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South China Morning Post
17-03-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
Chinese mathematicians in US say they have cracked century-old fluid mechanics puzzle
Two young Chinese mathematicians working in the United States, along with an international collaborator, may have solved a century-old problem in fluid mechanics – an area of study that is critical to many engineering fields including hydraulic systems, the design of dams and bridges, and aerodynamics. Advertisement In a paper published on March 3 on arXiv, an open-access platform for preprint papers that are yet to be peer reviewed, the trio said they had resolved 'Hilbert's sixth problem' by proving the mathematics of fluid mechanics. The study was co-authored by Deng Yu, an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, along with Ma Xiao and Zaher Hani, both from the University of Michigan's Department of Mathematics. 08:30 Why are more Chinese scientists leaving the US to return to China? Why are more Chinese scientists leaving the US to return to China? The breakthrough has triggered discussion on social media, especially in China. 'They solved the century-long problem and brought Hilbert's sixth problem in the narrow sense to a successful conclusion,' Maths Five Group, an account run by five Chinese PhD students of pure maths in Germany and France, commented on Chinese social media on March 5. At the intersection of physics and mathematics, researchers ask whether it is possible to establish physics as a rigorous branch of mathematics by taking microscopic laws as axioms and proving macroscopic laws as theorems. Axioms are mathematical statements that are assumed to be true, while a theorem is a logical consequence of axioms. Advertisement Hilbert's sixth problem addresses that challenge, according to a post by Ma on Wednesday on Zhihu, a Quora-like Chinese online content platform. In 1900, David Hilbert, a German mathematician and one of the most influential of his time, famously presented 23 problems at the International Congress of Mathematicians. The sixth one was intended to reduce to a system of basic axioms, or truths, those branches of physics in which mathematics was prevalent.
South China Morning Post
27-02-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
Top mathematician Shing-Tung Yau leads China's bid for 2030 maths Olympics
China is vying with Japan and Britain to host the 2030 maths Olympics for the second time, after it first held the event in 2002, an initiative led by eminent mathematician Shing-Tung Yau Advertisement Yau is leading a team of 40 Chinese and international mathematicians in the bid for the 2030 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), according to the Yau Mathematical Sciences Centre at Tsinghua University. 'The ICM is important for many mathematical researchers as a platform to understand key developments worldwide over the past four years and an opportunity to showcase their academic achievements,' Yau said in an interview with China Science Daily on Tuesday. 'As the level of mathematics in China advances, I think 2030 will be a critical year and an important moment for Chinese mathematics to rise on the world stage. We hope to inspire young Chinese researchers and scholars to stand out in the world through the ICM.' Yau, the first Chinese to win the Fields Medal for his work in differential geometry, retired from Harvard University in 2022 to teach at Tsinghua University and help China become a maths powerhouse. Advertisement He has set up institutions in China such as the maths centre at Tsinghua and the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, which have attracted top local and international talent.
