In fact, this award ceremony was indeed very grand.

Ms. Sima Noah, the chairman of the Wolf Foundation, and important guests including Mr. Peter Higgs and Mr. Roger Penrose also visited the capital of Xia Kingdom, and the famous Pierre

·Deligne, Philip Griffith, Andrew Wiles, Robert Langlands (the proposer of the Langlands Program), Faltings, Elon Lindenstrauss and other mathematical circles

The veteran scholars also appeared at the Xia Kingdom branch venue.

If it weren't for the heavy rain disaster that had just ended in the northern hemisphere and many flights had not been fully restored, which reduced the number of mathematicians who came to Xia Guo to participate in this awards ceremony by more than half, it is estimated that there would be even more mathematicians attending the Xia Guo branch.

But the presence of these big guys was enough to attract more attention to the sub-venue than the main venue.

The awards process at the Beijing branch venue was consistent with that in Jerusalem, and was broadcast to all parts of the world via webcam.

At the awarding ceremony of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Ms. Sima Noah, the chairman of the board of directors, faced the camera and said loudly: "Hardy once said that mathematics is the simplest and most mundane of all arts and sciences. And Russell also said

He once said that mathematics is the prototype of the beauty of this world. In modern mathematics, the more technology develops, the more significant the significance of mathematics becomes. It is no exaggeration to say that mathematics is the key to the treasure house of modern science. A science can only succeed when it succeeds.

Only when mathematics is fully applied can it truly reach perfection."

"Today, we are here to award the Wolf Prize in Mathematics to three mathematicians who have had a profound impact on the development of mathematics. They are very different in age, but they have made huge contributions to mathematics, especially in the application of mathematics.

To promote scientific development."

"At the Xia Guo branch venue, we will award this year's Wolf Prize in Mathematics to two young mathematicians from Xia Guo."

"This is the youngest winner of our Wolf Prize in Mathematics since its establishment. In fact, we should have awarded this prize to them last year, but some people's concerns delayed the decision for a year, and in the past year

Here, these two young laureates once again achieved incredible results. They overcame the millennium problem of 'Yang-Mills' existence and mass gap', and through the quadratic expansion of the Yang-Mills equation

, which has greatly improved the basic theory of particle physics! The saying 'mathematics is the engine of scientific progress' is vividly demonstrated in them!"

"This also prompted all our colleagues at the Wolf Foundation to believe that we must break all worries and rules and award the 'Wolf Mathematics Prize', which symbolizes the highest honor in the international mathematics community, to these two 24-year-olds.

young mathematician!"

"Next, the winners, Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingjun, will come on stage to receive their awards, and Mr. Stephen Smail and Mr. Robert Langlands will be invited to present awards to the two young winners respectively!"

Stephen Smail is one of the greatest mathematicians in the contemporary world. He was the winner of the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Wolf Medal in 2007. He is 93 years old this year.

This old man became famous for proving the Poincaré conjecture of more than five dimensions in differential topology, and founded the modern differential dynamical system theory. He has done research in many fields such as dynamical systems, differential topology, computational complexity, and mathematical economics.

He made important contributions, and it was he who proposed the famous Smale Horseshoe - a structurally stable discrete power system similar to a horse's hoof.

In recognition of his contribution, the international scientific community even named an asteroid discovered in 1982 "Stephen Smail's Star".

The 90-year-old mathematics master Robert Langlands is equally famous in the international mathematics community. He has won the Cole Prize in Number Theory, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Steele Prize, and the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.

(the same award that Qin Kening Qingjun declined earlier), the Abel Prize and other famous awards. His most famous achievement is to create a comprehensive system based on the research results of mathematicians in previous centuries, which combines prime numbers and symmetry.

A mathematical system connected by sex—Langlands Program!

The Langlands Program is known as the most feasible "grand unified theory" in mathematics. It has had a huge impact on the development of mathematics in the past few decades. Many mathematicians have obtained Ph.D. degrees because of studying this Langlands Program.

Ertz Prize, including Wu Baozhu, a Vietnamese-born mathematician.

Since the death of the centenarian mathematician Mr. Calabi, who was hailed as "one of the most influential in the 20th century" a few days ago, looking around the world, there are now only two highly respected and world-famous old mathematicians.

