Rebirth of science and technology academic master

After the speech, this World Congress of Mathematicians ushered in the first climax of the conference, which was the winners of various awards.

All mathematicians focused their attention on the stage, where the leaders of the International Mathematical Union announced the winners of this year's Fields Medal and awarded gold medals and prizes.

There are a total of five Fields Medal winners this year, including Professor Liu Xuan of the Department of Mathematics of Shuimu University in China, Russian mathematician Voevodsky, Professor James Maynard of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, Professor Wiener of the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University in the United States, and French mathematician Alavi.

Qin Yuanqing sent his blessings to his student Liu Xuanneng for winning the Fields Medal this time. He has also reached a world-class level in the field of function theory. But to be honest, Qin Yuanqing thought that the first person to win the Fields Medal would be Deng Tong or Anastasia. After all, in the past few years, the achievements of the two of them were no less than Liu Xuan, and even ranked first in the world. He is more famous in mathematics circles.

But this is normal, because there are only four or five Fields Medal winners in one session, the number of places is very limited, and the competition is very fierce. It is normal for some to win and some to lose.

However, with the defeat of Deng Tong and Anastasia, it also means that the first batch of doctoral students he led and others have officially bid farewell to the Fields Medal, unless they can make huge mathematical results that will allow Phil The award jury can make an exception specifically for them, but unfortunately this possibility is very slim.

But at this time, when the Nevanlina Prize for information science was awarded, Anastasia successfully won this prize to reward her for applying mathematics to information science in the aerospace field, which successfully achieved success in this field. Huge breakthrough.

The next award is the Gauss Prize, which was established in memory of the 'Prince of Mathematics' Gauss. This prize is mainly used to reward those who have achieved results in applied mathematics. The winner will receive a painted portrait of Gauss and a cash prize. This award is awarded Awarded to the Russian mathematician Pyotr Peter in recognition of his outstanding work in applied mathematics and multiple engineering interdisciplinary fields.

Next was the presentation of the Chen Xingshen Prize, which was established by the International Mathematical Union in memory of the late Chinese mathematician Chen Xingshen to reward scientists who have made achievements in the field of international mathematics. This is also the first time that the International Mathematical Union has named a mathematics award after a Chinese mathematician. The grand prize was first awarded in 2010 and has been awarded four times so far, with four people winning it. The four winners are Nirenberg in 2010, Philip Griffiths in 2014, Masaki Kashiwahara in 2018, and Yau Shing-tung in 2022.

The Chern Medal is a lifetime achievement award, regardless of the branch of mathematics, awarded to 'an individual who has earned the highest praise for his or her lifetime outstanding achievements in the field of mathematics'.

Therefore, the winners of each Chen Shengshen Prize are relatively older mathematicians, and it is normal for them to be in their late 70s or 80s.

"The winner of this year's Chen Shengshen Prize is Qin from China! Qin's achievements in mathematics are obvious to all. He has surpassed any great mathematician in the history of mathematics. He has brought mathematics to a whole new level." At this moment , announced the winners of the Chern Prize.

When Qin Yuanqing heard his name, he was stunned. He had already announced his withdrawal from participating in domestic or international awards. He participated in this mathematician conference mainly because he wanted to have mathematical exchanges with mathematicians from all over the world, and also Listen to the lecture and see the popular frontiers and fields of mathematics research in the world today.

Unexpectedly, the Chen Shengshen Award was actually awarded to him.

However, Qin Yuanqing still stood up. If he refused to accept the award, then this Mathematicians Conference would become the laughing stock of the world, and from now on, the Chen Shengshen Award would also become a discriminated award.

Qin Yuanqing walked onto the stage. Amid the warm applause of tens of thousands of mathematicians at the venue, Qin Yuanqing received the gold medal engraved with Chen Shengsheng's face, as well as the bonus, which was relatively high, up to 250,000 US dollars.

"Thank you to the International Mathematical Union for awarding the Chen Shengshen Prize to me! Thank you!" Qin Yuanqing's speech was simple.

However, the whole venue still burst into warm applause. Apparently, they felt that the award given to Qin Yuanqing was well deserved and highly anticipated. It is not that Qin Yuanqing is honored because he won the Chen Shengshen Award, but that the Chen Shengshen Award is honored because Qin Yuanqing won the award.

To be honest, if Qin Yuanqing had not announced his withdrawal from participating in various awards, otherwise, the Fields Medal would have been awarded to Qin Yuanqing. That would not be an exaggeration, whether it was the proof of the Hodge Hypothesis or the final proof of the Riemann Hypothesis , are enough for Qin Yuanqing to win a Fields Medal alone.

It is most appropriate to award the Chen Shengshen Award to Qin Yuanqing, because this is a lifetime achievement award, which represents the recognition of Qin Yuanqing's contribution to mathematics by the world's mathematical community.

Therefore, more than 30,000 mathematicians burst into thunderous applause. The thunderous applause was like an erupting flash flood, deafening.

