In the global mathematics competition, two Wuhan people won the gold award

On September 26, the 2022 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition announced the award list. This contest attracted more than 55,000 people in dozens of countries and regions to sign up, and half of the winners were after 00. The 00s who took over from the "Golden Generation" became the youngest "new generation of mathematics" in the history of the contest. They will share more than 4 million bonuses.

It is happy that two of the four winners of the Gold Award this year are Wuhan people.

The reporter learned that among the four gold cups of this year, Chen Zekun of Peking University and Rao Zhenghao of Brown University are all Wuhan. The average age of the four gold award winners is 25 years old, 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.

"A generation of mathematics people have the mission of a generation of mathematicians, and look forward to you who are rising." Tian Gang, chairman of the Chinese Mathematics Association and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said, "The whole society is looking forward to the new" golden generation "of Chinese mathematics. At this moment, you are in the golden age of your own life. "

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; 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 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition. The winner.

It is reported that the Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition was co -organized by the China Science and Technology Association, Alibaba Public Welfare and Dharma Institute. It is the only public welfare mathematics event in the industry without threshold and answer. Since the four sessions, nearly 200,000 mathematical enthusiasts have attracted more than 70 countries and regions around the world. For the first time in this contest, the bonus of the competition has been increased, and the total bonus has been expanded from 1 million yuan to more than 4 million yuan. Gold, silver, copper and outstanding prize winners can receive $ 40,000, $ 20,000, $ 10,000 and $ 5,000.

Attachment: List of winning

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