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The atmosphere of the whole venue suddenly became a little tense, and it was obvious that the complexions of many people began to change slightly.

The most important purpose of the entire venue is to present the four major awards, and each of the four major awards is an exceptionally high honor.No matter what award they came for, some people present began to tremble slightly.The awards issued at the International Congress of Mathematicians represent the highest honor in the global mathematics community.

Mathematicians attending this conference, who would not want to receive one of these honors?

After Professor Viana finished his speech, he announced that the awards had officially begun to be announced.The Gauss Award was first announced. As a Gauss Award commemorating the Prince of Mathematics Gauss, it is mainly an award with a certain meaning of life—that is, the mathematicians who won the award are almost all over 40 years old. Professor who won the Cici Award, but has made outstanding contributions to mathematics.

The award was announced by Professor Viana - won by Stanford University Professor David L. Donoho.

There were cheers and applause at the venue, and Wang Yun also looked at the podium. Professor David L. Donoho stepped onto the podium and held the trophy with excitement, his face flushed a little.Everyone can see that the professor seems a little excited now.

Everyone's applause quickly disappeared. Professor David L. Donoho was about to speak, and everyone naturally gave up the opportunity to speak to Professor David L. Donoho.The entire venue was silent. Professor David L. Donoho first smiled awkwardly, and then began his speech.

After Professor David L. Donoho finished speaking, the audience applauded again.

The Gauss Award is just the beginning. In fact, what most people are waiting for is the last award of the conference - the Fields Award.Of course, being able to win one of the four awards is enough to represent that the winner has the world's top level in the field of mathematics.

The next winner of the Chern Award is Masaki Kashiwahara, a special professor from the Institute of Mathematical Analysis, Kyoto University.

After waiting for Professor Masaki Kashiwahara to come to the stage to accept the award, it will be the Nawanglinna Award.

The announcer of the Nawanglinna Award is Shigefumi Mori, the President of the International Mathematical Union.

The winner is Konstantinos Daskalakis.

Obviously, after the announcement of the previous three awards, the final highlight has just begun——

The hostess of CCTV said excitedly, "We can see that now that the Goss Award, Chern Award and Nevanliner Award have been awarded, the most eye-catching Fields Award will be awarded next. Alright, the president of the International Mathematical Union has stepped onto the podium, so let's see what the president actually said."

As he spoke, the camera pointed at Mori Shigefumi on the stage.

"The previous three awards have been awarded." Mori Shigefumi said solemnly standing on the podium, "I know, the next one is the award that everyone is most looking forward to."

In the venue, no one spoke.Everyone stared straight at Shigefumi Mori. Many people are very nervous now. The Fields Award is an honor equivalent to the Nobel Prize.Then even though the entire audience was looking at Shigefumi Mori, he still said very calmly, "Many young mathematicians have emerged in recent years, which is a very good phenomenon for the basic subject of mathematics. "

"Mathematics, which represents us, is getting younger." Mori Shigefumi said here, "I know everyone can't wait for me to announce the Fields Award."

"But—" Mori Shigefumi paused for a moment, and then said with a smile, "I still have to finish what needs to be said, after all, this is also part of the procedure."

After speaking, the whole venue burst into laughter, and the atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed.

"Since the last International Congress of Mathematicians, there have been many breakthrough papers in the past four years. For example, the proof of the twin prime number conjecture, the proof of Kakutani's conjecture, and the proof of the NS equation are all enough It shows that mathematics is not standing still, but constantly moving forward." After Mori Shigefumi finished speaking, he looked at the people in the venue, "Let me make a long story short, I look forward to the next four years, there will be countless Mathematicians discover or create more breakthroughs that give our mathematics a new lease of life."

The applause of "Papa Papa" came in an endless stream, and after a while, it stopped.

After seeing the applause stop, Mori Shigefumi began to say, "Let's get down to business, and the next thing to announce is-the Fields Award winner!"

"Papapa..." The applause resounded again, and the exciting moment was finally coming.The atmosphere of the whole venue was very warm, and the hostess of CCTV seemed to be infected by this atmosphere, and she kept saying, "It's finally here, the Fields Awards are finally about to start." Listening to CCTV The hostess had a trembling voice. People who didn't know it thought it was the hostess who was about to win an award.

In fact, before the hostess of CCTV went abroad, she made a special visit to Director Yang of the Center for Mathematics Research at Beijing University.

Director Yang told her that according to the probability calculation, Wang Yun is very likely to win the Fields Medal this year.For so many years in Huaguo, there has not been a single Fields Medal, but suddenly there is a top leader who can win the Fields Medal, and even has a great possibility of winning the Fields Medal—even his major is physics, not mathematics. .How could it be possible for the female reporter of CCTV not to be excited, she is now staring at Mori Shigefumi.

