Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 392: Is this a lot of prize money?
"I think I understand it..." Chen Zhou looked up at Yao Tongtong and said.
After a pause, Chen Zhou hesitated and said again: "I just said that Professor Zhang Yitang won the Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2014, right? But does this have anything to do with it?"
Seeing Chen Zhou's reaction, Yao Tongtong knew that Chen Zhou only knew one side of the story.
Although the next award of the Cole Prize in Number Theory should, in theory, be in 2017.
However, when major research results emerge, things like awards, which are the icing on the cake, can be negotiated.
The reason why Yao Tongtong asked Chen Zhou whether he knew much about Professor Zhang Yitang.
This is because Zhang Yitang won the Cole Prize in Number Theory in the same year he made major research results on the twin prime conjecture.
At that time, Zhang Yitang published the paper "Bounded Gaps between Prime Numbers" in the "Annals of Mathematics" on April 17, 2013.
Zhang Yitang won the Cole Prize in Number Theory on December 2, 2013.
Exactly the same year.
However, 2013 was neither the year for the Cole Prize in Number Theory nor the year for the Cole Prize in Algebra.
It’s just that the award committee moved up , and Zhang Yitang still won the 2014 Cole Number Theory Prize.
Therefore, when Chen Zhou made a series of achievements in the field of number theory.
Yao Tongtong feels that the Cole Number Theory Prize judging committee has every reason to advance the 2017 Cole Number Theory Prize.
The reason why Yao Tongtong remembers this time so clearly.
This is because when Zhang Yitang won the award, she was an assistant reporter and followed her predecessors to interview Zhang Yitang.
And these are the reasons why Yao Tongtong chose to believe the gossip from her friend.
Yao Tongtong then explained these ideas to Chen Zhou.
Since it is an exchange, and Chen Zhou has already finished the interview, I can't hide it. I really let Chen Zhou treat this news as a complete gossip.
After hearing what Yao Tongtong said, Chen Zhou felt that it seemed to make sense.
At the beginning, Zhang Yitang only proved a weakened form of the twin prime conjecture. Without relying on unproven inferences, he discovered that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers whose difference is less than 70 million.
This marks a major step forward in the pursuit of the twin prime conjecture, a famous problem that no mathematician had previously been able to make substantial progress on.
This opens a door for the study of the twin prime conjecture.
And what about yourself?
Cramer's conjecture, a difficult mathematical problem that no one has been able to prove, was solved by himself.
The Jebov conjecture, a difficult problem about prime number intervals that is as famous as the twin prime conjecture, was solved by himself.
By the way, there was also a hailstone conjecture which was like a mathematical game. This mathematical conjecture, which was half in the field of number theory, was also solved by myself.
In addition, Zhang Yitang only opened the door, but he was the complete proof.
At the same time, there is also the tool of distributed deconstruction.
According to Professor Faltings and his team, the distributional deconstruction method is an opportunity to analyze number theory...
When Chen Zhou thought about it this way, he seemed to be qualified enough to be considered in advance by the evaluation committee of the Cole Number Theory Prize...
Moreover, in the number theory community this year, in addition to upgrading the Cramer conjecture and the Gerbov conjecture into theorems.
There is only the twin prime conjecture solved by Terence Tao and Yi-Tang Zhang.
It just so happened that these two people used their own distribution deconstruction method when solving the twin prime conjecture.
Although winning the Fields Medal based on these achievements may require further consideration.
However, the Cole Prize in Number Theory, which is awarded every three years, seems to have little suspense.
I just don’t know how much the prize is and when the award will be presented.
I'll have to use my computer to look up this Cole Prize in Number Theory later.
In addition, since this is a U.S. mathematics award, the prize money should be in U.S. dollars, right?
If we convert it, then it would be...
As he thought about it, a smile appeared on Chen Zhou's lips.
Seeing this, Yao Tongtong couldn't help but feel a little strange: "Chen Zhou, what's wrong with you?"
Chen Zhou came back to his senses after hearing Yao Tongtong's voice. He coughed twice and asked curiously, "Reporter Yao, do you know how much the prize money for the Cole Number Theory Prize is? Is it a lot?"
Yao Tongtong was slightly stunned, then she smiled and joked, "What's the matter, are you tempted? Now you don't doubt that this is gossip anymore?"
Chen Zhou smiled awkwardly and said, "No, no, I'm just asking out of curiosity."
Yao Tongtong chuckled: "I won't tell you the specific amount of the bonus, so you can have some anticipation. Anyway, it's not a small amount, quite a lot."
When Chen Zhou heard that the prize money was quite a lot, his eyes lit up.
But Chen Zhou said: "This is my first chance to win a mathematics award, I am quite looking forward to it."
This time, Yao Tongtong praised him: "You are the most promising and potential person among the new generation of mathematicians in China."
"I believe you can win many mathematics awards in the future, and I also believe you can bring back China's first Fields Medal!"
Chen Zhou smiled and said, "Thank you for your good words. I hope so."
Yao Tongtong added: "I believe you can do it. But don't forget me when the time comes. Don't let it be like before when you couldn't even get an interview."
Chen Zhou laughed dumbly and waved his hand, saying, "Don't worry, if I really win the Fields Medal, I will definitely accept your interview!"
Yao Tongtong's eyebrows curved into a beautiful arc, and she said happily: "Is it a deal then?"
Chen Zhou nodded: "Keep your word."
Yao Tongtong still has to organize the interview materials, and Chen Zhou is also preparing to carefully research the Cole Prize in Number Theory and what kind of mathematics award it is.
After a brief chat, the video call between Chen Zhou and Yao Tongtong ended.
Chen Zhou placed his hands on the keyboard and typed “Cole Number Theory Prize”, preparing to check.
However, after checking for a while, Chen Zhou lost much interest.
Although what Yao Tongtong said was very exciting to him, it was still just a piece of news after all.
Perhaps the Cole Number Theory Prize judging committee is indeed considering themselves.
Chen Zhou originally wanted to ask Professor Zhang Yitang, after all, he had won the Cole Prize in Number Theory.
But if you think about it carefully, there is no benefit in being happy too early before the final result comes out.
So, Chen Zhou moved the mouse arrow to the upper right corner, clicked "X", and closed the search page.
Then , Chen Zhou looked at the time. It was still early.
He picked up his phone and sent a video call request to Yang Yiyi.
After the call was connected, Yang Yiyi did not ask Chen Zhou what he had been doing. She just put the phone aside and continued to concentrate on reading the literature.
Chen Zhou took the initiative to say a few words and explained what happened in the interview with Yao Tongtong just now.
After hearing Chen Zhou's explanation, Yang Yiyi looked up at Chen Zhou slightly with a faint smile on her face.
This is also the tacit understanding and agreement between the two.
