Chapter 211: The youngest Filipino Award winner in history
The Fields Medal, the highest honor a young mathematician can receive, represents an undoubted honor and is the goal pursued by all young mathematicians.
When Professor Shigefumi Mori, the head of the International Mathematical Union Committee, spoke again, all eyes fell on him.
Whether it was the audience in the venue or the audience watching the live broadcast on the Internet, they all stared at this old man who looked quite thin.
The former wanted to hear his name from his mouth; The latter wanted to hear the name he wanted to hear from him.
In particular, those scholars who hope to win the Fields Medal, or those related to it, all look nervously and expectantly at the old man on the stage.
Even Xu Chuan, when this moment came, couldn't help but hold his breath, waiting for his fate to come.
Especially for those mathematicians who are a lot older, but have the hope of touching this medal, such as Zhang Wei and Xu Chenyang of Peking University, and Professor Kaucel Birkar of Yin Lang.... For others, they are even more apprehensive, nervous and expectant.
This year's International Congress of Mathematics is already the last chance of their careers to get their hands on the Philippine Prize.
In another four years, they will be 40 years old above the age limit for awarding the Philippine Prize.
I didn't get it this time, and I won't have a chance in the future.
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Feeling the expectant gaze and tense atmosphere from the audience, Professor Shigefumi Mori pushed his glasses and slowly spoke.
A solemn and steady voice sounded in the venue, and the first Fields Medal winner's award speech was transmitted from the podium throughout the venue and then to the whole world.
"He has a very high talent in mathematics, and he also has a perseverance in research, and he has a hard work beyond ordinary people."
"Since the gold medal of the International Olympiad, this young scholar has never stopped pursuing mathematics and even science."
"From the Weyl-Berry conjecture to the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem, from the Hodge standard conjecture to the Xu-Hodge theorem. He plucked one epic puzzle after another from the temple of mathematics and conquered mountain after mountain. โ
Not only that, but he is also proficient in applying mathematics to other subject areas. From the extension of the application of the xu-weyl-berry theorem, to the mathematical method of calculating the puzzle of the proton radius, to the calculation of the emergence channel of high-energy physical particles....."
"His research spans the three fields of mathematics, physics and astronomy, and brings a new approach to the astronomical and astrophysical communities, and lights a bright light for the future of mankind."
"At the age of twenty, to make such great achievements and contributions, I believe this is not an excellent talent can be explained, behind the greatness, more is the sweat and hard work that ordinary people can't see."
When the award speech was finished, the main man on the podium glanced at the entire conference hall, and finally his gaze stayed on a young man in the front row for a moment.
After a pause, the head of the International Mathematical Union Committee took a deep breath and continued in a solemn tone: "The first winner of the Fields Medal is.... Xu Chuan! โ
When the words fell, the whole conference suddenly erupted in applause like a mountain flood and earthquake, which was deafening and long-lasting.
When the name appeared, he had already become a legend; The 20-year-old Fields Medal winner, the youngest Fields Medal winner in history, and the first Fields Medal winner in China.....
When this name appeared, the whole venue, whether it was mathematicians, astronomers, astrophysicists, or ordinary spectators who came from outside to participate in this grand event, the whole person suddenly became excited.
In the venue, the thunderous applause lasted for a long time, and in the channel broadcast live through CTV media, tens of millions of netizens instantly swept up the entire live broadcast room.
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[Big old cow pen! Broken Voice! ใ
[The first Chinese Fields Medal winner, the youngest Fields Medal winner in history, witness the legend!] ใ
[If the youth is strong, the country will be strong! ] We finally have a Fields Medal too, it's not easy. ใ
[20-year-old Fields Medal winner, it's terrifying, when I was 20 years old, I was only a sophomore, and people could already be my mentor. ใ
[Squinting and smiling, I'm afraid this is not a mentor who can give you a mentor, but a mentor who can give you a mentor. ใ
[If memory serves, the youngest Filipino Prize winner should be Professor Jean-Pierre Serre, who won the Filipino Prize at the age of 27, and this time he has swept the record forward for a full seven years, and I am afraid that no one will be able to break this record in the future.] ใ
[Horror, horror, horror! ใ
[Every time I watch this, I realize that I am a FW.] ใ
[There are three kinds of geniuses in the world, one is born, one is a hard-working genius, and the other is a combination of two, I am not any three, I am just an ordinary person who can no longer be ordinary, and works hard to move bricks every day to pay off the mortgage. ใ
[Sometimes the gap between people and people is bigger than that between people and dogs. ใ
In the live broadcast room of tens of millions of people, the barrage was cathartic like a flood.
