Chapter 134 I want to thank everyone in my life who deserves gratitude!
Schultz was indeed praising Qiao Yu sincerely.
In fact, whether this sentence is a compliment or a pity depends on the age group.
If Qiao Yu was already a young man in his twenties, Schultz would probably regret that Qiao Yu had wasted so much time that his foundation was still unstable. This will make it very difficult for Qiao Yu to independently study some basic problems or develop a new mathematical framework, or even fail.
But Qiao Yu is only sixteen years old.
This means that Qiao Yu still has a lot of time to learn and make up for his weak foundation, to attack world-class problems in the future, and even create his own mathematics. Just like what he's doing now.
This is the horror of the age advantage. Schultz even felt that it didn't matter if Qiao Yu wasted another two years, since he was still so young anyway.
Qiao Yu only felt ashamed.
He already roughly understood why he didn't like communicating with the mathematicians who left their email addresses for him. It's just that the foundation is weak and he's too good at it.
Without those divine inspirations, he would probably be nothing...
Qiao Yu felt ashamed when he thought that he had only read a small part of the book list that Director Tian had planned for him. He actually had the nerve to go to the philosophy academy to attend cross-border lectures. He was indeed an ignorant person without fear. After all, only those who have experienced it know what he lacks most.
After going back, I can't go around listening to lectures and blabbering blindly. Qiao Yu was secretly alert.
He has already ordered a banner on a certain treasure "Studying for the Rise of Chinese Mathematics". Although it is just for show, since the show has been made, he cannot let the tutor talk to Yuan in the future. I always see his jokes.
After all, he has pursuits for the future.
Let's put it this way, learning mathematics is now his job, and becoming a billionaire who can develop a large community is his life goal.
If a person can't even do his job well, how can he achieve his life goals?
It's like Qiao Yu wanted to become a professional game player before.
What if after becoming a professional player he can’t even play competitive games well and falls a little behind in every game, but his goal is to become the number one in the world and enjoy the admiration of thousands of people... This is obviously not true. Too likely.
If you can avoid being scolded, you are already doing a good job. Everyone's comment that "you just need to practice more" is considered gentle.
So if you want to achieve your goals, you must first be truly outstanding in your industry.
Yes, after talking to Peter Schultz, Qiao Yu re-set goals for himself in his heart. In the next year, he will complete all general undergraduate courses in the School of Mathematics at Yanbei University to lay a solid foundation.
If Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin knew Qiao Yu's inner thoughts at this time, they would probably be very happy.
Of course at this time, no one made these requests to Qiao Yu.
Whether it is Huaqing, Yanbei or other Chinese professors, when they learned that the opening speech of this year’s World Congress on Algebraic Geometry was replaced by a sixteen-year-old boy named Qiao Yu, except for a few people, they felt very happy. They were probably all excited.
After all, if Qiao Yu performs well enough in this report, it will virtually strengthen the voice of the Chinese mathematics community. Not only in the field of algebraic geometry, these will be bragging rights when communicating with colleagues in the future.
They don’t even need to mention it first, maybe someone will chase them and ask: "Hey, Professor XXX, I heard that a man named Qiao Yu gave the opening sixty-minute report at the World Congress on Algebraic Geometry? God, this is true. "
This is probably how the so-called collective sense of honor comes about.
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Of course, it is not just the professors who are visiting the conference who are excited at this time.
In fact, many Chinese media who had no intention of reporting on this conference had already begun to take notice when they received the news.
Especially some Chinese media with permanent offices in Paris.
Of course this is understandable.
In fact, if you look carefully at some large media, you will know that they are not keen on reporting on academic affairs, especially mathematics.
One of the reasons is probably that ordinary people don’t actually care.
Except for the two months when the Nobel Prize is announced every year, there may be an upward trend in the traffic of some popular science bloggers, but in fact it is just like that. Not many people will really pay attention to which scientists won the awards this year and why they won the awards.
It’s not that everyone doesn’t respect knowledge, it’s that they don’t understand it at all.
Even if last year’s Nobel Prize winner in physics did something that is closely related to current hot technologies, not many people know about it.
Yes, no matter in China or anywhere in the world, absolutely less than 10% of people know that the 2024 Nobel Prize winners are John Hopfield of Princeton University and the University of Toronto in Canada Jeffrey Hinton.
Even if the former’s research result is the development of an associative memory model that can store and reconstruct information, simulating the working way of human brain neurons; the latter was once known as the father of artificial intelligence and invented a Boltzmann machine.
