Rewrite the Technological Landscape

After the two chatted about the business, more and more people were present, but Meng Qian didn't see many familiar faces. Among the people he met at the last Kyoto Conference, Meng Qian only saw Grigory from Russia. Perelman did not see Mochizuki Shinichi, nor did he see the German double pride. But Meng Qian met many characters who appeared in books and on TV, such as the famous Nobel laureate in economics Nash, and Hawking who chatted with Pan Yun.

If the Kyoto Conference was a gathering of geniuses, this time the World Congress of Mathematicians is really a gathering of gods.

At 3:00 p.m., the conference officially started. Chinese bigwigs presented this year’s Fields Medal. The winners were French mathematician Laurent Laforgue and Russian mathematician Vladimir Woworski.

After patiently watching the opening ceremony on the first day, Meng Qian followed Pan Yun to a party in the evening.

The people who came to this party were all Chinese who came to the World Congress of Mathematicians, including Chinese and foreign Chinese. Meng Qian and Pan Yun came earlier, and gradually saw many well-known figures in this field, such as becoming Phil in the future. Qiu Chentong, the first Chinese winner of this award, and Tian Gang, the only Chinese who was invited to give a one-hour report at this conference, etc.

And Qiu Chentong sat at the same table with Tian Gangzheng and Meng Qian, as well as the principals of Yanda University and Tsinghua University and several other Chinese mathematicians.

Because of their familiarity with Meng Qian, the principals of the three universities didn't mind Meng Qian sitting at their table, especially since Pan Yun had privately told the other two universities that Meng Qian wanted to put forward some important ideas for tonight's dinner.

It’s just that when other people saw such a young man who had never seen him sitting at the table with him, they were somewhat puzzled, until Tian Gang realized, “Meng Qian, you are the Meng Qian who shocked everyone at Kyoto University?”

"What Teacher Tian said is too exaggerated. It's just a normal academic exchange. By the way, how can Teacher Tian know about this?"

"Haha, it's really you, Yun Wei is my student." Tian Gang's eyes immediately changed when he saw Meng Qian, and then he vividly told everyone about the Kyoto University.

Of course, what Meng Qian heard from him was somewhat exaggerated, but he did not refute it. Under Tian Gang's introduction, everyone's expressions on Meng Qian changed, and Meng Qian finally sat down more firmly in this position.

Meng Qian's performance was relatively low-key, so everyone suppressed their curiosity and stopped discussing his affairs for the time being, and quickly shifted the chat content to mathematics. The principals of the three colleges were present at the same time, in order to chat Talk about the development of domestic mathematics education.

While eating and chatting, many problems gradually came to the table. Shortly after he started talking about solutions, Pan Yun deliberately pushed Meng Qian, who had been eating in silence, to the front of the stage, "About promoting the development of domestic mathematics education, Xiao Meng I thought it was good to mention a few ideas to me before, Xiaomeng, why don’t you tell everyone and listen to everyone’s opinions.”

Meng Qian, who received Pan Yun's signal, quickly answered, "Principal Pan praised me, it's just my humble opinion."

"Young people don't need to be so humble. We old guys should really listen to your young people's ideas." Qiu Chentong encouraged Meng Qian with some surprises, "Just say it and listen."

"Then I'll just say a few words of nonsense. If I'm not right, I would like to ask you, teachers, Haihan. You mentioned a lot of problems just now. I first summarized the development of domestic mathematics education and extracted three cores.

The first is the public's ignorance of the value of mathematics.

The second is the scarcity and low return of mathematical applications.

The third is the backwardness of mathematics education resources. "

Meng Qian paused and waited for everyone's reaction. Everyone thought about it seriously for a while, and then nodded in agreement with Meng Qian's statement.

"So some of the methods I think of are aimed at these three directions, how important is mathematics, the foundation of the Internet, artificial intelligence algorithms, missile rocket design, satellite detector research and development, modern war computing, industrial automation layout, life science exploration, energy conservation Emission reduction development, almost all frontier areas of future technological development will be determined by mathematics.

It is no exaggeration to say that the level of mathematics of a country will determine the future level of science and technology of a country, and even determine the national strength of a country. However, in our China, more people's understanding of mathematics is still limited to things other than learning to buy vegetables. What else can I do.

Especially in the past two years when the country began to vigorously promote the development of basic science, people around me still have no change in their understanding of mathematics. At first I thought it was because the publicity was not in place, until I checked a lot of information before I came to participate in this conference. We know that the country has spent a lot of effort in promoting basic science in the past two years.

But I dare to say that there is a problem with the country's propaganda on this matter, that is, the propaganda is too standard. "

Several people on the table couldn't help but look at each other, and it was Qiu Chentong who said again, "What does it mean to be well-behaved?"

"All of our publicity is on channels related to mathematics, such as some mathematics magazines, such as some academic journals. Even if we see similar news in some newspapers, the titles are too formal. Let me give you an example. Well, junior high school students in many places now have newspapers to read every day. And the students almost only read one thing after getting the newspaper, which is called a happy moment.”

With the example of Meng Qian, everyone understands, "So you think the country has put a lot of effort into publicity, but in fact it hasn't reached the students at all."

"Yes, our pitches are in places where people who already care about math will see them, but what we're really trying to do is get people who don't know math to see these things."

"But as you said, students like to watch the happy moment. Can we still put mathematics into the happy moment? Even if you put it in, it's not a happy moment."

"But there must be a way to entertain and teach. Teachers probably don't know it yet. Our Dafeng Group is already negotiating with the Ministry of Education. We are now considering adding some gameplay that can entertain and educate in the game. For example, we often have question-answering activities in our games. We plan to add some more educational question types, and even if the Ministry of Education allows it, we will insert some previous college entrance examination questions.

Of course, as games, what we can implant are basically liberal arts topics, such as poetry, history, and popular science in mathematics. Conquered videos and other types of publicity. Another very important suggestion is about publicity channels.

Young people now prefer non-mainstream platforms like Fengxin. We can decentralize more of our science popularization from mainstream media, and enter platforms like Fengxin that are more concerned by young people. Combined with more acceptable science popularization methods, then I guess the effect of science popularization will be quite different. "

"Will this seem nondescript?" Someone asked a question. This is a very common way of thinking in this era. When the first batch of official media entered Weibo, many users felt uncomfortable.

"I admit that this model needs to break through some ideological restrictions, but if the purpose of science popularization is to let more people understand science, then it should break through the restrictions. Only in a way that the people like can the people be willing to accept it. The information we want to convey.

In fact, you can take a look at Fengxin. This time, Fengxin has invited some official media to promote the World Mathematical Congress on the platform. Judging from the data obtained so far, the attention is very high.

But if you want to really spread the popularization of mathematics, including the charm of mathematics and the application of mathematics, if you can get more leaders in mathematics like all the teachers here to participate, the effect will be better. "

Qiu Chentong understood Meng Qian's meaning, and his expression made people unable to understand his emotions, "You want us, including major universities, to settle in Fengxin?"

Meng Qian straightened up. Although he wasn't sure what everyone thought now, Meng Qian wanted to tell everyone his attitude clearly, "Not only to settle in, I want to make you into 'stars' sought after by young people."