The Wolf Prize was established by the Israeli Wolf Foundation and includes five awards in mathematical physics, chemistry, medicine, and agriculture.
Later, an additional art award was added.
Among them, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics and the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal are collectively known as the three major awards in mathematics.
It is the highest honor that mathematicians around the world want to receive.
The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded to mathematicians who have made significant contributions to the field of mathematics.
And there is no age limit.
There are many older mathematicians who cannot win the Fields Medal, which has an age limit, so they have to put their hope in the Wolf Prize.
Xu Yun has successively proved the Hodge conjecture and the Fibonacci sequence that there are infinite prime numbers. The contribution made by these two points alone to the mathematical world is even worse than Perelman who proved the Poincaré conjecture. It stands to reason that Prizes in mathematics should be honored to be awarded to him.
But the reality is that judges are responsible for the evaluation of awards. It does not mean that you will definitely win the award if you prove something difficult.
There's nothing you can do if they don't give it to you.
After all, these awards are all established for famous overseas mathematicians.
So far, no real Chinese who has received traditional education has won the highest honor in mathematics.
The appearance of Xu Yun gave everyone hope. Therefore, in addition to the Mathematical Society, many ordinary netizens are also paying attention to the announcement of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
On January 26, local time, the Wolf Foundation officially announced the list of all winners.
Because the mathematics prizes were ranked first, everyone could see the names of the winners at a glance.
The other party is from Stanford University.
Apparently Xu Yun, known as a teenage genius, lost the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
When the news quickly spread back to China and was reported by official media, the topic of Xu Yun's defeat also quickly became a hot search topic on major websites.
The number of topic comments is increasing at a rocket-like speed.
Many people were aggrieved and regretted Xu Yun's failure to win the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
Others are not surprised.
Consider it to be expected.
“It’s really incredible to prove that the world’s most difficult mathematical problem can’t win the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.”
"Are overseas awards so complicated?"
"It's not that you can't get it, but Xu Shen is too young now. Maybe he can get it in a few years."
"It can only be said that the Wolf Prize in Mathematics also depends on qualifications. There are too many mathematicians who have been blocked by the Fields Medal. They all want to win the Wolf Prize in Mathematics to obtain this lifelong honor."
"What's the point of a late award?"
"I have already guessed this result. I can only say that Xu Shen is one of ours."
"Let's wait until the Fields Medal is announced in August. Mathematicians under the age of 40 cannot compare with Xu Shen."
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Compared with domestic netizens' support for Xu Yun, many users on the overseas website Twitter were sarcastic, once again blaming Xu Yun's contribution to the mathematics community on luck. Some people even said that the Wolf Foundation did not award the award because it saw Xu Yun's true level, and called on the Abel Prize and Fields Medal judges not to award the award to Xu Yun.
"It's impossible for them to have this kind of mathematical genius. They're just lucky."
"The Wolf Foundation must have confirmed that the other party was not good enough, so it did not award the Wolf Prize in Mathematics to him."
"That Xu Yun just has more luck than other mathematicians. How can he win the highest honor in mathematics?"
"I don't think the topological group theory he proposed is feasible at all. I heard that it has been stopped for a long time."
"Our professor at Seoul National University has actually proved the Hodge conjecture, which is a difficult problem in mathematics in the world, but he has never published a paper and made it public. That Xu Yun must have plagiarized our proof."
Faced with this kind of enthusiasm that involves the entire mathematics community, local media, TV stations and newspapers will definitely not just look at it. Naturally, they will start analyzing and reporting from all angles.
The news that Xu Yun lost the election made headlines overseas that day, and a TV station even ran a special program.
However, netizens are talking about it, and no well-known mathematician has personally expressed his position.
Most posts congratulating winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
Obviously they still recognized Xu Yun's strength.
The next day.
Xu Yun is staying at the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics to make the final demonstration of his topological group theory.
He didn’t pay much attention to the so-called awards, and he didn’t even know that today was the day when the Wolf Prize in Mathematics was announced.
The only one I know the most about is the Fields Medal, which is known as the Nobel Prize in mathematics.
But this will have to wait until August to be announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
"Huh~"
“I finally completed the demonstration after several months in a row.”
"The theory has matured."
At the desk, Xu Yun suddenly puffed up his chest, put down the pen in his hand, looked at the dense mathematical formulas on the draft paper in front of him, and slowly raised the corners of his mouth with a smile from the heart. While whispering softly in his mouth, he did not hide the joy on his face at all. The depression that he had spent on perfecting topological group theory for many days disappeared in an instant.
Yes.
He successfully perfected topological group theory.
More strictly speaking, it should be called a theorem for now.
Xu's theorem.
The key is that he did not rely on brain overclocking during this period, and relied solely on his current strength for research.
It can be said that this joy is even greater than proving the Hodge conjecture.
