A secretly taken photo caused quite a stir on NTU’s campus website.
So in the afternoon of the next day, the class groups and small groups on Xu Chuan's mobile phone were all blown up, and he was confused when he saw all kinds of Aite messages.
"@Xuchuan, Chuanshen, I heard that your old man has returned to China? Please give a speech that proves weyl-berry's conjecture!"
"@Xuchuan, Brother Chuan, who is your sister-in-law? When will you bring her over for us to see?"
"Where are the wedding candies and the red envelopes? Brother Chuan, are you still a human being without some wedding candies and red envelopes?"
Xu Chuan:????
What's going on? Am I in love? How come I don't know.
Looking at the 99 messages in the class group, Xu Chuan sent a few question marks and a message with a confused look.
Now that it was over, the whole class instantly became lively.
"Damn it, Brother Chuan! It's Brother Chuan who is alive!"
"Alive, alive!"
"Sigh, record history! This is the fourth time Brother Chuan has spoken in the group since joining the group at the beginning of school."
"Brother Chuan, don't deny it. Now the whole school knows about your love affair. If you don't believe me, just look at the (picture)"
Following a post in the group, Xu Chuan finally understood why so many people in the class group suddenly liked him.
It turned out that he and his senior sister were photographed eating at the braised chicken and rice restaurant last night, and it was probably posted on the campus network.
"There's no love, it's just a senior classmate treating me to dinner."
Xu Chuan shook his head and explained, it's just a meal, this group of people made it so exaggerated.
Although the senior sister is indeed one of his rare female friends, he has never thought about falling in love now.
There are so many difficult problems in mathematics and physics waiting for him to solve, so there is no time for love.
As he personally came forward to explain, the love turmoil subsided in the class group, and everyone's attention gradually shifted to the Weyl-berry conjecture he proved.
After chatting playfully in the class group for a while, Xu Chuan put down his mobile phone and already downloaded part of the papers and materials on his computer.
Connecting to the printer he bought, he printed out this part of the paper information.
Although computers can also be read, in comparison, he still prefers to hold paper materials and documents with his hands to read, which will give him a heavy feeling after the knowledge is embodied.
Moreover, he has the habit of preserving every book he has read and some very important materials, including some manuscripts.
In his previous life, he had a storage room of more than forty square meters, filled with bookshelves and all kinds of books.
He collected and read everything from physics books to materials books, to mathematics, music, and some cultural books circulated in China, such as ceramics, tea and other ancient culture books.
After all, those things were one of the few ways for him to understand his motherland when he was blocked in that country.
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When Xu Chuan returned to campus and caused a few sensations by occasionally appearing in the library and classrooms, he slowly calmed down in the following time.
Although it still causes heated discussions every time he appears outside, at least it is no longer a sensation. NTU students have gradually become accustomed to this great god who will randomly drop in the school library, canteen or classroom.
Sometimes I even make bets on whether the great master will come to the math class and physics class today.
The days passed like this, and in the blink of an eye, the time came to the beginning of March.
In the dormitory, when Xu Chuan was studying information on the 'Mystery of Proton Radius', his instructor Chen Zhengping called him on his mobile phone.
"Hey, Xu Chuan, are you busy? If not, come to my office. I have good news."
On the other end of the phone, Chen Zhengping smiled mysteriously, not knowing what the good news was.
"Well, okay, I'll be right away."
Xu Chuan responded, grabbed his coat on the chair and went out.
It may be due to the weather. Anyway, in early March this year, the temperature was much lower than in previous years. So much so that the wool sweater that could be taken off at this time in previous years is still on. If you want to go out, you still have to wear it.
Put on a thicker jacket.
All the way to Chen Zhengping's office, Xu Chuan knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Opening the door, Xu Chuan saw the figures in the office, not only his mentor Chen Zhengping, but also the dean of the School of Mathematics, Rong Zhizhuan and Professor Zhou Hai.
"Xuchuan is here, come on, come and sit down."
Before Chen Zhengping could speak, Dean Rong Zhizhuan greeted him warmly.
"Hello, instructor, hello dean, hello Professor Zhou." Xu Chuan greeted each other in turn, thanked him, and took the chair handed over by Rong Zhizhuan.
"check it out."
Zhang Weiping smiled and handed over a document. Xu Chuan finally took a look and saw that it was a list of winners.
"List of Morningside Mathematics Prize Winners of the 7th World Chinese Mathematics Conference 2016"
[Winner: Xu Chuan, Nanjing University.]
[Award: Gold Award.]
[Main research directions: spectral theory, fractal boundary theory, field theory, proving Weyl-berry conjecture. 】
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[Winner: Zhang Wei, Columbia University.]
[Award: Gold Award]
【Main research directions: number theory and automorphic forms.】
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【Award winner......】
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"The list of Morningstar Mathematics Prize winners? Why is it out now?"
