Gold medals for the Morningside Mathematics Prize, including a gold medal in pure mathematics and a gold medal in applied mathematics.

However, the gold content of the gold medal in pure mathematics is definitely higher than that of the gold medal in applied mathematics.

Just by listening to the name, you can hear that the gold medal in pure mathematics is called the Morningside Mathematics Gold Award.

But the gold medal in applied mathematics is the Morningside Mathematics Award for applied mathematics.

This is also the natural chain of contempt between basic and applied mathematics.

In addition to the Gold Award, it is also the Silver Award.

The silver award was awarded a lot, which exceeded the original expectation and broke the number of winners each year.

At this joint mathematician conference, the silver medal of the Morningside Mathematics Award was won by a total of eight people.

This also made the applause of the audience gradually become less enthusiastic.

As for the reason, it is because everyone thought that Academician Xi Nanhua had finished reporting the list of winners, but it turned out to be one after another......

In fact, don't talk about the feelings of everyone in the audience, even Academician Xi Nanhua himself is a little helpless.

Originally, they were awarded by the Chinese Mathematical Society, whether it was the Chern Mathematics Award, the Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award, or the Zhong Jiaqing Mathematics Award.

How can there be such a thing, as soon as the gold award and the silver award come up, there are more than ten of them.

Therefore, after reading the name of the last winner, Academician Xi Nanhua also breathed a long sigh of relief.

exchanged glances with Qiu Chengtong, and Xi Nanhua said loudly: "Next, our winners are invited to take the stage and accept the award!"

Hearing Xi Nanhua's words, all the winners got up together and prepared to walk to the podium.

But except for Chen Zhou, everyone tacitly made a move, that is, wait.

Waiting for nothing else, it was Chen Zhou who was waiting.

All the winners deliberately gave in and let Chen Zhou go to the forefront.

Compared with Chen Zhou, who has solved many world-class mathematical problems, whether it is Dai Yuhong, who has been working in the field of applied mathematics, or other awardees, they are inferior.

Therefore, they have a tacit understanding to make such a unified action.

Chen Zhou naturally noticed this, and of course he didn't back down in the slightest.

If you back down, you will be too modest, that is, hypocritical.

After all, he was the gold medal for the Morningside Prize in Mathematics, and he was also the Chern Prize in Mathematics.

He is the only one to get a double general!

Who else but him can be at the forefront?

However, after taking the stage, Chen Zhou originally intended to stand inside, so as to give some space to the remaining ten people.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he came on stage, Qiu Chengtong and Xi Nanhua shook hands with him with a smile, and then sandwiched him in the middle, and he didn't want to leave.

Chen Zhou looked at these two old men with a slightly strange expression, is this planning to let himself stand in the C position?

However, Qiu Chengtong and Xi Nanhua didn't explain, and the three of them stood like this.

When the others saw this, they naturally lined up on both sides of Chen Zhou, Qiu Chengtong, and Xi Nanhua.

Qiu Chengtong and Xi Nanhua looked left and right, and then the official award ceremony began.

It is worth mentioning that there is one more guest at this time.

That is the old leader who delivered the opening speech earlier.

The old leader, who was the guest of honor, naturally took the lead in awarding awards to the winners.

As a result, a different scene from other award ceremonies appeared at this joint mathematicians conference.

The old leader started the award from the middle, that is, from Chen Zhou.

Xi Nanhua handed the certificate and medal of the Chern Mathematics Award to the old leader.

The old leader solemnly awarded it to Chen Zhou.

However, neither of them was in a hurry to shake hands.

After Qiu Chengtong handed the certificate and medal of the Morningside Mathematics Award to the old leader, and the old leader presented it to Chen Zhou, the two shook hands cordially.

The old leader encouraged: "Chen Zhou, you have done a good job! I believe that your banner of young talents can bring some different new atmosphere to our Chinese mathematics community!"

Chen Zhou said modestly: "Old leader, you have won the award, I just did my own research, and I will do my own research work in the future." ”

When the old leader heard Chen Zhou's words, he glanced at him with a smile.

Then the front page of tomorrow's newspaper will inevitably be a photo of the two shaking hands.

The shutter of the media reporters is going crazy.

This is definitely another historic and representative moment in the Chinese mathematical community.

They even have tomorrow's title in mind.

It's called: "I look forward to it, the youth banner of the Chinese mathematics community!"

Subsequently, the veteran leader presented awards to another winner of the Chern Prize in Mathematics and the winner of the Morningside Prize in Applied Mathematics.

And Yau Chengtong and Xi Nanhua also duly presented Chen Zhou with prize checks for the Chern Mathematics Award and the Morningside Mathematics Award.

If you really want to talk about it, this is the second time that Chen Zhou has received the winning items of the mathematics prize from Qiu Chengtong's hands.

It's just that the first time, he was just a little-known Yan college student.

Now, he has become a math boss in a sense.

