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However, the focus of people's attention on this news is only that a scientist from China won another world award, and he did not care about what he studied. Of course, there are not many people who can understand the reason for his award; so After a few days of crazy reporting, this news slowly faded away, and it was completely different from the future generation of female scientists who won the Nobel Prize.

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

The reasons for this are many. First, the Nobel Prize was founded in 1900, which has a history of more than thirty years than the Fields Medal founded in 1936.

These thirty years are the era of rapid advancement of human science. Einstein, Bohr, Dirac, Heisenberg and other shining names have added the brilliance of the Nobel Prize and made it the most concerned science and technology award in the world. After the establishment of the Fields Prize, the golden age of mathematics has passed. Hilbert, Gauss, Euler and other legendary figures made ancient works and faded out. Except for Grothendieck, they could never meet them The figures are on a par.

And the Nobel Prize covers six fields of physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, economics, peace, and literature. It is awarded once a year, and the Fields Prize is only awarded every four years, with a maximum of four places at a time; It is calculated that in four years, the Nobel Prize can create 24 winners, which is six times more than the Fields Prize. 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 the promotion of awards. The Nobel Prize is announced in October every year. An award is announced every day, which can maintain the popularity of the week. From the announcement of the award list to There are two months after the awards are presented, and they can be advertised again when the awards are presented; together with the media interpretation in the middle, interviews with the winners and other news filling, it can be said that each year is from October to December. It is a hot period of Nobel Prize publicity.

As for the Fields Prize, it is only presented at the four-year International Conference of Mathematicians. It takes tens of minutes from the announcement of the list to the award, and there is little room for hype.

The average person's recognition of these awards is different! Let's take a look at the reasons for winning the Nobel Prize last year. The reason for winning the Physics Award is to recognize the predictions made by Higgs and others for the God particle.

The reason for the Chemical Award is to contribute to the research 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 the production more efficient, the products more stable, and producing less hazardous waste.

The reason for winning the Physiology and Medicine Award is the discovery of bacteria that cause gastritis and gastric ulcer.

Economics, peace and literature awards do not belong to the natural sciences. I will not mention them. Most people see such reasons for at least ambiguous understanding, and then look at the brief introduction in the news. You can almost understand the significance of these results.

Look at the reasons for the Fields Prize this year, "because of his contribution to the development of stochastic conformal mapping, the geometry of Brownian motion two-dimensional space and the theory of conformal fields." "Because of his analysis in geometry and convection And revolutionary insights into geometry. "

Lying trough, what is this stuff! Not to mention that ordinary people can't understand it, you can find an undergraduate in the math department to see if he can understand it? Mathematics is probably the only subject that puts the achievements of the early twentieth century in the undergraduate curriculum and is beyond the scope of the subject. Even the professionals in the mathematics department can't understand it, how can the layman understand it?

And the news media are not easy to explain these reasons! Did you list a large list of mathematical formulas and symbols in the newspaper? There are anecdotes about the winners in that forum, such as Grothendieck ’s anti-war, Perelman ’s reclusive life, etc. And not every winner has gossip, so they can only give readers a little unconscious impression at most.

Since even the winners are so incomprehensible, how can you gossip with others? This award is too cold. It can only allow math professionals to entertain themselves.

In addition, the Nobel Prize has two awards that it has enjoyed. Peace and Literature Awards; you do n’t understand physics, you do n’t understand chemistry, and you do n’t understand medicine. It does n’t matter if the threshold for reading a novel or poem is not too high? To understand the international situation, you only need to read the newspaper.

These two awards are due to the low threshold of recognition. It has always been the most reportable award in the Nobel Prize; when it comes to other awards, readers may not be evaluated, and everyone will talk about the literature award, oh. Haruki Murakami won no prize this year! Isn't anyone in our country claimed to be nominated? Why didn't he see him to receive the award? I knew his level was not enough!

As for the fact that more people think of it as a joke, ha ha ha ha, isn't most of the wars in the world initiated by the United States? How can the President of the United States still win an award? Shouldn't I send one to Moustache? Lying ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The map head broke the Red Empire and won the prize, which is really speechless!

Although these two awards are not authoritative enough, you have to admit that they have provided discussion resources for countless readers. The Nobel Prize has thus expanded its popularity unconsciously.

In addition, compared with physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine, the mathematics community does not have high funding requirements, which also causes mathematicians not to increase their exposure to media to increase their possibility of obtaining funds. They are not very interested in interviews. . Reporters of general interest will no longer interview people of this kind who have no lace news and are cold.

If Lu Qiujian and Tao Zhexuan hold a press conference at the same time, there must be several times more reporters attending the press conference than Lu Zhejian; the reason is very simple. In addition to being a mathematician, Lu Qiujian In addition, he is still a football star, and the news that can be reported greatly exceeds Tao Zhexuan.

However, these are just for ordinary people, in the education, mathematics and even the entire scientific and technological community in China, Lv Qiujian's influence has been connected to several steps because of this award, and has quickly become the most popular in the scientific community of China Influential figures.

Also brought him a lot of benefits. At least at the highest level in China, there was a lot less doubt about whether he could host such a major project. (To be continued.)

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