However, the focus of people's attention to this news is only that a Chinese scientist has won a world prize, and they don't care about the content of his research, of course, there are few people who can understand the reason for his award, so after a few days of crazy reports, this news slowly faded away, and it is completely different from which female scientist won the Nobel Prize in later generations.

The reason for this is not that Lu Qiujian's research results are weaker than that of this female scientist, but that the Fields Medal is far weaker than the Nobel Prize in terms of public influence.

The reasons for this are manifold, first of all, the Nobel Prize was created in 1900, which is more than 30 years longer than the history of the Fields Medal, which was founded in 1936.

In the past 30 years, it has been an era of rapid progress in human science, and the shining names of Einstein, Bohr, Dirac, Heisenberg, etc., have added the brilliance of the Nobel Prize and made it the world's most watched scientific and technological award;

Moreover, the Nobel Prize covers six fields: physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, economics, peace, and literature, and is awarded once a year, while the Fields Medal is awarded only once every four years, with a maximum of four places at a time; even according to the minimum number of winners, the Nobel Prize can produce 24 winners in four years, which is six times more than the Fields Medal.

At the same time, the Nobel Prize is also much better than the Fields Medal in the publicity of the award, the Nobel Prize is announced in October every year, and an award is announced every day, which can maintain a week's publicity heat; from the announcement of the list of winners to the award of the award There is a gap of two months, and the award can be publicized again; coupled with the media interpretation in the middle, the winner interview and other news filling, it can be said that from October to December every year. It was a hot period for Nobel Prize publicity.

As for the Fields Medal, it is only awarded at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians, and it only takes dozens of minutes from the announcement of the list to the award, and there is not much room for hype.

Let's first take a look at the reasons for winning the Nobel Prize last year, and the reason for winning the Physics Prize was in recognition of the predictions made by Higgs and others about the particles of God.

The award was awarded for his contribution to the study of olefin metathesis reactions in organic chemistry, which are widely used in the production of materials such as pharmaceuticals and advanced plastics, resulting in higher production efficiency, more stable products and less hazardous waste.

The Physiology and Medicine Prize was awarded for the discovery of bacteria that cause gastritis and stomach ulcers.

The Prizes for Economics, Peace, and Literature are not among the natural sciences, and the average person can at least have an ambiguous understanding of the reasons for such awards, and then look at the briefings in the news. You can almost understand the significance of these results.

Look at the reason for winning this year's Fields Medal, "for his contributions to the development of stochastic conformal mappings, the geometry of two-dimensional spaces with Brownian motion, and the theory of conformal fields." "Because of his revolutionary insight into geometry and the analysis and geometry of the Richi stream. ”

Hell, what kind of thing is this! Not to mention that ordinary people can't understand it, if you ask an undergraduate student in the mathematics department to come out and see if he can understand it? Mathematics is probably the only subject that puts the achievements of the early 20th century in the undergraduate curriculum too much of an overclass, and even the professionals of the mathematics department can't understand it, so how can a layman figure it out?

And the news media can't explain these reasons! Do you have a long list of mathematical formulas and symbols in the newspapers? There is a page that is not as good as the gossip about the winners of the winners, such as Grothendieck's anti-war, Perelman's reclusive life, and so on. And not every winner has gossip to gossip about, so at best they can only leave a little unclear impression on the reader.

Since you can't even figure out how good the winners are, how can you gossip and brag with others? This award is too cold, and you can only let the professionals in the field of mathematics entertain themselves.

In addition, the Nobel Prize has two other popular awards. It doesn't matter if you don't understand physics, chemistry, or medicine, you don't have to read a novel, poetry, or something, right? To understand the international situation, you just need to read the newspapers.

These two awards are due to the low threshold of awareness. It has always been the most reportable of the Nobel Prizes, and when it comes to other awards, readers may not be able to comment on them, but when it comes to literary prizes, everyone will say, oh. Haruki Murakami didn't win an award this year! Didn't anyone in our country claim to have been nominated? Why didn't I see him receive the award? I knew that his level was not enough!

As for ******, more people regard it as a joke, hahahaha, didn't most of the wars in the world be started by the United States? How can the president of the United States still win the award? Shouldn't he also give a mustache to the mustache?, the map head won the award instead of playing the red empire, this is really speechless!

Although these two awards are not authoritative enough, you have to admit that they provide countless readers with something to talk about, and the Nobel Prize has unwittingly expanded its popularity.

In addition, the lack of funding requirements in the mathematical community compared to physics, chemistry, biology and medicine also means that mathematicians do not need to increase their likelihood of obtaining funding by increasing their media exposure, and they are very uninterested in interviews. Ordinary reporters who are knowledgeable will no longer interview such people who have no lace news and are cold.

If Lu Qiujian and Tao Zhexuan held a press conference at the same time, the number of reporters attending Lu Qiujian's press conference would certainly be several times greater than that of Tao Zhexuan; the reason is very simple: in addition to being a mathematician, Lu Qiujian is also a football star, and the news available for reporting is much more than Tao Zhexuan's.

However, these are only for the general public, in the education, mathematics and even the entire science and technology community in China, Lu Qiujian's influence has been connected to several steps because of this award, and he has quickly become the most influential figure in the Chinese science community.

This also brought him a lot of benefits, at least at the highest level of Huaguo, there were many fewer doubts about whether he could preside over such a major plan. (To be continued.) )

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