Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 369: Comparison between Him and Him
In comparison, the media in European countries are relatively objective.
The British newspaper The Times also mentioned the competition between Chen Zhou, Terence Tao and Zhang Yitang in its report.
But the focus of the report is still on Chen Zhou and his paper.
They used the word "incredible" to describe Chen Zhou.
For Chen Zhou's paper, the comments of three reviewers from Faltings were quoted.
Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung objectively reported the incident and gave Chen Zhou high praise.
On the other hand, Peter Schultz, a leader of the younger generation of German mathematicians, was mentioned.
They compared Chen Zhou with Schultz.
Schultz was also a gifted mathematician.
When he was less than 17 years old, he joined the German IMO national team.
It was a pity the first time, probably because I was too nervous, I only got a silver medal.
But he refused to give up and subsequently participated in three consecutive International Mathematical Olympiads, winning gold medals three times.
When asked why, Schultz replied: "Because this game is fun!"
Later, because of my age, I was "driven out" and went to college.
At that time, he was already 20 years old.
Although I started college at the age of 20, I am a bit behind.
However, Schulz completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bonn in just three semesters.
Then, I spent another two semesters to complete the postgraduate content.
He then continued to work with his master's supervisor and completed his doctoral research.
By the way, his doctoral research is equally interesting.
After I finished my dissertation ahead of schedule, my supervisor called me back and said, "You can graduate with a doctorate now!"
As for the reason...
This paper of his is not something that an ordinary doctoral student can write.
That year, Schultz was only 24 years old.
In other words, it only took him about four years from college to doctoral graduation.
Moreover, his doctoral thesis caused quite a stir in the mathematics community after it was published.
After graduating with a Ph.D., Schultz became a graduate student at the Clay Mathematics Institute.
It is the Clay Mathematics Institute that came up with the seven Millennium Problems.
In addition, in the same year.
Schulz's alma mater, the University of Bonn, waived the professorial qualification examination and hired Schulz as a W3-level professor.
W3 is the highest level in Germany.
In this way, he graduated with a doctorate at the age of 24 and became the youngest professor in Germany at the age of 24.
It can be said to be a life of cheating.
In terms of the time of undergraduate graduation alone, Chen Zhou is still a little behind.
Because it took him two years.
Although in the following year, Chen Zhou did nothing related to his undergraduate graduation.
But it still took two years.
As for the reason why the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung mentioned Schulz, it was mainly because of the 2018 Fields Medal.
After Schultz won the Ramanujan Medal , the Clay Research Award, the American Mathematical Society's Algebra Award, the Ostrosky Medal, the Fermat Prize and many other awards.
The German mathematics community, or the world mathematics community, is waiting for Schultz to win the Fields Medal.
Because when the Fields Medal was awarded in 2018, Schultz was only 30 years old.
In all the awards he won previously, he broke the age records for those awards.
He is the youngest winner of every award .
Especially for the Leibniz Prize, the highest academic award in Germany, Schulz is the only one under 30 years old among the 348 winners so far .
But now, Chen Zhou appears.
It is very likely to end Schultz's continuous super record.
Because Chen Zhou is much younger than Schultz!
By 2018, Chen Zhou was only 22 years old!
And just looking at the current achievements, Chen Zhou has the proof of the hailstone conjecture, the proof of the Cramer conjecture, the proof of the Gerbov conjecture, and the distributed deconstruction method, which has unlimited potential.
It will definitely be a strong contender for the 2018 Fields Medal!
What’s more, there are still two years until 2018.
Based on Chen Zhou's efficiency, it can even be said that Chen Zhou's popularity is no less than Schultz.
But fortunately, mathematical conjectures cannot be solved easily.
Moreover, if Chen Zhou continues on his current academic schedule, he can graduate with a doctorate in two years.
Then another interesting phenomenon will arise, that is, Chen Zhou will be the first person in history to win the Fields Medal as a doctoral student!
This record is probably very difficult to surpass.
However, until that day comes, nothing can be said for sure.
It is also possible that Chen Zhou has not achieved any achievements in the past two years.
And what about other mathematicians who suddenly exploded?
Chen Zhou's three guesses were still not enough.
After all, these three mathematical conjectures are still somewhat inferior to the highest-level Riemann hypothesis and Goldbach conjecture.
At the same time, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also congratulated Yenching University.
They believe that the emergence of Chen Zhou means the revitalization of China's mathematics community.
In particular, Chen Zhou graduated from Yenching University, which has inheritance significance.
Anyway, the European media are not as sad as the American media.
On the contrary, I feel somewhat happy.
After all, the world's mathematical center used to be in Europe.
Only later did he move to America, to Princeton in the United States.
European countries, especially Germany, still have some irreparable regrets.
But what the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung did not expect was that the article it published became popular all of a sudden!
It is not only popular in Western countries, but also in China.
China, which learned about the publication of Chen Zhou's paper a little later than the West, did not know until the next day.
In an instant, Chen Zhou's popularity soared again.
The attention that had briefly subsided in the past few days also reached its peak in an instant!
On Weibo, netizens initially had heated discussions about it.
Like "After much anticipation, Mr. Chen Zhou finally appears in the magazine!"
There is also "Master Chen Zhou has solved a mathematical conjecture casually again. All the previous worries were unnecessary!"
Until someone translated and reposted the comments from Western media and netizens on Weibo.
Especially the reprint of the article from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
All of a sudden, netizens’ attention was focused on the Fields Medal!
"Indeed, I used to only know that there were all kinds of math experts in foreign countries, and we in China couldn't compare to them, but now it's different!"
"Speaking of which, do you think that Boss Chen Zhou's experience is somewhat similar to that of the German god Schultz?"
"The people upstairs reminded me, it's true!"
"What are you like? Don't you think Chen Zhou is more awesome? They both have different starting points!"
"No matter what, I just want to know, when will Mr. Chen Zhou win the Fields Medal?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, the Fields Medal! I've always thought that Boss Chen Zhou has a chance, I really have a keen eye!"
"Although Mr. Chen Zhou has not won any mathematics awards, he certainly cannot miss the Fields Medal!"
"Who said he hasn't won it? The first person in the history of Qiu Sai, isn't that an award?"
"Please ignore the above. I didn't pay attention and it ran out. Don't take it seriously..."
"No matter what, even if he didn't win the award in 2018, he would still be the youngest winner in history if he won the award again four years later! Unless he follows the example of his predecessors at Yanda University and becomes a monk, then just ignore what I said..."
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Compared to the heated discussions among netizens, the self-media outlets were collectively reaching a climax!
