Yitang Zhang is giving the last invited talk at ICM 2014: Small gaps between primes and primes in arithmetic progressions to large moduli

Yitang Zhang is giving the last invited talk at ICM 2014, “Small gaps between primes and primes in arithmetic progressions to large moduli”. 这是闭幕式前的最后一个 invited talk. 张大师习惯手写, 当场演算. Yitang Zhang …

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Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

Artur Avila 是第一个不在美国和欧洲得博士的拿到 fields medal 的数学家. Artur Avila 21 岁在世界上著名的动力系统研究中心 Instituto Nacional de Matemática(IMPA ) 得到博士. 他接受的包括博士在内的教育, 全部在巴西完成. Artur Avila’s work Etienne Ghys 的报告讲述了 Artur Avila 的工作 从牛顿 (Newton) 就有的, 有了一个微分方程, 想法设法把解找出来. 这取得了相当的成功. …

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Maryam Mirzakhani: the first female mathematician to be awarded the prestigious fields medal prize

Maryam Mirzakhani, 37 岁, 刚刚在第二十七届国际数学家大会(ICM 2014)开幕式上, 从韩国女总统朴槿惠手中接过菲尔兹奖章. Mirzakhani 是首位荣获 fields medal 的女性. Mirzakhani 在 IMO 表现杰出. References Erica Klarreich, A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces, August 12, 2014

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ICM 2014—a female Fields Medallist?

明天上午(韩国时间, 东九区时间)九点, ICM 2014 会准时在韩国首尔(Coex , Seoul , Korea)开幕. 依惯例, 开幕式上会为引人注目的 Fields Medal 获得者颁发奖章. 坊间流传的一个(如若发生)会载入历史的传奇是: 本届 ICM 会有一个女性数学家获得 Fields Medal! 这真是一个令人振奋的消息! 全世界的数学工作者屏住呼吸兴奋的等待着亲眼目睹见证这个激动人心的时刻! Maryam Mirzakhani(born May 1977) is an Iranian mathematician, Professor of Mathematics (since September 1, …

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Yitang Zhang’s talks in the summer of 2014 in Beijing

ICM 2014 Program 这届国际数学界大会(International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM)的安排, 已经明确无误的说明:  4 个数学家将获得本届大会的 Fields Medal. 张大师将于 8 月 21 日作 ICM 闭幕式之前的压轴报告, 这是只有今年的 Fields Medalist, Gauss Prize, Chern Medal 得主才有的殊荣 张益唐 7 月1 日在北大本科生毕业典礼有一个讲话 这个暑假, …

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Manjul Bhargava, the BSD conjecture and Fields medal

Conjecture There exist elliptic curve groups \(E(\Bbb Q)\) of arbitrarily large rank. 用 \(r\) 表示 \(\Bbb Q\) 上的椭圆曲线 \(E\) 的秩—the rank of the Mordell–Weil group \(E(\Bbb Q)\). 一个悬而未决的著名难题是: \(r\) 是否可以任意大? Martin-McMillen 2000 …

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