27 years old, he caused a sensation in the world for conquering Karabi's conjecture . At the age of 73, he returned to China to work full-time and became a lecturer at Tsinghua University . He is known as "the most influential mathematician in the nearly quarter of a century"; Singer, an international math master and winner of the Abel Prize, once said, "In Harvard , he is a mathematics department alone." He is the famous mathematician and the first Chinese winner of the Fields Medal .
27 years old, proving the Karabi conjecture
1949, Qiu Chengtong was born in a scholarly family in Shantou, Guangdong. He grew up in Hong Kong. A family of ten lives in a 30-square-meter house and lives in poverty. When Yau Chengtong was 14 years old, her father died of illness and her family fell into an economic crisis. The mother made various efforts to maintain her family income and insisted on letting her children go to school. In 1969, 20-year-old Shing-Tung Yau entered the Berkeley Department of Mathematics. The Karabi conjecture was proposed by the Italian geometry Karabi in 1954, but it has not been effectively proved. After years of careful research, Yau Chengtong finally conquered this conjecture. Karabi himself once said that the proof of this conjecture was the best gift he had received in his life.
The proof of the Karabi conjecture is of great significance. It not only proves the existence of multidimensional space that Karabi guessed, but also found a solution for Einstein equation, and is also the largest family solution known to date. As the Karabi conjecture was proven, some other related conjectures were immediately proved. The most important result is the proof of the Severy conjecture that has been suspended for more than forty years. There are five or six other problems in algebraic geometry in that have also been solved.
resolutely returned to China and cultivate talents for the motherland
In April 2022, Qiu Chengtong returned to China and entered Tsinghua full time to work. "Looking for the joy of heaven and man, expanding the minds of eternal people" has become the motto of Tsinghua University's Xu Zhen Academy. He believes that the basis for being good at learning is to understand the problems and research of predecessors in order to continue moving forward, but "learning" is not enough. Qiu Chengtong believes that Chinese students have high scores in the college entrance examination and perform well in the mathematics of the Olympiad, which is all very good at learning. But just learning other people's methods, you can only follow others and just solve other people's problems.
"We can constantly produce a large number of Olympiad gold medals, but there has not been a scholar in China who has solved such great mathematical problems." He hopes that through the exploration of Tsinghua Truth Hunt Academy, a group of world-class scholars who do not have to go abroad to learn from the scriptures and have grown up completely in China within 8-10 years.
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In fact, in the past two years, not only Professor Yau Chengtong, but more and more Chinese scientists have decided to give up or are considering giving up their generous treatment and top positions in the United States and return to China to develop. Among them, there are many well-known professors from top American universities, such as Professor Chen Gang who works at MIT , and Professor Hu Anming who works at University of Tennessee , have all been subject to unreasonable suspicion and persecution from the United States.
Only in 2021, more than 1,400 Chinese scientists and scholars have "escaped from the United States". The phenomenon of made the US government completely panic. Biden stomped his feet in an anxious manner. On the one hand, he was worried that the loss of top talents would affect the development of science and technology in the United States, and on the other hand, he was worried that scientists returning to China would help China rise faster.
All of this is what the United States suffers from. The academic and scientific research community in the United States is no longer so "pure", and is mixed with more and more political elements. Since the US government launched the "China Action Plan", many Chinese scholars have been subject to unreasonable scrutiny and surveillance, and even personal safety threats. Chinese scientists cannot perform their skills in such an environment, and their work and life are also subject to many restrictions. The United States has personally pushed many outstanding scientists into China's embrace. China's rise of science and technology will usher in a new period of rapid development. welcomes more Chinese scientists to go home to serve the motherland!
