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Chapter 212 Mathematics Journal Four Destinies (4k)

If you ask mathematicians, what is it like to study mathematics?
Then he will probably be silent for a moment, then stare at you with eyes that show he has awakened to the sorrow of blood, and then tell you seriously with an expression that looks painful.

Don't study mathematics. Ordinary people will become unhappy if they study mathematics.

Because mathematics has never been a paradise for ordinary people.

There is a saying that has been circulating for a long time.

Genius is just the threshold to my realization.

If you are the one little prince of mathematics picked out from a hundred, then there will be more than ten million little princes of mathematics in China.

If you are a math prodigy picked out of a thousand, then there will be more than a million math prodigies in China.

Even if it is a genius picked from thousands, there are tens of thousands of them in China.

You are a math genius.

At the age of 9, he won the first place in the county's Mathematical Olympiad exam.

At the age of 10, he was invincible in the city.

At the age of 16, you became the ace player of the provincial team for Mathematical Olympiad, and there was no opponent in the whole province who could take you seriously.

At the age of 17, you successfully entered the national training team, sweeping the talents of the same age from all provinces across the country, and finally stood out from 60 people and became the final 6 people to win glory for the country.

Even the coach of the team, Huaqing University, thinks that you are indeed an outstanding math genius.

Then you entered the School of Mathematics at Peking University, and you found that there were five other classmates who had the same honor as you, and they were your teammates.

Relying on your talent and hard work, you became the number one in the School of Mathematics and were praised by the academicians. They said that you will definitely have a place in the domestic mathematics field in the future.

At the age of 22, you have tried your best and finally succeeded in being admitted to Princeton University. When you enter this department, which is ranked first in the world in mathematics research, you will find that you are not the only student as talented as you.

But even if you break through the sky and ascend to heaven step by step in your life.

You think you have successfully crushed 99% of the people on the earth, but you find that you are still a long way from the four major journals known as "destiny".

Even if you are in the world's top mathematics school, even if you claim to be invincible among your peers.

You still find that a genius is just a genius after all.

Because before you, you are not the only one who wants to win the title of one of the four destiny mathematics journals.

There are also countless leaders and outstanding figures from various schools of mathematics, as well as mathematical legends living in seclusion around the world, such as Gregory Perelman who proved the Poincare conjecture.

There are also people like you who were once the best young genius in the world of the previous generation, or even the best young genius in the world of the previous eighteen generations, who were also able to sweep away their peers.

Because when you are 22 years old, 18 generations ago, your ancestors were only 40 years old and they could still win the Fields Medal.

And even if it's you like this.

Compared with the four great missions of mathematical journals, it also seems very insignificant.

Acta Mathematica/Acta Mathematica Sinica

Annals of Mathematics

Journal Of The American Mathematical Society

Inventiones Mathematicae

There are countless geniuses in mathematics.

The strong figures in mathematics are also bustling.

But the four major mathematics journals only have so much space.

"Acta Mathematica Sinica" is a quarterly journal with two volumes and four issues each year. Only a dozen papers from around the world can be published each year. It is published by the Mittag-Leffler Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, as of 2009, only three articles from China have been accepted by "Acta Mathematica Sinica", namely, Mr. Li Da, a veteran of modern Chinese mathematics, who published in 3, Mr. Su Buqing, a great mathematician, who published as an independent author in 1933, and Professor Zhu Xiaohua, who is currently a professor at the School of Mathematics of Peking University and the director of the Analysis Teaching and Research Section, who published in 1951 and is currently visiting the Center for Advanced Mathematics Research in France.

The Annals of Mathematics is a bimonthly journal published every two months. It publishes no more than 80 articles a year, which is more difficult to publish than Nature, Science and Cell, the three world's top scientific journals. From 1949 to 2009, in 60 years, the total number of articles published by Chinese mathematicians in the Annals of Mathematics did not exceed 20.

Compared with the two old journals which were both founded in the 19th century, the other two journals appear to be quite young.

The Journal of the American Mathematical Society, founded in 1988, is a quarterly journal with 32 articles published each year. It mainly publishes high-level research papers in theoretical mathematics and applied mathematics. It is the youngest of the four top journals.

"Recent Advances in Mathematics", founded in 1966, is a bimonthly journal. Among the four top mathematics journals, it is relatively easy to publish research results. Chinese mathematicians have published relatively many articles here.

