Associate Professor Wang Hong from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University publicly shared her research findings on the 3D Kakeya conjecture at the seminar, drawing the attention of numerous professionals and mathematics enthusiasts.
柯朗數(shù)學(xué)科學(xué)研究所的副教授王虹在此次研討會(huì)上公開分享了她在三維掛谷猜想上的研究成果。這一令人驚嘆的成果吸引了眾多專業(yè)人士和數(shù)學(xué)愛好者的目光。
Wang Hong, born in the southern Chinese city of Guilin and a graduate of Peking University, is an associate professor at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
王虹,出生于中國(guó)南方城市桂林,畢業(yè)于北京大學(xué),現(xiàn)任紐約大學(xué)Courant數(shù)學(xué)科學(xué)研究所副教授。
In 1917, Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya asked: What is the smallest area a one-inch needle can sweep while rotating in all directions on a flat surface? A simple rotation forms a circle, but creative movements can reduce the area. This led to the Kakeya conjecture.
1917年,日本數(shù)學(xué)家掛谷宗一提出了一個(gè)有趣的幾何練習(xí)問題:將一根無(wú)限細(xì)、一寸長(zhǎng)的針放在平坦的表面上,然后旋轉(zhuǎn)它,使其指向各個(gè)方向。針可以掃過(guò)的最小面積是多少?如果你簡(jiǎn)單地圍繞它的中心旋轉(zhuǎn)它,你就會(huì)得到一個(gè)圓。但可以用創(chuàng)造性的方式來(lái)改變方向,這樣你劃出的地方就可以更小。此后,數(shù)學(xué)家提出了這個(gè)問題的一個(gè)相關(guān)版本,稱為掛谷猜想。
Wang and her collaborator Joshua Zahl, from the University of British Columbia, presented their milestone proof in a preprint paper that has not undergone peer review on the open-access repository arXiv on Feb 24.
王虹和不列顛哥倫比亞大學(xué)的約書亞·扎爾接過(guò)了這個(gè)“接力棒”,繼續(xù)在三維掛谷猜想的證明上深耕。在開放獲取存儲(chǔ)庫(kù)arXiv上以預(yù)印本論文的形式公布了研究成果,宣告證明了三維掛谷猜想(Kakeya Conjecture)。盡管該論文尚未經(jīng)過(guò)同行評(píng)審,但已在數(shù)學(xué)界引起了廣泛關(guān)注。
Some believe that Wang will be a strong contender for the Fields Medal, one of the highest international honors in mathematics. Since the Nobel Prize does not include a category for mathematics, the Fields Medal is often regarded as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics".
有觀點(diǎn)認(rèn)為,王虹將成為菲爾茨獎(jiǎng)的熱門候選人物。如果這篇論文最終通過(guò)嚴(yán)格的同行評(píng)審,王虹極有可能成為中國(guó)首位獲得菲爾茲獎(jiǎng)的數(shù)學(xué)家,以及全球第三位拿下菲爾茲獎(jiǎng)的女性得主。
編輯:黎霈融
實(shí)習(xí)生:林楚欣
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