In a large conference room in the ICTP headquarters office building, more than thirty expert judges were sitting around.
These judges are all heavyweight masters in the international mathematics field in recent decades. Except for ten people from universities and research institutes across Italy, the rest are from famous high-rise buildings and research institutes around the world. Anyone can choose
They are all math masters who can take charge of one aspect.
For example, Professor Largovsky of Moscow State University is a disciple of the famous mathematics master Yakov Sinai. He has proved Wyton's conjecture, is famous for his ergodicity theory and functional approximate calculation, and has won many awards including Oslo's.
Several mathematics awards including the Trotsky Prize.
Another example is that the big guy sitting in the middle is Professor Bathilde Boone of the University of Cambridge. He is seventy-five years old and is very famous in the fields of differential equations, complex geometry, functional analysis, etc., and in high-dimensional topology.
His research achievements are even more famous all over the world. Although he unfortunately missed the Fields Medal because he achieved these major academic achievements at the age of forty-seven, he has won the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize, as well as the Royal Society
He received the Copley Medal, the highest honor, and is currently the honorary president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was knighted.
In addition to heavyweights like Professor Boone, there are also several Philippine Prize tycoons, including Professor Elon Lindenstrauss, who was born in Princeton, USA and currently teaches at Hebrew University, and Professor Elon Lindenstrauss, who is from Cambridge University.
Professor Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat's theorem, is an old acquaintance of Qin Ke.
The papers and books written by many of the judges, and theorems proposed and proved, can still be found in university textbooks in many countries.
Being able to invite so many big names in the international mathematics community to form a luxurious jury shows how powerful it is, and it also confirms the gold content of this ICTP Ramanu Gold Award. This prize is only 15,000 US dollars. It is indeed
Qualified to be compared with the Cole Prize and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
——A brief mention here is that there is another SASTRA Ramanujan Award in Indo, established by the Shanmuhar Institute of Arts and Technology. It is only awarded to young mathematicians under the age of 32 who have the same interests as Ramanujan, because it is
Selected by the Shanmuhar Institute of Arts and Technology, a university ranked over 1,000 in the world, it is not as influential and authoritative as the ICTP Ramanu Gold Medal, and the prize money is only US$10,000. The mathematical genius Professor Tao won this SASTRA award
Manu Gold Award.
Generally speaking, when the Ramanu Gold Award is mentioned internationally, it mainly refers to the ICTP Ramanu Gold Award.
These mathematical masters who used to give each other face are now quarreling over whether a young mathematician from Xia State can pass the review and enter the final selection and voting round.
Some even slapped the table.
Mr. Professor Andrew Wiles raised his eyebrows and said slowly: "Why is Qin Ke not qualified to win the Ramanujan Award?"
Professor Leo from the Ramanujan Institute of Advanced Mathematics at the University of Madras was the one who could not accept Qin Ke's award the most. In his anger, he no longer cared about Mr. Wiles's academic status and said loudly: "If
Letting Qin Ke win the Ramanujan Award is the greatest disrespect to Mr. Ramanujan! We will never accept a person who has damaged Mr. Ramanujan’s honor to win this award!”
It has been more than a hundred years since Ramanujan passed away, but as the most outstanding master of mathematics in India in the past thousand years, his followers are all over the world. He is even more deified in the Indian academic world as the "God of Mathematics" and is regarded as spiritual by countless people.
Idol.
Ramanujan's life was indeed legendary. He did not receive formal mathematics education. He was dropped out of college many times because of poor liberal arts scores. In addition, he was withdrawn and unsociable. No one in India recognized him during his lifetime.
I don't have any good friends.
But none of this affected the mathematical achievements of this super mathematical genius who spanned the ages.
In his short life of 32 years, Ramanujan made mathematical achievements that countless people looked up to in number theory, gamma functions, modular forms, divergence series, hypergeometric series, and prime number theory. He was regarded as a master of mathematics.
Hardy regarded him as an unparalleled mathematical genius, and spared no effort to help him become famous and become a student of the Royal Society and an academician of Trinity College, Cambridge University.
Ironically, Ramanujan was not taken seriously by India during his lifetime, and he died early due to poverty and long-term downfall. However, with Hardy's promotion and research of more than 3,900 propositions and formulas left by him, this well-known
The master of mathematics who "discovered and created mathematics" began to shine with dazzling brilliance, and eventually became a world-famous master of mathematics.
What is most amazing about him is his extremely keen intuition about mathematics. He can often draw conclusions or derive formulas based on intuition without skipping the detailed proof process. Moreover, the accuracy of this intuition is astonishing. So far, Qin Ke is the only person who has pointed out that
The "Hardy-Ramanujan System" cannot prove the Riemann Hypothesis, but it only denies the prospect of this system in proving the Riemann Hypothesis, and does not deny its significance and contribution in mathematics.
However, such a denial was enough to make Ramanujan's fanatical believers furious. They felt that the God of Mathematics in their hearts had been offended and were extremely hostile to Qin Ke.
