I really just want to be a scholar

In a large conference room in the office building of the ICTP headquarters, there are more than [-] expert judges sitting around at this time.

These judges are all heavyweight masters in the international mathematics field in recent decades. Except for ten people from universities and research institutes all over Italy, the rest are from famous high-rise buildings and research institutes all over the world. , are all math bosses who can sit on one side.

For example, Professor Largovsky of Moscow University, he is a disciple of the famous mathematician Yakov Sinai. He has proved Wyton’s conjecture. He is famous for his ergodic theory and functional approximate calculation. Several mathematics awards including the Lowski Award.

Another example is the boss sitting in the middle, Professor Batid Boone from Cambridge University. He is 75 years old this year. He is very famous in the fields of differential equations, complex geometry, and functional analysis. He has researched in high-dimensional topology. The achievements are even more famous all over the world. Although this part of the main academic achievements was achieved at the age of 47, it is a pity that I missed the Fields Medal, but I have won the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize, as well as the highest honor of the Royal Society for popular science. Lee Medal, and is currently an Honorary President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, knighted.

In addition to such heavyweights as Professor Boone, there are several Filipino prize-winners, including Professor Elon Linden-Strauss, who was born in Princeton, the United States, and is currently teaching at Hebrew University, and from Cambridge University, Professor Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat's theorem, is an old acquaintance of Qin Ke.

The papers, books, and theorems proposed and proved by many of the judges can still be found in university textbooks in many countries.

The fact that so many big names from the international mathematics community can be invited to form a luxurious jury panel shows how powerful IMU and ICTP are, and also confirms the gold content of this ICTP Ramanujan Award.This prize is only $[-], and it is indeed eligible to be compared with the Cole Prize and the Mathematical Breakthrough Prize.

——Here is a brief mention that there is another SASTRA Ramanujan Award in India, which was established by the Shanmuha Art and Technology Research Institute. It is only awarded to young mathematicians under the age of 32 who have the same interests as Ramanujan, because it is Selected by Shanmuha Institute of Arts and Technology, a university ranked more than 1000 in the world, its influence and authority are not as good as the ICTP Ramanu Gold Award, and the prize money is only [-] US dollars.Mathematics genius Professor Tao won the SASTRA Ramanujan Award.

Generally speaking, when the Ramanujin Award is mentioned internationally, it mainly refers to the ICTP Ramanujin Award.

These mathematicians who used to give each other face, but now they are arguing over whether a young mathematician from Xia Kingdom can pass the review and enter the final selection and voting round, spitting and grumpy They even patted the table.

Professor Andrew Wiles frowned, and said slowly: "Why isn't Qin Ke eligible for the Ramanu Gold Award?"

Professor Leo from the Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Mathematics at the University of Madras was the one who could not accept Qin Ke's award the most. In his anger, he no longer cared about Mr. Wiles' academic status, and said loudly: "If It is the greatest disrespect to Mr. Ramanujan to let Qin Ke win the Ramanujan Award! We will never accept a person who has damaged the honor of Mr. Ramanujan to win this award!"

It has been more than a hundred years since Ramanujan passed away, but as India's most outstanding mathematics master in the past thousand years, his followers are all over the world, and he is even deified in the Indian academic circle as the "God of Mathematics", and countless people regard him as the spirit idol.

Ramanujan's life was indeed legendary enough. He had no formal mathematics education, and was repeatedly dropped out of college because of his poor performance in liberal arts. In addition, his personality was withdrawn and out of gregariousness. During his lifetime, there was not even one student who recognized him in India. I have no good friends.

But these have not affected the achievements of this super mathematical genius across the ages.

In a short life of 32 years, Ramanujan has achieved mathematical achievements that countless people look up to in number theory, gamma function, modular form, divergent series, hypergeometric series, and prime number theory. Hardy was regarded as an inexhaustible mathematical genius, and spared no effort to help him become famous and become a student of the Royal Society and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University.

Ironically, Ramanujan was not valued by India during his lifetime, and died of an early illness because of poverty and long-term poverty. However, with Hardy's promotion and research on more than 3900 propositions and formulas left by him, this famous The masters of mathematics who "discovered and created mathematics" began to bloom with dazzling brilliance, and eventually became world-renowned masters of mathematics.

What surprised him the most was his extremely keen intuition for mathematics. He can often draw conclusions or derive formulas by intuition, skipping the detailed proof process, and the accuracy of this intuition is astonishing. So far, Qin Ke is the only one who pointed out that The "Hardy-Ramanujan system" cannot prove the Riemann conjecture, but it only denies the prospect of this system in proving the Riemann conjecture, without denying its significance and contribution in mathematics.

However, such a denial was enough to make Ramanujan's fanatical believers fly into a rage, feeling that the god of mathematics in their hearts was offended, and they were extremely hostile to Qin Ke.

