From 2065438 to April 2009, Tsinghua University established a chair professor to commend professors and experts who have made breakthrough achievements in this research field and have international influence.
At the beginning of April, Qiu Chengtong spent his 73rd birthday in Tsinghua campus and expressed his wish: "The person we want to compete with is the greatest scientist in the world. We can go our own way, and then I will advance and retreat with you in Tsinghua."
Tutor Chen Shengshen wrote a book to Qiu Chengtong in Zeng Zeng. The title page said, "I will be sixty years old for the rest of my life. I hope someone will pass on my salary." This sentence, Qiu Chengtong has been in mind.
In the teacher's generation, China realized his wish to become a world power in mathematics. Qiu Chengtong's greatest wish is to make China a mathematical power, and hopes that China will be on an equal footing with the world's mathematical powers within 10 years. "We must rely on our own strength to train a group of top talents in China, so that they can grow up on the fertile soil of the motherland and lay an important and solid foundation for the development of basic science in China."
In Qiu Chengtong's view, China has the possibility of building a powerful country in mathematics, and he hopes to "give it another push".
On 20021,Tsinghua University launched the "Training Plan for Leading Talents in Mathematics in Qiu Chengtong" for students with mathematical talents in Grade Three to Grade Three.
Qiu Chengtong said, "Children will be more brave to explore real problems, and will not have some preconceived and conventional ideas. Compared with other disciplines, mathematics is a' precocious' discipline, and' recklessness' is also a very important student quality. "
Qiu Chengtong hopes that through this plan, a group of world-class scholars will be trained in 10, and they will grow up in China without going abroad to learn from the scriptures.
He designed an eight-year "all-rounder" training plan for these carefully selected "good seeds", looking for "good gardeners" and inviting top scholars to teach in the front line.
These include the winners of Fields Prize and Wolf Prize, as well as master-level scholars such as academicians of the National Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences.
Up to now, top international scholars such as Caucher Birkar, winner of the 2008 Fields Prize, Donald Rubin, academician of the National Academy of Sciences, Eduard Looijenga, academician of the Royal Dutch Academy of Humanities, Zheng, member of the American Mathematical Society, and Nicolai Reshetikhin, a top mathematical physicist, have been introduced to work in China full-time.
Many China students in Qiu Chengtong are active in the academic arena at home and abroad. Among them are Li Jun and other academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as famous mathematicians such as Cao Huaidong, Liu Kefeng and Li Si. Richard Schon, his first student, won the Wolf Prize and was one of his important collaborators.