From failed candidate to chief scientist

Chapter 100 Nawanglinna Award

Hugo Dimini-Copan was talking on stage.

It can be seen that he is very talkative and humorous. He explained his theory in simple words, so that everyone can understand that his research is not just a simple boring theory, but can be applied in practice, such as what he said. The model established can be used to analyze the spread of infectious diseases, the spread of forest fires, etc.

Hugo's acceptance speech was the most unlike an acceptance speech, but the mathematicians in the audience listened with interest.

This made Lin Mo realize that the charm of applied mathematics seemed to have its own unique charm and was more attractive than basic mathematics.

“The last recipient of the Fields Medal this year was James Maynard, a mathematician from Eagle Country.”

"James Maynard made great contributions to analytic number theory. He used the tools of analytic number theory, especially the sieving method, to study prime numbers and made significant progress in understanding the structure of prime numbers and the Diophantine approximation."

Number theory, this Lin Mo is familiar with. When he studied Kratz's conjecture before, he used the method of number theory. Of course, pure number theory cannot solve Kratz's conjecture, so he combined number theory and topology to create a New parsing method.

"Lin Mo, I think you are a professional in number theory. I have listened to the proof of Kratz's conjecture that you did at Shuimu University. I think that if we discuss it, what you explained at that time was used to prove Kratz's conjecture. The method is a very new one and very original.”

"Moreover, you are not limited to number theory analysis. You also combine number theory and topology. Speaking of which, I don't think you are necessarily worse than James Maynard."

Just as Lin Mo was thinking, Jiang Fanjun's voice sounded from the side.

"It's a pity that you only gave a report at Shuimu University. If it could be presented at an international mathematics forum, maybe..."

Speaking of this, Jiang Fanjun did not continue, but sighed helplessly.

While Jiang Fanjun was feeling regretful, he was also lamenting the dissatisfaction of the domestic mathematics community.

The international academic influence of the domestic mathematics community is still too weak, and it is difficult for the results to attract the attention of the international academic community. This also makes it difficult for the domestic academic community to go out. If it cannot go out, it will have no influence. Without influence, it will be even more difficult. It is difficult to get out, and the cycle repeats itself, moving in the wrong direction.

Lin Mo thought about it and found out that he chose to give his report at Shuimu University because he was competing for time. In order to avoid academic plagiarism and was worried that Liu Qin would get ahead of him, Lin Mo chose Shuimu University in order to publish his results as quickly as possible. The university reports.

Although it was later proven that Liu Qin had no possibility of competing with himself, Liu Qin's so-called innovative methods and the proof of Kratz's conjecture were just plagiarism of Lin Mo's ideas, but as for the actual content, they were far from the same. Qin did not prove Kratz's conjecture at all. His so-called innovation was just an idea. There were not many derivation and calculations to support his theory.

Only when I found out later, Lin Mo had already finished his report at Shuimu University.

Even later, "Acta Mathematica" published Lin Mo's proof process of Kratz's conjecture, but because it was not reported at an international academic conference, and it was not demonstrated and discussed by most mathematicians in the world, his proof process was not It caused so much trouble that even though it was endorsed by the Journal of Mathematics, there were still mathematicians who did not recognize Lin Mo’s proof at all.

Not to mention the new mathematical methods created by Lin Mo, which have not been recognized by the international mathematics community.

Of course, this is also related to the limited application of Kratz's conjecture, which has received less attention. It is not like the Mersenne primes studied by James Maynard. Every discovery of Mersenne primes can be said to be an advancement in mathematics.In terms of influence, the Kratz conjecture is incomparable to the Mersenne primes.

Therefore, even if Lin Mo's research results are no worse than James Maynard's results in number theory analysis, it would be a bit of a dream to get Fields based on this.

So Lin Mo didn't take Jiang Fanjun's words completely seriously.

However, Jiang Fanjun is right when he says that the domestic mathematics community does not have enough international influence. This is an indisputable fact.

But Lin Mo thought about it and felt that the so-called influence was just the result of fame and qualifications. To put it bluntly, his achievements were too few, and his achievements were not high enough or numerous enough to be recognized by most mathematicians in the world.

Thinking of this, Lin Mo secretly made up his mind to make more achievements and solve more global problems. First, quantity and second, quality. At that time, why should Fields worry?
“Next, the Newanglinna Award will be awarded.”

The Nemarina Prize was established in 1981 and was named in memory of the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nemarina.It is mainly awarded to scholars who have made great contributions to the mathematics of computer science.

Like Fields, the Newanglina Award is also held every four years, and the age of the winners is limited to under 40 years old.

The difference is that there is only one winner of the Newanglina Award each time. Relatively speaking, winning the award is more difficult and the gold content is higher.

"Winner of the Nevalinna Award Mark Braverman."

"He establishes a broad framework that articulates the large, general rules that describe the boundaries of interactive communications—rules that suggest new strategies for compressing and protecting data as it is sent over the wire by algorithms."

In the sound of introductions, Mark Braverman walked onto the stage slowly and began his acceptance speech.

From the official introduction, Lin Mo didn't know much about what Mark Braverman did. Lin Mo didn't know much about computational mathematics, but there were experts in computational mathematics around him at this time. Lin Mo couldn't help but look at Jiang Fanjun. .

Jiang Fanjun felt Lin Mo's gaze, quickly understood Lin Mo's thoughts, and couldn't help but explain.

"Mark's work was primarily related to interactive compression, where he proposed new ways to optimize data compression when sharing data between two or more people - which is at the heart of online communication."

“And not only that, Mark also introduced a new perspective, using mathematical language to express the various problems existing in the sharing of information between two or more parties, and then using mathematical methods to solve them. This is a new perspective on computers. A major change in underlying theory is an epoch-making attempt and creation."

Jiang Fanjun's tone was a little excited. It was obvious that Mark Braverman's achievements had greatly touched him and made him a little excited.

(End of this chapter)