After all, he didn't do much to prove Hodge's conjecture, he just mastered the proof process.
The advent of Xu's theorem also meant that he could start writing and publishing related papers.
Even because the whole process is in your mind, writing the paper won't be too strenuous.
I believe that I will be able to submit another article to the Annual Journal of Mathematics soon.
"Strike while the iron is hot, let's start writing the paper today."
Xu Yun stood up and poured himself a glass of water. After moving his body for a while, he decided to take advantage of his current energy to finish the paper.
This saves the domestic professors who study number theory from having to come over from time to time to urge updates offline.
Among them, Satoshi Yutani is the most frequent.
The reason for my choice is also very legitimate, to come to Jingzhou University to give a mathematics lecture.
Qin Xiangxin will definitely not refuse this.
As for those voices from overseas, he couldn't see them anyway, so he just chose to ignore them.
But just when he turned on the computer, he suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from outside the office.
"Xu Yun."
"Something serious has happened."
As soon as he raised his eyes, he saw several roommates in the dormitory pushing open the door. Among them, Qian Yudong was full of indignation.
Knowing Qian Yudong's character, Xu Yun didn't pay much attention to the big things he mentioned, but first set his sights on Zhou Qi and Zhao Yuefeng.
"Why did you two have time to come over? How was your review?"
Zhao Yuefeng and Zhou Qi are both people who plan to study for graduate school. Among them, Zhou Qi has a high probability of getting the postgraduate qualification from his school, while Zhao Yuefeng needs to take this year's graduate examination.
After all calculations, there are only ten months left.
For this reason, Zhao Yuefeng spent time in the library whenever he had time, and even canceled all activities with the girls from the photography club.
It is somewhat similar to his efforts in perfecting topological group theory.
Normally, he should be in the library today, Saturday. It was really surprising that he could come with Zhou Qi and Qian Yudong.
As Xu Yun moved farther and farther away, the time they spent seeing each other decreased, but Zhao Yuefeng's gratitude to Xu Yun grew stronger.
Especially when I think that after Xu Yun became a graduate student, he still took the trouble to help explain when he asked for advice. This is something that no other mathematics professor would be able to do.
Therefore, upon hearing Xu Yun's question, Zhao Yuefeng quickly answered with an honest smile on his lips.
"I would also like to thank Brother Yun for helping me review. Now I am very confident in my own level."
"We should be able to get ashore smoothly."
"Fengzi really works hard enough. I'm ashamed of myself at this point." Zhou Qi added with a smile.
Xu Yun responded with a smile: "That's good."
After saying that, he turned his attention to Qian Yudong.
Ask about the specific situation.
"What's wrong, principal? What happened again?"
"Don't you know that you lost the Wolf Prize in Mathematics?" Qian Yudong replied immediately, with a very surprised look on his face.
In his opinion, mathematicians who are expected to win the prize should stay in front of the computer to get the list immediately.
It's not like Xu Yun didn't know even a day had passed.
This is too Buddhist.
"This matter, if you lose the election, you will lose the election." Xu Yun said calmly after hearing this.
The whole person didn't react much.
It's not even a gold medal, but he looks down on it.
Seeing Xu Yun's indifferent attitude, Qian Yudong and others were filled with admiration.
Do you think this is the realm of a boss?
But soon Qian Yudong thought of something again and quickly talked about another thing.
"And you were mocked by an old man."
"What?"
"Taunting me?"
"Old man?"
Xu Yun was a little confused when he suddenly heard this sentence. Some people on the Internet just posted random comments and spread rumors to set the pace. Why is there an old man coming to trouble him now?
Could it be that he is jealous of his youth?
At this time, Qian Yudong also obviously saw the doubts in Xu Yun's heart, and quickly opened his mobile phone to find a saved video.
"See for yourself."
Xu Yun took the phone with a suspicious face, clicked on the video and found that it was transferred from the external network YouTube.
The content seems to be a TV station column from Neon.
He suppressed his curiosity for the time being and continued to read below. From the translated identity introduction subtitles, he learned that the woman was the host of the column, and the old man Qian Yudong mentioned was Ohno Oho, a professor at Dongjing University.
"Welcome Mr. Ohno, Professor of Dongjing University, to our special program today."
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"These two days are a grand event in the mathematics world. The list of this year's Wolf Prize in Mathematics has been announced. What do you think of this award winner, Professor Ohno?"
As the video played, the female host went through the motions and mentioned the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
And invite guests to comment.
Originally, the video was normal. Ohno only needed to say a few words about the winners' contributions to the world of mathematics.
But later the other party just brought the topic to Xu Yun, who was defeated, and criticized the proof of Hodge's conjecture and topological group theory.
He swore that proving Hodge's conjecture was all a matter of luck, and even claimed that topological group theory was a wrong path and could not be used to prove conjectures on number theory problems.
(End of chapter)
