However, the focus of people's attention on this news is only that a Chinese scientist has won another world award, and they do not care about the content of his research. Of course, few people can understand the reason why he won the award; so

After several days of crazy reporting, this news slowly faded away, and it was completely different from when a female scientist won the Nobel Prize in later generations.

The reason is not that Lu Qiujian's research results are weaker than that of this female scientist, but that the Fields Medal's public influence is far weaker than that of the Nobel Prize.

There are many reasons for this. First of all, the Nobel Prize was founded in 1900, which is more than thirty years longer than the Fields Medal, which was founded in 1936.

The past thirty years have been an era of rapid progress in human science. Sparkling names such as Einstein, Bohr, Dirac, and Heisenberg have added to the glory of the Nobel Prize, making it the most watched science and technology award in the world.

After the establishment of the Fields Medal, the golden age of mathematics has passed. Hilbert, Gauss, Euler and other **** figures have passed away and faded out. Except for Grothendieck, there is no more.

Someone who can be compared with them.

Moreover, the Nobel Prize covers the six fields of physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, economics, peace and literature, and is awarded once a year. The Fields Medal is only awarded once every four years, with a maximum of four places at a time; even if the minimum number of winners is

Calculated, the Nobel Prize can produce 24 winners in four years, which is six times more than the Fields Medal. There are more news points to report, and the influence is naturally greater.

At the same time, the Nobel Prize is much better than the Fields Prize in terms of publicity for awarding the award. The Nobel Prize starts to be announced in October every year, and one award is announced every day, which can maintain the publicity for a week; from the announcement of the winners list to

The awards were given out two months later, and it can be promoted once more during the award ceremony; coupled with the media interpretation, interviews with the winners and other news, it can be said that from October to December every year, it is all Nobel Prize promotion.

hot period.

As for the Fields Medal, it is only awarded at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians. It only takes a few dozen minutes from the announcement of the list to the award, so there is not much room for speculation.

Moreover, ordinary people have different awareness of these awards! Let’s first take a look at the reasons for winning the Nobel Prize last year. The reason for winning the Physics Award is to commend Higgs and others for their work on the God particle.

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The reason for the Chemistry Award is for contributions to the study of olefin metathesis reactions in organic chemistry; olefin metathesis reactions are widely used in the production of materials such as pharmaceuticals and advanced plastics, making production more efficient. The products are more stable and produce less hazardous waste.

The Physiology and Medicine Prize was awarded for the discovery of bacteria that cause gastritis and stomach ulcers.

Let’s ignore the fact that economics, peace and literature awards are not natural sciences. Most people can at least have a vague understanding of the reasons for such awards. If they look at the introduction in the news, they can almost understand the significance of these achievements.

Let’s take a look at the reasons for winning this year’s Fields Medal. “For his contributions to the development of stochastic conformal mapping, the geometry of Brownian motion in two-dimensional spaces, and the theory of conformal fields. Because of his contributions to geometry and to heliodynamic flow.

Revolutionary insights into analysis and geometric structure.”

Damn it, what the hell is this! Don’t say that ordinary people can’t understand it. Find an undergraduate in the Department of Mathematics and see if he can understand it? Mathematics is probably the only discipline that can surpass the achievements of the early twentieth century.

It is considered an out-of-class subject in undergraduate courses. Even professionals in the mathematics department cannot understand it. How can laymen understand it?

And it’s not easy for the news media to explain these reasons! When you list a long list of mathematical formulas and symbols in the newspaper, will anyone read it? That page is better than gossiping about the anecdotes of the winners, such as Grothendieck’s anti-war,

Perelman's reclusive life, etc., and not every winner has something to gossip about, so at best they can only leave a vague impression on readers.

Since you don't even understand how awesome the winner is, how can you gossip and brag with others? This award is really too cold and cold. You can only let the professionals in the mathematics community entertain themselves.

In addition, the Nobel Prize also has two popular awards, the Peace Prize and the Literature Prize. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand physics, chemistry, or medicine. The threshold for reading novels and poems is not very high, right? Understand.

You only need to read the newspapers to understand the international situation.

Due to the low threshold for recognition, these two awards have always been the most reportable awards among the Nobel Prizes; when it comes to other awards, readers may not be able to evaluate them, but when it comes to the Literature Award, everyone will say, oh, this year Murakami

Haruki didn’t win the award! Isn’t that so-and-so in our country claimed to have been nominated? Why didn’t I see him receive the award? I knew he wasn’t good enough!

As for ******. More people regard it as a joke, hahahaha, aren’t most wars in the world initiated by the United States? How come the president of the United States can still win the award? Shouldn’t he also be given the award?

Grow a mustache! Damn it, Map Brain defeated the Red Empire and won the prize. This is really speechless!

Although these two awards are not authoritative enough, you have to admit that they have become a source of discussion for countless readers. In this way, the Nobel Prize has unknowingly expanded its popularity.

In addition, compared to physics, chemistry, biology and medicine, the mathematics community does not have high funding requirements, which also means that mathematicians do not need to increase their media exposure to increase their possibility of obtaining funds. They are very uninterested in interviews

.Reporters who are generally sensible will no longer interview such aloof people who don’t have any interesting news.

If Lu Qiujian and Tao Zhexuan hold press conferences at the same time now, the reporters attending Lu Qiujian's press conference will definitely be several times more than those attending Tao Zhexuan's press conference. The reason is very simple. In addition to being a mathematician, Lu Qiujian

In addition, he is also a football star, and his news coverage greatly exceeds that of Terence Tao.

However, these are only for ordinary people. In China's educational circles, mathematics circles and even the entire scientific and technological circles, Lu Qiujian's influence has risen to several levels because of this award, and he has quickly become the most influential person in China's scientific circles.

Influential people.

This also brought him a lot of benefits. At least among the highest levels of China, there were immediately a lot less doubts about his ability to preside over such a major plan. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!