Really, even when someone is talking about artificial intelligence in front of you, if you ask him if he knows the Nobel Prize winner in 2024, he will probably just get a confused look on his face.
This is true for physics where people can understand what they are studying, let alone mathematics.
Even if the Fields Medal is awarded only once every four years, even if it is the award year of the World Congress of Mathematicians, not many media in China will really pay attention to and report on these things. Because everyone who works in journalism knows that except for people in the mathematics circle, no one will pay too much attention to these things.
This thing has no traffic.
The reason is also very simple. Mathematics research exceeds the understanding of this era. Even the relatively simple probability theory and statistical physics in mathematics. For example, Hugo Dominier, the 2022 Fields Medal winner.
The reason for the award is for the research on probabilistic models in statistical physics, especially the deep understanding of spin systems and percolation models on two-dimensional and three-dimensional lattices.
A simple sentence contains many concepts that ordinary people have no contact with and cannot understand. For example, what are two-dimensional and three-dimensional lattice? What is an up-spin system? What is a percolation model?
What people are most interested in in science is things that can be seen and touched.
For example, artificial intelligence, driverless driving, physical robots, space stations, astronauts landing on the moon, immigration to Mars, and aerospace aircraft carriers...
As for what is behind these things Ordinary people are actually too lazy to care about the mathematical algorithms and physical foundations involved.
So media reporters often report on this type of science with the mentality of completing the task, and the traffic is definitely unimaginable. They must report it just so that they cannot appear to be completely indifferent to basic science.
Of course there is an exception, especially in China.
That is when a Chinese person is recognized by the world's academic community and given extraordinary treatment.
For example, many people who did not even know about the Nobel Prize before also know that someone in China won the Nobel Prize because of artemisinin. Even when you mention artemisinin, you will remember that person and her award.
This is a completely different way of thinking between ordinary Chinese people and ordinary people in the West. This is probably based on collectivist education since childhood, and an extremely simple and suppressed national pride complex for many years.
If you analyze the evolution of his thinking mode, it is probably that the awards are selected by other countries, and our people win the awards, which is enough to show that we are no worse than them, so I am no worse than them...
Regardless of whether people admit it or not, this is actually the collectivist sense of honor buried deep in China’s bones.
Especially when a person wins honors around the world, then this person has passively taken on more things in the hearts of many Chinese people. To a certain extent, his words and deeds are more than just representatives. He even represents the entire Chinese nation to a certain extent.
As for Westerners, they probably only think, Huh? That guy accomplished something amazing, oh, he might be great, and we should congratulate him and applaud him. But he is just an individual. No matter how powerful he is, he can only represent himself and has nothing to do with me, even if we are neighbors in the same community.
Even before this person has done any substantial help to us, if the community comes forward to hold a welcome ceremony, it will be considered a waste of their taxpayers' money...
This is The difference is also the difference in traffic.
So in fact, many Chinese media have been silently paying attention to this World Congress on Algebraic Geometry, and have also sent reporters to cover the conference.
There is no other reason. After all, this conference has a 16-year-old mathematical genius from China who gave a thirty-minute report at the conference.
Of course, the degree of attention is actually not high.
Because these reporters have basically confirmed it before, Qiao Yu's thirty-minute report this time will be conducted in a branch venue, not the main venue.
This means that only interested mathematicians will listen. After all, there are usually dozens or even dozens of reports held at the same time.
Participating professors will choose topics of interest to listen to reports and participate in discussions.
No matter how retouched the on-site photos are, they will not be too shocking.
It is even possible that only a few people will attend some low-profile reports.
Even if there are many mathematicians participating in Qiao Yu’s lecture, if they are all from the East, it will be difficult to cause much of a sensation. After all, the Chinese people now have a very high threshold for this.
Especially at so-called world-class conferences, Qiao Yu’s report attracted professors with Eastern faces. Not only did everyone not feel proud, they even felt that the professors who participated in the conference were arranged under pressure. Task.
Of course, this cannot be blamed on the general public.
Some of the messy things in the past have consumed people’s confidence so much that their immunity has become stronger.
So even if they received the reporting task before, most of the Chinese reporters who were determined to participate in covering the meeting were not very concerned about it.
Even many of them had no intention of going to the site at all.
Anyway, this kind of news is destined to make no waves. When the time comes, just quote other people's reports and intercept some pictures of the scene online and remove the watermarks to deal with it. Even using other people's pictures directly is not a big problem.