For Huaguo, this is a carnival. The 20-year-old Fields Medal winner not only broke the embarrassing situation that China has no native Philippine Award winner, but also directly broke the record of the youngest Filipino Award winner.
A Fields Medal represents more than just a gold medal and $15,000.
It also represents the scholars of this country to step onto this international stage and make their own voices; It also represents that the country's mathematics level is in line with international standards, and even has been at the forefront in some fields.
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In the conference hall, the applause like a tide lasted for a long time.
In the applause, Xu Chuan stood up with a smile, first bowed slightly to the audience in the venue behind him to pay respect, and then walked onto the stage in a more enthusiastic applause.
Surrounded by the eyes and cameras of the audience, he stepped onto the stage and stood in the center.
After hugging Xu Chuan with a smile, Shigefumi Mori, the head of the International Union of Mathematicians, took a golden badge from the staff and put it on for him with his own hands.
Xu Chuan bowed slightly, so that the old man in front of him could put on the medal for him.
"Congratulations, Professor Xu Chuan."
After wearing the medal, the old professor shook hands with Xu Chuan again and congratulated him on behalf of the International Union of Mathematicians.
Carrying the golden medal, Xu Chuan smiled and thanked him, and stood in the center of the stage as the media from all over the world filmed the monumental scene.
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The award ceremony continued as the first winners were announced.
Without any suspense, the second winner was Peter Schulz from the Germanic kingdom.
This is a Germanic professor who is known as the Mozart of mathematics and the genius of the century, and is known as the successor of Pope Grothendieck.
During his Ph.D., he created his own mathematical tool called "Quasi-Complete Geometry".
When he was a professor, he not only fully applied geometric methods in the field of algebra, solved several problems in the field of algebraic geometry through this method, but also further optimized the 'quasi-complete geometry' and promoted it into 'pยทs approach - geometric theory'.
Using the 'pยทs approach to geometry theory', Schultz successfully built a solid bridge between geometry and algebra, and made a major breakthrough in the Langlands program, one of the three programs in the mathematical world.
The contribution of such a top elder in the field of arithmetic algebra and geometry is obvious to all.
In fact, at the International Congress of Mathematics four years ago, Schultz, then 27 years old, had a chance to break the record of Professor Jean-Pierre Serre.
Unfortunately, the mathematical community was not familiar with his 'pยทs approach to geometric theory' at the time, so he missed this opportunity.
And after this bull man made a series of major breakthroughs in the Langlands program with the 'pยทs approach to geometric theory', no one can doubt the excellence of this theoretical tool.
If it weren't for the up-and-coming Xu Chuan who proved the Hodge conjecture and brought the 'algebraic cluster and group mapping tool', this year's Fei Prize, the first person to be awarded, should be him.
As for the third winner of the Philippine Prize, Professor Gauchel Birkar from Yin Lang.
This is a mathematician who came out of the war.
When he walked up from the stage, Xu Chuan cast an interested gaze.
He didn't know if history would repeat itself.
This Professor Gaucher Birkar is the mathematician who has ever 'won' the Filipino Prize twice.
The reason for this is that just over half an hour after he stepped down after winning the award, the medal was stolen.
The current staff were unable to recover his medal, but after deliberation by the International Mathematical Union, the organizing committee held a special ceremony to reaward him with a Fields Medal.
As a result, Professor Cowchel became the only mathematician to have won the Filipino Prize 'twice'.
Xu Chuan knew about this and had contact with the professor yesterday.
However, he did not remind the professor to keep his briefcase.
Winning the Philippine Prize twice, this can also be said to be a 'legendary' story in the mathematical world, anyway, the professor has nothing to lose, the briefcase was finally recovered, and the wallet was also recovered, and the loss was only a medal and a little money.
The medals were finally reissued, rounded off, which is equivalent to not losing anything, and also won the 'unique' two Filipino awards, which is still very good.
The fourth prize was awarded to Professor Akshayin Venkatesh from Australia for his contributions to the comprehensive analysis of number theory, homogeneous dynamical systems, topology and representation theory, as well as for solving long-standing problems in the distribution of arithmetic objects.
Originally, another Philippine Prize winner this year, Professor Alessio Figali, who was in Italy, unfortunately missed this year's Fields Medal due to Xu Chuan's appearance.
However, he is not without a chance, he is only 34 years old this year, and he still has a chance to win the Fields Medal after four years.
Perhaps the neighborhood committee of the International Mathematical Union took this into account and chose Professor Aksa Yin between Professor Aksa Yin Venkatesh and him.
After all, Professor Al-Akshayin Venkatesh is 37 years old, and if he waits another four years, he will miss out on the Fields Medal.
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