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Another global mathematical carnival has come to an end!
After a four-month schedule, the results of the 3rd Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition were freshly released:
Of the 52,850 participants, 70 won, and 99.9 percent missed the medal.
Peking University has become the biggest winner, not only 22 people have won the award, ranking first in the world's universities; in the "strongest 10 people", most of them are also Peking University people.
Not only that, at the award ceremony, the contestants also sang and danced rap talk shows, which strongly broke the nerd label (manual dog head) on the math masters.
For specific details, let's look down together.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > the strongest 10 people are only 1 from Peking University</h1>
Of the 10 winners of the gold and silver awards, 4 are from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and only One of them is Peking University Shen Wujie, who is currently studying at domestic universities.
That being said, in fact, most of the "strongest 10 people" are still Peking University people.
In addition to Shen Wujie, gold medal winners Wang Donghao and Zhou Kangjie, and silver medal winners Xu Kai, Lu Weixiao and Xia Mingtao graduated from the School of Mathematical Sciences of Peking University.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > Wang Donghao: Won the gold medal</h1>
Wang Donghao was born in 1994 in Beijing. This is his second participation in the Alibaba Global Math Competition and the second time he has won a gold medal.
Wang Donghao was exposed to mathematics competitions since his middle school days and was sent to the School of Mathematical Sciences of Peking University in 2012.
In 2016, when he graduated from Peking University' School of Mathematics, he also received doctoral offers from five top universities in Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley. In the end, he chose MIT.
Talking about this choice, Wang Donghao said that on the one hand, the department of mathematics at MIT is very strong, and the geographical location is also convenient to participate in various seminars and lectures.
On the other hand:
California sunshine is very good, but it is the feeling of retirement, it is not easy to feel the passage of time, and it will also consume the will.
At present, Wang Donghao has graduated from MIT and began post-doctoral research at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in Stony Brook, New York, in September this year. His research interests include design specification theory and low-dimensional topologies.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > Tao Zhongkai: Xi'an Jiaotong University "Tao Shen"</h1>
Tao Zhongkai was born in 1999 in Changshu, Jiangsu Province. In 2014, he was admitted to the junior class of Xi'an Jiaotong University, in 2016 he entered the experimental mathematics class of Xi'an Jiaotong University, and in 2020, he went to the University of California, Berkeley for a doctorate.
Tao Zhongkai is known as the "Tao God" in Xi'an Jiaotong University. According to the official report of Xi'an Jiaotong University, he has won a national scholarship for three consecutive years, with 100 points in 16 courses, 98 points in 24 courses, and 95 points in more than 30 courses.
In terms of competition, Tao Zhongkai won the first prize in the mathematics professional group with the fourth place in the 2018 National College Students Mathematics Competition.
He also won a bronze medal in the 9th Yau Chengtong University Mathematics Competition Hua Luogeng Award, which was the best result in the history of Jiaotong University.
In an interview, Tao Zhongkai said that he is currently interested in developing mathematical theories. I also hope that after completing my doctoral studies, I can return to China to develop.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > Zhou Kangjie: Firm pick mathematics in Peking University mathematics and Tsinghua computer</h1>
Zhou Kangjie was born in 1997 in Shaanxi.
He is also a CMO gold medalist, so in 2015 he was admitted to Peking University Digital Academy and tsinghua to study computer science.
In the end, Zhou Kangjie chose Peking University Mathematics Institute because "I still want to learn mathematics" and "in the process of learning mathematics, I continue to learn new things, and these new things will make me have new interests."
During his undergraduate studies, Zhou Kangjie won the gold medal in the probability direction of the Yau Chengtong Mathematics Competition, the silver medal in the direction of analysis, and the first prize in the National College Students Mathematics Competition.
In 2019, he went to Stanford University in the United States to pursue a doctorate, focusing on theoretical statistics and theoretical deep learning.