News that is destined to not be popular, people are so full that they are trying to defend their rights over this nonsense.
But when the organizing committee made a temporary decision to change the agenda of the meeting and upgraded Qiao Yu's report from the original thirty-minute report in the sub-venue to a sixty-minute opening report, the situation immediately changed. Same.
Did you suddenly have a big game before the meeting started?
A 16-year-old Chinese boy gave a 60-minute opening report at the World Congress on Algebraic Geometry? !
The title calls for mathematicians all over the world to collectively listen to the voice of a 16-year-old mathematical genius from China?
Really, a piece of news that wasn’t really a hit at first suddenly has the potential to become a hit. Especially the name Qiao Yu. If you search the domestic Internet, you will know that it has been on the hot search several times before.
Especially in a recent hot search, Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin appeared at the same time, and were described by many mathematics insiders as key figures in the great reconciliation of the Chinese mathematics community.
At the same time, he was also the champion of last year’s CMO, and won the only gold medal with a perfect score in the algebra and number theory track at Little Libaba’s World Mathematics Competition!
The most important thing is that according to the authors' inquiries, the reason why Qiao Yu's report suddenly became more important this time is that Qiao Yu helped mathematicians solve an extremely important conjecture in the mathematical world, geometry. Langlands conjecture!
So, the mathematicians in the hotel who were preparing to attend this meeting were actually not doing well, and the Chinese reporters immediately went crazy!
After all, reporters who report on-site for large-scale international academic conferences such as the World Congress on Algebraic Geometry must have an invitation letter or a media pass issued by the organizing committee, otherwise they will not be able to enter the venue at all.
So in theory, reporters who want to participate in the conference first need to submit an application to the organizing committee, and then accept the review of the conference expert group.
The application materials must include an introduction to the representative media organization, as well as the reporter’s interview purpose and personal information.
The organizing committee of the conference should comprehensively consider the type of media organization and whether the reporters have certain professionalism to judge whether they can accurately report the content of the conference. These are still very important to academia.
The media likes to tell nonsense, not just in China, but almost all over the world.
However, academic rigor requires that if the conference content is reported, it must be ensured that the information can be conveyed to the public more accurately.
For example, what the professor reported on stage was clearly about the research progress on the zero-point distribution in the Riemann Hypothesis. If the media exposed it, Professor XXX claimed to have solved the Riemann Hypothesis at the World Congress of Mathematicians and did He gave a sixty-minute report and received praise from the world's mainstream mathematicians, which would make this conference seem quite embarrassing.
Especially in an era when people have become accustomed to relying on search engines, and even artificial intelligence has begun to rely on searching for online information content.
If the titles of these irresponsible reports are scary enough, maybe within a few days the entire Internet will be filled with news that the Riemann Hypothesis has been conquered by humans. The mathematician who gave the report may also receive congratulations from many laymen with a confused look on his face...
You know how embarrassing this would be if you think about it.
This sudden adjustment also made many Chinese media reporters who had not planned to go to the scene anxious.
Especially Zhang Nuoke.
As the resident reporter of China News Service in Paris, he had actually received the task of reporting on this meeting before.
However, due to some reasons, Zhang Nuo was really tired of doing this kind of news to highlight the emergence of a mathematical genius in China.
And he often reports news about science and knows the operating rules of the academic circle better than ordinary reporters.
Although for a sixteen-year-old boy, it is indeed very meaningful to be invited to give a thirty-minute session report at a world-class mathematics conference.
But just because of the good relationship between Qiao Yu and the two big bosses Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin, Zhang Nuoke thought that there was actually nothing to report in this report.
The reason is very simple. Arita Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin are operating in it. It is not impossible to receive an invitation from the organizing committee at the branch venue in the field of algebraic geometry.
The term academic resources has never been just as simple as research funds, but also runs through all aspects of academic research. The mentor's personal connections directly affect whether he can participate in some large academic conferences, whether he can win a certain award, whether he can attract some investment, whether he can establish cooperation with some large enterprises...
There is no doubt that in In the Chinese mathematics community, Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin have a lot of academic resources, so much so that it is not unusual for them to urge a sixteen-year-old boy to give a thirty-minute report at a branch meeting.
But when Zhang Nuoke learned that Qiao Yu's report had been upgraded to the opening report of this meeting, he immediately realized that things were not that simple. After all, this is completely beyond the capabilities of Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin, and even beyond the capabilities of any current math giant in the world.
After all, there are many schools of mathematics in the world, and no one can really keep their word.