Qualified to award awards to Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun.

Mr. Stephen Smale had difficulty moving, but he insisted on having his assistant help him up from his wheelchair.

He wanted to stand up and give awards to these two young mathematicians from Xia Guo, just to prevent them from bowing their heads.

The old gentleman put the two medals on the necks of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun respectively with his slightly trembling hands covered with age spots, and said solemnly:

"Congratulations to you, young winners. Although you are very young, I insist that with your achievements and great contributions in mathematics, you no longer need to bow to any mathematician, including me.

It’s my honor to present the award to you in my lifetime. I believe that the world’s mathematics community will become more exciting in the next few decades because of you and your wife!”

Mr. Robert Langlands handed the award certificates into their hands and said with a smile:

"I also congratulate you. I am an old friend of Edward Witten. I heard that he, Tao Zhexuan, and you two are working together on a new theoretical attempt of 'mathematical unification'. This is what I have heard in the past ten years.

The best news is that my Langlands program is based on prime numbers as a bridge to combine concepts from geometry, algebra and analysis. However, after decades of searching, I have not found the final answer. I deeply regret it.

, I hope that your brand-new theory centered on geometry can come out soon, and let me see the answer to the 'unification of mathematics' before I am buried. If there is anyone in the world who can do this, there is no doubt that it must be you.

"

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The speeches of Stephen Smale and Robert Langlands were transmitted to every corner of the venue through the loudspeakers, causing a great sensation.

It is simply unique that these two international mathematicians, the only remaining great masters of mathematics among the older generation, can receive such high praise!

Because of the comments of these two old mathematicians, the attention in the branch venue instantly surpassed that of the main venue. All the mathematicians who were paying attention to the award ceremony were amazed. George, who was receiving the award at the main venue,

Mr. Lustig could only smile helplessly.

A similar scene occurred again when Mr. Peter Higgs and Mr. Roger Penrose presented medals and certificates to Qin Ke, Ning Qingjun, and Edward Witten respectively.

Mr. Peter Higgs said: "Many people call the 'Higgs boson' the 'God particle', but as an atheist, I don't like this statement. The answer to the question of the origin of the universe should not be'

God', but should be the 'existence' confirmed by more complete physical theories. I have repeated your paper "String Theory Framework Unifying the Strong Interaction Force, Weak Interaction Force and Electromagnetic Force with a New Quantum Gauge Field Theory"

I have read it several times. This is the best paper I have ever read on the Standard Model of Particle Physics. I hope you can find the real answer."

The speeches of several important guests were undoubtedly of "nuclear bomb level", which completely stole the attention of the sub-venue. The number of online viewers in the sub-venue in the online live broadcast room exceeded 500 million, while the number of online viewers in the main venue was less than 500 million.

50 million passengers, a tenfold difference.

The affirmation of the seniors has also made the reputation of Qin Kening, Qingjun and Edward Witten instantly reach the pinnacle of the international scientific community. Many people even @Norwegian Academy of Natural Sciences and Letters joked: "What are the plans for the Abel Prize?"

Time to award it to two mathematicians from the Xia Kingdom? You have to take it easy, it’s up to you to attract them to continue to invest their energy in mathematics."

At the press conference after the award ceremony, reporters surrounded Qin Ke, Ning Qingyun, and Edward Witten, and even Tao Zhexuan, who was sitting in the audience, was invited to the stage.

It is no secret that these four groups use mathematics to solve physics problems. In particular, they are solving the problem of detoxification of radioactive elements by establishing a new theoretical framework of "mathematical unification", which has already spread to the international mathematics community.

world and the world of physics.

It's just that these four mathematicians have kept a low profile in the past six months. Apart from occasionally mentioning the content of their research when chatting with close friends, they have not publicly released any relevant news, nor have they accepted interviews from the media.

Now that we have such a rare opportunity, how could all the reporters miss such a big topic?

In the end, Qin Ke was elected to answer these related questions.

Reporter from "The Times Science and Technology Pioneer": "Excuse me, Academician Qin, can you briefly explain your thinking? Is it a secondary improvement of Langlands' program, or do you want to establish a new unified framework for mathematics?"

