A few days ago, Tsinghua University officially announced that Yau Chengtong, who was once called the "Emperor of Mathematics" by the New York Times, has now retired from Harvard University and will join tsinghua university as a chair professor and teach full-time at Tsinghua University.
What is the origin of Yau Chengtong? According to public information, Yau Chengtong is the first Chinese winner of the Fields Medal, which is one of the highest international awards in the field of mathematics, because the Nobel Prize does not have a mathematics prize, so it is also known as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics".
In addition, Yau Chengtong also has multiple honorary statuses such as academician of the National Academy of Sciences, academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, academician of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and honorary member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences.
In addition to the Fields Medal winners, Yau Chengtong also includes the Wibrun Geometry Prize, the MacArthur Prize, the Crawford Prize, the National Science Prize, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Marcel Grossman Prize and many other awards, which shows that Yau Chengtong is well deserved to be called the "Emperor of Mathematics".
So what does it mean for Chengtong Yau to teach full-time at Tsinghua University? This means that the development of Science and Technology in China will be promoted.
Very early on, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei repeatedly talked about the importance of mathematics and proposed the importance of mathematics for the development of enterprises and countries.
In recent years, the United States has successively used various means to suppress Huawei, so that Ren Zhengfei has realized the standard of enterprise development potential, that is, to attach great importance to basic research and talents, of which mathematics and physics are the weapons for the development of big countries.
According to the data, huawei currently has at least 700 mathematicians, 800 physicists, more than 120 chemists, 15,000 people engaged in basic research, more than 60,000 engineers, such a huge research team, so that some netizens have publicly questioned Huawei is wasting talent.
However, for the waste of talent, Ren Zhengfei said, "There is no artificial intelligence without mathematicians, and Huawei will recruit more excellent mathematicians in the future."
Therefore, Huawei has a "genius teenager" plan, the purpose is to let these talented teenagers drill the organization to activate the team.
In Ren Zhengfei's view, Huawei can achieve such a high achievement, it is inseparable from mathematics, he also said that China will compete with the United States in the future, only to improve education, there is no other way out, in the basic education Ren Zhengfei especially emphasized the importance of mathematics.
Professor Qiu Chengtong believes that if China wants to become a leading country in the world, it must lay a good foundation, and the success of science and technology must have a foundation, and this foundation is theoretical science, and the most critical thing in theoretical science is mathematics.
Therefore, Tsinghua University has Professor Yau Chengtong to join, which is of great significance for the mainland to cultivate mathematical talents, because Yau Chengtong's rich experience and human resources have also achieved results that have attracted the attention of the world, and bringing these experiences to China will inevitably further stimulate the potential of mathematical talents.
But sadly, after the news of Professor Qiu Chengtong's full-time teaching at Tsinghua University was announced, some netizens said in a yin and yang manner, "When I was young, I helped the United States, and retired to China to retire", these Internet trolls are really everywhere.
Although Professor Yau Chengtong has passed the age of achievement, it is only a very valuable intangible asset to count academic prestige and network resources.
It is precisely because china's status in the world is constantly improving that more and more world-class experts and scholars have begun to focus on China.
For example, last year, Tsinghua University invited Kocher Birkar, a mathematical genius who won the Fields Medal just after the age of 40, and it is extremely rare for such non-Chinese Nobel Prize scholars to join Chinese universities full-time.
One of the tasks of Kocher Birkar after teaching at Tsinghua university is to promote the "Yau Chengtong Mathematics Leadership Talent Training Program", and I believe that under the impetus of these "mathematical giants", the mathematical environment on the mainland will become better.
As the mathematical environment in the mainland continues to improve, the scale of talents will continue to improve, which will also greatly promote the development of the mainland's science and technology industry. What do you think about this, welcome to comment, like, share.