Rebirth of science and technology academic master

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 various delicacies, including French food, Japanese food, etc., and many venues use robots to cook dishes. , delivering food, which made the participating mathematicians marvel.

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After enjoying a sumptuous lunch, Qin Yuanqing decided to walk 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 report sessions. Any participating scholar can discuss what he or she is interested in. Apply in groups.

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

Unlike any previous World Congress of Mathematicians, China has given strong support to this World Congress of Mathematicians. Various lecture halls have been opened, enough for each subject group to have a dedicated lecture hall.

The one-hour lecture Qin Yuanqing was invited to was the last lecture on the last day as the finale. His lecture was not held in any subject-specific lecture hall, but in the largest auditorium using holographic projection technology. It is carried out simultaneously in various sub-auditoriums, with holographic projection technology, and the effect is much more powerful than the online live broadcast experience.

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

The young mathematician who was giving a report at the top of the stage at this time was Wei Shen from Yan University in China. He once broke out on the Internet because he was holding a bottle of mineral water, two steamed buns, and wearing extremely simple clothes with an unattractive appearance. He was established as a propaganda model by Yanda and is now a full professor in the Department of Mathematics at Yanda.

Qin Yuanqing remembered that this mathematician who was one generation 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 lecture that Wei Shen was giving on the stage at this time, it was about number theory. To be precise, it was about some insights from Qin Yuanqing's paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis.

Qin Yuanqing capped the edifice of the Riemann Hypothesis and completely captured the shining pearl of number theory. Although his influence is somewhat inferior to that of his collaboration with Perelman to prove the quasi-Riemann Hypothesis, there is no doubt that this achievement Still bright enough and eye-catching enough.

If we look at the entire process, it can be said that Qin Yuanqing completed the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis by himself. This great achievement is great enough. If others complete the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, it will be enough to become a candidate for the greatest mathematician of an era. people.

There are countless scholars around the world who study the Riemann Hypothesis. As soon as Qin Yuanqing's paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis came out, these scholars started researching one after another. In a short period of time, there were thousands of papers on related research on the Riemann Hypothesis. It is not an exaggeration to say that a paper by Qin Yuanqing supported most of the scholars in the field of number theory.

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

When it first became popular on the Internet, it was also criticized badly because it was a lecture video in which he lectured students on the podium, but during the lecture, he was basically talking to himself. , this is called an 'autistic teaching method', and there is basically no interaction with students. The students below did not seem to be very interested in Wei Shen's lectures. Not only were there not many students, but the students' listening status was also average, and they did not show any thirst for knowledge.

Because of this, many people began to question the teaching level of ‘Wei Shen’. Some people thought that because he did not learn Chinese well, his lectures were unclear and not rich enough. Some people think that his way of speaking needs to be further improved, so that students will be more interested in his classes and can hear them more clearly when listening to classes. Some people even think that as Yanda is China's top university, the teachers who teach here should be at the top level in all aspects, so they feel that Wei Shen is not worthy of being a teacher at Yanda.

In fact, these statements are all overgeneralizations and self-conceptions without understanding the real situation. They directly transfer the requirements for teachers in elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools to university teachers. Look at all the university teachers in China. How many of them can make their courses lively and interesting, making students interested and able to understand them as soon as they listen?

According to this standard, at least 95% of Huaxia University teachers will be moved to the unqualified list.

In college, if you understand the teacher's lectures well, if you don't understand, you should study hard in advance and review after class. If you are more diligent, you can go to the office to ask the teacher for advice. If you think that teachers will always surround you and hold you in their hands to protect you, then you are thinking too much.

Teachers of other subjects are like this, but mathematics majors are even more outrageous. Tens of thousands of people across the country choose to major in mathematics every year. In the end, hundreds of thousands of them choose to further their studies in mathematics and become mathematics scholars. There are not necessarily a few people who can stand out and become famous.

For teachers majoring in mathematics, when they give lectures, they use the graphics, calculations, and symbols on the blackboard. To ordinary people and people from other majors, it’s like reading a wordless bible or listening to Hongjun’s sermons. It’s simply confusing. Water, and being able to do it without sleeping is already considered a great achievement.

Mathematics is the most talented of all subjects!

This was true before, and it is also true now!

Nothing has changed!

The 10-minute report meeting ended quickly.

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

But this is normal. The 10-minute report is said to be a report meeting, but in fact it is an opportunity and a communication platform for ordinary scholars to increase their sense of participation and avoid feeling that they are being ignored.

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

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

Every Fields Medal winner is basically selected during a one-hour lecture.

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

"Academician Qin, long time no see!"

Qin Yuanqing went to attend several more 10-minute report meetings. When he was about to attend a 30-minute report meeting, a voice came over.

Qin Yuanqing followed the voice and looked at 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 the gold medal with perfect scores in the International Olympiad Mathematics Competition in high school. In 2000, he entered the School of Mathematics of Yantai University to major in mathematics and applied mathematics. He graduated from Yantai University in 2004 and went to Princeton to pursue graduate studies in the Department of Mathematics. , studied under Professor Robert Duncan McPherson, received his PhD in 2009, and then became a researcher in the Department of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2010, he went to the MIT Department of Mathematics as a lecturer. In 2016, he served as a professor of mathematics at Yale University. In 2018 He is a professor of mathematics at MIT and won the ICCM Mathematics Gold Medal at the 8th Chinese Mathematicians Conference held in 2019.

Later, Yun Zhiwei returned to China and was invited to join Fudan University and became a professor in the School of Mathematics of Fudan University. Now he is relatively famous among young Chinese mathematicians. This time he was invited to give a 45-minute report at the conference.

It is a pity that Yun Zhiwei is over 40 years old and has no chance of receiving the Fields Medal.

Xu Chenyang and others, who once had high hopes in the Chinese mathematics community, were all expected to win the Fields Medal, but all failed. Instead, it was Liu Xuan, a rising star, who successfully won the Fields Medal.

"Academician Qin, do you think the Langlands Program is really the road leading 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 order to achieve the unification of mathematics, there is actually a lot of work to be done." Qin Yuanqing said after pondering.

He knew why Yun Zhiwei mentioned such a thing, because Yun Zhiwei's research field is geometric representation theory and Langlands Program, which means that Yun Zhiwei is also engaged in related research on the unification of mathematics.

The unification of mathematics has always been a great cause that countless mathematicians in the field of mathematics have been striving for throughout their lives. It is also the belief of many mathematicians. However, it has been more than half a century since the Langlands Program was proposed. During this half century, countless mathematicians have successively invested in it. Among them, there have always been very few achievements, and the unification of mathematics has always seemed so out of reach.

"However, the goal of unifying mathematics will be achieved sooner or later!" Qin Yuanqing said with a smile.

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, different 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 will be a matter of course and will definitely succeed.