Chapter 401 Olympiad and Fields
Lu Qiujian's words made the audience present and Lu Rui and other staff members of the imperial court suddenly realize that they had previously thought that as long as they paid attention to scientific research and gave scientists opportunities, they would be able to achieve great results, but they had never thought that this opportunity would be so expensive.
There was a commotion in the studio, and everyone was buzzing about what Lu Qiujian had just said, "No wonder Yang Zhenning and Lee Tsung-dao can win awards abroad, but there are no Nobel Prize winners in China. It turns out that it is all a matter of money.
!" Liang Xiao felt blushing for a while. When he went back, he quickly deleted the few posts he had made on the Internet that criticized the system and nationality, so as not to be whipped to death after this program aired.
After the applause, the question period came again. This time, a girl wearing glasses stood up. She asked Lu Qiujian in a somewhat unconvincing tone, "Dr. Lu, what you just said makes sense indeed."
, but I think the field of mathematics does not require a lot of investment, so why are there so many players in our country who have won gold medals in the Olympic Mathematics Competition, but only you have won the Fields Medal?"
"First of all, let me correct your wrong view. Mathematics does not require a lot of investment. The four-color theorem can only be proved by using supercomputers! And supercomputers are very expensive!" Lu Qiujian smiled and continued to answer, "We still
Let the data speak for itself! Let’s see if there is any relationship between the gold medal in Mathematical Olympiad and the Fields Medal!”
"Let's first take a look at how many of the Fields Medal winners were Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists! Gregory Margulis in 1978 was also the gold medalist in the 1962 Mathematical Olympiad, but in the next ten years he
There was no second Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist on the Fields Medal podium; until Vladimir Driffield in 1990, he was the Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist in 1969!"
"Then the Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists officially stepped onto the stage of the Fields Medal. From Driffield, Gowers, and Laverge to this year's Perelman and Terence Tao, almost every session has at least one Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist.
Fields Medal! It took about twenty years from the time they won the Mathematical Olympiad gold medal to the Fields Medal!”
"Excluding Professor Wiles, the winner of the Fields Special Medal in 2002, there have been a total of 18 Fields Medal winners from 1990 to now, and a total of eight of these 18 winners have won
The proportion of Mathematical Olympiad gold medals is still very large!”
"So does winning a gold medal in the Mathematical Olympiad mean that you can expect to win the Fields Medal? I can only say that the upper limits required for these two awards are different! For general winners, they get full marks from the Mathematical Olympiad competition.
42 points is already a good effort, but for some people they can get 42 points because there are only 42 points on the paper! Our contestants getting gold medals does not necessarily mean they can get the Fields Medal!"
"In addition, let's take a look at the results of our country's athletes participating in the Olympiad! In 1985, our country began to participate in the Mathematical Olympiad. In the fifth year, we won first place in the total score for the first time. Since 1997, our lowest score has been second. This
An achievement that at first glance seems worthy of pride!”
"However, mathematics has always been a subject that competes on individual abilities rather than on teams. We did not win our first individual gold medal until 2000. Calculated based on the twenty-year interval from the Olympiad gold medal to the Fields Medal, we will have to wait until 2020
We won’t have the opportunity until the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2019! It’s still far from the time to harvest the fruits!”
"By the way, in a few days it will be the date of awarding the New Mathematics Discovery Award! It just so happens that two of the winners in this list are our country's Olympiad gold medalists. They are my classmates at Beijing Normal University. I
I believe that if they maintain their current status, they will most likely win the Fields Medal in the future!"
Lu Qiujian was talking about Zhang Wei and Yun Zhiwei, who were enrolled in the same class as him. The latter, like Professor Elkey of Harvard, were both full score winners of the Olympiad. In the future, they will successively win the Rama, which is only awarded to young mathematicians under the age of 32.
Hard-working Mathematics Award! The future is limitless!
"In addition, although mathematics requires less funding, it requires equally strict contact with international frontiers! Our mathematicians lacked this opportunity before. If Mr. Chen Jingrun can enter when his thinking is at its peak like me,
If he goes to such holy places of mathematics as Princeton and the Ecole Normale Supérieure for exchanges, then I think he will achieve even greater achievements!"
"Now the obstacles in this area are gradually being eliminated. The development of the Internet allows an ordinary mathematics student to closely follow the world's cutting-edge developments. The developed air transportation makes it no longer difficult to communicate face-to-face with top international mathematicians! In addition,
Mathematicians like Professor Nan who went abroad to study in the world's top universities in their early years have returned to China and brought with them the most advanced academic concepts. It can be said that the current mathematics students are in the happiest era in the history of China!"
"So, I think the Fields Medal is the same as the Nobel Prize. It's just that the time has not come yet. In another twenty or thirty years! Chinese scholars will definitely stand on these two podiums!" Although
The current mathematics world is a bit chaotic, which is not conducive to the growth of young people, but just like the Nobel Prize, as long as the base is large, there will always be geniuses! We Chinese will not lose to any other race in terms of IQ!
After answering questions about the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal, the audience became more relaxed, and the questions began to be very diverse. Some asked about Lu Qiujian's private life, and some asked about China's space exploration.
Plan; Lu Qiujian avoided talking about personal issues, but he talked a lot about the space exploration plan. He came to this program just to build momentum for the plan, so how could he let go of this opportunity?
Lu Qiujian painted a picture with a bright future, presenting the charm of the universe in front of the audience, attracting their fascination; even Liang Xiao secretly thought, science seems to be much more interesting than Chinese language and literature.
!Should I agree to the job invitation from that research institution last time?
Finally, at the end of the program, Lu Rui took the microphone and said, "Everyone is so enthusiastic and I feel embarrassed to announce the end of the program, but Dr. Lu is already a little tired, so let's move on to the last question now!"
The last question selected a young man wearing Bayern Munich jersey No. 27. He couldn't wait to take the microphone and asked, "Dr. Lu! I am a fan, and the question I am most concerned about is what will you do after returning to China?"
Will you participate in football matches? Will you represent the national team?” (To be continued.)
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Chapter completed!