The sixteen-year-old boy wanted to give an opening report, and it was an opening report that the organizing committee temporarily changed the agenda for him. Unless his research results were truly meaningful, this would be an impossible task.
Even the chairman of the World Alliance would probably be scolded into depression by a bunch of mathematicians if he made this request without reason.
Zhang Nuoke has never doubted the ability of mathematicians to insult people.
Because he has really experienced it.
It was not long after he became a working reporter. After offending a mathematician, the other party perfectly demonstrated that he was a mathematician through rigorous logic, language without profanity, and a slow tone. You idiot, you don't understand shit.
Zhang Nuoke, who was a member of the school-level debate team during his studies, could not find any logical loopholes in the opponent's logic to refute. He was once rendered speechless. The opponent even gave him a free gift before leaving. A look of disdain.
It was at that time that he began to supplement various professional knowledge, and eventually became a resident foreign reporter.
Anyway, after confirming the news, Zhang Nuoke acted quickly.
Fortunately, he had been in Paris for four years and had connections at all levels. He quickly got in touch with a member of the organizing committee through an intermediary, and then obtained an electronic pass through the emergency application mode.
While breathing a sigh of relief, Zhang Nuoke immediately reported the news to the country.
For journalists stationed abroad, this is actually good. You can completely ignore the time difference and contact your colleagues in China anytime and anywhere.
At this point in time, the news that Qiao Yu, a 16-year-old Chinese boy, was going to give an opening report at the World Conference on Algebraic Geometry, quickly circulated within the official media, and even began to attract great attention... …
Geometric Langlands Conjecture is something that everyone doesn’t understand very well, but it can be taken seriously by many Fields Medal bosses. Even if they try hard to adjust the meeting agenda the day before the opening of the conference, let Joe Yu delivered the opening speech, which is definitely a hard-earned honor.
What does it mean that if young people are strong, China will be strong? !
So many Chinese professors who were invited to attend the conference received calls this time, especially Qiao Yu’s mentor Tian Yanzhen.
“Well, although Qiao Yu’s achievement this time is not his achievement alone, as far as the geometric Langlands conjecture itself is concerned, it is extremely important to the world of mathematics because it involves A unified theory, this is what the world of mathematics has been pursuing.
From this perspective, this achievement is indeed worthy of being broadcast in the central media news, and Qiao Yu worked on it. extremely important Contribution, he not only found an error in the original paper, but also corrected it in his own way
The most commendable, or most reportable, is his method of solving this problem. He has provided many new mathematical ideas and tools to the mathematics community. This is why the conference organizing committee has to temporarily adjust the agenda and let him give a sixty-minute opening report even if there is only a one-day buffer.”
"My suggestion is not to disturb him at least before the meeting. After all, Qiao Yu is only sixteen years old, and this is his first time standing on the world stage to give an opening report to mathematicians around the world. He needs a quiet adaptation. and preparation time.”
“No, even after the meeting, I suggest not to have frequent interviews and reports. Academic research still needs a relationship. Regarding a quiet environment and a stable mentality... Oh, he also has a Weibo? I really don't know about this... Well, but my point of view remains unchanged. Of course, limited interviews can still be arranged."
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Well, Qiao Yu didn't know that a simple adjustment to the meeting agenda had already made him a favorite in the eyes of countless media people and a recent source of traffic.
After all, he thought it was no big deal.
Although he has never participated in a world-class mathematics conference, he has experienced various small lectures and reports several times.
The most recent one even included two Fields Medal honchos, who even asked various tricky questions.
Justsoso...
Not to mention that he is still immersed in his own world at this time.
On the one hand, he was struggling with insufficient basic knowledge, which prevented him from even participating in an interesting project; on the other hand, he was still looking forward to it. After he finished his report tomorrow, he would be able to find a way to explore a certain man. What would be the reaction?
I don’t know if the man smashed his phone when he learned the news. After all, it took five or six years of hard work, tsk tsk tsk...
Before falling asleep, Qiao Yu only felt a little pity. Yes, he had determined that the man did not come to this meeting.
The news was learned from Dennis.
Of course, Qiao Yu handled this problem with almost no leakage. He just said something in a joking tone at the seminar, hoping that Professor Sam and Professor Frank would not have trouble with him, the little Karami, because of this matter.
Then he successfully learned the news he wanted to know from Dennis.
Professor Sam came, the man couldn't come because he had other arrangements.
But it doesn’t matter.
No matter how he escapes, he will eventually know this matter, and he may even know it already.
