Mathematician Yau Chengtong Why do you say that Chinese students are not fundamental?

Although he is approaching the age of 70, Professor Yau is still an old man and has been very active in mathematical research in recent years. In 2015 alone, he published 23 articles on ARXIV, and conducted high-quality mathematical research at a rate of two articles per month, which is beyond the reach of any other mathematician throughout the ages! You know, as a leader in the Chinese mathematics community, Professor Yau has to deal with hundreds of emails every day.

Friends who are familiar with Professor Qiu know that even at the seminar, he has to listen to the talk while pressing his mobile phone to send and receive emails. It's amazing how productive it is to be able to write two articles a month in such a busy situation! Professor Qiu also pays special attention to working with young people, and in recent years, almost every article has been published by some young mathematicians with them.

Because he promoted so many young mathematicians, many times he even forgot about his collaborators. For example, a Korean mathematician had cooperated with him before, and when it was time to find a teaching position, he hoped that Professor Qiu could help him write a letter of recommendation, but Professor Qiu admitted that he did not know the other party. In fact, Professor Yau's lack of knowledge of his collaborators is a reflection of the fact that he has helped so many young people that he can't even remember the good things he has done!

Fan Zhongyan said: The clouds and mountains are firm, the rivers are turbulent, the wind of the gentleman, the mountains are high and the waters are long. Mr. Yau is nearly seventy years old and has been working tirelessly, which is really a model for my generation!

Differential geometricians once speculated that ricci flat spaces were flat. Later, Qiu proved the Calabi conjecture by giving an example of a non-trivial ricci flat space, the so-called Calabi-Yau ManifoldsIt turned out that this calabi-yau manifolds is super useful in physics and is a basic model of string theory.

Physicists also discovered that there was a mirror symmetry in this CY MFLD, and the concept of mirror symmetry in turn entered mathematics, which had an impact on the development of symplectic complex geometry, and mirror symmetry itself was a new field. Of course, the method of Qiu to prove Calabi's conjecture is the so-called geometric analysis, which is basically created by him, that is, the prior estimation and other methods in PDE are applied to differential geometry. <>

My life's life is not as brilliant as his. We need to be able to recognize our own incompetence in order to know the value of life.

Math does take up a space, but it's just a corner.