Chapter 426
The moment the winners were announced, the atmosphere at the venue was instantly ignited.
24-year-old Fields Medal winner!
The thunderous applause was like an erupting torrent, deafening.
It wasn't just the venue where the atmosphere was ignited.
At the same time that Xi Senzhongwen, the president of the International Federation of Mathematicians, pronounced the name "Lu Zhou", the comment section of the CCTV official blog's live video was instantly maxed out by netizens.
[6666! 】
[Lu Shen cheated! 】
[Wudaokou, the center of the universe sent a congratulatory message! 】
[The third Chinese Fields Medal winner! The first Chinese Nationality Fields Medal winner! (fist) (fist)]
[The youth is strong, the country is strong! Like Professor Lu! (Flag) (Flag) (Flag)]
[I also graduated from Jin University, I feel like I read a fake 985 (erha) (erha)]
[The gap between people is sometimes bigger than the gap between humans and pigs (kneeling)]
[Take a breath of the European spirit of Xueba, just please don't hang up this semester...]
For a long time, although the overall number of papers has maintained continuous growth, the Huaguo mathematics community has been wandering on the edge of the world.
A Fields Medal probably means nothing, and it means nothing.
But the brilliance that bloomed on that medal made countless people see confidence, the future, and hope from the new generation of scholars...
During this carnival, it wasn't just CCTV's official Weibo account and the scarves that forwarded the news that were maxed out...
The Shuimu Forum, which was slaughtered by the NS equation yesterday, was once again captured by the Fields Medal today.
Out of ten posts, at least five posts were discussing the freshly released Fields Medal. As for the remaining five posts, even if they are not discussing the Fields Award, most of them are related to this winner...
[Amazing... 24 years old for the Fields Award, I remember Tao Zhexuan, who is said to have an IQ of 230, won the award at the age of 31, right? 】
[The youngest winner is Jean-Pierre Serre, but the boss is also 27 years old. It can be said that he directly refreshed the record of the Philippine Award by three years...]
[It's so terrifying... When did the Jinda Shuyuan become so strong? 】
[Ghost knows, I only know that they are very strong in physics. As for mathematics, there is not even an academician! 】
[The International Union of Mathematicians is also very courageous. Many people are still waiting for the 39-year-old. Is it too early to award the Fields Medal to him at the age of 24? 】
【if not? Not to mention Goldbach's conjecture, now even the millennium problem of the NS equation has been solved by him. Do you really think it's an honor for him to have the Fields Medal? And not the other way around? 】
...
In the venue, the applause gradually subsided.
At this moment, Lu Zhou didn't know what happened on the Internet the moment the chairman of the International Union of Mathematicians read his name.
It's also not clear how excited those watching him are at the moment.
Surrounded by the gazes and cameras of the audience, he walked onto the stage in formal attire and calmly accepted the Fields Medal from Shigefumi Shimori, President of the International Union of Mathematicians.
The old professor shook hands with Lu Zhou and sent congratulations on behalf of the International Union of Mathematicians.
"Congratulations, scholar from China."
Lu Zhou smiled and nodded: "Thank you."
The ceremony continued with the announcement of the first winner.
Without any suspense, the second winner is Peter Schulz from Germany.
This doctoral dissertation created a "seemingly complete geometry", and an average of two papers received a world-class award. His contribution in the field of arithmetic algebraic geometry is obvious to all.
Accompanying the Fei Award for two times is only because everyone is not familiar with his "p-adic perfect space theory (P.S theory)", and after he made a series of major breakthroughs on the Langlands program using the P.S theory, there is no longer one. One can doubt the excellence of this theoretical tool.
Compared with the first two long-awaited winners, the two winners announced later are slightly inferior, but there is no doubt that they are also the top powerhouses in the mathematics world.
One of them is Iranian-born scholar Kocher Bilkar from Cambridge University, and the other is Aksayi Venkatesh, an Australian scholar from Stanford University.
The former is a legendary Kurdish refugee, while the latter is the only Australian who has won medals in both the International Olympic Physics Competition and the International Olympic Mathematical Olympiad...and, he was only twelve years old at the time.
When all the names of the four scholars were announced, there was another round of applause in the venue.
Looking at the four people on the stage, Sophie Morell looked a little lonely, bit her lower lip lightly, and said nothing.
Molina, who was sitting next to her, sighed softly, and comforted her mentor: "...you still have a chance."
On the other side of the venue, Zhang Wei who was also looking at the stage, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly sighed.
Standing beside him, Xu Chenyang comforted his old friend: "...This is such a pity."
Zhang Wei shook his head: "Nothing."
This is his last chance, and he will pass the forty-year-old age limit by the next Mathematicians Congress four years later.
Although it was a pity that he missed the Fields Award in this life, he couldn't help but feel some comfort in his heart.
In any case, the first Chinese Fields Medal Scholar was born.
Even if this honor is not brought back by him...
Looking at the four Philippine award winners on the stage, Zhang Wei suddenly asked, "What were you doing when you were 24?"
Xu Chenyang was slightly stunned: "What else can you do as a PhD student at Princeton?"
"I just arrived at Columbia University that year..." Zhang Wei suddenly stopped talking, shook his head, and said with a hint of relief in his tone, "It's not wrong to lose."
...
After the awards.
The four winners sat together.
Sitting next to Lu Zhou, Peter Schultz took advantage of the fact that the camera was not facing him, poked his arm and raised his eyebrows at him.
"Hi, we meet again."
Lu Zhou smiled: "Yeah, long time no see."
The two first met at the American Congress of Mathematicians in 2015, and it was quite a coincidence that they were also standing on the podium at the time.
It's just that one received the Cole Prize in Number Theory, and the other received the Cole Prize in Algebra.
After that, because of academic exchanges, the two have been exchanging emails.
When he went to Germany last time, Lu Zhou originally planned to visit him at the University of Bonn, but unfortunately he caught up with him to go out for a visit and exchange, so he didn't go.
Schultz said with a smile: "Congratulations, the youngest Fields Medal winner, you almost broke Jean-Pierre Serre's record by a conference time."
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Thank you, and congratulations!"
This record was originally broken by Schultz, because the theory of "perfect space" was born when he was 22 years old, and the following year happened to be the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians.
Unfortunately, although the "perfect space" at that time was not generally recognized by the algebraic geometry community, it only helped him get a doctorate.
Schultz: "You have solved the NS equation, what's next? Which direction do you plan to study?"
Lu Zhou thought for a while, then simply replied: "About the small application of L-manifolds in plasma physics."
"Is it still the study of partial differential equations?" Schultz sighed and made a helpless expression, "Seriously, don't you plan to consider the direction of algebraic geometry?"
Algebraic geometry is one of the mainstream directions in pure mathematics, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most mainstream direction in terms of influence. However, to the regret of many people, Professor Lu, who was born in the Grothendieck School, seems to be the only one who is not interested in the research direction of the Patriarch.
Lu Zhou smiled embarrassingly: "There are already so many geniuses engaged in research in this area, and I'm not the only one."
Schultz smiled and said, "Have you heard a rumor?"
Lu Zhou: "What rumor?"
Not knowing whose tone he was imitating, Schultz continued in a joking tone: "If you encounter any unsolvable problems in your research, one of the ways is to make Professor Lu interested in it."