From failed candidate to chief scientist

Chapter 99 Fields Medal
"So, you still have hope, come on, I'm looking forward to having a Fields Medal winner who truly belongs to our Xia State mathematics community. Instead of doing it like now, just to go up and give a one-hour report. We need to engage in internal friction."

Jiang Fanjun glanced at Lin Mo expectantly, then turned and glanced at Li Fuqing, with a bit of disdain in his eyes.

"Well... I will."

Lin Mo thought for a while and nodded.

While Lin Mo and Jiang Fanjun were talking, the list of winners had already begun to be announced on the stage.

Yes, mathematicians are so simple and unpretentious. Unlike the entertainment industry, they have to get some nominations first, then play some clips, and finally make some exciting BGM to whet people's appetite, and then announce the winners.

The Fields Medal is not so complicated, and there is no nomination list. The winners are announced directly.

"The winner of the 29th Fields Medal, Xu Ji'er."

Mori Shigebumi started to read the name directly.

"He introduced the ideas of Hodge theory into combinatorics, proved the Dowling-Wilson conjecture of geometric lattices, proved the Heron-Rota-Welsh conjecture of matroids, developed Lorentz polynomials, and proved the strong Mersenne conjecture."

As the results of Xu Ji'er's award were announced, the mathematicians attending the meeting applauded one after another.

It can be seen from these achievements of Xu Yuer alone that Xu Yuer can be said to have made a very large innovative breakthrough.

"Xu Ji'er? A native of Xia?"

Lin Mo cast a pleading look at Jiang Fanjun.

"No, Xu Ji'er is from Bang country, to be precise, he is from Bang country."

As Jiang Fanjun finished speaking, a young man with obvious Asian characteristics stepped onto the stage. In appearance, he looked very similar to a Xia nationality. But as Xu Jiur spoke, Lin Fan confirmed Jiang Fanjun's words.

"I am very happy to be recognized by the organizing committee. I would like to thank my teacher, Mr. Heiyu Hironaka. If it weren't for him, maybe I would have become a reporter and be busy writing reporting materials on the sidelines."

Xu Ji'er teased himself very humorously.

Before Xu Yun'er went to college, his math scores were average, or even bad. It wasn't until his senior year that he met Fields Medal winner Guang Zhong Pingyou, and was discovered by Guang Zhong Pingyou. After studying at Guang Zhong Pingyou's graduate school, he awakened. With his talent in mathematics, he has been making great progress, and now he is on the podium of the Fields Medal.

Following Xu Jiur's words, everyone turned their attention to Guangzhong Pingyou who was sitting in front, and the camera quickly cut to Guangzhong Pingyou.

Guang Zhong Pingyou's face appeared on the big screen on the stage. Guang Zhong Pingyou, who was over ninety years old, looked at Xu Ji'er on the stage, with a happy smile on his old face.

"This is a kind of inheritance. Teachers and students receive Fields at the same time, which is a good story in mathematics."

Jiang Fanjun couldn't help but sigh while explaining the relationship between Xu Ji'er and Guangzhong Pingyou to Lin Mo and Zhang Qihua.

"The winner of the 29th Fields Medal is Marina Vyazovska."

After Xu Ji'er gave his acceptance speech, Mori Shigebumi continued to announce the winners.

Usually there are 2-4 Fields Medal winners in each session. Except for very young people, most of the time, the Fields Medals are awarded to all four places. After all, the Fields Medals only come once every four years. , so many results were published during the four years, and the fields of mathematics involved were so diverse that it is not easy to distinguish the superior from the inferior.

"Marina Viazovska proved that the E8 lattice provides the densest packing method of identical spheres in 8 dimensions and made further contributions to related extreme value problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis." Hear from Mary Lin Mo couldn't help but feel moved when Na studied Fourier analysis and obtained Fields in one go.

"Professor Jiang, do you understand this research on Marina?"

Jiang Fanjun shook his head. I am engaged in computational mathematics and don't know much about this aspect. Why, are you interested?
"No, I just happened to be studying Fourier recently, so I wanted to know more about it."

"Then you can go to the organizing committee and ask for Marina's contact information after the meeting, and have a good discussion with her."

Lin Mo nodded upon hearing this.

"Oh, I am very happy to be recognized by the organizing committee and give me this award. As a woman, it is not easy to be able to stand here. I hope that more female mathematicians can stand on this stage in the future. They can bring out the splendor of their lives in the work of mathematical research."

Marina became the second female mathematician to win the Fields Medal after Persian mathematician Mariam Mirzakhani.She is the only two female mathematicians to win this honor in the 1936 years since Fields first established the award in 86.

It’s no wonder that Marina is calling for women to speak out for female mathematicians.

"Of course, here, I also want to appeal, appeal for world peace, and appeal to everyone to help me, to help my motherland that is still in war..."

Science has national borders, but scientists have national borders. As a mathematician with a permanent residence, although Marina has lived in Bern for a long time, she still cares about the motherland and wants to speak out for the motherland that is still devastated by war and seek help.

In this regard, compared to the warmth of teachers and students of Xu Ji'er and Guangzhong Pingyou, which attracted a round of applause, Marina's response was silence from the audience.

Marina Vyazovska walked off the stage with the trophy in a somewhat resentful manner.

Lin Mo, Zhang Qihua, and Jiang Fanjun looked at each other and sighed in unison.

"Thank you for being born in Xia Kingdom."

Jiang Fanjun muttered in a low voice.

"The third person to win the Fields Medal is a mathematician from France, Hugo Dumini-Copan."

"Hugo Dimini-Copan solved long-standing problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, especially in three and four dimensions. He transformed the mathematical theory related to phase transitions in statistical physics, he Addressing several long-standing open problems, especially in the case of nonintegrability in three and four dimensions and in two dimensions, his work opens several new research directions."

"Probability theory?"

Lin Mo thought for a while, and his subject values ​​were all used in basic mathematics. He really seldom touched on the content of probability theory, and he didn't know much about it.

A young man with an afro walked onto the stage.

"Thanks to the organizing committee, and I also want to thank myself. The reason why I can achieve such results depends on my hobby, sports."

"Yes, I love sports very much. Hiking, cycling, swimming, mountain climbing, etc., all sports. Many of my ideas come from sports and life."

"As Mr. Chairman just introduced, my research was inspired by observing mountain springs while hiking. Establishing fluid models that flow through porous media, just like water flowing through coffee grounds. These models involve random networks form connected clusters."

(End of this chapter)