Qin Ke thought for a while and then replied cautiously: "The Langlands program proposed by Mr. Langlands is based on the 'L-function' composed of analytical continuation, the distribution of zero points and the values ​​of special points.

It connects the three major disciplines of number theory, algebraic geometry and group representation theory, and puts forward a series of conjectures that accurately predict the possible connections between some seemingly unrelated fields in mathematics. I think this is the most important step in modern mathematics.

The great exploration of grand unification is of great significance to modern mathematics."

"However, the goal of our project is not to unify mathematics, but to use mathematical theory to solve the original physical theory that cannot be verified and explained through high-energy experimental means. Because the core mathematical theoretical tool of M theory is geometry, and algebra is a tool needed for geometry.

.We want to use the 'string' in M ​​theory to study the theoretical basis for controlling the 'decay random events' of radioactive elements. The starting point of choice is naturally 'geometry', which makes it impossible for us to directly use the Langlands program to complete our

research work.”

"For this reason, we decided to re-establish a new mathematical theoretical framework that is more suitable for solving our subject problems. It uses geometry as the backbone and connects algebra, number theory, probability theory, mathematical analysis, and topology as branches and leaves to achieve a certain

This formal 'unification' forms a theoretical framework and supports our in-depth analysis of M theory."

Although Qin Ke described the theory as simply as possible, the reporters were still confused.

Another reporter asked: "How is the progress of your research? Is it going well?"

"This is a road that no one has tried to walk before, and it is difficult to walk. But thanks to the vigorous development of mathematics in the past hundred years, we have found many classic theories as support, and we spent more than nine months on it.

Exploration and innovation, the current completion rate of this basic theoretical framework is about 70%, and we still need to work hard to apply it to solve practical problems. But we don’t have much time. After all, Lao Tao, that is, Professor Tao Zhexuan only teaches

The University of California has taken half a year's leave. If we don't want his leave to be extended, our team will have to make up the remaining 30% by the end of August at the latest and use it to solve the problem of detoxification of radioactive elements. This is a big challenge.

.”

There was another commotion. By August? Wouldn’t it only take one year to complete a new unified basic framework for mathematics similar to the "Langlands Program"?

A third reporter asked: "Academician Qin, I heard that you have been spending your main energy on the research of extreme climate disasters. Will this affect the progress of your research on this topic?"

"No, in the research of extreme climate disasters, both the scientific research team in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of Qingmu University and the scientific research team of the European Meteorological Center are the world's first-class scientific research teams. They have given me and Qingjun a lot.

With their help, Edward and Lao Tao also played an indispensable and important role in the issue of harmlessness of radioactive elements."

The entire press conference lasted for about an hour. Not only Qin Ke, but also Ning Qingyun, Edward Witten, and Tao Zhexuan were all interviewed in various ways. The questions were also all kinds of strange, many of which were related to the extreme climate in recent years.

Disaster-related. Fortunately, everyone is used to being interviewed, so they can cope with it easily.

After the interview ended, media outlets around the world soon released a series of news.

"The youngest winner of Wolf Prize in Mathematics and Physics Prize is born!"

"Winning three Wolf Prizes in a row, the two youngest academicians of Xia Guo stand at the top of the international scientific community!"

"New hope for the unification of mathematics is born!"

"The road to the unification of mathematics for the luxurious group has begun!"

"It will be announced before the end of August this year, will the unification of mathematics, M theory, and the research on radioactive elements usher in a major breakthrough?"

"Extreme climate disasters will continue to occur in the second half of the year. The latest views of Academician Qin and Academician Ning are public. High temperatures and droughts in summer and severe cold and snow disasters in winter cannot be ignored!"

Many media also @Japan, calling on them to postpone the discharge of nuclear sewage because "the optimal solution to the nuclear sewage problem may be available in August."

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The night after the award ceremony, Qingmu University naturally hosted a banquet for various guests, and mathematicians, Qin Ke and others were also busy socializing.

It wasn't until the third day that most of the famous mathematicians and physicists, including Robert Langlands and Peter Higgs, boarded their return flights, did Qin Ke make time to bring his most familiar old friends, such as Farr
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