Mathematics is the foundation of all sciences, and its importance is self-evident, but in reality, many people are reluctant to engage in mathematical research, even if they have won the gold medal in mathematics, they may not continue to choose mathematics majors in college, and colleges and universities have no particularly effective measures in talent training.
This situation not only affects the development of mathematics disciplines, but also affects the progress of other disciplines.
The fundamental reason is that our basic research in mathematics is too weak, and many high-end talents do not have enough theoretical research in mathematics, resulting in the inability to achieve innovation and breakthroughs in the research and development of related technologies.
This responsibility needs to be implemented in universities, which need to take measures to improve the attractiveness of mathematics disciplines, increase investment, and provide world-class mathematics research faculty to cultivate more mathematical talents.
From the ranking of mathematics disciplines, the first phalanx of domestic universities is still Peking University, Fudan University, Shandong University, followed by University of Science and Technology of China, Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University, these universities have made rapid progress in the development of mathematics disciplines, but basically benefit from first-class faculty and discipline attention, especially Tsinghua University, under the leadership of Fields Medal winner and mathematician Qiu Chengtong, talent training potential is very large, and it is said that the actual level has entered the national TOP2.
Professor Shi Yigong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Westlake University, has recently done a great job to recruit first-class mathematicians from all over the world to join Westlake University full-time, and with his good reputation and reputation overseas, the recruitment plan is progressing very smoothly.
On December 21, Westlake University announced that Ivan Fesenko, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Nottingham, has joined Westlake University full-time as a distinguished professor at the Institute of Theoretical Sciences and established a research group for advanced number theory.
Judging from the professor's resume, he can be regarded as the world's top mathematician, and his main research directions are explicit invertive formulas, explicit class field theory and advanced class field theory, advanced adelic structure, advanced zeta integral, IUT theory and application extension, etc., and has made pioneering achievements in many fields of modern number theory.
In the past 40 years, he has trained a large number of talents, including 60 doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and one won the Fields Medal, which is the Nobel Prize in mathematics.
It is worth noting that after joining Westlake University, Professor Ivan Fesenko pointed out the problems of Chinese students in learning Xi mathematics when talking about the cultivation of mathematics talents:
Mathematicians can really understand AI, but the Olympiad cannot solve the problem, Chinese students are very famous in the International Olympiad gold medal competition, but this performance has nothing to do with whether they can do a good job in mathematical research, because many students who won gold medals do not have much ambition to engage in research, but regard the Olympiad as a kind of "competition", and those students who are interested in mathematics are hit by the self-confidence of students with outstanding competition results.
Netizens generally agree with the professor's point of view, the gold medal in mathematics is only the key to a prestigious school for many children in reality, once the door is opened, they choose a popular major, like Wei Dongyi, a mathematical genius at Peking University, there are not many people who really continue to engage in mathematical research.
It is worth noting that in November, Westlake University has introduced a mathematician, Alexey Cheskidov, who is a former full professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and is now a chair professor at the Institute of Theoretical Sciences of Westlake University, and will form a mathematical fluid mechanics research group.
Objectively speaking, Shi Yigong is still very thoughtful in higher education management and talent training, and at present, biology has entered the first phalanx of colleges and universities in the country, and biology under the leadership of Shi Yigong ranks first in the 101 plan of the Ministry of Education.
At the same time, Westlake University is also continuing to make efforts in other disciplines, such as theoretical science, artificial intelligence, life science and medicine, etc., especially the global recruitment of mathematicians, which has attracted much attention and is worthy of recognition.
You must know that the speed of mathematical research is very slow, but it still needs to continue to invest a lot of money, and if Shi Yigong does not have enough management courage and determination to develop theoretical science, it is generally difficult to calm down to do this, because most people will think about the problem of scientific research input and output.
Students are unwilling to learn, and schools are unwilling to continue to invest, which is the current situation of mathematics research and learning Xi in China, and Shi Yicheng is trying to change a little bit by setting up and optimizing mathematics courses, improving teachers, and increasing publicity and investment in mathematics subjects.
Source: Westlake University, Qianjiang Evening News