Who are the working mathematicians currently alive in China?

During the institutional adjustment in 1952, the most powerful mathematics departments of Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University at that time were axed, and the whole country was built to build Peking University and Fudan University. The mathematics majors of other key universities were very small, resulting in These two schools now have an absolute monopoly in the Chinese mathematics community.

According to statistics, there are currently 24 living academicians in mathematics in China, who can basically be divided into three groups: Peking University, Fudan University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Peking University gang is led by Zhang Gongqing, and includes Jiang Boju, Wen Lan, Tian Gang, Wang Shichen and others in the school. Ding Weiyue, Liu Yingming, and Yang Le from the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences all graduated from Peking University. They have deep connections with the Mathematics Department of Peking University and echo each other. They are basically in the same group;

Fudan sent Gu Chaohao, Hong Jiaxing, Hu Hesheng, Guo Boling, plus Shi Zhongci, who graduated from Fudan from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, there were 5 people in one group.

Chinese Academy of Sciences: Ding Xiaqi, Li Banghe, Lin Qun, Lu Qikeng, Ma Zhiming, Wan Zhexian, Wang Yuan, Yan Jia'an, Wu Wenjun, Zhou Yulin.

Miscellaneous schools: Chen Mufa (Beijing Normal University), Wang Zikun (Beijing Normal University), Peng Shige (Shandong University), Xia Daoxing (USA).

The Chinese Academy of Sciences seems to have a lot of people, but because they graduated from different institutions and calculated against each other during several reforms of the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, they lacked trust in each other, so in fact they are scattered. In the process of academician election, Each of them has his own hidden agenda, and is often exploited by Peking University and Fudan University. Among them, Wu Wenjun, Zhou Yulin, Wang Yuan and others are old and successful, and basically do not participate in worldly disputes. Ma Zhiming later joined Peking University, and Lin Qun fell out with everyone over the merger of institutes. The remaining few are older, do not hold a group, and do not control important academic resources.

Xia Daoxing has long been living in seclusion in the United States, and is too lazy to come back to participate in the academician election.

Except for senior academicians Wu Wenjun and Zhou Yulin who have been deprived of the right to vote, and Xia Daoxing, who is living in seclusion overseas, the Chinese mathematics community is really There are only 21 academicians with voting rights, of which 8 are from Peking University, accounting for more than 1/3, and they are all young people. For example, Zhang Gongqing, the former president of the Chinese Mathematical Society, not only made his brother-in-law Wen Lan an academician, but also made him an academician. Wenlan was designated as the successor after a generation, and he successfully became the current president, leading the Peking University gang to control most of China's mathematical resources; Gu Chaohao, the Fudan faction, was very famous, but the skills of several of his subordinates were limited, especially the His wife Hu Hesheng also became an academician, which made many people laugh. Moreover, she was far away from Beijing and did not have the power to control various mathematics resources. Therefore, although the Fudan faction has as many as five people, its influence is far behind that of Peking University. Needless to say, the Chinese Academy of Sciences was defeated by Peking University and Fudan University, and no one was elected for several terms, which illustrates the problem.

Academician elections are held every two years, and two mathematics academicians are usually elected each time. In recent academician elections, Peking University and Fudan University have basically had the final say.

For example, in 2001, Peking University packaged Tian Gang, who was a professor in the United States, and pretended to be a full-time professor at Peking University to run for academicianship. As a result, Fudan found out that there were many such overseas part-time jobs in Fudan, and Peking University relied on its large number of people. They threatened Fudan and threatened that if Fudan interfered with Tian Gang, Peking University would not vote for Fudan's candidates. Fudan saw that instead of fighting to the death, it would be better for both schools to gain some benefits, so the two schools compromised with each other. In the end, Peking University's Tian Gang Guo Boling and Guo Boling of Fudan University were both elected. Tian Gang has also become the first and only overseas academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who has not returned to China full-time since its establishment. His record has not been broken yet. Although Peking University later used the academician charter to defend itself for Tian Gang's election, the detailed rules for additional academician selection clearly stipulated that overseas scholars who want to become official academicians must focus on their contribution to the country. It is based on this consideration that part-time academicians are As a rule, scholars who have returned to China cannot participate in formal academician elections, but can only participate in the symbolic election of foreign academicians. (After Peking University tasted the sweetness of Tian Gang, it processed his experience in accordance with the law. In 2003 and 2005, it twice recommended She Zhensu, who returned to China part-time, to run for academicianship. However, Peking University is not as consistent in the physics world as it is in the mathematics world.