Thinking of Professor Frank's furious look, I can feel full of happiness even in my sleep.
Yes, people are often like this. Once they feel immersed in happiness, good things will often happen.
This is probably what the ancients said, good things always come in pairs, right?
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It was already 4:10 in the morning when Frank came out of Charles de Gaulle Airport, and it was already 5:00 in the morning when he arrived at the Monet Hotel.
To be honest, this journey has not been smooth.
For most people, it is difficult to have a good sleep whether they are in a positive state of extreme happiness, excitement, or a negative state of extreme frustration or anger.
But if it’s the former, they tend to have a kind attitude towards everything around them, but if it’s the latter...
So Professor Frank had a quarrel with someone on the plane...
Even Offended the flight attendant.
If he hadn't still had some sense, he might even have gotten into big trouble.
Of course, this encounter made him feel even worse.
However, he was extremely tired and fell into a deep sleep when he arrived at the hotel, only to be woken up by his cell phone ringing at 7:30 in the morning.
As expected, it was a call from his dear Grandpa.
After he booked the tickets yesterday, he sent a message to Lucas Eisen. The hotel room was also arranged by the Grandpa in advance, so that he could check in directly after arriving last night.
"Frank, how was your trip last night? I assume you're in the room already?" "Yes, Grandpa, everything went well. I got there at five in the morning."
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"Okay, although the meeting doesn't start until half past nine, I think you should meet with Qiao Yu first with the professors of the research group during breakfast. Delini, Schultz and I will also be there, just like As you said yesterday, many people are optimistic about Qiao Yu
They even call Qiao Yu the magical Chinese math kid, so if you hope to gain something as soon as possible. If so, I think we should have a good relationship with such a young man, Frank."
"Okay, Grandpa, I'll get up and go to the restaurant after taking a shower. "
"Well, remember it's the restaurant on the third floor. Remember to arrive before eight o'clock."
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After hanging up the phone, Frank closed his eyes to calm down, then quickly got up from the bed and rushed into the shower room.
The water temperature is deliberately raised. When you are extremely sleepy, a hot bath can quickly wake you up from that deep fatigue.
After taking a shower and changing his clothes, Frank took three deep breaths in the mirror before going out.
Until you completely overcome that tense and complicated mentality.
There is no way, this meeting is unavoidable, even if he is not completely ready.
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On the other side, Qiao Yu had just finished taking a shower. He washed his face with the soap specially brought from China as usual to show respect for this conference.
Well, as a five-star hotel, it will naturally provide such toiletries in the bathroom, and even thoughtfully prepare things like moisturizer for passengers.
But there is no way, Qiao Yu is the kind of person who is used to something and doesn't like to change it easily.
Even though the products provided by the hotel may be more upscale than those used daily, Qiao Yu planned to change his choice before the products he used made him feel uncomfortable.
This has nothing to do with the price or quality of the product, it is simply a habit.
Then he met Tian Yanzhen and several professors from Yanbei University and went to the restaurant together.
Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin both told him that the conference did not start with the opening ceremony, but with their arrival in Paris. The correct way to participate in such a world-class conference is to take advantage of every opportunity to communicate with other valuable mathematicians. Many times mathematical inspiration comes from the collision of different mathematical ideas.
Qiao Yu summarized it. After summarizing, socializing is also a part of participating in the mathematician conference, and it may be a very important part.
As for the value of other mathematicians, it probably depends on their status, research content, etc...
This requires his own judgment.
What’s more interesting is that in addition to the mathematicians invited to participate in this world-class mathematician conference, there are also many mathematics students and even mathematics enthusiasts who come to participate at their own expense.
As long as you submit an application to the organizing committee and it is approved, they will even place their own canvases in various branch venues and even in some public places.
It is a publicity board used to promote one's recent research results and discuss them with interested mathematicians.
Of course, this type of publicity is often not recognized by the mainstream mathematics community, and it is very much like everyone hugging together for warmth.
But occasionally there do come up with some novel ideas, and if a professor takes a fancy to them, they might be able to change someone's life.
In any case, the meeting focuses on communication.
Qiao Yu naturally would not refuse this kind of communication.
"Professor Delini just called me. He invited all the main collaborators of the geometric Langlands conjecture to meet with you before the report. In fact, you have met most of them, but Sam Professor and Professor Frank are here too. You should be more careful when you can speak and don't be too irritating. < br>
Especially Professor Frank, he has an extraordinary relationship with Professor Lucas Eisen. Professor Eisen is the director of the Stanford Mathematics Department, the vice chairman of AMS, and the most important member of the current IMU Executive Committee. What’s more, he has a very high reputation in the international mathematics community and has many friends and students.”