Of course, compared with Qiu Chengtong, Chen Zhou's achievements are far inferior.

When shaking hands with Qiu Chengtong, Chen Zhou heard Qiu Chengtong whisper: "Good job! Keep up the good work! What we haven't been able to do, I hope you can accomplish it!"

Chen Zhou was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "I will." ”

Taking advantage of the old leader presenting awards to others, Qiu Chengtong and Xi Nanhua presented bonus checks to others.

Chen Zhou secretly glanced at the amount of the bonus check in his hand.

The prize check for the Chern's Mathematics Prize was 20,000 yuan more than the original.

Chen Zhou is still extremely satisfied with this.

I can buy a lot of delicious food for Yiyi again......

Add in the $25,000 for the Morningside Math Prize, and you can buy more......

After all the awards are over, it is time to take turns to give acceptance speeches.

In this area, Chen Zhou naturally couldn't back down.

He was the only double award winner, so it was natural that he needed to be the first to deliver his acceptance speech.

Fortunately, Chen Zhou had already made a draft after the old leader delivered his speech at the opening ceremony.

After slightly retouching and polishing the manuscript, Chen Zhou began to speak.

"It is an honor to receive the Chern Prize in Mathematics and the Morningside Prize in Mathematics on an occasion like today......"

"It's a great recognition of my own abilities and an incentive for me......"

"Everything starts with the first ignition, which can be interest, curiosity, or whatever, and the same goes for math......"

"But the initial ignition, just to make the piece of charcoal in mathematics, to reach the ignition point, in order to really make the flame burn without extinguishing, then there is a constant supply of oxygen, charcoal added, only in this way, can the flame burn more and more vigorously!"

"And what are the 'oxygen' and 'charcoal' in our mathematical research? That is perseverance and passion! Perseverance is the heart that persistently pursues, and enthusiasm is the determination to sit on the cold bench!"

"It is true that nothing in this world is absolutely easy, and this is especially true of mathematical research! In the case of not seeing results for a long time, only the kind of heart that abuses me thousands of times, and I am still like my first love, can maintain my full vitality!"

"As far as I'm concerned, mathematics has become an inseparable part of my life......

Chen Zhou took himself as an example to explain the rhythm of learning and researching life in a way that recounts homely things.

Chen Zhou here is not impassioned who doesn't want to say.

It's just that this is the daily life of him, and no matter how much he wants to be impassioned, he can't be impassioned.

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However, the tone of Chen Zhou's words is consistent with the tone of this joint mathematicians conference that had been set by the old leaders at the beginning.

Therefore, when I heard what Chen Zhou said, contemporary young people should sharpen their minds, temper their virtues, and concentrate on doing things.

The old leader's heart is still very satisfied.

But in fact, Chen Zhou's words were not specially said for anyone.

He really realized the meaning of immersion in research.

If it weren't for the achievements he had made in research, how could there be Chen Zhou standing on the stage today?

But to some people's ears, it's different.

I just feel that Chen Zhou's sycophant is really timely.

“...... I think the most meaningful achievements are based on perseverance and passion, right?"

"Thank you!"

Chen Zhou's words fell, and the old leader took the lead in applauding him.

Then, there was a tidal wave of applause.

Regardless of whether he is used to Chen Zhou or not, there will only be applause for Chen Zhou.

With Chen Zhou's example, the winners behind have also found the right direction.

After the acceptance speech, it was noon.

Although the time was slightly extended, the overall situation was relatively smooth.

According to the arrangement of this joint mathematician conference, the rest of the mathematics awards will continue to be awarded in the afternoon.

In the evening, the opening ceremony dinner was held at the hotel where Chen Zhou and the others stayed.

When Chen Zhou walked out of the venue, he was immediately surrounded by reporters who came to interview.

It's just that this time in the face of an interview with a reporter friend, Chen Zhou once again became the difficult interviewer who cherished words like gold.

Seeing that there was no big news to be found, the reporter chose to let Chen Zhou go and went to surround the rest of the winners.

Interestingly, among the questions asked by these journalists, the rest of the winners always had a question: "What kind of person do you think Mr. Chen Zhou is?"

In this regard, these winners are also quite helpless.

Chen Zhou has been set up as a model by the old leaders, what else can they think?

Naturally, it can only be good......

Chen Zhou, who returned to the hotel, began to use his mobile phone to search for a ticket to SLAC tomorrow.

The matter of receiving the prize here is basically over, and the 45-minute report of the mathematicians' conference has also been politely rejected by him.

It really doesn't make much sense to stay any longer.

Therefore, going to SLAC early is what Chen Zhou is most concerned about now.

Although he has been in contact with Professor Friedman, Chen Zhou is still somewhat relieved because the system task has not been completed.

At the award ceremony in the afternoon, Chen Zhou witnessed the awards of many outstanding mathematicians.

In particular, the winners of the awards presented by the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians have achieved no less achievements.

Although most of the winners are not mathematicians in China.