It wasn’t just the conference venue that was ignited.

When the leader of the International Union of Mathematicians read out the name ‘Qin Yuanqing’, the spotlight was all on Qin Yuanqing. The live broadcast media also immediately focused on Qin Yuanqing. The host quickly read out Qin Yuanqing’s mathematics results.

At the same time, the audience watching the live broadcast was also excited.

It was different from the World Congress of Mathematicians held in China in 2002. At that time, the media was not developed and mathematics was far away from ordinary people's lives. It was far less focused than the Olympic Games. But in today's society, the media is developed, and after so many years of publicity, Chinese people all know that the World Congress of Mathematicians is held every four years and is a prosperous time in the world of mathematics, no less than the Summer Olympics.

What's more, this World Congress of Mathematicians has Qin Yuanqing, a banner figure in the Chinese scientific community, participating. Wherever Qin Yuanqing goes, it will attract the attention of Chinese people, and they are proud of Qin Yuanqing.

For most Chinese people, they have either witnessed the rise of Qin Yuanqing and watched Qin Yuanqing achieve great success; or they are the same age as Qin Yuanqing, and their elders have always used Qin Yuanqing as a whip to whip them forward; or they are younger than Qin Yuanqing. , regarded Qin Yuanqing as an idol and role model, and constantly worked hard to defeat public intellectuals one after another with what Qin Yuanqing said.

Now that Qin Yuanqing has won the Chen Shengshen Award again, there is no doubt that it has also triggered a sense of pride in their hearts. Although this was not obtained by themselves, it was obtained by Qin Yuanqing, which gave them a shared honor.

The sensation caused by Qin Yuanqing's winning of the Chen Shengshen Prize was even greater than that of Liu Xuan's winning of the Fields Medal.

After all, China does not lack the Fields Medal. Qin Yuanqing alone has achieved the great feat of winning the Fields Medal three times in a row. In one session, Qin Yuanqing even won the Fields Medal exclusively.

The applause gradually subsided, and as the award ceremony ended, the opening ceremony also came to an end.

Next came the art groups, which brought unique Chinese cultural performances to attendees from all over the world.

As a very splendid civilization, China has a civilization that has lasted for more than five thousand years and has never been cut off. Moreover, China has been dominant and powerful for a long time in these five thousand years.

Although a century of humiliation almost led to the destruction of China. However, with the establishment of the New Republic of China, China has rapidly developed and grown, and now it has once again exuded a bright light in the world. This light has made it impossible to ignore no matter how remote the corner of the world is.

Naturally, Chinese cultural performances with unique charm exude a very unique light, allowing mathematicians from all over the world to feel the richness and beauty of that culture.

Qin Yuanqing watched it with gusto, and at the same time he was extremely proud. To be honest, Qin Yuanqing didn't like those Westernized art performances in the past. After entering 2010, more and more of this kind of art with Chinese characteristics has become more vital and charming, whether it is the blue and white porcelain dance, the beautiful underwater flying dance of the colorful Luoshen, or the Dunhuang flying dance, Tang Palace night banquet, Only the green and so on can make people feel the cultural beauty integrated into the bones of China.

After the cultural performance, the leaders of the International Union of Mathematicians announced the end of the opening ceremony.

Most of the attendees left happily.

Some volunteers began to guide the mathematicians to the restaurant for lunch. China has always been about hospitality, and everything was arranged properly. In fact, the mathematicians who came to the conference only needed to pay for the round-trip air tickets and the hotel The accommodation expenses and restaurant meal expenses have been properly arranged by the Shanghai Municipal Government. Mathematicians will never have to pay for hotels and meals when they come to attend the conference.

This is the cultural difference!

As far as China is concerned, these are guests from far away. Wherever the guests have to pay to stay at home and pay for food.

Qin Yuanqing left his seat and was about to leave the venue and go to the restaurant for lunch when he was quickly surrounded by reporters who had been waiting for a long time.

The Yangma reporter who asked the question first saw a young and beautiful lady with a bright smile on her face. She asked politely: "Hello, Academician Qin, congratulations on winning the Chen Shengshen Award. This is This is the first time a Chinese mathematician has won this award, how do you feel at this moment?"

"It's okay!" Qin Yuanqing said calmly.

Although receiving the Chen Shengshen Award was a surprise to Qin Yuanqing, it definitely made Qin Yuanqing happy. After all, he had won all the more valuable awards. With his status in the academic world, he no longer needed any awards to highlight his greatness.

For example, the Nobel Prize, which was coveted and talked about by China in the past, was founded by Nobel, a great chemist. But even if any professional magazine in the world ranked scientists, Qin Yuanqing would be at the top, and Nobel But couldn't even make it into the top 20.

This is the chain of contempt that exists in academia. Mathematicians and physicists always look down on great scholars in other disciplines, because without mathematics and physics, other disciplines will not be able to develop. They are all castles built on sand. They are unbearable. one strike.