2024年7月6日上午,在澳大利亚悉尼举办的第15届国际数学教育大会(ICME-15)上,理学院数学系冷岗松教授获颁2020年度世界数学竞赛联盟(WFNMC)保罗•厄尔多斯奖(Paul Erdős Award)。颁奖仪式原定于2021年7月在华东师范大学主办的第14届国际数学教育大会(ICME-14)期间举行,但因故推迟,于2024年7月在悉尼召开的ICME-15期间举行。
世界数学竞赛联盟(WFNMC)是国际数学教育委员会(ICMI)下的研究机构,成立于1984年,致力于推广数学竞赛和相关活动,以丰富学生的数学学习体验。其颁发的保罗•厄尔多斯奖(Paul Erdős Award)以著名数学家Paul Erdős (1913-1996) 命名。
Paul Erdős曾获数学界最高奖沃尔夫奖(Wolf Prize) (1983-1984),美国数学会的科尔数论奖(AMS Cole Prize)。数论中著名的Erdős number以Paul Erdős命名。Paul Erdős还是一位杰出的数学教育家,他认为数学竞赛对发现和培养数学人才起着重要的作用,他不但是数学竞赛的热心组织者,有时甚至作为“选手”和中学生一起参加解题活动。
Paul Erdös奖的设立是为了表彰那些在国家或国际层面的数学挑战发展中发挥了重要作用、以及对数学教育有极大推动的数学家。(The Paul Erdös Award is established to recognise contributions of mathematicians who have played a significant role in the development of mathematical challenges at the national or international level and which have been a stimulus for the enrichment of mathematics learning. )自1992年以来,保罗•厄尔多斯奖每两年颁发一次,每次最多奖励三人。到目前为止,中国大陆共有3人荣获此奖。第一位是中国老一辈数学家、奥林匹克数学竞赛的泰斗级人物、中科院数学所研究员裘宗沪先生(1994年获奖);第二位是我国著名数学教育家、华东师范大学熊斌教授(2018年获奖)。
冷岗松教授的颁奖词(附中文翻译):
For the past 20 years, Prof. Leng has been a member of the China Mathematical Olympiad (CMO) Main Examination Committee, the coach of the China Mathematical Olympiad National Training Team, and the Director of the Western China Mathematical Olympiad (CWMO) Main Examination Committee.
In 2007, he served as the team leader of the Chinese Mathematical Olympiad National Team; in 2006 and 2009, he served as the deputy team leader of the Chinese Mathematical Olympiad National Team. During this period, Prof. Leng provided many test questions for the Chinese Mathematics Competition, won the Best Proposition Award named of "Nine-Chapters Mathematics" twice, and was one of the main coaches of the Chinese Mathematics Olympiad National Team.
He published more than 20 papers on mathematics competitions and their propositional research, and also has successively published 6 books on mathematics competitions in Tsinghua University Press, East China Normal University Press and World Scientific Publishing Company.
Together with Prof. Qiu Zonghu and Prof. Xiong Bin, Prof. Leng actively guide and train young math competition coaches in China. For ten consecutive years, he has made a conference report for the National Mathematics Competition Proposition Seminar, and served as a tutor for the senior coaches training class of the National Middle School Mathematics and Mathematics Competition for two consecutive years.
Since 2013, Prof. Leng has founded Mathematical New-Star Network (www.nsmath.cn) to advocate “research-based” learning. So far, more than 150 challenging problems and more than 300 papers have been published, including more than 100 student written papers. Most of these students are winners of domestic and foreign mathematics competitions. These articles have been organized into a series of books "The Problems and Insights in Mathematics Competition", divided into three volumes, published in East China Normal University Press.
在过去的20年间,冷岗松教授长期担任中国数学奥林匹克(CMO)主试委员会委员,国际数学奥林匹克(IMO)中国国家集训队教练,中国西部数学奥林匹克(CWMO)主试委员会主任。2007年,任IMO中国国家队领队;2006年和2009年,任IMO中国国家队副领队。在此期间,冷岗松为中国数学竞赛提供了许多试题,两次获得“九章数学”的最佳命题奖,是IMO中国国家队的主要教练之一。发表有关数学竞赛及其命题研究的论文20多篇。先后在清华大学出版社、华东师范大学出版社和新加坡世界科技(World Scientific)出版公司出版数学竞赛著作6本。
冷岗松教授同裘宗沪教授和熊斌教授一起,积极指导和培养国内年轻的数学竞赛教练。连续十年为全国数学竞赛命题工作研讨会做大会报告,连续两届担任全国中学数学竞赛高级教练员研修班导师。
冷岗松教授在2024年第13届全国数学竞赛命题工作研讨会上做大会报告
在科研上,冷岗松教授主要研究方向为凸几何分析。由冷岗松教授创建的凸几何分析团队,包括国家自然科学基金优秀青年科学基金获得者席东盟教授、上海市高层次青年人才项目获得者李晋副教授等。团队成员的科研成果发表在国际著名数学期刊 Comm. Pure Appl. Math.、J. Differential Geom.、Adv. Math.、Math. Ann.、Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.、J. Funct. Anal. 等上。