The average age of the Gold Award winner is 25 -year -old "Houlang" dominate the list 2022 Ali Global Mathematics Competition

Zhejiang News Client reporter Zhu Mei

On September 26, the 2022 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition announced the award list, with a total of 77 winners worldwide.

This competition has attracted more than 55,000 people around the world to register. It is the largest number of applicants since the 2018 contest. About 1%of them broke into the finals. "We are hugging the future of mathematics enthusiastically.

"Hou Wave" connection

Four new faces won the Gold Award this year are Lu Weixiao from MIT, Chen Zekun from Peking University, Rao Zhenghao of Brown University, and Yao Yuan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are all post -95s, with an average age of 25, and they are studying for a PhD in mathematics.

Yao Yuan, born in 1998, and Zhang Shengtong, a silver award winner in 2000, broke the problem of more than 70 years in the mathematical industry in the undergraduate stage -the maximum value of the number of corner lines such as high -dimensional space, and the results were published in mathematics. One of the four top issues of Mathematics.

"This is actually a summer issue, because there are some programming foundations. At that time, I did more. It was to verify that many conjectures were feasible by programming. If this conjecture was wrong, I quickly found the countercraccred example to help us help us. The team found the follow -up direction. "Yao Yuan said that since childhood, he has participated in many mathematics competitions. After graduating from undergraduate, there is basically no competition to participate. It is very interesting and allows yourself to come out a little bit from your own research direction to understand things in other areas.

The other two gold awards, Rao Zhenghao and Chen Zeun are Wuhan fellows. They were in high school and had a competition in Shanghai. Both of them participated in many mathematics contests, this time I got a very satisfactory result.

"I have started to participate in the first session. This competition is very happy. Because doing research and writing Paper is a long -term process, it is often tired; The two kinds of meals and snacks are the same as eating snacks. "Chen Zekun thought he was not the top student since he was a child." I think you must be interested in learning mathematics well. You think this thing is interesting to learn. After learning, the greater the proportion of interests and energy, sometimes it will be greater than your talent. Deciding whether you can be a mathematical worker, the most important thing is your interest and energy, followed by talent. "

Rao Zhenghao is also because the preliminaries of the competition are close to life, and I think the competition is very interesting. "I also built a model for the first question of this year's preliminaries to do it myself. Although it failed, it was also a process of discovering fun. The topic of the finals was relatively difficult, but you know that this question must have answers. This is different from scientific research. This is different from scientific research. Many times do research, you don't know that your result is right or wrong, "he said.

Lu Weixiao is the third time this year. In the interview, he said that when he was selected undergraduate, he also heard his family opinions and did not choose a pure mathematical direction. However, after undergraduate, he was increasingly attracted by the theorem, conclusions or construction of mathematics, and finally returned to the direction of basic mathematics.

Discover the beauty of mathematics

"In these years, I have learned mathematics, and I have found that mathematics is much wider than I think." In Lu Weixiao's view, the subject of mathematics is strict, and it has gradually architected from the bottom layer. "Building" fascinated him, and mathematics as a basic discipline, and has a deep connection with different disciplines, which also made him intoxicated. "In the future, I hope to be mathematics or teach mathematics."

"Mathematics has developed a lot of theories." Chen Zukun used the example of mentor Liu Ruchuan to describe the beauty of mathematics: traditional mathematics is like taking the mystery in the two -dimensional world, and the development of mathematics theory directly "fly" to the three -dimensional world with researchers. "Sometimes after you find some theories, you find that all obstacles have existed. This is also a very interesting thing. I think this is also one aspect of the beauty of mathematics."

For mathematical researchers, nothing can be solved in a short time, but they still enjoy the happiness. "The daily life is to walk between dead roads and dead roads." Chen Zekun said that it was not because you did mathematics very great, but because in the process, you will gain a lot of happiness that can make you "wow". "I am very impressed with a preliminary choice question. A three -dimensional toy, ask you if you can make the two points on the toy through the operation the farthest. I have seen this toy before, but I haven't gotten it in person. I am myself. I am myself. After thinking about the structure, I used my own three -dimensional three -dimensional space imagination ability to solve it. Later, I saw everyone discussed on the Internet and saw a more powerful structure. At that time, the feeling was, 'Wow, this can be? Said that mathematics can derive complex structures through particularly simple rules, and then we look for simple rules from the complex structure. This feeling of repeated jumping between simple and complex is very fascinating.