That's it for other awards. They can't interfere and can only stare. But how can Qin Ke win this mathematics award named after Ramanujan?
After Professor Leo, who was the vanguard, strongly opposed the move, six other university professors from India also joined the opposition with arrogance.
Professor Linden-Strauss glanced at the judges around him and saw that about half of them looked disapproving of these accusations. However, due to the aggressive momentum of the Indu professors, he was too lazy to refute, and about a third of them were too lazy to refute.
The judges frowned and were displeased. It was obvious that they supported Qin Ke or had a favorable impression of Qin Ke. Among them, Mr. Wiles was the representative figure.
The remaining judges were expressionless and could not tell their stance, most of them were neutral.
Professor Linden-Strauss basically knew what was going on. If it didn’t work out, he would just vote. It seemed that Qin Ke was more likely to pass the vote.
Seeing that Professor Leo and others' accusations were becoming more and more exaggerated, they were already a bit like a shrew. Even Professor Linden Strauss, who had always been a mild-tempered man, couldn't sit still. He stood up and said: "We are here to select awards.
, please make an objective evaluation based on the candidate’s academic achievements, international influence, character and reputation, rather than seizing on a certain point to make unlimited attacks!”
Professor Sathink from the Indian Institute of Technology said coldly: "An ignorant fanatic who offended Ramanujan has violated a red line. We are just discussing the matter, not an attack..."
Mr. Wiles patted the table, frowned and said again: "Professor Sussink, please pay attention to your wording. Mr. Zinke did overthrow the 'Hardy-Ramanujan System', but only denied it."
His role in proving the Riemann Hypothesis does not negate its academic value. Moreover, the four sets of expressions about the Riemann Hypothesis published by Mr. Qin Ke in recent years all prove that he is correct. Mathematics is pure and objective
Yes, what is correct is correct, and what is wrong is wrong. It does not necessarily mean it is correct just because of who proposed it.”
Seeing that Professor Sussink still wanted to refute, Mr. Wiles stared and said in a deep voice: "I admit that Mr. Ramanujan is indeed a great master of mathematics, but drawing conclusions based on intuition alone is not a real mathematical method.
.The real mathematical method, in addition to drawing inferences based on keen intuition, must also provide rigorous, correct, logically consistent derivation and proof processes! None of the theories proposed by Mr. Ramanujan when studying number theory were given personally.
Is it surprising that there are errors in the argumentation process? Even Bernhard Riemann only called his own theory 'speculation' and 'conjecture'. Is it possible that Mr. Ramanujan's more than 3,000 formulas and inferences,
Can it directly become a theorem or even truth without any demonstration, and cannot be questioned or overturned by others?"
With Mr. Wiles's status in the international mathematics community and these powerful words, he immediately suppressed the arrogance of the opposition led by Professor Leo and Professor Sussink.
Professor Batiled Boon, who had been silent since entering the conference room, suddenly spoke up: "If I remember correctly, Mr. Ramanujan never thought that all of his theories were correct, so he
I sent my own thoughts to Mr. Hardy for review. This is exactly what Mr. Ramanujan has in mind as a mathematician. If the juniors who know him in heaven will regard him as someone who cannot tolerate any questioning or correction.
I wonder what Mr. Ramanujan would think of such a narrow-minded and arrogant person?"
The words of the highly respected Professor Boone left the opposition speechless.
Professor Lindenstrauss stared at them and continued to add fuel to the fire: "No one can ignore Qin Ke's achievements in mathematics. Not to mention anything else, he just cracked two-thirds of the Riemann Hypothesis.
He can be regarded as a master of mathematics. Now there are many discussions about these four sets of expressions, but to this day, no famous and capable mathematician can find any fault. This is enough to prove that he
The derivation process and conclusions are real. Not to mention that he has proved nearly ten world-class mathematical conjectures including the Polignac conjecture and the hail conjecture. He has written mathematics teaching supplements that countless children who struggle with mathematics can find.
If even such an outstanding mathematician cannot participate in the final selection of the Ramanujan Award, then the Ramanujan Award will only be criticized and its reputation will be greatly damaged! I will also withdraw from the list of judges for this year!"
Mr. Wiles nodded in agreement: "Yes, on the contrary, if Qin Ke can finally win the Ramanujan Award, it will prove to the world the fairness and justice of this award, as well as the broad mind passed down by the descendants of the Ramanujan family.
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Professor Boone directly concluded: "Then let's hold a democratic vote. If you agree that Qin Ke will be included in the final selection list, please vote by a show of hands." He was the first to raise his hand, Professor Linden Strauss, White House.
Mr. Sis raised his hand without hesitation.
Most of the other judges raised their hands.
With his good international reputation and outstanding academic achievements, Qin Ke successfully advanced to the final selection list with a high number of 25 votes.
Then in a larger formal voting session a few days later, the name "Qin Ke" stood out from five mathematician candidates from different countries with a vote rate of 67%, and finally appeared on the list of winners announced by ICTP
among.
Chapter completed!