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Chapter 393 International Congress of Mathematicians

"This"

Tian Gang opened his eyes wide and pointed at his cell phone, at Xu Qingshan, and then at himself. He wanted to say something else, but the words got stuck in his throat. After hesitating for a while, he saw Peng Shige coming back with the plate, so he didn't say anything else.

It’s better not to let Lao Peng know about this.

Eat your fill first so you have more energy to talk about academics.

Especially in the field that he is good at, having a young man with whom he can talk freely and constantly spark passionate ideas, Peng Shige felt that he had made the right choice for this dinner.

In fact, it was a bit late when they first arrived in New Delhi.

Ambassador Lu also suggested that they eat outside before returning to the hotel. After all, although the distance from the airport to the hotel is not too far, it still takes an hour given the road conditions in India.

But when Peng Shige heard that Tian Gang and his friends had arrived at the hotel first and were having dinner in the hotel restaurant, he waved his hand and told everyone to endure their hunger for a while, put their luggage at the hotel and then eat.

He wanted to have a chat with an old friend when he met him again, and he was also really curious about the demeanor of Xu Qingshan, the future star.

I didn't expect to gain so much.

Tian Gang sat in the middle, listening to the old man and the young man chattering on his left and right. He had no choice but to join in the conversation about the content he understood.

This meal lasted until after nine o'clock in the evening.

"We can't finish the conversation in such a short time, but I have to adjust my speech according to Qingshan's ideas."

Peng Shige said with a lingering feeling.

The other scholars in the restaurant had finished their meal. I wanted to say hello to them when I was leaving, but seeing how passionate they were, I didn't feel like disturbing them.

Moreover, the identities of these three people are not ordinary, so the hotel is embarrassed to come and urge them.

They were the only table left in the restaurant. If Lao Peng hadn't wanted to go back and revise his speech, he would have stopped.

"Found the mistake? Old Peng, that's not very rigorous."

Tian Gang narrowed his eyes and smiled secretly.

He was not invited to speak on stage this time, and he only spoke for 02 minutes in 45. Although he was not jealous of his students and Lao Peng, it was okay to say a few bad things about them.

"Huh, you think you're the one? I have 15 minutes more content than you did. How can you not prepare well?"

These two are old friends, and they both grasp the key points incredibly accurately.

Peng Shige smiled and said with some pride on his face.

"I went back to revise the latter part. After talking with Qingshan, I felt that my outlook and plan were still too conservative. I can now speak out boldly about some things. Hehe, I can even think about the Nobel Prize in Economics that you guys who only do pure math can't get."

"Your special."

While the two old men were still bickering, Xu Qingshan had already used his mobile phone to send messages to Zhang Ke and Liu Ruchuan who were far away in China.

"Recently, the equipment in the Xinke Laboratory should be updated as soon as possible. If the space is not big enough and it is not convenient to use the second floor as a computer room, we can apply for the first floor to be used as a computer room. I have got a big order for us abroad. I will discuss it with you in detail when I return."

They returned to their respective rooms and were busy with their own things.

They stayed in New Delhi for only one night and boarded the buses to Hyderabad early the next morning.

Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana, a state on the southern coast of India. It is the fifth largest city in India and the core city of India's defense industry. It has the MiG aircraft electronic equipment manufacturing plant jointly built by India and Russia, the Bharat Dynamics Limited that produces anti-tank missiles, and a nuclear fuel plant.

The newest Cyberabad district in Hyderabad is an important base for India's IT and biotechnology industries. It has attracted international companies such as Microsoft and Google to settle in and is known as the "Silicon Valley of India".

The venue for this International Congress of Mathematicians is in Cyberjaya.

The buses that drove into the Cyberabad area were not only from China. On the road, Xu Qingshan had already seen various vehicles carrying mathematicians of different skin colors and races heading towards the Cyberabad area.

As for why they could be identified as mathematicians, it was because they had passes for the conference in their cars, which allowed them to enter and exit various intersections for free.

India has done quite well in this regard.

The opening ceremony of the conference was held on August 8. Following tradition, one of the highest honors in mathematics, the Fields Medal, was awarded on the first day. This award, which is intended to recognize the groundbreaking achievements of mathematicians under the age of 19, attracted the attention of most people. Xu Qingshan even heard from his senior brother Zhu Xiaohua, who he finally met, that the bookmakers in Europe would open betting on the candidates' chances of winning the award.

