大学生解决重要数学难题

A world of mathematics is a world of history for most of us. Ramsey’s 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.
数学的世界对我们很多人来说是一个历史的世界。拉姆齐定理就是解释为什么的原因之一。它早在上世纪90年代就被英国数学家提出来，20年来，全球很多天才都在试着破解它，但迄今失败了。

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.
中国中部湖南省中南大学数学科学与计算技术学院大四学生刘路因发表一篇论文而在国际上声名鹊起，该论文破解了反推数学的一个难题，也就是数理逻辑学家大卫．西塔潘上世纪90年代提出来的一个猜想，拉姆齐二染色定理。

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.
在过去20年间，无数的国际知名数学家一直在努力但都没有解决这个难题，然而，刘路的发现解决了这个悬而未决的公开难题，给西塔潘猜想一个否定的答案。

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.
刘路第一次了解这一猜想是在2010年8月。在阅读了很多发表的论文之后，他突然想到一个可以解决这个难题的想法。他在一夜之间完成论文，并以刘嘉忆的笔名发到数理逻辑国际权威学术杂志《符号逻辑杂志》。

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.
中南大学特别批准刘路硕博连读。中南大学计划给予他特别的课程，以帮助他为科学做出更大的贡献。