Adding together the four top journals, the number of articles published in a year does not even exceed 150.

These 150 articles are also subdivided into various fields of pure numbers and applied numbers.

Generally speaking, only the absolute kings in their respective fields are qualified to appear in the four top magazines.

If you have to use a number to compare.

The 2002th International Congress of Mathematicians held in Beijing in 4000 had a total of more than mathematicians participating, and this is not the limit of the world's mathematician community, but there are so many people willing to come out for a stroll.

Most mathematicians are too lazy to even go out unless they need to win an award.

And all the mathematicians we see are top geniuses in their own countries.

Face your destiny.

It’s as difficult as climbing to heaven.

But having said so much, the four major destinies of mathematical journals that could make countless mathematicians bow down to them were now within Xu Qingshan's reach.

Tian Gang, who was originally anxious to push Xu Qingshan to the "Annals of Mathematics", calmed down after listening to Wang Shicheng's words.

Since they are all published on arXiv, they have no place to go.

According to Tian Gang's own understanding, the editors-in-chief and editors of the four top journals, whether it is "Annals of Mathematics" or "Acta Mathematica Sinica", are world-renowned scholars themselves. The first thing they do when they wake up every day is to check their emails and arXiv, intensively searching for top papers worthy of being widely publicized.

"It's already 5:. People in Stockholm are all up for work. If it's evening, it should be daybreak in Princeton. There's really no rush."

Tian Gang thought about it and greeted everyone.

"Let's go, let's go, Dong Lai Shun!"

Xu Qingshan sat in front of the computer and took a look at other papers on arXiv. He simply picked out a few papers with titles that looked good, but he found some of them were unpleasant to the eyes.

"What? Let's go, let's go eat. What are you looking at?"

Seeing Xu Qingshan's expression, Chen Dayue came over and took a look.

"Oh, no need to read it. Don't read papers with fancy names. Just look at the title. Isn't your paper just a general proof of the twin prime conjecture?"

"ArXiv has few restrictions, and a lot can be published. Anyone with a certain level of ability can publish an article here. However, as long as the quality is high, it will be noticed quickly. Let's go, let's go eat. It's rare that Lao Tian says he wants to treat us."

"alright."

Xu Qingshan shrugged, turned off the computer, stood up and listened to the teachers' inexplicable sentimentality for a while, waiting to have dinner together.

Although the protagonist was Xu Qingshan, after Xu Qingshan published the article, they did not quarrel with Xu Qingshan, but sighed among themselves, as if they were lamenting how difficult it was for China to develop mathematics in the past few decades.

It is difficult to comment on the behavior of these math gurus.

But Xu Qingshan was also quite happy listening to it.

"Tian Yuan, can I ask my grandma and my uncle to come with me? They are here too."

Seeing that the timing was good, Xu Qingshan put forward his own ideas.

He didn't simply want to take his grandmother and Lin Chenhua to have a meal with Tian Gang, but wanted to take advantage of the presence of so many Peking University teachers to make good use of his connections.

"Hmm? Your family is here too, that's great!"

Tian Gang's face lit up with joy and he agreed without hesitation.

In fact, Tian Gang and Zhang Jiping were still a little upset about the fact that many people from the golden generation had a bad conversation with Jingda that day.

After all, this golden generation was led by Zhang Jiping and actually trained by Tian Gang. Both of them put in a lot of effort to see results, and they also really wanted to continue to establish the reputation and foundation of Peking University's School of Mathematics as "the No. 21 Department in China" in the st century.

But who knew it would turn out like this.

Thinking of this, Tian Gang felt very uncomfortable and regretful. He was a person who had been sent abroad since 84 and chose to return to China to join Peking University at the golden age of 40. He was very clear about the huge gap in living standards between domestic and foreign capitalist societies in the early 80s.

But even so, he was not retained by the United States. In 98, he resolutely returned to China and was hired as a distinguished professor. He was then promoted to a visiting professor until he was qualified to preside over the establishment of the Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research.

At that time, Tian Gang was not so moved that he cried.

Who would have thought that few of the students he was most proud of teaching would plan to come back.

I have been studying and researching abroad for 14 years and have never thought about changing my nationality.

People like Zhang Wei, who have only been abroad for four years, are already ready to stop being a Chinese and become an American.

If Xu Qingshan hadn't been there, Tian Gang felt that he would have to stay quiet for at least two or three years before he would have the energy to devote himself to training students as he did before.

