Guys, that's like the Nobel Prize for mathematicians! Chinese people have never won it before. They solved some problems that had been around for a century. Does that somehow impact the development of science worldwide? I'm curious what they actually discovered?
It's really a major achievement - such prizes are awarded for fundamental breakthroughs in mathematics, not just for solving problems. When the level of research worldwide grows across different countries, it generally accelerates the development of science overall - people exchange ideas, there's more competition in the best sense. Specific discoveries usually find applications later in cryptography, physics, or other fields, but sometimes it takes a while before that becomes clear.
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