The moment the winner was announced, the atmosphere in the venue was instantly ignited.
A 24-year-old Fields Prize winner!
The thunderous applause was like an erupting mountain torrent, deafening even the deaf.
It wasn't just the conference venue that was ignited.
When Sen Chongwen, the chairman of the International Mathematical Union, announced the name "Lu Zhou", the comments section of the CTV live broadcast was instantly flooded with comments.
【6666！】
[God Lu is nutty!]
[Congratulations from Wudaokou, the center of the universe!]
[The third Chinese Fields Prize winner! The first Chinese Fields Prize winner! (fist) (fist)]
[Strong young people, strong country! Like for Professor Lu! (flag) (flag) (flag)]
[We both graduated from the University of Jin Ling, but I feel like I went to a fake university (silly) (silly)]
[The difference between people is sometimes bigger than the difference between humans and pigs (kneeling)]
[I'm freeloading on the luck of a straight-A student. I just hope I don't fail again this semester …]
Even though the overall number of theses had been increasing for a long time, China's mathematics community had always been on the edge of the world.
A Fields Prize didn't mean anything, nor did it mean anything.
However, the brilliance of that medal made countless people see confidence in the new generation of scholars, they saw hope, and they saw the future …
It wasn't just the CTV official Weibo and Weibo that were flooded with comments …
The Shuimu forum, which was just flooded by the Navier – Stokes equations yesterday, was once again flooded by the Fields Prize.
Out of the ten posts, at least five were discussing the new Fields Prize. As for the remaining five posts, even if they weren't discussing the Fields Prize, they were mostly related to the winner …
[Amazing … I remember the legendary 230 IQ Tao Zhexuan won the Fields Prize when he was 31 years old, right?]
[The youngest winner was Jean-Pierre Serre, but he was also 27 years old. It could be said that he broke the record for the Fields Prize by three years …]
[Scary … When did Jin Ling University's mathematics department become this strong?]
[Who knows, I only know they're strong in physics. As for mathematics, there isn't even an academician!]
[The International Mathematical Union sure is bold. Many 39-year-olds are still waiting. Isn't it a bit too early to give the Fields Prize to a 24-year-old?]
[What else? Forget about Goldbach's conjecture, he even solved the Millennium Prize Problem of the Navier – Stokes equation. Do you really think that winning the Fields Award is his honor? And not the other way around?]
…
In the venue, the applause gradually subsided.
Lu Zhou didn't know what happened on the Internet when the leader of the International Mathematical Union read his name.
He didn't know how excited the people who were looking at him were.
He walked onto the stage in a formal suit and received the Fields Medal from Shigefumi Seimori, the president of the International Mathematical Union.
The old professor shook hands with Lu Zhou and congratulated him on behalf of the International Mathematical Union.
"Congratulations, scholar from China."
Lu Zhou smiled and nodded, "Thank you."
After the first winner was announced, the award ceremony continued.
Without any suspense, the second winner was Peter Schulz from Germany.
This guy created a "perfect geometry" with his doctoral thesis and won a world-class award for every two theses. His contributions in the field of arithmetic and algebraic geometry were obvious to all.
He only won the Fields Prize twice because people didn't understand his "p-class perfect space theory". However, after he used the PS theory to make a series of major breakthroughs in the Langlands program, no one could doubt the excellence of this theoretical tool.
Compared to the first two laureates, the second two laureates were slightly inferior. However, there was no doubt that they were also top mathematicians.
One of them was an Iranian scholar from Cambridge University, Kaucher Bilkar. The other was an Australian scholar from Stanford University, Akshay Venkatesh.
The former was a legendary Kurdish refugee, while the latter was the only Australian to win medals in both the International Olympic Physics Competition and the International Olympic Mathematics Competition … Also, he was only twelve years old at the time.
After the list of four scholars was announced, the venue erupted in applause again.
Sophie Morel looked at the four people on stage with a lonely expression. She bit her lower lip and didn't say a word.
Molina, who was sitting next to her, sighed and comforted her supervisor, "… You still have a chance."
On the other side of the venue, Zhang Wei, who was also looking at the stage, suddenly sighed.
Xu Chenyang, who was standing next to him, comforted his old friend, "… That's a shame."
Zhang Wei shook his head and said, "It's fine."
This was his last chance. Four years later, he would be over the age limit of forty years old at the next mathematician conference.
Even though it was a shame that he couldn't win the Fields Medal, he couldn't help but feel comforted.
In any case, the first China Fields Medal winner was born.
Even though he wasn't the one who brought this glory …
Zhang Wei looked at the four Fields Medal winners on stage and suddenly said, "What were you doing when you were 24 years old?"
Xu Chenyang said, "I was studying at Princeton, what else could I be doing?"
"That year, I had just arrived at Columbia University …" Zhang Wei suddenly stopped and shook his head. He then said with a hint of relief in his tone, "It was a fair loss."
…
After the award ceremony.
The four winners sat down together.
Peter Schulz was sitting next to Lu Zhou. The camera wasn't facing him, so he poked Lu Zhou's arm and raised his eyebrows.
"Hey, we meet again."
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Yeah, long time no see."
The two first met at the 2015 American Congress of Mathematicians. Coincidentally, the two were also standing on stage at the same time.
However, one received the Cole Prize in Number Theory, while the other received the Cole Prize in Algebra.
After that, because of academic exchanges, the two had been exchanging emails.
When Lu Zhou went to Germany last time, he originally planned to visit him at the University of Bonn. Unfortunately, Lu Zhou was out of town, so he didn't go.
Schultz smiled and said, "Congratulations, the youngest winner of the Fields Medal. You've broken Jean-Pierre Serre's record by almost an entire conference."
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Thank you, congratulations!"
Schulz originally had the chance to break this record. This was because the "perfect space" theory was born when he was 22 years old, and the following year was the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians.
Unfortunately, although the "perfect space" theory wasn't universally recognized by the algebraic geometry community, it only helped him get his PhD.
Schulz: "You've solved the Navier – Stokes equation, what's next? What direction do you plan on researching? "
Lu Zhou thought for a bit and said, "A small application of the L Manifold in plasma physics."
"Is it still partial differential equations?" Schulz sighed and said, "Seriously, aren't you going to consider algebraic geometry?"
Algebraic geometry was one of the mainstream directions in pure mathematics. In terms of influence, it wasn't an exaggeration to say that it was the most mainstream direction. However, unfortunately, Professor Lu, who came from the Grothendieck school of thought, wasn't interested in the research direction of the founder.
Lu Zhou smiled awkwardly and said, "There are so many geniuses in this area, I don't think I'll miss out."
Schulz smiled and said, "Have you heard of a rumor?"
Lu Zhou: "What rumor?"
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