Chapter 580: Amelia's Departure

Amelia and Gu Bing's report meeting was completed quite smoothly, and Xu Chuan was sincerely pleased with the two students who had grown up.

For him, in addition to the study of those unknown areas, it is also his life goal to pass on the knowledge he has already learned.

After all, the development of a discipline, a country, and a civilization cannot be sustained by one person. Behind the development, there is always a group of people who are silently dedicating.

"Professor! We report that it is done! ”

At the end of the report meeting, Amelia and Gu Bing ran over as soon as possible, with excitement and excitement in their tones.

Xu Chuan looked at the two with a smile and encouraged, "Good job!" ”

For the first time in my life, I stood on the world stage and gave a report to scholars from all over the world, including many top experts, which tested not only the mathematical level and expression ability of the lecturers, but also a considerable test of a person's psychological endurance.

And after experiencing this transformation, whether it is Amelia or Gu Bing, they all have the ability to take charge on their own.

Gu Bing grinned and said, "You don't know how fast my heart beats when I stand on the stage!" I felt like I was going to jump out of my throat. ”

Xu Chuan smiled, remembering that when he interviewed Gu Bing, he was a little emotional when he saw that he was so nervous that he couldn't even say everything.

Years have passed in the blink of an eye, and former students have graduated and are even able to stand in front of thousands of people to give speeches and reports.

"Professor, Senior Brother Gu, Senior Sister Mi, I'm so nervous, do you have any experience and skills to give a report on stage, teach me something, I also need it!"

On the side, Cai Peng looked at the three of them with expectant eyes, and he also had a 45-minute report at this year's International Congress of Mathematicians.

Although not as good as Gu Bing and Amelia's hour, his report was based on the paper "Phased Proofs of Minimum Differential Computations of Dimensional Polynomials in Differential Equations".

And this paper has not yet been peer-reviewed, which means that he needs to face the questioning session of those top bigwigs, which is more difficult than Gu Bing and Amelia.

Xu Chuan patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "I don't have any experience and skills, just strength and a heart that loves academics, and can solve the minimum differential calculation problem of dimensional polynomials of differential equations, I believe you will be fine." ”

After chatting for a while, Amelia looked at Xu Chuan, took a deep breath, and said, "Professor, there is something I want to tell you." ”

"Huh?" Xu Chuan looked at Amelia and said with a smile, "What's wrong?" ”

Pursing her lips, Amelia spoke, "Princeton University has invited me to be a professor in the Department of Mathematics, and I would like to consult with you. ”

Hearing this, a trace of surprise drifted in Xu Chuan's eyes, but it quickly turned into a smile: "Princeton is a very good choice, go there as a professor, I believe you can go further in mathematics." ”

"Do you mean to recommend me for a past position?" Amelia asked, then added, "But I haven't fully learned the calculation methods of mathematical physics. ”

Xu Chuan said with a smile: "I have already handed over the core of the mathematical calculation method of exploring physics to you, and I believe that you can further complete your own expansion in the future." ”

"And it's not necessarily a good thing to follow me forever, you are very influenced by me, and if you follow my steps all the way, it's hard to make something that really belongs to you."

"So, let's go to Princeton and practice it!"

After a pause, he smiled and said, "Maybe when Huaguo's large strong particle collider is built, I still need your help." ”

Hearing this, Amelia nodded vigorously.

Although she hopes to continue to learn from Xu Chuan's side, she also knows that if she continues like this, it will be difficult for her to get out of her own way.

Becoming a professor at Princeton was not a new learning journey. There, she might be able to stand taller, closer to the person in front of her.

At the end of a briefing, Amelia was unsurprisingly surrounded by media reporters.

Mathematics has long been considered a men's field, as there are really few women who can make outstanding achievements in this field.

This means that the results of women in mathematics will have a greater impact than men.

"Professor Amelia, I'm a media reporter for the BBC, how do you feel about winning the Fields Medal at the age of 26, breaking the previous record in one fell swoop?"

Amelia: "The first thing I want to say is that I didn't break the record of my predecessors, the record for the youngest Fields Medal was held by my mentor. ”

"As for the feelings, excited? Excited? Pleasure? It seems to be a little bit, and I don't know how to describe the feeling. But I think I should be most grateful to my mentor, Professor Xu Chuan, for giving me this opportunity to change my life. ”

BBC reporter: "I heard that you are still studying with Professor Xu, as you have already won the Fields Medal, are you not qualified to graduate in the hands of Professor Xu?" ”

Amelia shook her head and said, "No, I have already graduated in mathematics and have also received my diploma. I studied with the professor and studied in my studies. ”

"Further study? Can you give us a brief introduction? ”

"Absolutely." Amelia smiled and nodded, and said with some pride in her tone: "Professor he is not only good at mathematics, he also has great contributions and achievements in physics, astronomy and other fields, especially in introducing mathematics into other disciplines to promote development, which is what he is best at." ”

"And that's what I studied with my professor."

BBC: "I see, I heard that you did an internship at CERN some time ago, will you continue to work at CERN in the future?" ”

The BBC reporter dug a small hole in this question, the competition between CERN and Huaguo in the field of hadron collider is well known, and whether Amelia continues to work at CERN or chooses to work in Huaguo, there will be some 'stories' that can be written.

But what he didn't expect was that Amelia's answer was completely off the track.

"I've already received an offer from Princeton to be a professor of mathematics at Princeton in the fall."

The BBC reporter was stunned for a moment, he really didn't think about it, but he quickly reacted and smiled and congratulated.

