As for the selection of the Hua Luogeng Award and the Chern Shiingshen Award, the selection of the members of the selection committee, and the selection of the person in charge of the working committee, we will wait until next year's Standing Council meeting to discuss it, and the next two days will be regular academic exchanges.

Lu Qiujian's name appeared in the list of executive directors in a grand manner, and it was very eye-catching surrounded by a group of presidents, vice presidents, deans, vice deans, directors, and deputy directors; but none of those who attended the meeting protested openly, because after all, the mathematical world is a place that pays attention to strength, and if you are only a little higher than others, others may be able to use excuses such as age and seniority to pull you down, but if you are much higher than others, of course they will not be bored.

Another important reason why Lu Qiujian was able to easily obtain this position was that he was now a student at Beijing Normal University, and he was leaning on the thickest tree in the Chinese mathematics circle, and with this big tree sheltering him from the wind and rain, others would not dare to offend easily; if he was a student of an unknown college, even if he made such a great achievement, even if he could still be elected in the end, there would be some trouble.

The Chinese mathematics community can basically be divided into three factions: Lu Qiujian's school of Beijing Normal University, in addition to the scholars working in Beijing Normal University, there are also several members of the Huaguo Academy of Sciences who have a deep relationship with Beijing Normal University, which is large in number and the most powerful.

The Egg Hatching Sect to which Academician Gu belonged to who presented the award to Director Gong, in addition to the scholars of this university, also had allies working in the Academy of Sciences, but their strength was weaker than that of Beijing Normal University.

At first glance, this faction of the Academy of Sciences to which Academician Wang belonged to the award to Lu Qiujian seemed to have the most people, but because they were born in different colleges and universities, and because of the contradictions that arose in the previous reforms of the Academy of Sciences, they lacked cohesion between each other, so that they were often divided and used by Beijing Normal University and Hatching University in some major events.

The rest are all members of the miscellaneous faction, and perhaps one or two talented people can emerge from time to time, but after all, they cannot be compared with the above three factions.

If you compare the world of mathematics to rivers and lakes. Then Jingshi University is Shaolin, firmly occupying the throne of the first sect in the world; hatching eggs is Wudang, and no one is invincible except Shaolin; the Academy of Sciences is like Mingjiao, although there are many masters, but there is no one who can suppress the leader of the field, and there are many contradictions in the sect, and there is no way to compete with the above two factions; as for the others, they are such as Huashan and Taishan, which are small sects, and under normal circumstances, they are okay, and if they encounter major events, they can only seek the help of the above three factions.

There are historical reasons for the appearance of the Chinese mathematics community today, and before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese mathematics community was divided into two worlds: the Chen Su school and the Shuimu school.

The Chen Su School is the Wu Yue University School founded by Chen Jiangong and Su Buqing at Wu Yue University. They used the seminar class as an important form of mathematical research, discussing function theory and differential geometry respectively, and the students exchanged their latest research progress and international frontier issues with each other, similar to the afternoon tea party in Princeton. This novel teaching mode greatly stimulates the creativity of students, and allows Wuyue University to form a three-legged trend with the Chicago School in the United States and the Roman School in the Noodle Country in differential geometry.

As the name suggests, the Shuimu School is the Department of Mathematics of Shuimu University, under the guidance of Xiong Qinglai, Yang Wuzhi and others, they actively introduce the international advanced mathematics teaching system and advocate academic research, in addition to inviting Chern Shiingshen, Hua Luogeng and other well-known domestic mathematicians to give lectures, they also hired Jacques Adama from abroad (French mathematician, outstanding contribution to the theorem of prime numbers, the important figure of the Bourbaki School mentioned above Wei Yi is his student), Norbert Wiener (a mathematician in the United States, Founder of Cybernetics) and other world-class scholars have served as visiting professors, and have made a series of significant achievements in academic and teaching.

In the third year after the founding of the state. The reorganization of the faculties and departments of institutions of higher learning across the country broke this pattern, and the Department of Mathematics of Shuimu University was merged into the Department of Mathematics of Beijing Normal University; Chen Jiangong, Su Buqing, and other mathematics backbones of Wuyue University went north to merge into Hatching University, and the rest of the personnel entered Wuyue Normal University. After they left, the Department of Advanced Mathematics was established in the former school to be responsible for the education of advanced mathematics in the school. No longer engaged in scientific research tasks, since then the two schools of thought have gradually dissipated.

The Beijing Normal University, which annexed the Mizuki Department, and the Hatching University with Chen Su joined the Hatching University sprung up in the mathematics world, coupled with the policy of building the Beijing Normal University and the Hatching University in the whole country at that time, as well as the small scale of mathematics majors and weak faculty in other universities. As a result, these two factions are now in an absolute monopoly position in China.

These two schools have cultivated a number of scholars with a reputation abroad, and at the same time monopolized half of the candidates for mathematics academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which maintained their monopoly position. It also aroused the disgust of some Qing scholars.

Of course, this situation is not only happening in the Chinese mathematics community, there are also factions such as Beijing Normal University, Academy of Sciences, Ludao University and Central University in the domestic chemistry circle, and there have also been forces such as the Bourbaki School and the Göttingen School in the world, and they are not all pure and innocent.

When you see the news on the news that a certain popular person has been elected as an academician again, you can take out their resumes and check them, maybe the faction problem is the real reason for this.

In the short term, this situation is beneficial to Lu Qiujian, who needs him to maintain and improve his position in the mathematical community, and Lu Qiujian also needs Beijing Normal University to resist unnecessary troubles for himself, and use the name of Beijing Normal University to obtain support in terms of policy, manpower and funds, so as to prepare for the completion of his plan.

However, there is no doubt that this current pattern in the field of mathematics will undermine the confidence of other mathematicians and is not conducive to the growth of a new generation of mathematicians; even some mathematicians who are still in the prime of life are tormented by this problem, some are disheartened and go to the United States to live in seclusion, some teachers and students are defeated by both sides, and some have not been able to get what they want.

This is also an important reason why the Chinese mathematics community has not developed greatly in recent years, so this situation is unfavorable for Lu Qiujian in the long run!

Hey, there are still a lot of things to worry about! Lu Qiujian sighed slightly, although he now has a certain say in the circle, it is still not enough to change this situation; maybe when he wins the Fields Medal in two years, his words will have some weight! I hope that by then I can find a good way to change this atmosphere. (To be continued.) )

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