On the way to the restaurant, Tian Yanzhen said something obediently.
Although Tian Yanzhen doesn't care about some of the overt and secret struggles in the mathematics community, on the surface everyone is generally friendly and amiable. Especially when someone is qualified to speak with strength, people tend to pay more attention to posture.
Of course, Qiao Yu next to him didn't pay attention to the person Tian Yanzhen introduced. He was focused on another person.
"Huh? Professor Sam and Professor Frank are also there?" Qiao Yu asked in surprise.
This has become a habit. Whenever he is in front of other people, he will put Sam's and Frank's names together.
And he will put Professor Sam in the front, at least for now, he will always insist on this. At least until his goal is achieved, Qiao Yu doesn't want anyone to know that he knows that he has some possible relationship with Professor Frank.
Okay, this sentence is a little bit awkward, but that’s what it means.
This question is not surprising to Tian Yanzhen. He can understand Qiao Yu's little worry.
So he comforted him casually: "It's nothing, don't be nervous. The fact that they will show up today means that the project team has communicated well within it. Don't worry, no one will argue with a kid like you in public. ”
Obviously Tian Yanzhen mistook Qiao Yu’s excitement as worry.
In fact, in the eyes of adults, for teenagers who happen to be sixteen years old and like to show off, these two emotions are sometimes no different, and it is indeed difficult to distinguish them under normal circumstances.
"Oh, it's okay, I'm just curious, what will they think of me? Nervous definitely not, they can't beat me, even if they want to beat me, they can't run away from me Quick. Not to mention you’re blocking me!”
Qiao Yu made a wisecrack, and Tian Yanzhen smiled. In the end, when no one was paying attention, he said two words fondly: "Naughty!"
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Very different from what Tian Yan really thought, Qiao Yu was even looking forward to this meeting.
The reality did not disappoint him. When he followed Tian Yanzhen and the professors from Yanbei University to the restaurant, he soon met several big professors unexpectedly.
Qiao Yu quickly identified Frank from those people. After all, he had only met Sam and Frank among the four most important members of the entire geometric Langlands conjecture research team, and these two people Not only are they different in age, but their skin color is also different.
Qiao Yu has thought many times about how he would feel when he saw this man in person. Now that he actually saw it, he suddenly realized that there were not many emotions at all. It was probably like seeing a stranger.
Of course this seems good, because it meets Qiao Xi's requirements for him.
There is no need to pay too much attention to that man, just kick him away openly, just like this time.
Of course, maybe there will be a next time. Life needs happiness, and doing something like this can make him happy every time.
"Look, who is here? Qiao Yu, you will be the most dazzling star in today's meeting." Pierre Delini was the first to greet him and joked with a smile.
For an old gentleman, saying nice things to a child certainly cannot be described as compliments.
"Thank you, Professor Delini."
"Okay, let me introduce to you next. This is Lucas Eisen. He is at Stanford University. If you If you want to study abroad at Stanford, he can be your recommender.”
"Hello, Professor Eisen."
"Hello, Joe, seeing such a handsome and energetic young man like you, I seem to have become younger." Lucas Eisen smiled said.
Qiao Yu, like many young people, smiled shyly.
“I don’t need to introduce Dennis and Pan to you, this is Professor Lauren Sam.”
“Hello, Professor Sam.”
"Hello, Joe, Dennis chatted with me for a long time yesterday and shared some of your ideas. I have to admit that the method you used is very interesting and I had never thought of it. I hope there will be opportunities for cooperation in the future."
"Thank you, Professor Sam, there will definitely be one." Qiao Yu immediately echoed.
“This is Professor Yonex Frank from Berkeley. You have never met him or Professor Sam, but you must have read their papers.” When introducing Frank, Pierre Drinidoga One sentence.
Qiao Yu did not hide the smile just now, but looked at the man with a normal expression.
"Hello, Professor Frank."
Frank has been silently observing Qiao Yu. Basically, he can conclude that Qiao Yu does not know him, at least he does not know his relationship with him. After all, it is difficult to imagine that a sixteen-year-old boy can have such deep knowledge.
Didn't even look at him.
"Hello, Qiao Yu." In order to create a sense of intimacy, Frank directly used Chinese.
"Huh? Professor Frank, your Chinese is really good, almost as good as Professor Pan." Qiao Yu immediately switched to Chinese and said with a look of surprise.
