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Chapter 395: A Hymn to the Truth

"Xu Qingshan from China!"

Professor Ragunathan seemed to feel that the scene was too heated and some people could not hear him, so he repeated it.

It was this call coming from the huge speakers that made Xu Qingshan stop standing there and enjoying the burning gazes from the people around him. Instead, he stepped onto the platform and thoroughly enjoyed the fiery gazes of everyone in the audience.

"He proved Zhou's conjecture and the twin prime conjecture at the same time. He not only solved an isolated conjecture, but also conducted a comprehensive test of the number theory system, research methodology and interdisciplinary integration. His achievement award has thoroughly promoted the comprehensive development of mathematics and completely rewritten human cognition of the nature of prime numbers!"

Xu Qingshan is not surprised by praise or criticism.

The camera in the hall faithfully recorded in real time the entire process of Xu Qingshan standing up from his seat, hugging Academician Tian Gang behind him, shaking hands with Academician Peng beside him, and finally striding towards the podium with his head held high.

Sword eyebrows, starry eyes, sharp edges and corners.

The high-spirited young knight rushed into the arena filled with martial arts masters.

But with the posture of an extremely proud person, he stands high in the sky, like a deep abyss and a towering mountain.

With one sword from a young boy and twin prime numbers, they overwhelm thousands of mathematical masters.

What a style it is.

Xu Qingshan was wearing a cloak made of golden flashes, and the spotlights in the venue were very cooperative at this moment, in the eyes of the people below the stage.

Xu Qingshan is like a heroic king on the road to becoming a god, with golden light on his shoulders and extreme elegance.

"I am honored that I could be personally involved in this historic moment."

When Professor Ragunathan saw Xu Qingshan standing in front of him, he smiled for the first time in a long time.

“It’s an honor to receive your recognition.”

Xu Qingshan's etiquette is impeccable.

Professor Ragunathan picked up the small box containing the Fields Medal from the side and handed it to Xu Qingshan with both hands.

"Go and bask in the glory that belongs to you, child. The present is yours, and the future is yours too."

After Professor Ragunathan finished speaking, he waited for Xu Qingshan to receive the Fields Medal and then stepped back, leaving the core position on the podium completely to Xu Qingshan.

Although Xu Qingshan was the last person to come up, when he was about to speak, everyone present became much more energetic.

In addition to Xu Qingshan's greater fame, what is more important is his extraordinary appearance.

Someone once said.

As long as he looks good enough, whatever he says is right.

This is the effect Xu Qingshan is experiencing here right now.

Don’t think that these mathematicians are only good at what they do; in fact, many scientists are also obsessed with looks.

Young people with handsome appearance and elegant manner are more likely to be appreciated by their seniors.

It's better to listen to a young and handsome guy chatting than to listen to a few ugly middle-aged people and old men, right?
Xu Qingshan raised the microphone in front of him, but did not speak in a hurry. Instead, he carefully glanced at everyone in the main hall, including many seniors he was familiar with.

There were thousands of mathematicians sitting in the main hall, and countless eyes were focused on Xu Qingshan. However, he did not show any stage fright. Instead, he enjoyed basking in these eyes.

Xu Qingshan slowly pinned the Fields Medal on his chest.

Standing on the podium, under the spotlight, the boy leaned forward slightly, touched the Fields Medal on his chest with his fingertips, and his voice was clear and firm.

"I like this brooch very much. I think when I die and am buried in the ground, I will wear it with a suit and look very decent."

Xu Qingshan's unique opening remarks made the audience burst into laughter.

This young man was far more interesting than they had imagined, and was not just a geek who only knew how to do math.

Xu Qingshan controlled the atmosphere of the huge conference hall with just one sentence, and waited until it was a little quieter.

He held the edge of the podium with one hand, his knuckles turned white from the force, his Adam's apple trembled slightly, but he raised his chin the moment the first syllable came out, and the shadow under his eyelashes was pierced by the light in his pupils.

“Dear seniors, and all fellow travelers who are pursuing the starlight in the darkness.”

"At this moment, this medal is not the end for me, but a passport for my journey to a deeper level of truth."

"I used to think that mathematics was a maze of cold symbols and logic, until one moonlit night, when I was staring at the twin numbers in the prime number sequence, I suddenly realized that they were not numbers, but inscriptions of truth."

