The first International Mathematics Summer Camp recently concluded in Beijing. Twenty-seven teams from 23 countries and regions participated in the summer camp, including Canada, Brazil, South Africa, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran. Teams from China, Canada, and Poland won awards.

Shing-Tung Yau, an internationally renowned mathematician and chairman of the summer camp committee, delivered a speech during the closing ceremony, congratulating the event on its success.

"Mathematics is the cornerstone of scientific research, and scientific and technological progress cannot be separated from the cultivation of young mathematics talents. The International Mathematics Summer Camp is a stage to stimulate the mathematical potential of young people and help them realize their ambitions. It attracts outstanding students from all over the world, and the intense training has also created their friendship," said Yau. "Many students came to China for the first time. Through the summer camp, they learned about China, saw China, felt China, and finally fell in love with China."

Yau said he returned to China after more than 50 years of mathematics research in the United States to cultivate Chinese youth mathematics talents and hopes to benefit outstanding mathematics talents all over the world by holding international activities such as mathematics summer camps.

Over the past two weeks, more than 260 teenagers have trained, studied, competed, and communicated with each other in the summer camp, covering basic fields such as algebra, geometry, number theory, and combinatorial mathematics. Many of them have won gold medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad many times.

Internationally renowned scholars, including Shing-Tung Yau, Fields Medalist Caucher Birkar, and mathematical physicist Nicolai Reshetikhin, attended and presided over several mathematics lectures, and another 12 senior International Olympiad coaches came from all over the world to serve as teaching staff in this summer camp.