At this time, Qiao Yu was also looking at this man openly.
I have to say that after a person gains weight, his face becomes completely longer and deformed. He does not look as handsome as in the photos on INS, but he looks a little more calm.
This made Qiao Yu decide to criticize Qiao Xi after returning home.
If he hadn’t first seen this man’s photo on Instagram when he graduated from MIT, he wouldn’t have recognized him at all.
This also made Qiao Yu very vigilant. He couldn't be this fat when he was in his thirties and had to exercise more.
"Actually, I came to the United States only after high school." Frank explained.
"No wonder, Professor Frank, where in China are you from?" Qiao Yu asked curiously.
Frank hesitated for a tenth of a second and replied: "Oh, I used to live in Star City."
Qiao Yu said happily: "What a coincidence! To tell you the truth, I He is also a native of Star City. No wonder you speak with an accent. What about the taste of Star City?"
"Oh? You're from Star City too? That's a coincidence, but you speak Mandarin."
"Haha, that's because you are in school now. The teachers only teach Mandarin.”
The big guys next to them smiled and watched the two of them chatting for a few words in Chinese before Tian Yanzhen went out and said, "Okay, let's eat something first. Qiao Yu, you can't go on stage hungry to give a report later. "
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Breakfast at the Monet Hotel was also a buffet. After everyone dispersed, the two of them continued chatting smoothly, still using Chinese.
“To be honest, I didn’t plan to come to this meeting originally. I heard that you solved this problem, so I rushed here. Can you tell me how you solved the problem of conjugate ridge singular points? "?" Frank followed Qiao Yu and turned the question to an academic direction.
"Professor Frank, this is actually very simple. It is to introduce the LGIR tool and a consistency correction operator. If you were given more time, you would definitely be able to think of it. I am just being the first. But now there is no time It's definitely not enough. You'll know after the report." Qiao Yu answered casually.
One sentence left Frank feeling speechless.
"It's actually not that simple..." Pan Jingyuan, who was following the two of them, said.
Dennis and Sam were no longer with the three of them because they could not understand Chinese, and only Pan Jingyuan came over.
"Haha, Professor Pan deserves the award." Qiao Yu looked at Pan Jingyuan and said with a smile.
Actually, Pan Jingyuan came to join in the fun today simply because he always suspected whether Qiao Yu had any conflicts with Sam or Frank, but now it seemed that it was really the first time they met.
No one looked special...
It seemed like everything was just a coincidence.
Frank shrugged, picked up a piece of bread and put it on a plate.
To be honest, he has no appetite. Qiao Yu had a good appetite, so he took a bunch of things and a glass of milk.
Then the three of them sat together naturally.
"Professor Frank, do you only eat this little?" Qiao Yu asked with concern after sitting down.
"Oh, my appetite hasn't been very good lately." Frank replied casually.
"Huh? That...can't be because it is the result I made this time, right? Really, Professor Frank, at that time I was simply attracted by the creative thinking mode of the geometric Langlands conjecture, subconsciously I just wanted to study those structures.
Really, I thought you and Professor Sam were there. The proof process has a very special beauty, like that incomplete beauty. At that time, I wanted to discuss it with you or Professor Sam, but I didn’t have your email address.
It was just a coincidence later. I thought about what the problem is...Hey, you won't blame me anyway, right?" Qiao Yu said carefully.
These words made Pan Jingyuan next to him not know what to say.
Incomplete beauty...
What kind of description is this?
Frank just twitched his lips slightly and replied with a wry smile: "Of course it's okay. It can only be said that our proof has loopholes. In fact, everyone has the same goal, and your method is better. In fact, I am very happy. After all, this problem has been solved. Like Professor Sam said, maybe we can work together in the future. "
"That would be great!"
Qiao Yu looked relieved and said: "If Professor Sam can be as generous as you, I won't worry. In fact, what I am most afraid of is that this result will affect you two professors. After all, Professor Pan Say, you have spent many years on this subject."
Frank smiled bitterly, while Pan Jingyuan glared at Qiao Yu and said, "Ahem, that Qiao Yu, actually I really want to know. , why did you suddenly I have some inspiration.”
“I don’t know. After I called you that day, Professor Dennis came to see me the next day and told him my general idea, and he just returned to the room. I suddenly thought of a complete method, and then actually proved it. Maybe the goddess of mathematics didn’t want the professors’ previous work to be in vain?”
