With their extraordinary mathematical talents, the girls of the secondary school fought their way out of the encirclement among tens of thousands of contestants and won the amazing result of 12th place in the world in one fell swoop! The 13th place behind her is a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
This ordinary girl from a poor background with a secondary school degree has become the focus of national attention, and some people have raised doubts.
Some people say that this math contest is not very valuable, it is a pheasant competition. Some people even say that Jiang Ping is purely commercial speculation, and the test results are obtained by cheating.
Could it be that Jiang Ping's story is really a marketing scam? Little by little, let's uncover the truth behind this.
The gold content of this game is not high
The full name of the competition that made Jiang Ping famous is called, "2024 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition". This is a mathematics competition sponsored by Alibaba DAMO Academy.
Whether the gold content of this competition is high or not depends on which angle you understand it. Compared to the International Mathematics Competition, it seems to be unofficial and is only a private company running the competition.
But for those who value the application of mathematics and employment, this competition is very important. Huawei, Alibaba, Baidu, etc. will select talents in basic specialties through various methods such as competitions.
Companies offer high bonuses and promise high salaries in order to pocket the talents in society. Ali has lifted the academic qualifications and encouraged young people from all over society to explore their mathematical talents.
The company's exams and competitions are different, they focus more on the ability to use mathematics to solve practical problems.
Therefore, Ali's preliminary exam is an open-book exam, because its exam questions require you to check the information.
Some people say that the exam is an open-book exam and that Jiang Ping can copy other people's answers, but they suspect that Jiang Ping's teacher gave Jiang Ping all the correct answers, and the person who questioned him claims to be a student at Peking University.
He also sent out his student status information to prove that he was a mathematics major at Peking University. He claimed to be surrounded by experts in mathematics, and many of his classmates took the test.
He believes that the mathematical knowledge required for the exam is very professional, and it is completely impossible for Jiang Ping to master it through self-study, and the test results are absolutely impossible to be true. She and her teacher may have taken advantage of the open-book feature to pass on answers to each other.
But in fact, Jiang Ping's teachers have taken exams for many years, and they are all one or two hundred, and they can't even get into the top 100, how can Jiang Ping copy the teacher and copy into the top 20.
After that, netizens changed their words and said that the other people who took this exam were all playing, not serious, only Jiang Ping had nothing to do and brushed the questions every day to get such a high score.
However, Alibaba responded that their exam questions are different from those of exam-oriented education, and they are very flexible, and there is no way to brush the questions or prepare in advance.
When Jiang Ping was questioned, the thirteenth below Jiang Ping, Liu Ben, a doctor of mathematics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, came out to speak.
He thinks it's very difficult to cheat on the exam.
All the questions are developed by Alibaba, and there are no fixed answers at all. Open-book exams can be consulted because the questions are highly realistic.
And this year's exam Ali allows artificial intelligence to participate, everyone can use computer assistance, if you compare the answers, compare the information, who can compare to the computer.
The fact is that artificial intelligence only scored 34 points out of 120, and Jiang Ping scored 93 points. According to the doctor, Jiang Ping should have written all the topics of mathematical thinking and application correctly.
There is also a 20-point answer question, which tests the academic content of professional mathematics, and must be written by someone who has read a professional paper. As a secondary school student, Jiang Ping's learning materials are only open textbooks, and this kind of internal papers in the industry are not accessible to her and her teachers, so she will not.
Therefore, Dr. Liu Ben believes that Jiang Ping does have a high talent and strong strength, and as a doctor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he does not feel ashamed or jealous, but only admires.
Jiang Ping's choice
Since Jiang Ping is indeed capable, why did she go to secondary school? The simple reason is that it's for the money.
Jiang Ping's family comes from the countryside, and her mother is not in good health, so she spends a lot of money on treatment. Dad was working alone in the field.
Jiang Ping scored more than 600 points in the middle school entrance examination and was able to go to an ordinary high school.
But she thought about it, she didn't have the money to go to college, and it didn't matter if she didn't go to high school.
So her sister and her two went to secondary school, in order to learn a trade and survive in society after graduation. Jiang Ping studied fashion design.
After Jiang Ping became famous, the local street handled a subsistence allowance for Jiang Ping's family, and the Education Bureau also reduced her tuition fees.
Now everyone is most concerned about what Jiang Ping will do in the future, and the second is whether Jiang Ping will have a good result in the finals.
Jiang Ping's future
Jiang Ping's teachers and Alibaba staff both believe that Jiang Ping may not achieve good results in the finals. Because the finals are subdivided into the field of mathematics, the content is quite specialized.
As for the content of Jiang Ping's self-study, she has only learned the textbooks of undergraduate and graduate students, and she has never been exposed to professional thesis knowledge, so she may not have an advantage in a deeper competition.
But being able to enter the top 20 in the preliminaries has proven Jiang Ping's mathematical ability, but she does not have the supporting resources. It can be said that what Jiang Ping's teacher can teach her, she has already learned.
The next problem she faced was that there were many things that could not be learned without entering the academic world, and it was difficult to produce results without professional academic training.
Many people think that Jiang Ping is just good at exams, and if she really enters the study of mathematics, she may not be able to study anything. But I don't think so.
There was a mathematical genius Xu Juner before, who was the same as Jiang Ping, a mathematical genius who was seriously biased and became a monk halfway.
South Korean, Heo Jun-r, likes to write poetry and wants to be a TV reporter. I studied physics in college, and I didn't graduate until 6 years after poor grades.
However, when he occasionally attended a lecture on mathematics, he suddenly fell in love with mathematics and has been out of control ever since.
Since he is not a mathematics major, he has no access to professional academic resources at all. Fortunately, a Japanese professor had a discerning eye for talent and recommended him to the United States to study for a doctorate.
At that time, when he went to the United States, many people were waiting to see the jokes, thinking that this so-called folk genius would definitely be exposed after coming to the professional scientific research community, although he was famous, but more than a dozen universities did not want him.
At that time, Xu Juner was indeed very unprofessional, his foundation was not solid, and he was wild, and the only American teacher who admitted him pressed him to do two years of basic training.
Two years later, Xu Juner, who entered the academic world, not only was not exposed, but was like a tiger with wings, solving many problems in the mathematical world. He then soared, becoming a college professor at Princeton in his 30s and winning the Fields Medal at the age of 40.
Xu Jun'er's experience has great reference value for Jiang Ping, Xu Jun'er's grades in college were very poor, so people like Jiang Ping are only talented in one aspect, and if they choose the wrong major, they will delay time.
Nowadays, many mathematics majors believe that if Jiang Ping is very good at partial differential equations, it is best to have a tutor in this major to educate her.
Partial differential equations are in demand in today's military, science and technology, and industrial fields, and if Jiang Ping can study them in depth, it is also promising.
Even so, there are still people who suspect that Jiang Ping's grades are cheating, and Ali Dharma Academy believes that they believe in Jiang Ping's strength, and they personally found Jiang Ping to shoot a video for her after the results came out, just out of love for the genius.