Training the Heavens

Chapter 189 Success and Fame
The more troublesome thing is yet to come. The level of this article is quite high, and the teacher in charge of the defense at school also seems to be struggling. He was very cautious during the defense, fearing that he would ask the wrong questions and show his weakness.

After the defense, Ping Zetao personally took Huang Tunan to Beijing and found Chen Jingrun with the paper. In the field of Goldbach's conjecture, he was the leading authority in the country, and it was most appropriate for him to read such an article.

Chen Jingrun had just been elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences last year, which means he would become an academician in the future. He was very happy to see Huang Tunan and said, "Seeing you, I know that there will be successors in the field of mathematics in China!"

He read the article carefully and gave it a high evaluation. "This article is very important. Let's submit it to the Acta Mathematica Sinica. Since Professor Su published his article there, no mathematician in China has published an article in this journal for a long time."

Acta Mathematica Sinica is a mathematics journal founded by the Mittag-Leffler Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. As a quarterly journal, it publishes only a small number of articles each year, so the quality is very high. It is one of the four major mathematics journals in the world.

From the founding of the People's Republic of China to 22, only nine mathematicians in China have published articles on it. Among these nine people, six are academicians and three are outstanding young scientists. This also means that if Huang Tuanan does not encounter any problems in the future, he can become an authority based on this paper and his seniority.

"Once this article is published, it will probably break the record for the youngest person to publish an article in the Acta Mathematica Sinica. But don't be too proud. Galois, Gauss, and Euler all achieved extraordinary accomplishments at a very young age. There has never been a shortage of young geniuses in the field of mathematics, but not many of them can ultimately leave behind great achievements in the history of mathematics. I hope you can keep up the good work and make even more important achievements," Chen Jingrun encouraged.

Huang Tunan did not disappoint his expectations. A year later, he published another heavyweight paper. He proved that odd numbers can be expressed as the sum of at most five prime numbers, which took the solution of the weak Goldbach conjecture a big step forward.

A year later, Huang Tunan used a computer to verify his new paper, and the weak Goldbach conjecture was completely proved. When the article was published, it caused a sensation in the global mathematics community.

Mathematicians from all over the world came to Soochow University, which had been renamed, to listen to Huang Tunan's speech. After the speech, they all stood up and celebrated this great achievement with warm applause.

Huang Tunan also received many honors for this. First, Soochow University announced that he had graduated with a doctorate, awarded him a doctorate degree, and appointed him as a graduate supervisor. At this time, Huang Tunan was only seventeen years old, and he became the youngest doctoral and master's supervisor in the country.

At the end of the year, Huang Tunan, together with mathematicians such as Chen Jingrun, Wang Yuan, and Pan Chengdong, received the first prize of the National Natural Science Award, which is the highest award in the domestic scientific field. With this award, it is basically only a matter of time before he is elected as an academician in the future.

The news attracted the attention of college students across the country who were interested in mathematical research. When they took the postgraduate entrance examination, they all considered Soochow University as their first choice, and they all wanted to become Huang Tuanan's graduate students.

Thanks to this, the Department of Mathematics of Soochow University has become a leader in the field of mathematics in China in just a few years, and is no less impressive than Peking University.

People thought that after solving the weak Goldbach conjecture, Huang Tunan would continue to move on to the strong Goldbach conjecture and eventually solve this important problem. Who knew that he changed track at this time.

He first published "Bounded Gaps Between Primes" in the Annals of Mathematics, proving that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers with gaps less than 7000 million, thus making an important breakthrough in the twin prime conjecture, a major problem in number theory.

He subsequently made significant progress in understanding the structure of prime numbers and the Diophantine approximation. For these undisputed achievements, Huang Tunan, along with German mathematician Faltings, British mathematician Donaldson, and American mathematician Michael Hartley-Friedman, was awarded the 1986 Fields Medal.

When Huang Tunan came to Berkeley, the venue of this year's International Congress of Mathematicians, to receive the award, he had not yet turned 20. Huang Tunan thus surpassed the 27-year-old French mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre, becoming the youngest Fields Medal winner in history.

Huang Tunan became the first locally trained winner of the world's highest scientific award since the founding of New China. When the news spread back to China, the whole country celebrated. When he returned, he received a warm welcome and high-level reception.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences also quickly held a special meeting to start the work of adding academician members, which had been stalled for several years due to disagreements on the issue of changing academician members into academicians. Huang Tuanan and a group of highly respected and outstanding scientific workers were added as academician members.

During these few years, the Huang family, Lin Wufeng's family, and Xiang Pengfei's family have also undergone significant changes. Lin Wufeng was reported for taking jobs outside and helping private enterprises solve technical problems, and he had to leave Suzhou and move south with his family.

If Huang Tunan wanted to, he could definitely stop this from happening, but he knew very well that judging from the future development trend, it would definitely be better for Lin Wufeng to go south than to stay in Suzhou, so he did not interfere.

There is no need to worry about the relationship between Lin Dongzhe and Huang Xiaoting. Sometimes being apart for a period of time can promote the growth of a relationship.

Sure enough, a year later, they both got admitted to Peking University. Huang Tunan’s tutoring over the years was not in vain. The fact that they were able to get admitted to Jiaotong University in a TV series shows that IQ is definitely not a problem. With Huang Tunan’s help, it is not surprising that they were admitted to the best school in the country.

Xiang Pengfei's talent in studying is a little lacking, and he only got into Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, but he is very talented in business, so it is just right for him to study in this school. Huang Tunan plans to give him some start-up capital while he is in school to let him practice.

When he graduates in the future, he can try to start his own business. Huang Tunan does not intend to engage in business in this world. The job of providing material basis for the whole family will be left to Xiang Pengfei. The rest of the people don't have to worry about these mundane matters and can concentrate on doing what they love.

Time flies, and soon it is 2002. This year is of great significance to the Chinese mathematics community because the International Congress of Mathematicians, the largest and most important conference in the international mathematics community hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU), will be held in China.

As a representative of Chinese mathematicians, Huang Tunan will read his latest important article at this conference.

This conference was of a very high standard. When Huang Tunan arrived in Beijing to attend the preparatory meeting, a leader wearing black-framed glasses spotted him and immediately approached him. "Academician Huang, I heard you've made another major breakthrough?"

(End of this chapter)