His hands covered the sky, so he failed both times.

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In the blink of an eye, in 2003, the Department of Mathematics of Peking University introduced two candidates in one fell swoop. Among them, Zhang Jiping was very popular. Because Peking University had more votes, both of them entered the third round. This time Fudan also Hong Jiaxing was sent to work on partial differential equations, and Nankai, with the support of Mr. Chen Shengshen, sent the heavyweight Zhang Weiping, who won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award and is the best scholar among young and middle-aged mathematicians in the country. The quality of his papers is second to none in the country. , and having a background of graduating from Fudan University, so I was determined to win at first. Unexpectedly, Peking University took advantage of the large number of votes and publicly announced that the Fudan department could only be admitted to one. The Fudan school could not withstand the intimidation, so it had to fully support Gu Chaohao's student Hong Jiaxing. , and gave up his support for Zhang Weiping. Mr. Chen was very angry when he learned the news. He was only a foreign academician with no voting rights. Although he did not have the ability to make someone an academician, he enjoyed high prestige and could not let someone become an academician. The influence of academicians is still there, so the result of the PK between Zhang Weiping and Zhang Jiping was that neither of them became academicians. Instead, Chen Mufa, who was engaged in probability theory at Beijing Normal University, made the mistake. There has been no academician in the field of probability theory for many years, so this In the end, everyone had no choice but to admit it.

In 2005, Mr. Chen Shengshen passed away. Although Qiu Chengtong emerged, it did not affect Peking University's continued control of various resources in the Chinese mathematics community. There was almost no suspense about Wang Shicheng's election, which was the biggest highlight of this session. The question is whether Cheng Chongqing from Nanjing University can get into it. Qiu Chengtong believes that apart from Zhang Weiping, there are only two outstanding young and middle-aged mathematicians in China today, namely Zhu Xiping from Sun Yat-sen University and Cheng Chongqing from Nanjing University. Unfortunately, what Cheng Chongqing does is different from that of Peking University. Wenlan is one thing - differential dynamic system. The latter naturally does not want another dynamic academician in the country, so although Cheng Chongqing is very high-level, he lacks the support of Peking University and ultimately missed out on being an academician. One of the vacant seats was taken by Peng Shige from Shandong University. Why was this person elected? The inside story is unknown, but what is certain is that the relationship with Peking University is definitely good.

A preliminary prediction for the 2007 academician election. As for Nankai University, Mr. Chen has passed away. In addition, Zhang Weiping formed a relationship with Peking University in 2003. I am afraid that Zhang Weiping will never have a chance to become an academician in his life, unless he wins. Fields Award, Zhang Weiping must be very aware of this, so he didn't even apply for the field award in 2005, let alone 2007. Otherwise, wouldn't he be humiliating himself? Peking University will definitely continue to send Zhang Jiping to take action. Without Nankai's interference, Zhang Jiping's election may not be in doubt. Fudan did not make any gains in 2005, and will definitely go all out in 2007. It can be expected that the two places in 2007 will continue to be divided between these two schools.

As Southern People Weekly mentioned in an interview with a mathematics professor at a key domestic university, Chinese mathematics has a very glorious history. At that time, Hua Luogeng, Su Buqing, and Chen Shengshen not only made world-class mathematics His achievements and noble personality have pointed out some directions for the development of Chinese mathematics and brought out some good students. For so many years, there have been no people with such prestige like them to lead Chinese mathematics forward. The current Chinese mathematics community is controlled by a group of people with low moral character. Because they themselves are not good at mathematics, they also suppress capable scholars and expand their power by controlling China's bonuses and funds. In the past two decades, Chinese mathematics has not Big development, that’s why. More and more money is invested, but the results are not as good as before. Peking University also knows this in its heart, but when it comes to interests, it puts interests first. Moreover, they now have complete control over the academician election in the field of mathematics. The academician election is the highlight. In order to become academicians, many young people have to be humble. It can be said that they swallow their humiliation, including doing academic work. Their personality has completely changed.