Seeing this familiar name, Xu Chuan felt at ease.
After all, this is the Crafford Prize. This world-class award, the Mathematics Prize and the Astronomy Prize will be awarded to the same person at the same time in the same year. It can be said to be the first time that it has broken historical records.
Not to mention that Senior Brother Lin Feng was so surprised and doubtful at the beginning, even he himself was full of doubts at the beginning.
But now, the doubts in my heart have disappeared, and only joy remains.
After staring at the list of winners on his phone for a long time, Xu Chuan raised his head and took a long breath, calming his rapidly beating heart, but there was still a smile on his face that he couldn't hide.
In the office, Professor Deligne cast a slightly puzzled look.
With this disciple's calm character, it is rare to be so happy.
Noticing his mentor's gaze, Xu Chuan grinned and shared his joy: "Tutor, I won this year's Crawford Prize in Mathematics and Astronomy."
Hearing this, Deligne was stunned for a moment and asked hesitantly: "The Crafford Prize in Mathematics and the Astronomy Prize?"
"Yes, we got it at the same time." Xu Chuan nodded vigorously.
"This is really surprising. I didn't expect the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to make such a bold decision."
Deligne was stunned for a while before he recovered from the news.
"I was almost forty-five years old when I won the Crafford Prize. Even Terence Tao was thirty-six years old. You just pushed the record forward by nearly twenty years."
After sighing, Professor Deligne looked at Xu Chuan with a smile and congratulated: "Congratulations, you have created a historical record."
"No one has ever been able to break your record before, and it is unlikely that anyone will be able to break it in the future."
The winner of the Crafford Prize who is less than 19 years old still wins the Crafford Prize in Mathematics and the Astronomy Prize at the same time. It is even more difficult for anyone to break the record. I am afraid that this world record will not be broken for at least a hundred years in the future.
People break.
And from now on, he is destined to have a share of the 2018 Fields Medal.
Then it will be another moment to create a historical record.
Looking at the student in front of him, Deligne felt a little emotional.
Even though mathematics is gradually becoming younger, with young mathematicians such as Terence Tao and Schultz holding up a new world, it is not as exaggerated as the student in front of me.
If it were simply to prove the Weyl-Berry conjecture, and this was the only achievement, the Fields Medal jury might consider whether to postpone it for another four years.
But Xu Chuan not only proved the Weyl-Berry conjecture, but also extended it to the world of astrophysics and established a series of mathematical methods based on the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem. Its importance suddenly increased a lot.
After all, although mathematics is hailed as the foundation of science, it is only a tool after all.
As a tool, how it plays a role in mathematics or other subjects is the greatest value that a tool can embody.
The selection principles of the Fields Medal also attach great importance to this point.
Therefore, it can be said that Schultz and Xu Chuan have already booked the Fields Medal in 2018 in advance.
The former created the theory of p-radical perfect spaces and used this theory to make a major breakthrough in the famous Langlands program in mathematics.
Not only did the latter prove the world-class problem of the Weyl-Berry conjecture, but also relied on the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem to establish a series of mathematical methods for calculating celestial parameter information, which affected the entire astronomical world in one fell swoop.
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Thousands of miles away, China.
When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Crafford Prize, the first person who reacted was neither Yangma nor the major news media, but Xu Chuan’s alma mater, NTU.
After receiving the news, NTU immediately put up banners at the school gate and inside the campus.
[Congratulations to Xu Chuan, a 16th-year doctoral student in our school, for winning this year’s Crafford Mathematics Prize and the Crafford Astronomy Prize!]
The huge banner was not only hung at the entrance of the school, but also in front of the teaching building where Xu Chuan used to attend classes, for fear that students at Nanjing University would not be able to see it.
The leaders of Nanjing University were very excited, and the face of the principal, Liu Gaojun, was even more full of smiles. Xu Chuan was recruited by him himself.
The Crawford Prize, the Little Nobel, has never been won by a Chinese.
Not only did I get it this time, I got two of them at once.
If Xu Chuan hadn't still been studying at Princeton, the leaders of Nanjing University would have wanted to drag him on stage right now, hold two lectures, and invite those coquettish bitches like Shuimu, Peking University, and Sun Moon University to come over and have a look.
NTU’s mathematics department can also produce top talents!
Following NTU's actions, the media quickly reacted and rushed out the press release that day and urgently posted it on the online media.
The news that night also temporarily used two or three minutes to broadcast the news and gave some short introductions to Xu Chuan.
Of course, it's not that they didn't want to be more formal, but it was because the incident happened suddenly, and the award winner was not in the country, so they hadn't interviewed him yet, so they just chose to make an impromptu broadcast.
However, the main station’s reporters and related personnel based in America have already purchased air tickets to go to Princeton.
Chapter completed!