December 05, 2016 Monday
Bedtime Story
Prizes Given at the International Congress of Mathematics
This Congress is held once every four years and the top four prizes in
mathematics listed below are bestowed to the recipients at the
opening ceremony.
1. The Fields Medals (in honor of the Canadian mathematician John
Charles Fields) and considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics even though the
prize amount is relatively low, being just 15,000 Canadian dollars.
2. The Nevanlinna Prize (in honor of Finnish mathematician Rolf
Nevanlinna) is specifically given for mathematical work that involves the arena
of computer science, information processing and artificial intelligence.
Both the Fields Medal and the Nevanlinna Prize are given to
mathematicians younger than 40 years of age.
3. The Gauss Prize (in honor of the great Carl Friedrich Gauss) comes
with financial incentive of 10,000 Euros and is given to mathematicians whose
work finds application in the real world.
4. The Chern Medal (in honor of the Chinese mathematician Shiing-Shen
Chern, one of the authorities of differential geometry) comes with the largest
cash prize among these four honors.
The recipient of this recently invented award not only gets a cash
prize of 250,000 USD but also gets to decide how yet another 250,000 USD would
be distributed in order to promote advancement of mathematics.
Incidentally, the first Chern Medal was given away at the opening
ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematics that was held in
Hyderabad, India.
Continuum hypothesis attracted the attention of many great
mathematicians including David Hilbert, Ernest Zermelo, Abraham Fraenkel and
Kurt Gödel.
At the International Congress of Mathematics held at Paris in
1900, David Hilbert listed 10 of the 23 mathematical problems that later would
come to be known as Hilbert’s twenty-three problems.
The first problem in this famous list turned out to be the proof
of continuum hypothesis!
Hilbert’s challenge concerning the first problem was taken up by
at least 2 German mathematicians Ernest Zermelo and Abraham Fraenkel.
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Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
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The Prestigious Fields Medal
The Chern Medal with the picture of Shiing-Shen Chern in front and with the generalized Gauss-Bonnet Theorem carved out in the rear
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