“Guess who has the lowest odds of winning the Fields Medal right now?”

Zhu Xiaohua came by himself and arrived quite late, so even Ambassador Lu did not have time to pick him up.

Although he arrived in the early morning, he looked more energetic than Xu Qingshan and the others who had rested in Xinde all night.

Because Academician Peng had come, Tian Gang ran over to sit with him.

The seat next to Xu Qingshan was actually given up to Zhu Xiaohua.

As soon as he got in the car he started chattering.

"Wu Baozhu, right?"

Xu Qingshan looked out the window and answered casually.

"The teacher analyzed it with me yesterday. Whether from the perspective of age or results, he should be the most stable one among the four candidates."

"Incorrect."

Zhu Xiaohua chuckled and showed his cell phone to Xu Qingshan.

On his mobile phone, there was a foreign-language gambling website, but Xu Qingshan didn't understand the information on it because it was obviously not in English.

"This is. Pineapple. Woo woo woo"

Before Xu Qingshan could say anything, his senior brother covered his mouth.

Zhu Xiaohua looked forward nervously and made sure that Tian Gang and the others did not hear Xu Qingshan's voice. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and made a gesture to Xu Qingshan to keep quiet.

"I'm just showing it to you. I definitely won't touch this stuff. Look, I haven't even bought it yet."

Zhu Xiaohua showed Xu Qingshan his account information. He didn't buy any of the Fields Medal winners, including one, two, three, or four.

"This is Italian. Look at this. The first name. Does it look familiar?"

Zhu Xiaohua clicked on the first detail page.

The web page loading speed is not fast now, and Xu Qingshan can only see the line with his name.

Although he did not learn Italian, he learned French. Although there are significant differences between the two languages, he still has some similarities. He tried to read it.

"Xu Qingshan? Me?"

"The enemy!"

Zhu Xiaohua was all smiles.

"Your odds of winning are the lowest among all the private betting websites right now."

"In other words, everyone thinks I have the greatest chance of winning the prize?" Xu Qingshan was a little curious.

Hey guys, no, is it the gamblers who have such high confidence in me?
"Do you think the odds were lowered because people bet too much on you?"

Zhu Xiaohua asked with a smile on his face.

Xu Qingshan nodded.

He couldn't think of any other reason except this one.

“It’s still wrong.”

Zhu Xiaohua chuckled, and his smile was a bit obscene.

"Your odds were the lowest from the beginning. Even though so few people bet on you, the bookmakers never raised your odds."

"why?"

Xu Qingshan was puzzled.

"I don't even know these people who run a gambling company in Italy. Even if I go to attend academic conferences, I mostly go to North America. Where does their confidence in me come from?"

Zhu Xiaohua curled his lips, looking very proud.

"Don't you understand this?"

"Foreign gambling companies are completely different from those in China. These things are illegal in China, but they have strong backing internationally."

Zhu Xiaohua talked freely.

"If I were to ask them to lower your odds so low, there could only be one answer: they thought you were 100 percent likely to win the Fields Medal."

"Whether it's the public's call, or their gambling company invited a number of academic practitioners to conduct professional evaluations on you, or even someone behind them already knows the results of this Fields Medal, it means that your winning the award is a foregone conclusion, more authentic than Wu Baozhu's."

"If you don't believe me, just wait and see. It will be announced tomorrow morning. Dean Tian relies on inference. Brother Zhu, I will give you a direct guarantee."

Xu Qingshan looked at the smug Zhu Xiaohua.

"Brother, I looked at my odds and they seem to be lower than 1. You're not betting on me because you can't make any money, right?"

"Hey, I'm blessing you. How can you slander someone's innocence out of thin air? Can our gambling as mathematicians be considered gambling? This is called probability calculation, this is called the practical application of our knowledge! Isn't this kind of thing involving numbers the most worthy of our in-depth study?"

Zhu Xiaohua started to defend himself, Xu Qingshan smiled and turned to look out the window.

"you boy"

It was noisy in the car.

When it was time to get off the bus, Zhu Xiaohua behaved himself.

