my scientific age

Chapter 263 This is a major achievement at the Fields Medal level!

"I'll always remember Tsinghua Garden and the kindness you gave me in a meeting. Thank you, Principal." Zhuang Qianding bowed and saluted Mei Yiqi as a student.

"Okay." Mei Yiqi nodded and accepted the student's gift.

Just when Zhuang Qianding was about to say goodbye and leave, suddenly, the principal's assistant ran over in a hurry, holding a telegram, came to Mei Yiqi, and quickly handed the telegram to Mei Yiqi, saying quickly : "Principal, news from the editorial department of the journal, the paper co-authored by our school's professor Hua Luogeng and student Yu Hua has appeared on the front page of the No.20 five-week "Annual Report of Mathematics"!"

"What, Yu Hua, didn't he just enter the school for a long time?" Hearing this news, Mei Yiqi was stunned for a while, and she grasped the key points sharply. The significance and weight of journals.

Yu Hua, who had just entered the school not long ago, even published an article in the Mathematics Annual Report, and it even appeared on the front page.

The Mathematics Annual Report consists of core articles and regular articles that constitute the content of the entire magazine. For students, it is a great honor to have the articles written in the regular articles for publication. The field of top mathematicians.

However, Yu Hua actually won the fruit of the core article as a student from Tsinghua University.

"Professor Hua is the corresponding author, and Yu Hua is the first author." Mei Yiqi took over the telegram and read it. After a few seconds, she looked at Zhuang Qianding next to her, and her words contained a touch of disbelief.

One work!
The most influential and weighty work!
"First author?!" Zhuang Qianding, who was next to him, widened his eyes. At this moment, he was not calm. If the publication of the front page of "Annual Mathematics" was not enough to arouse Zhuang Qianding's surprise, then this The title of the first work reveals a lot of things invisibly.

Yi Zuo is internationally recognized as the person who has made the greatest contribution to scientific research achievements. The main author and author of the thesis covers the research progress and the writing of the whole paper, and the actual contribution rate exceeds 70%.

Zhuang Qianding knew that Yu Hua's mathematical level and calculation ability were very good, however, he found that he still underestimated this student.

This is one of the core articles on the front page of the annual report of mathematics!
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No.20 five-week "Annual Report of Mathematics", the front page - [The impact and role of asymmetric cryptography on cryptography]

At the end of the whole paper, the comments of the editor-in-chief and reviewers of the Mathematics Annual Report on the core articles of this issue are written.

[This is a revolutionary and groundbreaking achievement. Professor Hua Luogeng and Professor Yu Hua proposed an unprecedented concept of public key and private key. The security of information transmission has been exponentially improved. Our information security will not be stolen by rats. This is a A very large theoretical contribution. - Herman Weyl"

[The perfection of asymmetric cryptography is unbelievable. On this day, cryptography has opened a new era, and we can finally achieve a staged victory in the battle of coding and deciphering. This is a Fields Medal level of achievement. —John von Neumann]

[History is always witnessing. Fortunately, I personally witnessed a history of the development of cryptography. Symmetric cryptography will enter the garbage heap. No one can know the content of the telegram I sent to my wife. — Solomon Lefschetz, editor-in-chief of Annals of Mathematics. 】

Weyl, Neumann, Lefschetz, three senior figures of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, World Mathematics Center, jointly evaluated a core article, which is extremely rare in the previous core articles of the Mathematics Annual Report.

The annual report of mathematics has published so many core articles, and only a very small number of papers with ultra-high gold content will be jointly evaluated by the editor-in-chief and reviewers.

Most importantly, the identities of the three senior figures.

Look who are these people?

Herman Weyl, one of the most important mathematicians in the first half of the 20th century, the successor of Hilbert, the king of mathematics, and the leader of the Göttingen School, put forward the gauge field theory and provided a theoretical basis for the general theory of relativity. On this day in 1937, Weyl was a recognized master in the international mathematical community, as influential as Hardy.

John von Neumann, a mathematical genius and the leader of the Göttingen School, provided a rigorous mathematical foundation for early quantum mechanics and further functional analysis. He was the youngest among the six senior figures of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Involving research on operator theory, resonance theory, quantum theory, set theory, etc., the father of the future computer and the father of game theory.

Solomon Lefschetz, a top mathematician in academia, Princeton mathematics professor and editor-in-chief of the Annals of Mathematics, a master of topology, has made the Annals of Mathematics the world's top academic journal by himself.

The two reviewers and the editor-in-chief of the annual report of mathematics constitute a super-luxurious lineup, which is a platform for asymmetric cryptography results. They stand there and symbolize authority.

In addition, there is 'Hardy's disciple' Hua Luogeng as the corresponding author to provide further support in the academic field.