Although I dug a small hole and didn't find anyone, it was nice to get an interview with a 26-year-old female Fields Medal winner.

After Amelia and Gu Bing's report meeting in the morning, there were still two hours left, and of course Xu Chuan didn't plan to waste it like this, so he searched for it at the conference site.

An international congress of mathematicians was divided into 20 breakout sessions, each with three to eleven smaller sections.

From logical groups to algebra to number theory, algebra, and complex geometry, almost every mathematical classification has a corresponding venue and reporting period.

Naturally, Xu Chuan can't read every one of them, and finding and selecting the areas he is interested in and needing is also the basic skill of a scholar.

Starting from the field of algebraic geometry, Xu Chuan looked at the report venue and finally locked his goal in the field of number theory.

It just so happened that the person who gave a presentation in the field of number theory was a mathematician who was not inferior to a Fields Medal winner.

James Maynard, professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, where the sun never sets, focuses on the study of prime numbers using the tools of analytic number theory, particularly screening methods.

In the course of his history, Professor Maynard won the Fields Medal for his contributions to analytic number theory, as well as his ability to understand the structure of prime numbers and the approximation of Diophantine diagrams.

On the whole, this mathematician is somewhat similar to Professor Zhang Wei of the golden generation of Peking University, with a high level of research overall, but lacks a big mathematical conjecture as a cornerstone.

In addition, he is only thirty-five years old this year, and he can wait for another term, so he was squeezed down by Amelia.

In fact, this Professor Maynard is also quite 'interesting'.

Not only is it 'lagging behind' in the Fields Medal, but it is also lagging behind in some other mathematical achievements, awards, etc.

Speaking of prime numbers, some enthusiasts can easily name some familiar and easy-to-understand, but very difficult mathematical conjectures, such as the Goldbach conjecture, the twin prime conjecture, the new Mason prime conjecture, etc., which are part of the prime conjecture.

One of Professor Maynard's most famous achievements is to prove that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers in the 'twin prime conjecture', with intervals less than 600.

Unfortunately, half a year before he published this result, Zhang Yitang, then 55 years old, proved that there are infinitely many pairs of primes, with an interval of less than 70 million.

Although Professor Maynard's interval value is much smaller than that of Zhang Yitang, Zhang Yitang is the first scholar to prove that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers with a finite upper bound, so the honors related to the twin prime conjecture, such as the "highest award in number theory" Cole Prize, were taken away by Zhang Yitang.

No way, the mathematical world is such a 'reality'. If there are many people working on the same problem, then often only the first person to solve it gets most of the credit.

And for Professor Maynard, the tragedy is not limited to this time.

After crashing Zhang Yitang, he also collided with another successful mathematician, that is, Tao Zhexuan.

Almost at about the same time, the two of them pushed the interval value of the twin primes to the order of several hundred.

However, when Tao Zhexuan learned that Maynard also got the same result, he took the initiative to give up his proof.

In the end, Professor Maynard published a paper on this achievement alone, which can be regarded as the luck of misfortune.

Influenced by the study of space-time holes and the Riemann conjecture, Xu Chuan was quite interested in the knowledge of number theory at this mathematics conference.

After finding Professor Maynard's lecture hall, he sat down in the back row of the room and listened with interest.

To put it simply, Professor Maynard's presentation was about prime numbers, and he proposed a method for the distribution of prime numbers in residual classes and extended his methodological principles beyond the generalized Riemann conjecture.

Xu Chuan still has some understanding of prime numbers and analytic number theory, so what he said is not as difficult to understand as other scholars.

Although this mathematician is a bit bad in terms of 'luck', it has to be said that this is also a 'genius' player.

The residual prime distribution method he conceived has considerable potential in the field of prime numbers.

At least in Xu Chuan's view, it is possible that this method will continue to advance the twin prime conjecture, or even solve this problem.

However, it was not his goal for him to solve the twin prime conjecture, so he made some notes and quietly left after listening to the main part of the presentation.

As the days passed, Xu Chuan sought some reports that he was interested in or that his research would be helpful to him at the report meeting, and at night he continued to refine his calculations and papers on the 'space-time hole'.

On the third day of the conference, which is the fourth day of the International Congress of Mathematicians, another of his students, Cai Peng, will also officially give a report on the paper "Phased Proofs of Minimum Differential Computation of Dimensional Polynomials of Differential Equations".

Although it was only a 45-minute presentation, finding a polynomial problem in the field of differential expansion to prove the smallest differential dimension still attracted many mathematical circles and even some physicists.

Because the concept of differential dimension polynomials is closely related to the concept of the intensity of the system of partial differential equations that determine the 'physics'.

Using the language of differential algebra, the problem of finding the highest strength of a physics field is the problem of finding the polynomial of the smallest differential dimension of a certain differential expansion field.

Therefore, this problem is not only a problem of differential algebra in mathematics, and its solution is more likely to lead to some new and important achievements in theoretical physics.

And for this kind of frontier thing, I'm afraid that none of the theoretical physicists present will miss it.

Of course, in addition to the paper itself, another reason that attracted many scholars to listen to the report was that Cai Peng was also a student of that person.

Two generations of students, the first of which has already won a Fields Medal.

The second generation has also made a great achievement and contribution to the mathematical community, solving part of a world-class conjecture.

This can't help but make many mathematicians curious, eager to know whether there are differences and similarities between these two generations of students, and also eager to know how that person taught students!

(End of chapter)