This registration for the Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition is the third time that Zhou Kangjie has participated, and in the first competition, he has won the bronze medal.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" >Noah Taylor: The only non-Chinese face in the top 10</h1>
Noah Taylor is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Chicago, where her research interests are algebraic number theory.
He is also one of the few non-Chinese faces among the winners.
Last year, he participated in the Alibaba Global Math Competition and won the Excellence Award.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > silver medalist</h1>
The five silver medalists were Xu Kai of Duke University, Weixiao Lu, Allen Liu and Shengtong Zhang of MIT, Mingtao Xia of UCLA, and Wujie Shen of Peking University.
At this award ceremony, the silver medalists broke the image of the mathematical masters.
Because of the epidemic, only Shen Wujie came to the scene among the strongest 10 people. As soon as he came to power, he came to a "talk show"——
When the host asked him to give an acceptance speech, he pushed the medal directly to the host, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he made a pun: "This is very heavy, you help me take it." ”
Xia Mingtao, who connected the scene through video, picked up ukulele and sang a song "Red Dust Inn".
He said that for him, mathematics, a piece of paper, a pen, is a whole river.
Some people liken mathematics to the jewel in the crown of science, and he likens mathematics to beauty. And I wish that the heroes in the mathematical jianghu can all embrace the beauty.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > bronze winner</h1>
The bronze medal list also hides the dragon Crouching Tiger.
For example, Deng Mingyang, who is currently a sophomore at MIT, is a gold medalist in the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) and the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).
Wang Feng from Zhejiang University is currently an associate professor and master tutor at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Zhejiang University. He is also the undergraduate class teacher of the Excellence Award player Lin Xuyang.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="49" > 99.9% of people missed the medal</h1>
After all, it is a mathematical competition with the participation of the whole people and no threshold.
So what are the other highlights besides these budding mathematical bulls?
According to reports, a total of 508 people advanced to the final round, the youngest is only 13 years old, is from Changsha, Hunan Province, Peipu Experimental Middle School student Diao Zibo.
There are also Chengdu university teachers who are more than half a hundred years old, who came to the scene to set up a Flag: this time into the final circle, the next time to get an award.
Among the 70 winners, Peking University has a total of 22, but if you count the people who study abroad today, it is already half of the country.
They have an average age of 24 years, and in addition to the main force of mathematics, there are also participants from all walks of life.
There is An Ali worker who just graduated from Peking University, Xin Wei, who is now working in an algorithmic post.
Before the list was announced, he also staged a "bridge section" to report in front of the boss.
However, being able to say his wish in front of several big bosses is really a bit envious. In the end he received the Excellence Award.
There is also a former IOI national team player, Deng Mingyang's teammate, Yu Haoxiang of Zhenhai Middle School, becoming the only middle school student among the winners.
In addition, there is the outspoken African player Sembatya Junior, a young teacher who has not participated in any international competitions.
At the award ceremony, he connected From Uganda along the equator to Hangzhou, although he did not win the trophy, he was very excited. He is said to have heard about the global math competition since 2019, but for various reasons, he has tried several times before signing up this year.
He believes that mathematics is the language of the world and hopes that young people in Uganda will have more opportunities to enjoy "the sweetness of mathematics".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="63">One More Thing</h1>
After the whole award ceremony, the most heard contestants were "ordinary people", "beginners", "amateur time brushing questions"...
It was almost a versailles.
Wu Qingyu, who is known as the "treasure girl" and the first in the preliminary round, said in the opening line that she is not a treasure girl, but an ordinary peking university digital college student.
The Jianghu people called "obedient gods", Deng Mingyang, who won the double gold medal in the mathematical informatics competition, also said that he was just a beginner in mathematics.
There are also a few dads who have already worked, and frankly admit that they are the kind of business that takes care of their children at the same time, and by the way, they have the next question in their minds
Well, finally send this final topic, interested bystanders can try ~ ~
https://damo.alibaba.com/events/119
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