The ancient Egyptians used ink to record various documents on a papyrus "paper". Some of this kind of "paper" is grass leaves, and some are cut into thin slices after pressing the pith of grass. 1858, Scottish antique dealer Rand bought a batch of sketches in a small town near the Nile River, all of which are mathematical documents, and now they are in the British Museum. 1893, Russian Gorini Fu Xiao also bought a batch of grass clippings, which were later called Moscow grass clippings. Many pieces of grass in rand grass are connected together and called grass rolls. The maximum volume is 0.3 meters high and 5.5 meters long.
There are math problems and solutions in these grass clippings. There are 85 questions in Rand Grass and 25 questions in Moscow Grass, all written in hieroglyphics. After research and translation, it is found that cursive script is fractional, and it can be used to solve a linear equation or a quadratic equation, and to calculate the area of rectangle, trapezoid and triangle. For example, the 63rd question of Lande straw chips is "Give 700 loaves of bread to four people, the first person is 2/3, the second person is 1/2, the third person is 1/3, and the fourth person is 1/4".
There is also a Babylonian (present-day Iraq) clay tablet similar to Egyptian cursive script, which was printed before the soil was dry, and then dried and preserved. However, there are not many early clay tablets preserved, which are far less comprehensive and systematic than Egyptian straw rolls. The highest honor in mathematics.
There is no mathematics prize in the world-famous Nobel Prize in Science, so the International Congress of Mathematicians began to award Fields Prize from 1936, which is the highest mathematics prize in the world and enjoys the same international reputation as the Nobel Prize.
Fields is a Canadian mathematician. During 1924, the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Toronto, Canada. Fields is the organizer of the meeting. He proposed to set up a math prize, using the remaining funds of the conference as a fund. 1932, Fields died. In the same year, the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Zurich accepted Fields' initiative. 1936, the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Oslo and the Fields Prize was awarded for the first time.
The International Congress of Mathematicians is held every four years 1 time. At every congress, the Fields Medal is awarded to those who have made outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics, usually 2 to 4 people at a time. According to Fields' initiative, we should not only reward the achievements we have made, but also encourage the winners to make further achievements. This means that medals can only be awarded to younger mathematicians. So far, * * * has won 24 awards, all under 40. This is not the same as the Nobel Prize.
The latest international congress of mathematicians was held in Helsinki, Finland on 1978. French Deligne (34 years old), American Feverman (29 years old), Kuilin (38 years old) and the Soviet Union's Marygues (32 years old) won the prize. Marygues was ignored in the Soviet Union, and the government refused to let him attend international conferences. When Helsinki Conference announced that the Marigus Fields Prize had been awarded in absentia, the audience stood up and applauded.
1982 announced the winners: French Kone, American Saiston and China Qiu Chengtong. Qiu Chengtong is the first person from China to win this honor. 1949 was born in Guangdong, then went to Hong Kong, and received his doctorate from the University of California. He is now a professor at Princeton Institute.