Chapter 1202: Shocking the audience
In the process of Fefman's speech on stage, his eyes looked at Duan Yun sitting in the front row of the audience from time to time.
After Fefman's speech, there was thunderous applause on the stage, and it can be seen that Fefmanzi still has a high prestige in the international mathematical community.
Next, ICM's vice president, Geltan, a mathematics professor from Stanford University, also took the stage to speak, and his speech was still warmly applauded by the mathematicians in the audience.
After the two presidents of the Mathematics Conference concluded their speeches one after another, the World Congress of Mathematicians finally ushered in the highlight of the conference: the announcement of the list of winners of this year's Fields Medal!
Seeing this moment of anticipation, everyone at the scene was a little nervous and excited.
In the eyes of many people, winning the Fields Medal is not only an affirmation of the achievements of mathematicians, but also a breakthrough in the world's mathematics.
For a while, everyone's eyes were focused on the front desk of the venue, and reporters from the world's major well-known media also adjusted their lenses, preoccupied with preparing to record that today is a great moment in the mathematical world.
ICM's official host took the stage again, and at his signal, the giant electronic display in the front desk began to appear on the nominees and academic achievements selected for this year's Fields Medal.
The first person to appear on the screen was a man from Iran named Mirzahani.
Born in Tehran in 1977, Mirzahani dreamed of becoming a writer as a child and was once afraid of math, but in her sophomore year of high school, she met a good teacher. Under the guidance of her teacher, she fell in love with mathematics.
After that, she showed an amazing talent for mathematics and broke with tradition by competing in the International Mathematics Olympiad as the first female student from Iran, and won two consecutive gold medals in the International Olympiad in 1994 and 1995. After receiving her bachelor's degree in mathematics from Sharif University of Technology in Iran, she traveled to the United States to pursue a PhD at Harvard University. After graduating with a Ph.D., she worked as an associate professor and professor at Princeton University and Stanford University.
Earlier this year, she was nominated for this year's Fields Medal for her outstanding contributions to the geometry of irregular figures.
In the field of high-end mathematics in the world, it has always been the world of male mathematicians, and the most intuitive point is that among the more than 800 people invited to participate in this ICM conference, there are only a few dozen female mathematicians, and it is rare for this Mirzahani to be nominated for the Fields Medal.
So when the portrait of this Iranian female scientist and his award-winning paper appeared on the electronic screen at the front desk, the audience immediately applauded.
Next, the ICM organizing committee officially announced several mathematicians from Europe and the United States who have been nominated for the Fields Medal.
According to the process of awarding the Fields Medal in previous years, the conference announced the list of nominees for this year's Fields Medal several weeks in advance, and a total of 12 mathematicians will be nominated, and only four will eventually receive this award.
The host introduced eleven people in one go, and Duan Yun was the last one to introduce.
“…… The last mathematician nominated for this Fields Medal is Mr. Duan Yun from Huaxia!" When the host read Duan Yun's name, he was obviously a little excited, and he continued: "The papers he participated in this award are "The Argument on the Hodge Conjecture" and "The Proof of the Riemann Conjecture"!"
As soon as the host's words fell, the scene suddenly exploded.
Because before coming to the World Congress of Mathematicians, these mathematicians only learned that a Chinese mathematician named Duan Yun successfully cracked the "Hodge Conjecture", and thus won the nomination for the Fields Medal.
But what everyone didn't expect was that after less than two months, Duan Yun successfully cracked the "Riemann Conjecture", which is known as the Everest in the history of mathematics in the world, which is simply an incredible achievement, and it is simply a supreme feat of modern mathematics!
In fact, the main reason why Duan Yun did not announce in advance that Duan Yun had successfully cracked the "Riemann Conjecture" was that Duan Yun sent this paper to Acta Mathematica half a month before the ICM was held When the IMC organizing committee learned of this paper, it was less than five days before the World Congress of Mathematicians was held, and it took two days for the members of the organizing committee to finally confirm it, and at this time it was too late to notify the invited scientists, so they could only choose to announce Duan Yun's successful cracking of the Riemann conjecture at the conference site.
There is no doubt that after hearing Duan Yun once again solve the Riemann conjecture of the world's top ten problems, everyone at the scene felt a great shock in their hearts, you know, the world's top ten mathematical problems are all a century-long 'unsolved case', and it is also Mount Everest in the minds of every mathematician, and many people even set solving one of the mathematical problems as a lifelong goal, so when the conference announced that Duan Yun had successfully solved two world problems in a short period of time, everyone showed an unbelievable look.
Even in the eyes of most mathematicians, with just these two papers, Duan Yun will become the first person in the history of modern mathematics without any suspense! Especially after Duan Yun's photo and age introduction were released on the front screen, the scene once again set off bursts of exclamations!
"Congratulations!"
"It's amazing!"
"Hello Mr. Duan Yun......"
After a while, the mathematicians sitting next to Duan Yun and in the back row took the initiative to greet Duan Yun Daohe, looking very respectful.
Although only the nominations have been announced on the stage at present, everyone knows that Duan Yun's victory in the Fields Medal is already a sure thing.
Sure enough, after the host of the front desk announced the list of nominees, ICM Chairman Fefman stepped into the front desk again.
Fefman first commented on the papers of the Fields Medal nominees one by one, and when he finally commented on Duan Yun's two papers, Fefman glanced at Duan Yun sitting in the audience, and his expression was a little irrepressibly excited.
“…… In fact, when I was in the hotel restaurant yesterday, I had a long face-to-face communication with this young genius from China......" At this time, Fefman took off his glasses, calmed down and said: "I became famous at a young age, and since the age of fifteen, I have been professionally engaged in the field of mathematics, and over the past few decades, I have won countless honors, and almost everyone around me, including my family and my friends, regard me as a genius, and I have always considered myself a great genius...... However, when I sat face-to-face with this young mathematician from China yesterday and discussed mathematics for a whole day, I suddenly realized that I was not a real genius, and even in front of Mr. Duan Yun, my lifelong knowledge was not worth mentioning at all, compared to him, I was overshadowed, and even at best I was just a novice who had just started......"