Qiu Chengtong has now won six awards including the Veblen Geometry Prize, the Fields Medal, the MacArthur Medal, the Crafford Medal, the National Medal of Science, and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. It can be said that in this field, he has more awards than him.

There are almost none.

Even Liu Yichen has won many awards, but several of the awards that Qiu Chengtong won, such as the MacArthur Award and the National Science Medal of America, are impossible for him to win in his lifetime.

Because these two awards are only awarded to those with American citizenship.

Liu Yichen and Qiu Chengtong were walking on campus, and gradually they understood Qiu Chengtong's purpose of coming here to find him.

In the past two years, Shing Tong Yau has been putting a lot of energy into the 'Sing Tong Yau Middle School Science Award' and the 'Sing Tong Yau University Mathematics Competition'. Thanks to sufficient financial sponsorship, both competitions have achieved great success and attracted widespread attention.

Qiu Chengtong has made a good splash.

When he had achieved his goal in this regard and was on the right track, Qiu Chengtong gradually returned his attention to academics, hoping to make some more achievements in academics to further establish his position in mathematics.

Yau proved the Calabi conjecture, the positive mass conjecture, etc., and was the founder of the discipline of geometric analysis. The Calabi-Qiu manifold named after him is the basic concept of string theory in physics, and plays an important role in differential geometry and mathematical physics.

made important contributions to development.

It can be said that his achievements in mathematics are already quite great, surpassing 99.99% of mathematicians.

But it can only be said that the mathematics community in the 20th century was an era of great talents, with too many great mathematicians emerging.

No matter you take it out casually, it is an existence that makes people look up to.

Kolmogorov, for example, established an axiom system for probability theory. His research covered almost all fields of mathematics and made many groundbreaking contributions. In the 1930s, he made many contributions in probability theory, projective geometry, mathematical statistics,

He has published more than 80 articles on real variable function theory, topology, approximation theory, differential equations, mathematical logic, biomathematics, history of mathematics and mathematical methodology. His "Fundamentals of Probability Theory" is a classic work on probability theory. This book is the first to include

Probability theory is based on strict axioms and solves the probability part of Hilbert's 6th problem, marking the beginning of a new stage in the development of probability theory and having epoch-making significance.

His paper "Analytical Methods in Probability Theory" laid the foundation for Markov stochastic process theory. Since then, Markov process theory has become a powerful scientific tool.

In topology, Kolmogorov was one of the founders of linear topological space theory and independently introduced the concept of cohomology groups.

Kolmogorov's contributions to mathematics were so amazing that he was hailed as the most outstanding mathematician in the Soviet Union in the 20th century and one of the few most influential mathematicians in the world in the 20th century.

Poincaré, a French mathematician, is one of the greatest mathematicians in France. He is recognized as a leading mathematician after the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He is the last person after Gauss to have comprehensive knowledge of mathematics and its applications.

He made many creative and fundamental contributions to mathematics, mathematical physics and celestial mechanics. In his research on the three-body problem, Poincaré became the first person to discover chaotic deterministic systems and laid the foundation for modern chaotic systems.

Got the basics.

Hilbert, at the 2nd International Congress of Mathematicians held in Paris in 1900, the 38-year-old Hilbert gave a famous explanation entitled "Mathematical Problems", proposing 23 problems facing the new century.

Question. These 23 questions involve most important fields of modern mathematics. The famous Goldbach's conjecture is part of the 8th question. The research on these questions has effectively promoted the development of various branches of mathematics in the 20th century.

It can be said that Hilbert's 23 questions have influenced the development of mathematics for the next hundred years, and they are still affected even today. The gold mines discovered by Hilbert's 23 questions have not yet been discovered.

With Hilbert's 23 questions, Hilbert is enough to be called a great mathematician.

In addition, there are great mathematicians like Weil, Sobolev, Whitney and so on.

So much so that Grothendieck, the "Pope of Mathematics", sometimes even modestly calls him one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.

As for calling him the greatest mathematician of the 20th world, it is a bit less modest, although it is still wrong.

If Qiu Chengtong wants to make further progress in mathematics, he must make greater academic achievements. Otherwise, his position in the history of mathematics will be fixed. It will be very difficult to break into the top ten.

It's just that Qiu Chengtong is already 66 years old. It is almost impossible to make greater achievements in mathematics at this time.

Not to mention the age of 66, it is difficult to achieve great academic achievements even after the age of 40.

Looking at the past two hundred years, it is difficult for any mathematician to escape from this law, that is, almost all the great achievements of a mathematician's life were achieved before the age of 40.

Not to mention those from very remote times, even those who can be called great mathematicians in the past half century are all like this.

Grothendieck is like this, Deligne is like this, Qiu Chengtong is like this, Faltings is like this...

No one can escape this law!

The only exception is Wiles, who proved Fermat's Last Theorem at the age of 41!

As for Perelman, who proved Poincaré's conjecture, after his seclusion, there was no news that he had made any great mathematical results.

In fact, in Liu Yichen's view, Qiu Chengtong, who is already 66 years old, should accept the reality and accept old age, because it is impossible not to accept old age.

It's a pity that Qiu Chengtong has no intention of obeying his elders. He still wants to do some academic research.

It’s not that Liu Yichen doesn’t understand the ways of the world. This kind of cross-school academic cooperation is actually a normal thing. It’s nothing more than Kowloon University providing more funds.

Although Liu Yichen is not very optimistic about it, what if, what if this old boy really does it!?

Furthermore, it is actually not a loss. You can improve the mathematical level of young scholars and get them tempered. If you can learn some unique secrets from them, you will make a lot of money.

Therefore, Liu Yichen agreed.

Mathematics research doesn't actually cost much money. No matter how hard a mathematician works, it is difficult to spend more than one million dollars on academic research in a year.

This can be seen from the scientific research funds of many mathematicians, which range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

A million in scientific research funding is already considered relatively large.

As for the annual scientific research funding exceeding RMB 10 million, that is almost as much as the entire world can count on one hand. There is no doubt that it is extremely heavyweight.
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