Great Country Academician

A candid photo caused quite a stir on Nantah University's campus network.

So much so that in the afternoon of the next day, the class group and small group on Xu Chuan's mobile phone exploded, and he was stunned to see all kinds of news about him.

"@徐川, Chuan Shen, I heard that your old man has returned to China? Please post a testimonial after proving Weyl-Berry's conjecture!""

"@徐川, Brother Chuan, who is sister-in-law? When will you bring it here for us to see?"

"Where are the candies and red envelopes? Brother Chuan, are you still a person if you don't have some candies and red envelopes here?"

Xu Chuan:? ? ? ?

what's the situation? I'm in love? How do I not know.

Looking at the 99+ news in the class group, Xu Chuan sent a few question marks and a message in a daze.

This is all right, the whole class group became lively in an instant.

"Damn it, Brother Chuan! It's a living Brother Chuan!"

"Alive, still alive!"

"Sigh, record history! This is the fourth time Brother Chuan has spoken in the group since the beginning of school."

"Brother Chuan, don't deny it. The whole school knows about your dating. If you don't believe me, take a look (picture)"

Following a sticker in the group, Xu Chuan finally knew 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.

"I'm not in a relationship, it's just a senior sister treating guests to dinner."

Xu Chuan shook his head and explained, isn't it just a meal, this group of people made it so exaggerated.

Although senior sister is indeed one of his rare female friends, he has never thought about falling in love.

There are still so many problems in the world of mathematics and physics waiting for him to solve, so there is no time for love.

With his personal explanation, the turmoil of love subsided in the class group, and everyone's attention gradually shifted to the Weyl-Berry conjecture he proved.

After gagging and chatting in the class group for a while, Xu Chuan put down his phone, and some of the papers and materials on the computer have been downloaded.

Connected to the printer he bought, he printed out this part of the thesis materials.

Although the computer can also read, but in comparison, he still prefers to read the paper documents with his hands, so that there will be a sense of weight after the realization of knowledge.

Moreover, he has the habit of keeping every book he has read and some important materials, including some manuscripts.

In his previous life, he had a storage room of more than forty square meters, which was filled with bookshelves and filled with all kinds of books.

From physics books to material books, to mathematics, music, novels, and some cultural books circulated in China, such as ceramics, tea and other ancient cultural books, he has collected and read them.

After all, those things were one of the few ways he had learned about his homeland while he was locked up in that country.

When Xu Chuan returned to the campus, he occasionally appeared in the library and classrooms and caused a few sensations, but the following time slowly calmed down.

Although every time he appeared outside, it would still cause heated discussions, but at least it was no longer a sensation. The students of Nantah University gradually got used to this great god who would randomly drop in the school library, cafeteria or classroom.

Sometimes I even bet on whether the great master will come to teach math and physics classes today.

The days passed day by day like this, and in the blink of an eye, the time came to the beginning of March.

In the dormitory, but when Xu Chuan was working on the "Proton Radius Mystery" materials, the instructor Chen Zhengping called him on his mobile phone.

"Hello, Xu Chuan, are you busy? If you are not busy, come to my office. There is good news."

On the other end of the phone, Chen Zhengping said with a mysterious smile, not knowing what good news it was.

"Well, okay, I'll be right there."

Xu Chuan responded, grabbed the coat on the chair and went out.

It may be due to the weather. Anyway, at the beginning of March this year, the temperature was much lower than in previous years, so that the woolen sweaters that can be taken off at this time in previous years are still worn on the body. If you want to go out, you have to Put on a thicker coat.

All the way to Chen Zhengping's office, Xu Chuan knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Pushing open the door, the figures in the office came into Xu Chuan's eyes, not only his tutor Chen Zhengping, but also the dean of the number institute Rong Zhizhuan and Professor Zhou Hai.

"Xu Chuan is here, come, come and sit."

Before Chen Zhengping could speak, Dean Rong Zhizhuan greeted him warmly.

"Hello, Tutor, Hello, Dean, and Professor Zhou." Xu Chuan greeted each other one by one, thanked him, and took the chair that Rong Zhizhuan handed over.

"check it out."

Zhang Weiping smiled and handed over a document, but Xu Chuan glanced at it, and it was a list of winners.

