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Chapter 545 The Crawford Award!
Now when Chinese people see international calls, their first reaction is a scam call, but Qin Ke has a system task of "Please continue to harvest more mathematics awards", so he has been paying attention to the selection time of major mathematics awards.

If I remember correctly, January should be the selection time for the Crawford Awards.

Qin Ke's heart skipped a beat.

The Crafford Award, like the Nobel Prize, was established and selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, so it has a common feature, that is, the winners will only be notified after the results of the selection are out, and no news will be revealed beforehand. , let alone inform the candidates, so when they received a phone call to inform them that they had won the award, there was really a kind of ecstasy and excitement of "winning the big prize".

The original intention of the Crawford Award was to fill the gap in the Nobel Prizes for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and to encourage the development of four disciplines including astronomy, mathematics, earth science, and biological sciences, as well as polyarthritis ——The last award for arthritis was created because Crawford himself suffered from it and hoped that the medical profession could overcome it.

It is a pity that due to various reasons, the Crawford Prize has been established for more than 30 years, but its reputation in Xia Guoli is not very big, and it is far less than the Nobel Prize. Professor Tao, two famous mathematicians of Xia descent, made this award more famous in China.

However, in the international arena, the influence of the Crawford Award has been increasing year by year, and it has become one of the internationally renowned science awards. In particular, the Crawford Award will only award awards in one field each year, and the mathematics award is almost the same. On average, it is born only once every six years, and each time it is awarded to one or two people, the competition is more intense than the Fields Medal.

In addition, the award was presented by the King of Sweden himself, and the prize money reached 50 US dollars. Under various conditions, the reputation of the Crafford Prize in the international mathematics community is no less than that of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics and the Cole Prize.

Relatively speaking, the selection of the Crawford Award is relatively fair. Nationality, race, and skin color will not be considered, and only published academic achievements will be considered. Qin Ke is more confident in winning this award.

In particular, he deliberately submitted the manuscript to the "Acta Mathematica" under the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in order to make the paper "Proof of the Hail Conjecture" recognized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, even if it will not become the main basis for the award, it will certainly be Add a considerable amount of chips, after all, the Crafford Prize is selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Seeing that Qin Ke was in a daze, Ning Qingyun who was beside him asked strangely, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, the international call from Sweden." Qin Ke connected the phone and turned on the hands-free calling function.

A middle-aged man's voice quickly came out of the phone, saying in English: "Hello, is this Mr. Qin Ke from Qingmu University? We are the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences here."

Qin Ke's heart was shocked again, but he still said something to the camera with his lips, and soon the dim light in his phone returned a message: "The phone number has been verified, and it matches the three numbers published on the official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences." One of the contact numbers matches."

Qin Ke's heart beat faster: "Hello, I'm Qin Ke. What can I do?"

"Mr. Qin Ke, I would like to inform you that after our careful and serious selection by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, you have been selected by the public as the winner of this year's Craford Prize in Mathematics. Congratulations!"

Even though he has already won two international awards, Qin Ke couldn't help but smile when he heard the news, and Ning Qingyun who was next to him was even more surprised to stand up all of a sudden, his black and bright Danfeng eyes flashed with excitement and joy shine.

Qin Ke tried his best to calm down and thanked: "Thank you for your recognition of my academic achievements."

The middle-aged man over there smiled: "Thank you also for your support of our "Acta Mathematica Sinica". Your paper "Proof of the Hail Conjecture" is very good, and our mathematics academicians here are full of praise."

"Thank you." Qin Ke glanced at Ning Qingjun, who was so happy that he was almost jumping up, and tentatively asked, "How many winners are there for this Crawford Award?"

"Two. Oh, by the way, is Miss Ning Qingyun next to you?"

Qin Ke's heart jumped up excitedly again, and he exchanged glances with Ning Qingyun: "Yes, she is with me. Do you need me to answer the phone for her?"

"Excuse me, I just want to call her too."

Ning Qingyun answered the phone in a daze: "Hi, I'm Ning Qingyun."

"Congratulations to you too, Ms. Ning. The "Proof of the Hail Conjecture" co-authored by you and Qin Ke is the most outstanding mathematical academic achievement in the past ten years. After careful and serious selection by our Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, you will share mathematics with Mr. Qin Ke. Xiang Crawford Award. In recognition of your outstanding contributions to the mathematics community, both of you must attend the award ceremony and the three-day mathematics academic exchange meeting in one month's time."