If Frank wasn’t around, Pan Jingyuan would think what Qiao Yu said. The speech is level.
But now Pan Jingyuan is a little troubled. It seems that he should not come to join in the fun.
The dining table finally became quiet. It seemed that everyone had lost interest in chatting after Qiao Yu's words and ate the food in front of them in silence.
But only Qiao Yu ate happily.
Of course, this only shows that young people have a better appetite.
As for Frank, it was obvious that he really had no appetite, and he only ate half of a piece of bread.
Finally at the end of the meal, Frank handed Qiao Yu a business card.
Qiao Yu took it and looked at it, well, professor at Berkeley, just like Hua Xia, this is a senior professional title. In addition, there is his email address and research field information.
"There is my email address above. Like I said, maybe we can cooperate in the future. I may do some research on conformal field theory in the next stage. If you are also interested, you can join in."
“It’s such an honor, Professor Frank. But it may take a while Time. You may not know that I am still doing research on the two-dimensional generalization of Chevalet’s theorem in Professor Li’s research group. When this project is completed, you must let me join the group.”< br>
"No problem!" Frank looked at the smiling boy and said with a complicated expression.
He really seemed to see himself when he was younger.
...
In the venue, Zhang Nuoke was watching the camera guy next to him adjusting the equipment.
This is a photojournalist from China Media.
After his news spread back to China, the domestic attention to this World Congress on Algebraic Geometry was obviously much higher. If there are no accidents, today's news program from 7 to 7:30 may even schedule about a minute and a half to play this video news.
The material is naturally taken from the shooting of this cameraman.
Don't underestimate these ninety seconds. You must know that the information density of this seven o'clock news program is very high. The requirement for the host is to broadcast 290 to 300 words of content in one minute, and ninety seconds means more than 400 words. .
A mathematics conference, in a news program broadcast to the whole country, asked the host to speak more than 400 words to cover the mathematics conference in a fancy way, let alone the kind with pictures, it is conceivable. Know the importance of Taili.
This also made him full of curiosity about this Qiao Yu.
I don’t know how this sixteen-year-old boy will behave.
Fortunately, the conference will start soon.
Zhang Nuoke turned his head and glanced into the venue. The large conference room, which could accommodate thousands of people, was almost full of mathematicians from all over the world... It was a big scene.
……
The opening ceremony of a conference of mathematicians is usually not too complicated.
Especially today’s conference does not have a cumbersome award ceremony like the World Congress of Mathematicians.
Soon under the connection of the host, the big guys of the organizing committee had already stepped down, leaving the most dazzling stage to Qiao Yu.
Even though the mathematicians in the audience had already prepared for it, when they saw such a young face walking onto the podium, there was still a burst of noise, mixed with applause, which seemed a bit abrupt.
Of course, these are small things to Qiao Yu.
He was in a really good mood at this time, especially when he found out that among the big guys, including the Geometric Langlands Conjecture team, especially that man sitting in the front row, he could see The clearest position made him laugh out loud.
The man's expression looked too serious... He was just listening to a report, why were he so serious?
"Haha...ahem...I'm sorry, um...I seem to be a little too excited! But as everyone knows, this is my first time standing on the podium to give a report, so I hope I can With everyone’s forgiveness, let me do it again.”
There was a good-natured chuckle from the audience.
When the laughter subsided, Qiao Yu calmed down and his expression became serious: "First of all, I would like to thank the organizing committee of the conference for giving me this opportunity to share with you the partial proof process of the geometric Langlands conjecture. I would also like to Thank you all for coming.
But the most important thing is to thank Professor Dennis and Professor Pan from the Geometric Langlands Conjecture Team for their great help during the research process. Of course, Professor Sam and Professor Frank also contributed.
Although they have also contributed. The research results have some minor Errors, but it is these errors that inspired my thinking and allowed us to understand how to avoid failed solutions caused by subtle errors in key details.
First of all, I want to start with a special type of conjugate ridge. Let’s start with the characteristics of this kind of singular point. It not only behaves as a common singular structure locally, but also has a complex ridge-like expansion globally. At the same time, there are connections between its local geometric structure and other points at the far end of the algebraic cluster, or even non-adjacent singular points. Conjugate relationship..."
After he finished speaking, Qiao Yu also opened the PPT that had already passed the review of the organizing committee's review committee.
A standard ridge structure singular point also appeared in front of more than a thousand mathematicians attending the meeting.
This was the weapon he used to defeat that man, and he could actually show it in front of that man. There are not many happier things in the world than this!
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