After looking at the document in his hand, Xu Chuan asked curiously.
The Morningside Mathematics Prize is a mathematics prize established in Baicheng in 1998 by Qiu Chengtong, chairman of the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, and Chen Qizong, founder of the Morningside Group.
Known as the "Chinese Fields Medal", this award is open to Chinese mathematicians under the age of 45 who have made outstanding achievements in basic mathematics, applied mathematics and computational mathematics.
Once every three years, the awards are divided into gold medals and silver medals, with bonuses of US$25,000 and US$10,000 respectively.
The review committee is composed of Harvard University professor and Chinese mathematician Shing-Tung Yau and eight other top non-Chinese mathematicians.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He has won this award in his previous life. He knows that the award time is at the end of July or the beginning of August in the award year, but now it is only March, and the list of winners has already arrived for him.
On hand.
This is almost three months earlier than previous years when the list of winners was not released until May or June.
Chen Zhengping smiled mysteriously and said: "Well, after taking some things into consideration, this year's award list and award ceremony were published earlier than in previous years. The award ceremony was moved from the end of July to the end of May, which can be considered as doing something for you.
Foreshadowing, you should know it after a while."
These words aroused Xu Chuan's curiosity, but he didn't ask any more questions because he could almost guess it.
His current achievements are nothing more than related to Xu-Weier Berry's theorem, and there are only a few things related to this world-class problem.
For example, the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal two years later, and other mathematics prizes have not been won by Chinese scholars in China.
This is probably laying the groundwork for these things.
A Xu-Weil Berry theorem will 100% allow him to be nominated for the Fields Medal, but whether he will win or not is not certain.
First of all, he is too young. Even two years later, he was only 20 years old.
The youngest Fields Medal winner, Professor Jean-Pierre Serre, was 28 years old when he won the award.
Not everyone is willing to reduce the age of Fields Medal winners by eight years. Many mathematicians who are eligible to be nominated for the Fields Medal are already close to forty years old.
For example, the winner of the Morning Star Mathematics Award just now, Zhang Weiweishen, who graduated from P University and is a tenured professor at Columbia University, is already 35 years old this year.
The Mathematics Conference two years later is his last hope. If he misses it, he will be 41 years old when the Mathematics Conference is held in 2022, and the Philippine Prize will be completely insulated from him by then.
On the other hand, in mathematics, international mathematicians pay more attention to ideas, results, and mathematical tools that are born in the process of solving conjectures or solving problems than solving conjectures.
For example, Professor Peter Schulz's 'p·s progressive field-geometric theory' tool. Even though Professor Schulz has not solved a big conjecture in mathematics, he still firmly occupies two fields with this tool.
A spot for the Fields Medal later this year.
During the review of the Weyl-berry conjecture, Professor Fefferman mentioned in his review comments that he hoped that he could sort out the ideas and methods for proving the Weyl-berry conjecture in this regard.
This is actually a subtle message to him that if he wants to win a medal at the Fields Medal two years later, the ideas and methods for solving mathematical problems are very important.
That’s not to say that solving mathematical conjectures is not important. If he can solve a t1-level or true t2-level mathematical conjecture, he will definitely win the Fields Medal.
But to be honest, although the Weyl-berry conjecture is indeed difficult and can be close to the difficulty of the conjecture at the end of level t2, to be precise, it should belong to level t3.
In addition, the value that can be created by solving it is not very big, the age and value are added together, and besides the Weyl-berry conjecture, he has no other mathematical achievements.
Therefore, it is not certain whether Xu Chuan can win the Fields Medal two years later based on this conjecture.
This time, the Morning Star Mathematics Prize has been determined and awarded in advance, probably to build momentum for him, hoping to make him more famous and stimulate other mathematics prizes to be awarded to him within two years, in order to increase the chips.
However, Xu Chuan was noncommittal about this kind of thing.
He never thought about using the state apparatus to build momentum for himself and then compete for the Fields Medal two years later.
Reputation and reputation can be faked, but mathematical prowess cannot be faked.
In mathematics, if you understand it, but you don’t understand it, even if top mathematics awards such as the Fields Medal, the Abel Medal, the Gauss Medal, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, etc. are all awarded to you, it will not make you understand.
So compared to reputation, Xu Chuan hopes that he can know more things.
In fact, if it is Professor Zhang Wei who solves the Weyl-Berry conjecture this time, he will not be able to escape the Fields Medal two years later.
Because Weishen has made a lot of contributions in the field of mathematics, whether it is number theory or automorphic forms, he has made many contributions, and he is only short of solving a famous big problem before he is awarded the Fields Medal.
At Peking University, there is actually only one recognized Wei Shen (Great God) on campus, which refers to Zhang Wei, not the more famous and well-known Wei Dongyi in later generations.
The difference between the two should be very clear to those who study mathematics.