"Every research direction of mathematics is deep. The more you learn, you will find that the more things you don't know. If you keep in touch with these things, you will be more interested in the road Although this road sometimes runs into the wall, and sometimes the problem of thinking is not results, the process of exploring can bring themselves a lot of inspiration, and this is also the beauty of mathematics.

"Mathematics allows me to face the problem directly. Many practical problems cannot be overcome or may choose to bypass it, but for mathematics, a question can only face it without overcoming it." Zhou Shengyi, a doctor of Mathematics from Peking University from Guigang, Guangxi, won the competition. The award, he said that choosing mathematics is actually not only a moment of happiness, but it also includes pain and suffering for a long period of time to make problems. This long -term state is the choice of real mathematics.

"I hope to find a problem that really belongs to me." Zhou Shengyi said that before undergraduate, you would consider whether to switch career, or to make money or go to the Internet "big factory", to financial companies ... "But in recent years, I have become less and less less and less To ask this question. In mathematicians, we do mathematics because mathematics is a little bit higher than happiness. "

Permeter uncertainty

At the beginning of the 21st century, a number of outstanding young people appeared in the Chinese mathematics community, such as Liu Ruchuan, Liu Yifeng, Xiao Liang, Xu Chenyang, and Yuan Xinyi of the Peking University Channel Council. They have made great achievements at a young age, emerging in the international mathematics circle, and are known as the "golden generation" on the stage of mathematics.

Twenty years later, the disciples of the "Golden Generation" also began to show their edge. Chen Zekun, a student of Liu Ruchuan, won the gold award of this contest; he won Qu Xiaoyu, who won the 63rd International Mathematical Olympic Gold Medal in 2022 under the guidance of Xiao Liang. At the age of 16, he won the Outstanding Award of the Ali Global Mathematics Competition, becoming the youngest in the past contest. Winners.

"Interest is the best instructor of mathematics. Our job is only a passable pursuit of mathematics." Xiao Liang, a professor at the School of Mathematics Sciences at Peking University, said that the new generation of mathematics world is more broad, and he is more pleased that The reason is that many younger generations no longer regard mathematics competitions as springboards, but have been solid into the study of basic research and application of mathematics.

On the other hand, in recent years, a large number of overseas scholars in the field of mathematics have returned to China, which has enriched the teaching and scientific research strength of various universities in China. "We also hope that the level of mathematics research in undergraduate and graduate students will continue to move closer to world -class schools, and strive to go hand in hand with them in the next five to ten years." Xiao Liang said.

"Whether or not they won in the competition, the contestants have shown a strong interest in mathematics and mathematics research." Xiao Liang said that mathematics is an important part of basic education, and in various industries To, and the thinking of mathematics transmission, the exercise of logical thinking ability is also very important. "Many knowledge and skills learned in the competition have been repeatedly used in mathematical research in the following mathematics. Even if you do not do mathematical research in the future, it is very helpful to engage in other mathematics -related work." He said.

Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition is a global mathematical competition. Since the four sessions, nearly 200,000 mathematical enthusiasts have attracted more than 70 countries and regions around the world. Different from previous years, the total bonus of this mathematics competition increased from 1 million yuan to more than 4 million yuan. It can better support the enrollment and scientific research of this group of young mathematics for master's and doctoral stages.

Zhang Yong, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group's board of directors, said: "Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition has been the fourth session this year. I am glad to see more and more mathematical enthusiasts with different backgrounds worldwide, and share the beauty of mathematics. I hope that in the landscape of mathematics, it will also solve the beautiful answer for the question of life. "

"Some people often ask us, will you always run a math competition? If you do not have any business significance in this competition, will your company let you continue to run?" Members, she believes that in high uncertainty, mathematics can penetrate these phenomena to see the essence, and it is also a place for investigating and placing curiosity.

During the contest, Liu Xiangwen's most emotional thing was that after the 00s continued to rise."At the time of signing up this year, almost 40 % of the players were after 00. Many students and instructor of this generation are the 'golden generations' of mathematics. I hope to witness the inheritance between the master and the master.There will be more mathematics 'new stars' rising. "She said, hoping that through the competition, more people can see mathematics, pay attention to mathematics, support the development of mathematics in the country and the world, and more mathematical talents.nourish.Attachment: 2022 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition List

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