, long time no see!"

Qin Yuanqing went to listen to several 10-minute lectures, and when he was about to listen to a 30-minute lecture, a voice came over.

Qin Yuanqing followed the voice, and when he saw the person who greeted him, Qin Yuanqing immediately recognized this person, it was Yun Zhiwei!

Yun Zhiwei was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province in November 1982. He won a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad in high school. In 11, he entered the School of Mathematics of Yanda University to study mathematics and applied mathematics. After graduating from Yanda University in 2000, he went to the Princeton Department of Mathematics to study for graduate students , under the tutelage of Professor Robert Duncan McPherson, received a Ph.D. in 2004, and then worked as a researcher at the Department of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2009, he went to the Department of Mathematics of MIT as a lecturer. In 2010, he became a professor of mathematics at Yale University. In 2016, he became a professor of mathematics at Yale University. Professor of Mathematics at MIT, and won the ICCM Mathematics Gold Award at the 2018th Chinese Mathematicians Conference held in 2019.

Then Yun Zhiwei returned to China and was invited to join Fudan University as a professor in the School of Mathematics of Fudan University. Now he is a relatively well-known young mathematician in China. This time he was invited to give a 45-minute report at the conference.

It's a pity that Yun Zhiwei is over 40 years old and missed the Fields Award.

Xu Chenyang and others, who were once placed high hopes by the Chinese mathematics community, were all entrusted with winning the Fields Medal, but they failed one after another. Instead, Liu Xuan, a rising star, successfully won the Fields Medal.

"Academician Qin, do you think the Langlands Program is really the road to the unification of mathematics?" Yun Zhiwei said.

"The Langlands Program can only be said to be helpful for the unification of mathematics, but in fact there is still a lot of work to be done if we want to achieve the unification of mathematics." Qin Yuanqing said after a while.

He knew why Yun Zhiwei brought up such a matter, because Yun Zhiwei's research field is geometric representation theory and the Langlands program, which means that Yun Zhiwei is also engaged in research related to the unification of mathematics.

The unification of mathematics has always been the great cause of countless mathematicians in the field of mathematics, and it is the belief of many mathematicians. However, it has been more than half a century since the Langlands program was proposed. Among them, however, there are still very few results, and the unification of mathematics always seems so out of reach.

"However, the unification of mathematics, this goal will be realized sooner or later!" Qin Yuan smiled lightly.

Although mathematics has developed countless branches, each branch has developed to a considerable height and has its own set of complete and mature theories.But as the saying goes, all roads lead to the same goal, and all roads lead to Rome. In the end, their essence is mathematics, and they all have the most essential internal connection.

In other words, to the end of the development of mathematics, the unification of mathematics is a matter of course, and it must be successful.

(End of this chapter)