The middle-aged man paused, then smiled again: "We will send the specific invitation letter to the mailboxes of both of you by email. We will also update the selection results of this year's Crawford Awards on the official website. Then , I wish you a happy life, oh, spring is coming, isn’t the traditional festival of Xia Kingdom? On behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, please allow me to wish you a happy Chinese New Year in advance!”

"Thank you. I wish you health and happiness too."

After the call was over, Ning Qingjun was still in a state of disbelief: "This... the Crawford Award, will we share it?"

Qin Ke was overjoyed, hugged her, and kissed her rosy and tender lips: "What do you think? Hahaha, it is indeed correct to choose to publish the paper on the hail conjecture in the "Acta Mathematics" I guessed that Mr. Oliver's repeated requests for drafts should be some kind of hint."

Seeing that Ning Qingyun was still a little dizzy, Qin Ke said to the open laptop: "Shimmer, immediately open the homepage of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and check the list of winners of the latest Crafford Prize."

Shimmer soon popped up a browser window, displaying the list of winners of this year's Crawford Awards. As expected, "KE Qin" and "Qingyun Ning" were clearly written on it.

Moreover, in the introduction of the winners, there are also academic achievements of the two, including two lime number theory processing methods, proofs of the Polignac conjecture and the hail conjecture, and great contributions to the popularization of elementary mathematics, etc. Qin Ke There are also more achievements such as the proof of the twin prime number conjecture and the three sets of expressions of the Riemann conjecture.

It wasn't until she saw the list of winners on the official website that Ning Qingyun woke up like a dream.

Although the status and influence of the Crawford Prize in the international mathematics community are similar to those of the Cole Prize in Number Theory and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, Ning Qingjun, who holds two awards, is fully qualified to win the Craford Prize. There is usually only one quota for mathematics in years, and Ning Qingyun never thought that this year would make an exception, allowing himself and Qin Ke to share such an international mathematics award.

You should know that the last time the Crawford Award was awarded to two mathematicians at the same time was 28 years ago, and the winners were Simon Donaldson and Mr. Qiu!
After reading the list of winners in English twice, Ning Qingyun woke up like a dream, with a great sense of accomplishment and joy welling up in her heart.I can still keep up with Qin Ke, and I am still his No.2!Ning Qingyun couldn't help but hugged Qin Ke back excitedly, and kissed him back.

At this time, Shimmer reminded that a new email had been received. Qin Ke opened the email and saw that it was the electronic invitation letter mentioned by the middle-aged man just now. He and Ning Qingyun each had a copy, inviting them to Sweden to participate in the award ceremony and academic report Yes, the time is the end of February.

But this time the academic report will no longer be a joint report by two people, but an hour for each person. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences hopes that the two people will reply the PPT and posters used for the report by email ten days in advance, so as to facilitate the meeting arrange.

"One hour each." Ning Qingyun became a little nervous.

Although she gave reports at international mathematics conferences, Qin Ke stood beside her to encourage and support her, and she had never tried to give a report for an entire hour by herself.

Qin Ke said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm also on the scene. The content of your report should be the proof of the hail conjecture. Recently, the mathematics community has paid the most attention to this."

Ning Qingyun nodded obediently: "Okay, I'll listen to you. But I talked about this hailstone conjecture. Don't you have to find a new topic for your report?"

"I decided to announce the fourth set of expressions of Riemann's conjecture that I have recently figured out."

Ning Qingyun's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and she said in surprise, "You...you have deduced the fourth set of expressions of Riemann's conjecture?"

Now on the subject of mathematics, Qin Ke has three subjects. The first is naturally the Goldbach conjecture, the second is the Riemann conjecture, and the third is the Navier-Stokes equation.

At present, Ning Qingjun only participated in the Goldbach conjecture, and tried to get in touch with the Navier-Stokes equation.

The derivation of Riemann's conjecture is too difficult. She can only understand Qin Ke's first three sets of derivations. As for how to deduce the fourth set, she has no idea at all.

Considering her own strength and energy, as well as the significance of Riemann's conjecture, she no longer participated in the subject of Riemann's conjecture, but left it to Qin Ke to complete independently.

In contrast, she devoted more time and energy to Goldbach's conjecture to relieve Qin Ke's burden and pressure on this subject.

Qin Ke has "The Complete Explanation of the Riemann Hypothesis" in his hand, but he has only fully understood the first four groups so far, and there are still many places in the fifth group that he has not been able to figure out clearly. That is to say, he is still one step away from completely cracking the Riemann Hypothesis. away.

This does not prevent him from publishing the fourth set of expressions.