After that day was over.

Tian Gang drank and chatted with Zhang Jiping for a long time.

The two of them were somewhat doubtful as to whether they had neglected the ideological development of students and their concern for their families.

Now that Xu Qingshan is willing to have his family come over, Tian Gang is naturally more than happy to do so.

Just because Xu Qingshan was able to prove the "general form of the twin prime conjecture" as a student at Peking University, Tian Gang was willing to ask the leaders to approve a special talent plan to allow Xu Qingshan to stay at the school as a professor after graduating from college.

"Thank you, Tian Yuan."

Xu Qingshan smiled.

By the time of the dinner in the evening, all the teachers from the School of Mathematics of Peking University met Xu Qingshan’s grandmother and uncle.

However, unlike Xu Qingshan's calmness and confidence, the old lady seemed a little restrained in front of so many teachers. She seemed to be worried that her words and deeds and cultural level were not good enough, and that she would do something that was not in line with her status and would bring shame to her grandson.

Lin Chenhua, on the other hand, has been very quiet, accompanying his old mother and taking care of her.

"Aunt, we at Kyoto University are very grateful to you for raising Qingshan well."

This surprised Xu Qingshan.

At the dinner tonight, after Tian Gang brought his grandmother to the party, he not only let his grandmother sit in the main seat, but also stood up and held a teacup to offer tea to his grandmother.

An academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice president of the School of Mathematics at Peking University personally serves tea to you. What kind of treatment is this?
Tian Gang was smiling and had a very friendly attitude.

In fact, Tian Gang had thought about a lot, and what Xu Qingshan said that day was very right.

China currently has little to offer its top scientists in terms of scientific research benefits, and its resources and environment are not as good as those of top foreign universities.

But the Chinese have something deep in their bones that is rare abroad.

That is the sense of homeland identity.

Although I don’t know whether Xu Qingshan has any intention of going abroad or staying abroad.

But Tian Gang absolutely didn't dare to bet that Xu Qingshan didn't have such an idea.

For Peking University, regardless of whether Xu Qingshan specializes in mathematics in the future, he is a shining star for the School of Mathematics of Peking University. Tian Gang believes that as long as he is guided correctly, with Xu Qingshan's talent and ability, winning the Fields Medal may only be a matter of time.

So far, no one from China has ever won the Fields Medal.

There are two Chinese people. One of them, Tian Gang doesn't want to mention, and the other one, except being of Chinese descent, has nothing to do with China.

In addition to the Fields Medal, the same is true for the Abel Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the Crawford Prize. Although Mr. Shiing-Shen Chern later returned to China and presided over the work of the Balitai Institute of Mathematics for several years, he had already become an American citizen in 1961.

The Chinese mathematics community has been longing for those honors for a long, long time.

Even Tian Gang himself.

He felt that he might not have the opportunity to go further in many areas.

But he also hopes to see a Chinese who is 100% made in China, a pure Chinese, who can represent China and stand on those high platforms.

"No, no, it's all Qingshan's own hard work."

Lin Mi looked at the teacher who looked like a big boss offering him tea, and suddenly he became flustered.

"Hey, Auntie, you don't need it. I'll just drink it. I want to thank you on behalf of our Beijing University."

Tian Gang quickly stopped him.

"Aunt, my last name is Wang, you can just call me Xiao Wang. I'm from Rongcheng, and we're both from the same hometown of Minyue. Are you here to accompany Qingshan? It's also possible if you want to go to school as a day student. Our Beijing University is very relaxed in terms of student life."

Wang Changping on the side also spoke up, trying very seriously to get close to the man.

Actually, he is the current dean of the School of Mathematics at Peking University.

Judging from Xu Qingshan's growth rate, Wang Changping felt that before he stepped down, Xu Qingshan would probably be able to become a professor under his leadership.

"I came to accompany him, and he kept asking me to go to the hospital. I will continue to look for a hospital in the next two days."

"Hospital? Auntie looks healthy. Is there anything you want to check?"

"No, it's an old illness. When Qingshan was in the first grade of junior high school, I was cooking for him in Longjiang and he was diagnosed with lymphoma."

The little old lady told everything.

However, he did not expect that the expressions of these teachers, who were said by his youngest son to be the best math teachers in the country, suddenly became serious when he heard what he said.

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