Following is full text of an article headlined "College senior solves major math problem" at http://english.cntv.cn/program/china24/20111017/103605.shtml (Begin text) A world of mathematics is a world of history for most of us. Ramseys Theorem is just one of the reasons why. It was discovered by a British mathematician back in 1990s, and for 20 years many of the world geniuses are trying to solve it but failed until now. Liu Lu, a senior from the School of Mathematics and Computing of Central South University (CSU) in central China's Hunan Province, has won international fame by publishing a paper that solves a problem of reverse mathematics, namely the Ramsey's Theorem for Pairs, a conjecture put forward by English mathematics logician David Seetapun in the 1990s. During the past two decades, countless internationally famous mathematicians have made efforts to solve the problem but without any results while Liu's findings solved the unresolved open question and provided a negative answer to Seetapun's conjecture. Liu first found out about this conjecture in August 2010. After reading many papers on the issue, he was suddenly struck with an idea that could solve the problem. He finished the paper in a night and sent it to the Journal of Symbolic Logic, an internationally authoritative academic journal on mathematical logic, under his penname Liu Jiayi. The CSU has given Liu special approval for successive postgraduate and doctoral programs of study. The university plans to give him special programs to help him make greater contributions to science. (End text) I look forward to the emergence of a "Chinese Newton" or a "Chinese Gauss" in this or next century. Carl Friedrich Gauss, a famous mathematician, said that "mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics." Unfortunately, there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics. China can do justice to mathematics and make a great contribution to the academic world if it sets up a Confucius Prize for Mathematics to award those who make great mathematical discovery or contribute to the advance of the "queen of the sciences".
