Let's take a look at the Fields Medal, known as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, which is the highest academic award in mathematics. This is even more precious than the Nobel Prize, because the Fields Prize is awarded every four years, with 2-4 places each time, and its value is equivalent to that of the World Cup and the Olympic Games.
The NBA championship is hard to win, but at least every year. Considering the length of their careers and the grand prize once every four years, many mathematicians may have few opportunities to participate in the awards in their lifetime.
Fields Prize is only awarded to "young mathematicians" under the age of 40, which literally means tailor-made for mathematical geniuses. It is worth mentioning that French mathematicians have won the Fields Prize for more than 20 years.
Harvard University (65,438+08), Paris University (65,438+06), Paris Teachers College (65,438+05) and Princeton University (65,438+04) have won the most Fields Medal. It should be reminded that the scientists in American universities are not Americans, while the winners in French universities are almost all French.
Paris is the place where mathematicians are most concentrated in the world. The famous mathematicians are Vedas, Mei Sen, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, D'Alembert, Lagrange, Poisson, Fourier, Laplace, Cauchy and so on. Especially many famous French mathematicians in history, in the field of calculus, the number of French mathematicians almost accounts for 1/3.
The contribution of the French to mathematics is not insignificant. From Vieta's theorem in junior high school mathematics to Lagrange, the representative figure of advanced mathematics, and even Poincare, the master of modern mathematics, France has always maintained a strong vitality in the history of mathematics for hundreds of years.
French mathematicians Descartes, Vedas, Pascal, Fermat, Lagrange, Laplace, D'Alembert, Legendre, gaspard monge, Poncelet, Cauchy, Fourier, Poincare, Galois, Grotendick, etc. And mathematicians who made countless college students "scared" were almost all born in France in the17-20th century.
According to statistics, France has won the Fields Medal (the highest honor awarded to young mathematicians under the age of 40, and is regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics) with the second largest number of people in the world, second only to the United States. According to the proportion of population, France is definitely the first in the world.