Although awarded at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians, the Gauss Prize does not have a very high status in the mathematical community.

This is mainly related to the corresponding field behind the Gauss Award.

It is awarded to scholars who have made significant contributions to the field of applied mathematics, which is at the bottom of all mathematical fields in the mathematical community.

For stubborn and arrogant mathematicians, mathematics should be pure, it should be 'useless', it should not be bothered by the world.

In fact, the vast majority of mathematicians, even the most famous ones, such as Hardy, Grothendieck, Perelman, etc., have publicly stated that mathematics should be pure.

This also leads to the fact that applied mathematics does not have a high status in the mathematical community.

But for Xu Chuan, it's quite happy to get this medal.

Aside from the medals that take him to be in his seventies and eighties, such as the Chern, Wolf Prize, and so on, he hopes that he can collect all the famous mathematics prizes before he is thirty years old.

After all, his mentor Deligne has a Grand Slam, so there's no reason why he can't collect it, right?

And this time the Liravati Award or the Radzhenskaya Award is still very good.

With some philatelic mentality, Xu Chuan returned to his seat with a smile on his face.

Next up was the Chern Prize in Mathematics, which was awarded to Harvard University mathematician Professor Barry Meger.

The veteran professor is over 80 years old this year, and the IMU presented the medal in recognition of his discoveries and achievements in the fields of topology, arithmetic geometry, and number theory, as well as his guidance and selfless dedication to training a new generation of mathematicians.

Subsequently, the Lilavati Prize and the Radzhenskaya Prize, which Xu Chuan had some expectations, began to be awarded.

The former was awarded to Professor Nikolai Andreyev of the Sczelov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

And the latter, just when Xu Chuan thought that the Radzhenskaya Prize was reserved for himself, Kenneg on the podium read out another name.

"The winner of the Radzhenskaya Prize is Professor Gitomirskaya!"

Hearing this name, Xu Chuan glanced at Professor Gitomirskaya who walked up to the lecture desk with some surprise, it was not him?

The Radzhenskaya Prize is an award established to recognize scholars who have made outstanding contributions in the field of mathematical physics.

It's a little strange that apart from the Radzhenskaya Prize, the only thing left is the Fields Medal.

Could it be that the International Mathematical Union is ready to award the Fields Medal to him again?

However, the Fields Medal is different from the Nobel Prize, the former is not for people, and the latter is not for people, and theoretically speaking, a person should only get one Philippine Medal in his life.

Looking at the award ceremony on the lecture platform, Xu Chuan had some curiosity in his eyes.

Unless he misunderstood what Professor Kennig meant, he would have gotten another medal today.

But now only the Fields Medal remains.

It's a little interesting, isn't it possible that the IMU of the International Mathematical Union is ready to break up and give him another Fields Medal?

His eyes moved, and Xu Chuan looked at the report table with interest.

There is no hurry.

After the Radzhenskaya Prize was distributed, it was the turn of the final event, the Fields Medal.

With the beginning of the Fields Medal award ceremony, the atmosphere in the venue was pushed to the highest chao, and the warm atmosphere reached its peak.

Sitting in the front row, with his back to the venue, Xu Chuan could feel that countless pairs of eyes focused on the lecture table behind him were all looking forward to it.

Facing everyone's anxious eyes, Professor Kennig spoke slowly on the lecture platform.

"Algebraic geometry is a discipline with a very long history and one of the very active fields in mathematics today."

"By introducing the ideas of Hodge's theory into combinatorics, he proved the Dowling-Wilson conjecture of geometric lattices, proved the Heron-Rota-Welsh conjecture of matrices, developed the Lorentz polynomial, and proved the Johnson Mason conjecture"

"The first scholar to win a Fields Medal was"

"Xu Juner from Princeton University!"

The moment the list was announced, the lecture hall burst into warm applause.

This is probably the hottest winner of this year's Fields Medal.

If the last 2018 Fields Medal was a fight of immortals, not only top talents such as Xu Chuan and Schultz, but also fierce people such as Akshai Venkatesh and Cowchel Birkar.

Either this year's Fields Medal is much more mediocre.

However, mediocrity is also relative, and if you can win the Fields Medal, you can say that you are a real genius who is one in a hundred million.

After the award ceremony was completed, the winners of the second and third Fields Medals were also announced.

Female scholars from Ukraine, Professor Marina Vyazovska, and Professor Hugo Dimini-Copan from the University of Paris-Saclay received the two Fields Medals.

The announcement of the award is developing as Xu Chuan remembers, and the scholars who won the Fields Medal this year seem to be those who are still familiar with them.

For the rest, there is one last spot.

Under the gaze of thousands of pairs of eyes, on the lecture platform, Professor Kennig took a deep breath, looked at the teleprompter in his hand, and slowly spoke.

"Functions are a discipline with a very long history, and its development can be traced back to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid. It is one of the most important of all mathematical concepts. ”

"Throughout the centuries of the development of the concept of functions, many mathematicians have continuously given new ideas to the concept of functions from the perspectives of sets, algebra, correspondence, and sets, thus promoting the development of mathematics as a whole."

"Among them, there are many mathematicians such as Legendre, Euler, and Cauchy who have conducted in-depth research on the properties and properties of functions, and introduced the concepts of continuity and derivability of functions."

"In the theory of the regular family of holopure functions and the regular family of metapure functions, the search for new regularity definitions is an important mission of functions."

"The Bloch conjecture is solved by extending the range of the regular family of the holopure function and the regular family of the metapure function to the holopure function family with the property p in a region. In mathematical physics, the function distribution algorithm has been greatly expanded and optimized. ”

"The last scholar to win a Fields Medal was"

"Amelia Erwin from NTU!"

As the words fell, thunderous applause came like a tide.

In the front row of the lecture hall, after hearing the defeat of the last list, Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment, with some surprise on his face, but it quickly turned into a smile of relief.

At the age of twenty-six, he won the Fields Medal, and I have to say that this is indeed a miracle.

Although it did not break his own record, this age is quite rare.

The only ones who have come close to this age are Jean-Pierre Serre and Charis Feverman.

And what surprised Xu Chuan even more was not only Amelia winning the last Fields Medal, but also the decision of this Mathematics Council.

This year's International Congress of Mathematicians awarded two Fields Medals to women for the first time in history!

Before that, the only female mathematician who had won the Fields Medal was Professor Mariam Mirzahani of Stanford University.

After the death of Professor Mirzahani in '17, there were no female Fields Medal winners in the world.

At first, when he heard that Professor Marina Vyazovska had won the Fields Medal, Xu Chuan thought that Amelia had no hope and needed to wait for another term.

However, the International Mathematical Union made a decision that surprised him and everyone - to award two Fields Medals to female mathematicians at the same time!

I have to say that this decision really refreshed everyone's eyes.

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