Other awards are fine, they can't interfere and can only stare blankly, but how can Qin Ke get this mathematics award named after Ramanujan?

After Professor Leo, who was the vanguard, jumped out to strongly oppose it, the other six university professors from India also joined the opposition formation with arrogance.

Professor Linden-Strauss glanced at the judges around him, and saw that about half of them showed disapproval of these accusations, but due to the aggressiveness of professors from India, they were too lazy to refute, and about one third of them The judges frowned and were displeased. It could be seen that they supported Qin Ke or had a good impression of Qin Ke, and Mr. Wiles was the representative.

The rest of the judges were expressionless, unable to see their positions, and most of them were neutral.

Professor Linden-Strauss basically knew it well, and if it didn't work, he would vote. It seemed that Qin Ke was more likely to pass the vote.

Seeing that the accusations made by Professor Leo and others are getting more and more excessive, it is a bit like a shrew cursing the street. Even Professor Linden Strauss, who has always been mild-tempered, couldn't sit still. He stood up and said: "We are here to judge the awards. , please make an objective evaluation based on the academic achievements, international influence, and reputation of the candidates, instead of grasping a certain point and launching a bottomless attack!"

Professor Sasink from Indian Institute of Technology said coldly: "An ignorant lunatic who offended Ramanujan has violated the red line. We are just discussing the facts, not an attack..."

Old Mr. Wiles patted the table, frowned and said again: "Professor Sasink, please pay attention to your wording. Mr. Qin Ke did overthrow the 'Hardy-Ramanujan System', but only denied other The role in proving Riemann's conjecture does not negate its academic value. And the four sets of expressions about Riemann's conjecture published by Mr. Qin Ke in recent years all prove that he is correct. Mathematics is pure and objective Yes, what is right is right, what is wrong is wrong, and it does not necessarily mean that it is right just because it is proposed.”

Seeing that Professor Sasink wanted to refute, old Mr. Wiles stared and said in a deep voice: "I admit that Mr. Ramanujan is indeed a great mathematician, but it is not a real mathematical method to draw conclusions based on intuition. The real mathematical method, in addition to drawing inferences based on keen intuition, must also provide a rigorous, correct, logically self-consistent derivation process and proof process! Mr. Ramanujan did not give the theory himself when he studied number theory. After the demonstration process, what is so strange about mistakes? Even Bernhard Riemann's own theory is just called "conjecture" and "conjecture". Could it be that Mr. Ramanujan's more than 3000 formulas and inferences, Can it become a theorem or even a truth without argumentation, which cannot be questioned or overthrown by others?"

With Mr. Wiles' status in the international mathematics community, coupled with these powerful words, he immediately suppressed the arrogance of the opposition headed by Professor Leo and Sassink.

Professor Batid Boone, who had been silent since entering the conference room, suddenly spoke out: "If I remember correctly, Mr. Ramanujan never thought that all his theories were correct, so he put Send your own thoughts to Mr. Hardy for review. This is Mr. Ramanujan's mind as a mathematician. If you know his juniors in heaven, you will treat him as someone who cannot tolerate any doubts and corrections. How would Mr. Ramanujan feel about a narrow-minded and conceited person?"

The words of the venerable Professor Boone made the opposition even more speechless.

Professor Linden-Strauss stared at them and continued to add fire: "No one can ignore Qin Ke's achievements in mathematics. Not to mention anything else, he only solved two-thirds of the Riemann Hypothesis. He can be called a mathematician of a generation. There are many discussions about these four groups of expressions, but up to now, no mathematician with a reputation and level can pick out any faults, which is enough to prove that he The derivation process and conclusions are true. Not to mention that he has successively proved nearly ten world-class mathematical conjectures, including the Polignac conjecture and the hailstone conjecture. The mathematics textbooks he has written have been found by countless children who are struggling with mathematics. I have learned the tricks to getting started. If even such an outstanding mathematician cannot participate in the final selection of the Ramanujan Award, then the Ramanujan Award will only be criticized and the reputation will be greatly damaged! I will also withdraw from the list of judges for this session!"

Old Mr. Wiles nodded in agreement: "That's right, on the contrary, if Qin Ke can finally win the Ramanujan Award, it will prove to the world the fairness of this award and the broad mind passed down by the descendants of the Ramanujan family." .”

Professor Boone directly came to the conclusion: "Then let's conduct a democratic vote. Those who agree with Qin Ke to enter the final selection list, please show your hands to vote." He himself raised his hand first, Professor Linden Strauss, Wyatt Old Mr. Ernes also raised his hand without hesitation.

Most of the rest of the judges followed suit and raised their hands.

With a good international reputation and outstanding academic achievements, Qin Ke successfully advanced to the final selection list with 25 votes.

Then, in a larger formal voting session a few days later, the name "Qin Ke" stood out from five mathematician candidates from different countries with 67% of the votes, and finally appeared on the list of winners announced by ICTP among.