Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

On the evening of June 17, Ma Yun, who taught in Tokyo, returned. Ali revealed that Ma Yun has appeared in Hangzhou to watch the world's largest online mathematics competition. This year, 685 contestants from 19 countries around the world stood out from more than 50,000 contestants and advanced to the 8-hour final showdown.

Before the start of the competition, Alibaba founder Ma Yun came to Hangzhou to watch the competition, communicate with contestants and proposition teachers online, and talk about mathematics. Ma Yun said that the competition will continue to innovate and bring new fun to people who love mathematics.

It is understood that the final is divided into five math tracks, each track five big questions, each question is carefully designed by the proposition group teacher, investigate the contestants 'mathematical thinking and peacetime accumulation thinking, do not need to brush the questions, also can not prepare in advance. Among the 685 finalists, there are not only math students from the world's top universities, but also lawyers, salesmen, cultural relic restorers, programmers and couriers. They come from all walks of life, but they all have one thing in common: love for mathematics. This year's preliminary round attracted more than 50,000 participants, nearly half of whom were women; the oldest was 67 years old, and junior high school students also participated.

Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition was launched by Ma Yun in 2018. The main purpose is to stimulate people's love for mathematics through fun competitions and jointly promote the development of mathematics as a basic discipline with all sectors of society. This public welfare competition has been held for the fifth consecutive year. There is no registration threshold and the whole process is online. It has stimulated the enthusiasm of mathematics enthusiasts all over the world to the maximum extent and attracted more than 250,000 participants in the past five years.

Many competitors regard mathematics as a hobby and fun in their daily work life. Sun Jinyuan, a courier from Tianjin, proved 13 formulas related to Euler's constant in two consecutive weeks. Lawyer Lu Zhiyuan has participated in Ali Mathematics Competition twice in a row and entered the finals this year. He proved the key evidence of his case with mathematical thinking.

The competition's proposition team is composed of top math teachers from all over the world, and how to innovate every year makes teachers rack their brains. Last year, the competition began to open to the whole society to collect questions, from life to discover the math problems around; this year, the organizing committee invented a game question without an answer, unrelated to promotion: "Tell the story of you and mathematics in a mathematical way," received more than 2000 brain-opening answers.

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