The No.20 Five-Week Mathematics Annual Report was officially released on July [-]nd, only three days after today’s release. This core article occupying the front page has already caused a sensation and intense discussions in the international mathematics community. Many cryptographic codes After reading this paper, experts confirmed that asymmetric cryptography is indeed effective through the most rigorous and rigorous repeated verification.

For this verification result, some coding experts cried with joy, and some coding experts were excited.

It's not easy, it's really not easy. In the battle between coding and deciphering, which belongs to the wise human beings, coding has been at a disadvantage for a long time. No matter how well-written passwords are, they will always be broken by decipherers.

Now, the balance of victory has finally turned to the coding camp. This pioneering and revolutionary achievement in the asymmetric era will become the most offensive weapon in the hands of cryptographic experts.

Of course, some people are happy and some are sad, and the code-breaking experts are whimpering...

Just as the three top mathematicians commented on asymmetric cryptography, the security of information transmission in the form of asymmetric cryptography is exponentially improved, and the difficulty of deciphering is unprecedented.

If the Enigma machine currently used by the German army has a theoretical probability of deciphering about 0.01%, then the asymmetric cipher created by Hua Luogeng and Yu Hua may increase to 0.001%.

How exaggerated is such a high degree of difficulty in deciphering?

Due to the sensitivity and high practicability of cryptography, this sensational atmosphere quickly transitioned from the world of mathematics and cryptography to the world of journalism and the military. When Tsinghua University received the news today, intelligence organizations of various countries had already Begin systematic research and discussion on asymmetric cryptographic achievements.

At the same time, the media also began to scramble to report academic achievements on asymmetric cryptography.

For many journalists, asymmetric cryptography, which belongs to the advanced field of mathematics, contains quite a lot of professional content that even if you scratch your scalp, you can't understand it, but this does not prevent them from reporting on this matter.

The reason is very simple, the annual report of mathematics; Weyl, Neumann, Lefschetz; ultra-high information security; Chinese people have created this result, so many keywords and hard-core content have made the asymmetric cryptography results popular Very high.

Especially the last one.

"Newsweek" commented on the achievement of asymmetric cryptography: It is hard to believe that this Fields Prize-level academic achievement was actually created by two Chinese people, one named 'hua luo geng' and the other named 'yu hua', what is our Princeton doing?
Although the Fields Medal belongs to the recently born mathematics award, its influence and authority in the field of mathematics are no less than the Nobel Prize next door.

In 1924, the International Conference of Mathematicians was held in Toronto. Fields proposed to use the remaining funds of the academic conference as a fund to establish an international mathematics prize. This initiative was unanimously supported and supported by mathematicians from all countries in the conference.

In 1932, Fields died of illness. In the same year, at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Zurich, the decision to establish the Fields Medal was passed. Every four years, it was awarded to 2 to 4 young mathematicians with outstanding contributions. The first Fields Medal It has been assessed since 1936 and has now been assessed and promulgated.

The academic achievement of asymmetric cryptography fully meets the evaluation criteria of the Fields Medal.

Newsweek gave sour and discriminatory evaluations. Newspapers such as the Washington Post, The Times of the United Kingdom, and the Journal of the University of Göttingen, which is affiliated with the traditional mathematics powerhouse, did not add much subjective will, but objectively reported non-existence. The importance of symmetric cryptographic achievements.

The names Hua Luogeng and Yu Hua have been introduced into the ears of many people.

When Mei Yiqi and Zhuang Qianding knew the news, the domestic mathematics community also caused quite a stir, but it was not reflected in the news media. The domestic news media responded mediocrely, only "Science" The magazine reported the news.

As for why there is a mediocre response, the reason is very simple, foreign journalists can understand some academic fields and professional knowledge, and can compile articles.

The development of the domestic mathematics community is inherently weak, and if you want to report, in addition to reprinting, newspaper reporters who want to write articles must have a certain degree of mathematical professional literacy in order to meet the requirements.

And the reality is...

More than 99% of domestic journalists did not have this kind of literacy. In 1937, the country did not know what a Fields Medal was, let alone what asymmetric cryptography meant.

For these reporters, paying attention to the development of Chinese mathematics and international mathematics is far less important than paying attention to the anti-Japanese situation.

Although the domestic media's response was mediocre, fortunately, there was no reduction in the treatment that Yu Hua deserved. With the influence of the Princeton Mathematics Annual Report and the continuous heated discussion of this core paper in the domestic mathematics community, Yu Hua, the first author of the article, , and soon got what he planned - fame and influence, and became Professor Yu Hua in people's mouths.

However, at this moment, 'Professor Yu Hua', who was in the nuclear physics laboratory and racked his brains for the air separation equipment, knew nothing about these things.

(End of this chapter)