Xu Qingshan's right hand suddenly reached out to the air, as if he wanted to capture some invisible mathematical entity. The corners of his mouth unconsciously rose, as if he was calling a close friend of many years, and even his speaking speed became as brisk as the jumping intervals of prime numbers.

“Twenty million years ago, when the first ape looked up at the starry sky, the stars two light years apart had already written down the metaphor of twin prime numbers; and today, I am just fishing out a pearl that has already existed in the eternal river of mathematics.”

"We who do mathematics seem to have always been misunderstood by the outside world."

“Someone asked: Why spend your whole life chasing the distance between two prime numbers?”

“I think maybe standing here at this moment, I can give an answer: because truth never compromises with the insignificance of human beings.”

"Each conjecture is a puzzle left by the universe to human civilization, and the process of proof is an epic of human beings using reason as a torch to carve order out of chaos. When I cast the sieve net into the infinite sea of ​​prime numbers, I touch not only the bones of number theory, but also the pulse of truth."

"It exists at the zeros of the Riemann zeta function, surges in the chords of the Langlands program, and finally condenses into the eternal distance between twin prime numbers."

“Mathematics has taught me that truth needs no hymn, it is a symphony in itself.”

“Prime numbers are proud solos, topology is the flow of polyphony, and our proofs are nothing more than annotations on the edge of the score. Tonight, please allow me to dedicate this honor to all those who plant formulas in the wasteland of truth, to those manuscripts that have been erased thousands of times, and to the tears left on the blackboard by the losers - it is these broken explorations that make the starry sky of truth more brilliant.”

"Finally, please allow me to end by paraphrasing the words of the 17th century mathematician Fermat: 'I am convinced that there is a wonderful proof that is closer to the essence of truth than mine.' And today, we are still working hard to prove that the truth is not in the medal, but at the intersection of the next heartbeat and the next dawn."

"Our mission as mathematicians is to sing praises for the truth!"

"Thank you."

Xu Qingshan opened his arms and let the medal hang on his chest. The light around him was like a pair of twin prime numbers flashing through the air, forming spots of light that converged into an "∞" on his chest.

Xu Qingshan stood on the stage with his head held high.

There were thousands of eyes in the audience.

But they all saw the ultimate brilliance unique to mathematical research in the figure on the high platform.

The hall was still quiet, and Xu Qingshan's words were echoing in everyone's mind.

have to say.

This combines both sensual and rational beauty, and is the romance that mathematicians can glimpse.

"hu!"

Soon they woke up from the journey Xu Qingshan described and burst into cheers that resounded through the sky.

Different from the shouts of appreciation just now, the shouts at this time were more of admiration from the heart.

Why don’t we have more people like Qingshan who are handsome and eloquent in our mathematics community?

I feel embarrassed to be envious of the popularity of the Quantum Band next door all day long.

Xu Qingshan kept smiling and turned to look at Professor Ragunthan who was still applauding in surprise.

“A brilliant speech.”

Professor Raghunathan stepped forward to take the microphone and praised Xu Qingshan sincerely. "Thank you for your recognition."

Xu Qingshan bowed to Professor Ragunathan in accordance with etiquette and did not stay on the stage any longer, but walked down the stage calmly.

He was like a triumphant king, calm and composed.

As Xu Qingshan sat back in his seat, Academician Peng beside him was still excited and reminiscing about the glorious past years, but he had already calmly begun to observe his Fields Medal.

"Qingshan, Qingshan, let me see."

Tian Gang, who was sitting behind Xu Qingshan, was very excited and stretched his neck to look at the Fields Medal in Xu Qingshan's hand.

That was the glory that he had never been able to achieve no matter how hard he tried.

It is also one of the honors that his "mentor" often uses to suppress him.

"Here you go, teacher. Stay calm. Everyone is watching us."

Xu Qingshan handed the entire Fields Medal along with the box to Tian Gang, and casually reminded Tian Gang to pay attention to his image.

You have to know that the inspiring speech I just gave on the stage still attracted a lot of people's attention.

Even when Professor Ragunathan was announcing the next award process, the media reporters' eyes did not move away from him.

"All right."

Tian Gang agreed casually, but his eyes were fixed on the medal. This thing, which he treasured so much and would never have the chance to obtain again, was right in front of him.

A smart media reporter recorded the action of Xu Qingshan and Tian Gang handing over the Fields Medal when Xu Qingshan handed over the box.

As for what title such a clip will be given and what text will be attached to it.

Then we need to look at the media's charm moments.