"Winners of the Morningside Mathematics Prize of the 7th World Chinese Mathematics Conference in 2016"

[Winner: Xu Chuan, Nanjing University. 】

[Awards: Gold Award. 】

[Main research directions: spectral theory, fractal boundary theory, field theory, and proof of the Weyl-Berry conjecture. 】

[Winner: Zhang Wei, Columbia University. 】

【Awards: Gold Award】

[Main research directions: number theory and automorphic forms. 】

【Award winner.】

"The list of winners of the Morning Star Mathematics Award? Why is it out now?"

Looking at the document in his hand, Xu Chuan asked curiously.

The Morningside Mathematics Award is a mathematics award established in Baicheng in 1998 by Qiu Chengtong, chairman of the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, and Chen Qizong, founder of Morningside Group.

Known as the "Chinese Fields Medal", the 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 awards and silver awards, with bonuses of US$25,000 and US$10,000 respectively.

The review committee is composed of Harvard University professor, Chinese mathematician Shing-Tung Yau and eight other non-Chinese top mathematicians.

He had won this award in his previous life, and he knew that the awards would be presented at the end of July and early August of the award year, but now it's only March, and the list of winners has already come to him.

This is almost three months earlier than in previous years when the list of awardees was released in May and June.

Chen Zhengping smiled mysteriously, and said: "Well, I have considered some things. This year's list of winners and the award ceremony were released earlier than in previous years. The award ceremony was moved from the end of July to the end of May. It can be regarded as doing something for you. Foreshadowing, you should know after a while."

This aroused Xu Chuan's curiosity, but he didn't ask too much, because he could almost guess it.

His current achievements are nothing more than related to the Xu-Weil-Berry theorem, and there are only a few items linked to this world-class problem.

For example, in Huaguo, such as the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal two years later, there are no mathematics awards that Chinese nationals have won.

It is probably paving the way for these things.

A Xu-Weil Berry theorem can 100% get him nominated for the Fields Medal, but whether he can win the award is not certain.

First of all, he is too young, even two years later, he is 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 the winners of the Fields Medal by eight years. Many mathematicians who are eligible to nominate for the Fields Medal are already close to 40 years old.

For example, the winner of the Morning Star Mathematics Award just now, Zhang Weiwei, a tenured professor at Columbia University who went out of P University, is 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 he misses the mathematics conference in 2022, and the Philippine Award 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 born in the process of solving conjectures or solving problems than solving conjectures.

For example, Professor Peter Schultz's tool of 'P·S Advancement-Geometric Theory', even though Professor Schultz has not solved a big conjecture in mathematics, he still firmly occupies two A place for the Fields Medal after the 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 to prove the Weyl-Berry conjecture in this regard.

This is actually telling him implicitly 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.

It's not that solving mathematical conjectures is not important. If he can solve a mathematical conjecture of T1 level or true T2 level, it is 100% to win the Fields Medal.

But to be honest, although the Weyl-Berry conjecture is indeed more difficult, it can be close to the difficulty of conjecture at the end of T2 level, but to be precise, it should belong to T3 level.

In addition, the value that can be born by solving it is not very large, the age and value are added together, and besides the Weyl-Berry conjecture, he has no other mathematical achievements.

Therefore, whether Xu Chuan can win the Fields Medal two years later with this conjecture is not certain.

The Morningstar Mathematics Award was determined and awarded in advance, probably to build momentum for him, hoping to make him more famous, and to drive other mathematics awards to be awarded to him within two years, so as to increase the bargaining chip.

But Xu Chuan was noncommittal about this kind of thing.

He never thought of using the state apparatus to create momentum for himself, and then went to fight for the Fields Medal two years later.

Fame and reputation can be faked, but mathematical strength cannot be faked.

In mathematics, if you understand it, even if you understand it, you don’t understand it. Even if you are awarded top mathematics awards such as the Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Gauss Prize, and Wolf Prize in Mathematics, it is impossible for you to understand.

So compared to reputation, Xu Chuan hopes that he can understand more things.

In fact, if it is Professor Zhang Wei who solves the Weyl-Berry conjecture this time, then the Fields Medal will not be lost 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 a lot of contributions, and the Fields Medal is only short of solving a well-known big problem.

But at Peking University, there is actually only one Wei Shen (Wei Shen) recognized on campus, referring to Zhang Wei, not the more famous and well-known Wei Dongyi in later generations.

The gap between the two should be clear to those who study mathematics.