Standing on the podium, Mori Shigefumi slowly took off the file bag, and then said, "I announce that the first winner of the Fields Medal is—transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry into p by introducing quasi-complete spaces. into the field, and applied to the Galois representation, and the development of a new cohomology theory, Peter Schulz from Germany!",

"Hmm..." I don't know who started to yell, and the atmosphere of the whole venue almost reached its peak.Countless people stood up to congratulate the Fields Medal winner who is not yet 30 years old.

Naturally, Wang Yun also stood up and congratulated the Fields Medal winner.When Pete Schultz passed by Wang Yun's seat, Wang Yun smiled and said to Pete Schultz, "Congratulations, you have won the Fields Medal."

Pete Schultz is also extremely excited now, looking at Wang Yun and said, "Thank you, Wang, I remember that the Fields Medal is not usually awarded to only one person, and you still have a chance."

"Thank you." Wang Yun nodded and watched Pete Schulz on the podium.

Shigefumi Mori shook hands with Pete Schultz and said, "I believe that Schultz won the Fields Medal. Everyone has no doubts, right?"

"Correct!"

The solemn and sacred moment came. Shigefumi Mori personally put the Fields Medal on Peter Schulz's neck.

As the most important award of the International Congress of Mathematicians, the Fields Medal cannot be just a random gold medal——

The medal was designed by Canadian sculptor Robert Tait McKenzie.The front of the medal is the relief head of Archimedes, and engraved with capital Greek letters: ΑΡΧΙΜΗΔΟΥΣ, which means Archimedes' (head); the designer's monogram RTM, MCNXXXIII (the initials of the sculptor, 1933, third The word M is replaced by N), and the Latin TRANSIRESUUMPECTUS MUNDOQUEPOTIRI, which means: surpass the human spirit and be the master of the universe.From the Roman poet Marcus Manilius (Marcus Manilius) book "Astronomy" (Astronomica) volume IV line 392.The back of the medal is engraved with the Latin "CONGREGATIEXTOTOORBEMATHEMATICIOBSCRIPTAINSIGNIATRIBUERE", which means "mathematicians gathered from all over the world, awarded (awards) for outstanding work".In the background is Archimedes' sphere embedded in a cylinder. ①

At this solemn and sacred moment, Mori Shigefumi and Pete Schultz looked serious.Along with the medal approach, Pete Schulz stood aside, and Shigefumi Mori continued, "The second Fields Medal winner is - proved the boundedness of Fano algebraic varieties and the theory of minimal models Contributions - Kaucher Birkar. The third Fields Medal winner is - for contributions to the theory of optimal transport and its applications to partial differential equations, metric geometry and probability - Alessio Figali."

One of these two is from Iran and the other is from Italy.

When the two came to the podium, Mori Shigefumi solemnly awarded the Fields Medal to the two, and said to everyone in the venue, "The Fields Medal has not been awarded yet."

Wang Yun, who was a little disappointed at first, his eyes lit up in an instant, and he stared at the podium with wide eyes.

Professor Wei Teng gently patted Wang Yun's shoulder with his hands, as if to comfort him.

"The fourth winner of the Fields Medal—he is—comprehensively analyzed number theory, homogeneous dynamical systems, topology, and representation theory, and solved long-standing problems in the distribution of arithmetic objects—Aksay? Venkatesh." When Mori Shigefumi finished his announcement, there was an uproar at the scene.

These are all winners of the Fields Medal, and it is natural to be awarded the Fields Medal.But among more than ten candidates, Wang Yun from Princeton University is obviously able to win the Fields Medal.There are even one or two of these people whose mathematical contributions are not as great as Wang Yun's. They can all win the Fields Medal. Not only did Wang Yun who solved the NS equation not win the Fields Medal, he didn't even get the other three awards. get.

How should I put it, it's a bit weird, right?

Wang Yun forced a smile, and turned to Professor Weiteng, "It's okay, Professor, I'm still young."

Professor Witten didn't speak, just looked at the podium quietly.When Aksayi Venkatesh took the stage to accept the award, Shigefumi Mori held up the microphone and said, "This year's International Mathematics Conference was very successful. Contributions or attainments to mathematics are top-notch."

"Papa papa" applause sounded, it seems that there should be no fifth winner of the Fields Medal.Wang Yun shook his head and clapped his hands too, but his bitter smile at that moment was captured.

Amid intense applause, the four Fields Medal winners were congratulating each other and bragging about each other.Unexpectedly, Mori Shigefumi raised the microphone and smiled and said, "But, I don't seem to have said, the award ceremony is over, right?"

"???" Everyone on the field was stunned.