Of course, this is also due to the selection mechanism of the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians.

The original intention of the establishment of this conference is to award awards to world-renowned scholars.

The criterion for winning the award is that in addition to the academic achievements in mathematics, it must have made substantial contributions to the development of mathematics in China!

In the selection process, except for Yau Cheng, who is also a Chinese chairman, the other eight judges are all scholars from the Ivy League of the United States or scholars from European universities.

This is also an example to avoid the factors that Chinese scholars consider too much when awarding, which will affect the evaluation results.

The afternoon ended in a busy award ceremony.

Compared with the ample time when Chen Zhou and others presented awards in the morning, the awards in the afternoon were completely concentrated together.

In the evening, Chen Zhou and others stayed in the banquet hall of the hotel.

At this mathematicians' conference, all first-class mathematicians gathered together.

After Mr. Yau Cheng made a brief speech, the dinner officially began.

After Chen Zhou took a glass of wine from the waiter, he searched everywhere for food.

Like Chen Zhou, he is probably the only one who really regards the dinner party as a meal time.

The rest of the people began to communicate closely.

Whether it is a famous predecessor or a junior who has not become famous, he will not give up the opportunity to become such a strong math boss.

Because of this, Tao Zhexuan and others became busy.

Especially Tao Zhexuan.

After all, he is the only Chinese mathematician who has won the title of General Fields except for Qiu Chengtong.

Of course, there were also many people from Chen Zhou's side who came to talk.

He has won the Cole Number Theory Prize, and now the Chern Prize in Mathematics and the Morningside Prize in Mathematics, which is enough to be called a big man in the field of mathematics.

"Chen Zhou, let me introduce you, this is Professor Peng Yiyou of Shuimu University. ”

At this time, Zhang Shouwu took a middle-aged man to find Chen Zhou.

When Chen Zhou heard this, he said politely: "Hello Professor Peng. ”

Peng Yiyou wears a pair of black-framed glasses, and his hair looks a little greasy, but the amount of hair is quite sufficient.

He also greeted Chen Zhou and said: "Hello, Dr. Chen, I have been famous for a long time! I have been following you since you published your proof paper on the hail conjecture, but I didn't expect you to make great progress in the field of number theory later, and solve the problem of the separation of two prime numbers in a row, which is really amazing!"

Chen Zhou smiled: "It's just lucky to catch the inspiration to solve the problem." ”

Peng Yiyou disagreed and said: "To be able to grasp the inspiration, what you need is the strength to match, as you said, you have the perseverance and enthusiasm to seize the inspiration!"

Chen Zhou glanced at Peng Yiyou, this person is too good at talking, right?

Zhang Shouwu said in a timely manner: "Professor Peng Yiyou is also a well-known scholar in the field of number theory, and has his own unique experience in the study of prime number intervals. ”

Hearing Zhang Shouwu's words, Chen Zhou immediately said: "It turns out that Professor Peng is also a peer in the study of number theory, and the prime number interval problem in number theory is a study that reveals the secret of prime numbers......

In this way, Chen Zhou and Peng Yiyou started a business mutual praise mode.

At this scene, Zhang Shouwu on the side was stunned.

He also thought that Chen Zhou would say something difficult to understand in the study of prime number spacing, who knew that this kid actually changed his painting style......

At the end, Peng Yiyou asked, "I would like to ask, has Dr. Chen's research on Goldbach's conjecture progressed?"

Chen Zhou thought for a while and said: "Gechai has not made substantial progress yet, but in order to improve the distribution deconstruction method, I went to study the problem of algebraic geometry halfway. ”

Hearing Chen Zhou's words, Peng Yiyou didn't react, but Zhang Shouwu on the side coughed first.

He also knows the news that Chen Zhou has solved another big problem and is about to be published in the "Annals of Mathematics".

So as soon as he heard Chen Zhou say this, he knew that this kid was going to pretend to be forced again......

Sure enough, Peng Yiyou, who didn't realize it, asked again: "The problem of algebraic geometry?"

Chen Zhou replied: "It is the question left by Professor Emil Artin, about the linear representation of the Atin L function of the Galois group. ”

Peng Yiyou was slightly stunned, although he was not a scholar in this field.

But he still knows the two major problems left by the old Professor Artin.

This is especially a problem related to the Langlands Program.

So when he heard Chen Zhou's words, he immediately said: "This is also a problem that has plagued the mathematical community for decades, I don't know when it will be solved, Dr. Chen, how is your research progressing?"

Hearing this, Chen Zhou's expression became strange.

He whispered, "This problem has been solved......

Peng Yiyou was stunned for a moment, and repeated in disbelief: "Solution...... Solved?"

Chen Zhou smiled and nodded: "Solved." ”

Peng Yiyou looked at Chen Zhou like a monster, this guy turned to study the problem of algebraic geometry halfway, and the result was solved?

Zhang Shouwu was silent on the side and did not speak, he had expected this to be the result......