At the same time, in the audience among the group of North American colleges and universities, sitting in the Harvard University team, a figure looked a little stiff. He looked from afar in the direction of Xu Qingshan and Tian Gang, silent for a long time, with a gloomy expression on his face.

"Professor Qiu"

There was a white professor next to him who was about to say something to him, but he glanced at him and stopped talking immediately.

"Forget it, it means that I do have good taste, but I'm a little late."

Mr. Qiu withdrew his gaze and comforted himself.

He would never say that he envied the simple interaction between Xu Qingshan and Tian Gang.

This kind of behavior would never occur between Mr. Qiu and his students. The disputes between them are much more warm than this.

of course.

Even though Mr. Qiu has an extraordinary academic status, there are still many scholars of the same level as him in such a grand occasion.

Everyone turned their attention back to the stage.

Professor Raghunathan continued to preside over the award ceremony at the opening ceremony.

"Next, we are going to announce the winner of the second Gauss Prize. The Gauss Prize was established in 98 and first awarded in 06 to recognize the winner's lifetime achievements in applied mathematics."

"This year, the winner of the Gauss Prize is Yves Meyer from France! We use the Gauss Prize to recognize his outstanding contributions in the fields of number theory, operator theory and harmonic analysis."

After the Fields Medal.

Whether it is the Gauss Prize or the Chern Prize, the basis for evaluation is more the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is generally awarded when a mathematician is older in order to better summarize the achievements of a mathematician who has achieved greatness in his or her field.

The Fields Medal was awarded to Xu Qingshan, this is called a legend.

But if the Lifetime Achievement Award were given to Xu Qingshan now, that would be abstract.

Some people might think that the organizing committee is cursing Xu Qingshan to live like this for the rest of his life.

Of course, considering the breadth and quantity of Xu Qingshan’s current research, he is indeed not yet worthy of a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Even the Shaw Prize in Mathematics, the only award somewhat related to the Lifetime Achievement Award, is not actually only given to lifetime achievement winners.

but.

It seems that after Xu Qingshan’s speech, the award winners who came on stage later all wanted to cue him.

Xu Qingshan was given close-up shots with clear meanings continuously while sitting in the audience.

"The Chern Prize was established for the first time at this conference, and the winner is"

"Louis Nirenberg!"

"Louis Nirenberg is one of the longest-serving, most respected, and most sociable mathematicians. In more than half a century of research, he has transformed the field of partial differential equations!"

Xu Qingshan clapped mechanically and continued to be cueed by Professor Nirenberg, who was on the stage with a big belly.

Nevanlinna Prize winner

"Daniel Spielman!"

Xu Qingshan took a look.

Fortunately, the winner this time is relatively young, perhaps because the requirements for winning the Nevanlinna Prize are similar to those of the Fields Medal. However, as information science and mathematics are relatively non-core, they do not receive as much attention as the Fields Medal.

However, although he is young, this time Spielman cues Xu Qingshan more enthusiastically.

“It is an honor to receive the Nevanlinna Prize, which will add a shining glory to the smooth analysis theory of mine and Teng.”

"Of course. Sorry, everyone. I don't have Xu's literary talent, but I have actually always been paying attention to Xu's research. Xu, if there is a chance, would you be willing to work with me to explore the edge of information science mathematics? I believe you will be able to bring revolutionary breakthroughs to information science mathematics!"

Spielman stood on the stage, holding the medal, his eyes fixed on Xu Qingshan.

Perhaps worried that Xu Qingshan would feel embarrassed, he added enthusiastically.

"Don't worry, my good partner is also Chinese. I have a lot of experience in getting along with Chinese people. I believe you will like me. Oh, I mean, we can work together."

Xu Qingshan:
No, man, this is your acceptance speech time, right?
What do you mean by suddenly praising me so hard on stage?
But at this time, the audience's attention and camera returned to Xu Qingshan again. Out of courtesy, he did not refuse the kindness from the new Nevanlinna Award winner.

Xu Qingshan nodded gracefully.

Spearman jumped excitedly on the stage, and without even saying a few words to Professor Ragunathan, he ran down the stage to hand Xu Qingshan his business card.

No, man, you're really that fanatical.

Xu Qingshan was a little embarrassed, but he still politely exchanged business cards, and the guy left excitedly.

"He just won the Gödel Prize two years ago. Tsk, you are really attractive to these foreigners."

Academician Peng on the side didn't speak until everyone left.

"This is something that we older generations rarely see, it's great."

(End of this chapter)