Today is February 8.

彭院士的发言定在8月24日早上11点30，而许青山的发言则是定在24日下午2点，也算是接在一块。

Their reports that day would be hosted by SRS Varadhan, Abel Prize winner and professor at New York University. Xu Qingshan did not even prepare a manuscript, because the one-hour report was for him to talk about the twin prime conjecture. He would start with Zhou's conjecture and systematically introduce theoretical conjectures related to prime numbers in number theory, and provide prospects for the future application scenarios and theoretical transformations of twin primes.

Xu Qingshan didn't know how many times he had talked about this.

But for this hard-won and extremely special opportunity.

Xu Qingshan had other plans. He didn't want to just talk about his completed results at such a time when everyone was paying attention, especially when the audience was full of world-class mathematicians.

He hopes that he can show everyone what a mathematical genius is.

Everyone here,
Well, forget it. My teacher is still sitting in the audience.

Xu Qingshan, who had ulterior motives, was dragged by Zhu Xiaohua and followed Tian Gang and others to visit the venue in advance to avoid getting lost tomorrow.

This step is very important.

Every year there are mathematicians who cannot find a place to give their lectures at the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Because in addition to the plenary reports at the main venue, the International Congress of Mathematicians also set up dozens of sub-venues, covering 19 fields including number theory, geometry, and applied mathematics.

Each session will feature a 45-minute special report where authoritative scholars in various fields will share their latest research results.

For example, there may be a special session on financial mathematics around Peng Shige's theory of backward stochastic differential equations to explore the practical application of this theory in derivative pricing and risk management. There will definitely be many related topics at the number theory venue around Xu Qingshan's twin prime conjecture, after all, this is also the most sensational topic in the number theory community in recent years.

In addition, the conference also arranged short reports, allowing some young and outstanding scholars to present the interim results of their academic work through 15-minute speeches. There are also poster presentations, and some researchers who did not get the opportunity to report posted research summaries in the form of "big-character posters" to attract peer exchanges. In addition, there will be free round-table discussions, but these discussions are mainly about debates on topics such as mathematics education reform and interdisciplinary cooperation. Scholars from all over the world can take the seat and say a few words, with the main theme of freedom.

In addition to these formal academic venues, the International Congress of Mathematicians also has advertisements, but these are advertisements for the academic community.

Outside each venue, there will be various book fairs and software exhibition areas. World-renowned academic publishers will display their latest mathematical monographs in the exhibition areas, while technology companies focusing on academic software development will showcase mathematical modeling tools and computing software.

Theoretically, QSKS developed by Xu Qingshan can also participate in this kind of exhibition, but Xu Qingshan has not yet completed the copyright and patent procedures, and the software is still being updated, so he has not been able to apply for the opportunity to participate in the exhibition. Perhaps there will be a chance in 4 years.

These booths themselves are sponsors of the conference, and no one should think that setting up a stall here doesn't cost money.

Still, it was money well spent.

After all, the mathematicians here are basically led by the bosses of one or more universities. If they can get the order, the price will definitely not be low, and the profit will not be low either.

This means that each booth will do its best to attract mathematicians.

Desserts for tea breaks and other special delicacies have become a common practice. Many companies have found all kinds of novel high-tech products and let mathematicians play with them.

“It’s quite lively.”

Xu Qingshan sighed.

It would take a whole day to visit such a large venue.

"It will be lively in the evening. Today, the organizer is not organizing a dinner party, but a city tour. Participants who have signed in will go to the historical sites of Hyderabad, the Golconda Castle, to attend an academic seminar. It is said that they will also provide a collection of red wines from a French winery. I don't know much about red wine. I drink Niulanshan in China."

When Academician Peng heard Xu Qingshan's words, he came over and said something.

“You really have a travel service?”

Xu Qingshan was a little surprised. What activities were arranged in Beijing when the event was held in 02?
"It's more than just tourism, it's like having a party in someone's historical site."

Zhu Xiaohua interrupted.

He had spent a longer time at Beijing University, so he naturally knew Academician Peng and was quite familiar with him.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Xu Qingshan stroked his chin and watched the scene in the venue becoming increasingly lively.

This International Congress of Mathematicians looks quite interesting.

(End of this chapter)