A dream of Chen Shouzheng, for 20 years, Chinese mathematicians are so rounded

Text ｜ "China Science News" reporter Han Yangmei

From July 6th to 14th, the 29th International Mathematical Conference hosted by the global mathematician "Yunju" by the International Mathematics Alliance.

In 2002, at the 24th international mathematician conference held in Beijing, mathematician Tian Gang, as the first international mathematician conference "one hour reporter" in mainland China, shared the latest research results.

At the meeting, he called on more young people to participate in basic scientific research, hoping that more Chinese mathematicians entered the forefront of international mathematics and achieved more important research results.

Twenty years later, Tian Gang, as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematics Alliance, saw that many of the students participating in the conference had become young leading mathematicians.

"In the past 20 years, my country's mathematics field has achieved unprecedented achievements and has made great progress. This is the result of the joint efforts of all Chinese mathematicians and actively participating in international cooperation."

In an interview with the Journal of China, Tian Gang was attending the meeting of the International Mathematical Alliance Executive Committee overseas.

He said he felt the increasing recognition and attention of the international mathematical community in the international mathematician.

In the past 20 years, Chinese mathematics "stars shine", mathematicians have worked unremittingly, active in the forefront of the world, and strive to achieve the transformation from "followers" to "leaders".

Mathematical research in the forefront of international

The International Mathematical Conference is known as the "Mathematics Olympic Games" and is the most important academic event in the mathematics industry.

At this conference, about 200 "leaders" mathematicians recognized by the academic community were invited to make academic reports, including 14 Chinese mathematicians.

Among all invited reports, the most concerned is the "one -hour report". The most important achievements of mathematicians who are specially invited by the organizing committee and made significant contributions, representing the most important achievements and progress in the recent mathematical field. There are only 21 people per session.

On July 8th, Evanan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the International Machine Learning Research Center of Peking University, made a "one -hour report" and shared his thinking on machine learning.

He is also the third "one -hour reporter" in mainland China after Tian Gang and the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Peng Shigo.

Evanan is the pioneer and main promoter who combines machine learning with applied mathematics.

He first proposed the concept of "AI for Science" and systematically promoted its development and application in many fields such as chemistry, material science, biology, fluid mechanics.

Around 2004, Evanan, who was mainly engaged in applied mathematics research at the time, saw that future big data will be very important, especially the new data analysis algorithm will become the key to the development of data science.

In 2014, Evanan was determined to devote himself to this "strange" career.

In 2020, the Evanan team used machine learning to achieve the molecular dynamic simulation of the primary principle accuracy of hundreds of millions of atoms. Essence

He told the Journal of China, "China is currently at the forefront of the cross -integration field of machine learning and mathematics science. There are quite a number of young people doing better jobs and active on the international stage."

In addition, my country's basic mathematics and application mathematics have also made important breakthroughs.

The research fields of the invited reporters include scientific computing, control theory and optimization, probability statistics, geometry, topology, number theory, Li theory, and partial microcomputers and other current international mathematics frontiers.

"One of the significant signs of my country's mathematical research progress is the high -level cutting -edge research and the research results published in the top international magazines have increased significantly -from a few years 20 years ago, one or two articles to now every year." Tian Gang is right. "China Science News" reporter said.

"New Generation" has great potential

Twenty years ago, mathematician Chen Province expressed his wish again in Beijing: making China a math power.

The new generation of mathematicians did not live up to his expectations.

Today, young talents have become the backbone of the construction of a math power.

As a leader representative of the Digital Realm, Tian Ye, a researcher at the School of Mathematics and System Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will make a 45 -minute report at the 29th International Mathematical Conference, telling a new research on his research on the theory of elliptical curve arithmetic in the field of digital theory in recent years.

For the first time, Tianye's "Millennium Question" of BSD conjecture (Beich and Svina -Dell conjecture) gave clues to the final answer. "The work" "will be a model that encourages many Chinese young mathematicians."

At that time, he was in his early 40s and won the "Lamanu Gold Award".

In the field, mathematical research is an art, full of fun and challenges.

At the key stage of studying the same balance, the field only sleeps for four or five hours a day, and often gets up at 4 am, take a taxi to Xiangshan, and think about the problem while climbing the mountain.

Sometimes I suddenly have some new ideas, and they will immediately call Zhang Shouwu, a professor at Princeton University in the United States. This state lasted for nearly a month, and he finally wanted to understand all the details.

After years of devoted research, the "Arithmetic Algebra Geometry Innovation International Team" with field leaders has been one of the influential teams in the world.

Today, the younger generation of mathematicians are rising, and they are moving towards the future and a new height.

Among the 13 Chinese mathematicians who made 45 minutes of reports at the International Mathematical Conference, Sun Binyong was the youngest of the newly elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019. The number of "post -80s" mathematicians is more than half.

This reminds Tian Gang's international mathematician conference in Beijing 20 years ago.

He said that the conference inspired a group of young people to concentrate on mathematical research and treat mathematics as a lifelong career. They have now done a very prominent job.

"Talent is the foundation of building a math power. The ability of Chinese mathematics' new generation 'is getting stronger and stronger." Tian Gang said that young mathematicians' broad vision and active thinking, coupled with the closeness of the international mathematics community Exchanges are greatly beneficial to improving the level of comprehensive mathematics research in my country and cultivating more reserve mathematics talents.

Mathematics needs "immersion" research

If China has entered the ranks of mathematics 20 years ago, then today, 20 years later, as the country has increased investment in mathematics research and more and more outstanding young people have devoted themselves to mathematical research, China is closer to mathematical power. One step.

"The academic community should develop mathematical disciplines with a truly responsible attitude and truly pay attention to the problem of original innovation and application." Evanan said.

Regarding the lack of questioning of Chinese scholars such as the Phils Award, Tian Gang said that Chinese mathematicians are competitive, and some people have achieved very outstanding results.

"We should look at the awards rationally. There are many ways to recognize, not one of the awards. The most important thing is the recognition and praise of peers."

"We must have confidence and pursue higher goals." In Tian Gang's view, more importantly, more importantly, to think about some big problems, study some more innovative and cutting -edge mathematics issues, leading mathematical disciplines Develop and strive for greater achievements. "The prize is a matter sooner or later."

Mathematics requires "immersive" research, and the quiet academic environment and research staff are devoted.

Tianye believes that a reasonable evaluation system should be established so that scientific researchers should focus on the research of important issues.

He also suggested that since the middle school stage, we have strengthened the cultivation of mathematical talents, so that students can master the thoughts of mathematics earlier and understand the cutting -edge issues of research.

Tian Gang said that international mathematics exchanges should be strengthened, which is very important to produce inspiration and stimulate new ideas; to create a loose and free academic environment for young people, encourage them to explore boldly in unknown fields; reduce unnecessary assessment and evaluation, allow young people to let young people Instead of pursuing the number of articles, but to put your eyes long -term, challenge big issues more confident and more at ease.

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"China Science News" (2022-07-11 The first edition of the original title "From Following to Leading: Dream of Mathematics")

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