Chapter 1230: Media Trap
In the afternoon, Duan Yun was the first to accept an exclusive interview with Science.
Science is the peer-reviewed journal that publishes the best original research papers, as well as reviews and analyses of current research and science policy.
The journal was founded in 1880 by Edison with an investment of $10,000, and in 1894 it became the official journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest scientific society in the United States. It is a weekly magazine with a circulation of more than 1.5 million copies worldwide, with a total of 51 issues throughout the year.
This is undoubtedly the world's top scientific and academic weekly, the content of which has always been the world's most cutting-edge scientific research academic papers and figures, and has a considerable influence in the world mathematics community.
In addition to Duan Yun, there are three other Fields Medal winners interviewed by Science in the afternoon, but as the youngest winner in the history of the Fields Medal, and the only mathematician in ICM who has made two consecutive one-hour presentations, Duan Yun is undoubtedly the focus of these four people.
The content of the interview mainly talked about the award-winning experience of Duan Yun and others, as well as the prospect of the future development of cutting-edge mathematics.
For Duan Yun, this kind of interview is relatively boring, but in any case, this "Science" magazine, as a professional academic dynamic journal, has a huge circulation, and almost all foreign universities will subscribe, Duan Yun can appear in such a publication, which means that he will soon be known by well-known universities around the world, which is very important, so he was very active in the whole interview process, speaking as much as possible, and stealing the limelight among the four award-winning people.
In fact, compared with Duan Yun, the other three mathematicians are more like real scholars, but people with high IQ often have poor EQ, they are far from being as 'cunning and cunning' as Duan Yun, and they are good at 'packaging' themselves, so most of the time in the interview, it is almost Duan Yun's 'one-man show'.
The interview with Science magazine lasted nearly two hours and ended successfully.
After sending off the reporter of "Science" magazine, Duan Yun next ushered in an exclusive interview with "Time Magazine" in the United States.
Unlike the interview just now, Time Magazine did not interview the other three Fields Medal winners, but only Duan Yun was found.
Compared with Science magazine, Time Magazine has a much larger circulation and influence in the world, and even in China, which has been heavily blocked and monitored by European and American media, it has a very high reputation.
Founded in 1923, Time was one of the first weekly newsweeks to emerge more than half a century ago, providing a window into global news for a new and growing international readership. Time is one of the three major current affairs weekly magazines in the United States, with a wide range of contents, including opinions on international issues and follow-up reports on major international events.
Time is available in the main U.S. edition, international, European, Asian, and Latin American editions. Time Europe (formerly Time Atlantic) was published in London and also covered events in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, while Time Asia was published in Hong Kong and the South Pacific was published in Sydney, covering Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
Obviously, Time Magazine is not a rigorous academic magazine, but a world-class news magazine, so the style of interviewing Duan Yun in Time Magazine is also completely different from that of Science magazine, and they pay more attention to Duan Yun's past life and energy to achieve academic success than Duan Yun's academic achievements.
In other words, Time Magazine focuses more on the 'story' that happened to Duan Yun.
In Duan Yun's view, the senior reporter sent by Time Magazine to interview him this time is simply a director, his eloquence and thinking are quite good, and he can always 'induce' you to a certain extent when asking questions, and package Duan Yun's original ordinary life experience into an inspirational 'chicken soup for the soul'.
The content of the previous interview with the reporter of "Science" magazine was mainly for Duan Yun to talk about his understanding of academic aspects and the prospects for the future development of mathematics, while the "Time" magazine then asked more about Duan Yun's life experience, especially after learning that Duan Yun lost his father when he was a child, he depended on his mother, and how he later became a professional player and apprenticed to Guo Haitao.
A good reporter is often a good listener, and in this regard, Gingrich is undoubtedly well versed in this, most of the time of the interview, he only made a beginning, and then most of the time was left to Duan Yun to tell, and once the content of Duan Yun's narration was somewhat 'off' from the track he expected, he immediately made a 'correction', and always firmly controlled the 'main line' of the interview content.
Duan Yun took the opportunity of this recorded interview to praise his master Guo Haitao and Huaqing University, which awarded him the title of honorary professor, and also expressed great affirmation and approval of the slogan of 'rejuvenating the country through science and technology' in China.
Duan Yun knew that although the interview with Time Magazine seemed to be very free, because it was a magazine with great influence in the world, sometimes even though Jin Ritch tried to 'induce' Duan Yun several times to say something critical of China's policies and negative news, Duan Yun was always able to keep a clear head, and did not mention a word about sensitive issues in China.
Gingrich is a master of mixing in the media circle, and Duan Yun has also dealt with various media all year round, knowing what he can say and what he can't say, especially when facing a Western media with obvious ideological opposition abroad, Duan Yun simply played 'Tai Chi', when Gingrich guided Duan Yun to talk about things at the national level, Duan Yun always understated a few sentences, and then began to tell his own personal story, the whole process can be described as dripping.
At the end of the interview, Gingrich smiled and asked Duan Yun: "Mr. Duan Yun, with your current achievements in the field of mathematics research, I believe that many of the world's top universities will soon invite you to work and teach, I wonder what your plans are for this?"
"I don't have any plans, but I still like to develop in China. Duan Yun replied very simply.
"But...... Compared with your domestic universities, these world-class famous universities are much better in terms of salary and other treatments, right?" Jin Liqi raised his eyebrows, and then said: "In addition, Mr. Duan Yun also said just now that the entire human race is a species, science is the cause of all mankind, and its achievements cannot be exclusive to the nation, so it is the glory of all mankind...... In that case, why don't you choose a better and bigger stage of life for yourself?"
"Because my country needs me more!" Duan Yun replied.