Qin Ke had already figured it out just now. Even if Goldbach’s conjecture can be proved, the Fields Medal at the end of the year may not be guaranteed. There are many other factors to consider, such as age, gender, and nationality.

For example, there are outstanding mathematicians who are close to 40 years old. If they miss this year, they will miss the Fields Medal forever. Therefore, they will give priority to opportunities as much as possible during the selection.

Another example is female mathematicians, there will also be certain preferential treatment. There are no female mathematicians in the last three Fields Medals. This year, out of gender balance and the original intention of encouraging women to devote themselves to mathematics research, it is likely to give close to 40 One year old female mathematician.

There are only four Fields Medals in one session. After all, Qin Ke is too young. He is only 20 years old this year. He is afraid that he will be delayed for four years because of his age. Ertz Award.

But if a super-killing weapon that solves Goldbach's conjecture + Riemann's conjecture is used, it will really block the gods and destroy the gods, and the magic will kill the devil, sweeping the entire international mathematics community, and the selection of the Fields Medal will not be ignored. Such a great academic achievement that shines in the history of mathematics for a hundred years.

For this reason, it is necessary for Qin Ke to publish the fourth set of expressions that he has thoroughly understood.The best stage is not to publish in academic journals, but in the much-anticipated Craford Awards academic report meeting, and then submit to journals, so that his reputation and influence will be maximized.

Hearing Ning Qingyun's question at this time, Qin Ke smiled and said: "Basically, the last group has some clues, and we will try to get it done within this year."

Ning Qingyun couldn't hide his admiration and excitement in his eyes: "Qin Xiaoke, you are really amazing, this is Riemann's conjecture!"

"Hey, so-so, the third in the world. And there is still the last set of expressions that cannot be deduced. I guess the fifth set of expressions is the key. Yes, when I deduced the fourth set of expressions, I figured out a The new mathematical method may be used in Goldbach's conjecture, and I will study it with you when I sort it out."

In "Full Explanation of the Riemann Hypothesis", when deriving the fourth set of expressions, a new mathematical method based on stochastic differential equations is used, called "non-linear dissipative structured reduction method", which introduces random Factors can combine the advantages of deterministic models (that is, mathematical equations) and stochastic models (that is, probability theory and mathematical statistics) at the same time. A new approach to number theory.

It’s just that it takes time to perfect a mathematical method, and whether it can be applied to Goldbach’s conjecture is also unknown. If Qin Ke does it alone, it will take at least a year. If there is Ning, who is careful and good at number theory, With Qingyun's assistance, this time can be shortened to three or four months.

"Okay." Ning Qingyun was full of energy.

Qin Ke remembered something: "By the way, I have to call Mr. Oliver. I guess Mr. Oliver must have made a lot of effort to win the Crawford Award at the same time this time."

In fact, this is indeed the case. Mr. Oliver, the editor-in-chief of "Acta Mathematica" is also one of the judges of the Crafford Award. It was the concealed praise that finally led to the birth of the special exception that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun won awards at the same time.

Because generally speaking, even if there are two places, it will not be given to two mathematicians from the same country.

And behind this, there are many other factors, such as Uncle Chen spared no effort to promote Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun in the international mathematics circle in the early stage, Mr. Qiu's secret help and so on.

Of course, the main reason is that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's academic achievements are too dazzling, and they are the most popular young mathematicians in the international mathematics circle in the past two years.

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The news quickly spread to the school leaders of Qingmu University. After all, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun had to be approved by the school to go abroad to accept the award. Principal Gu Bojun's office reported, and Gu Bojun went to report to Principal Huang. Principal Huang clapped the case and said happily: "Apply to the superior immediately! Hahaha, the school can do the publicity work in advance!"

As long as the list of Crafford Awards is announced on the official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, it is considered an award, and there is no need to get the final medals and bonuses. For Qingmu University, it is naturally willing to publicize two waves, the first wave is the award. , the second wave is that Qin Ke stood on the podium to receive the award.

Half an hour later, Qingmu University's website homepage, bib account, and station B account all released the good news almost at the same time.

"Warmly congratulate Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, students from the Department of Mathematics of our school, who won the Crafford Award at the same time! The Crafford Award was selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. This is the first time that a Chinese mathematician has won this award. Congratulations to the two students, It has filled a new gap in the mathematics field of our country!"

The entire Xia Kingdom's mathematics community was aroused by it, and there was a lot of enthusiasm on the Internet about Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's early debunking of academic scum. The emergence of such new explosive news immediately aroused the shock and cheers of countless netizens!

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