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Chapter 134 I want to thank everyone in my life who should be thanked!
Schulz was indeed praising Qiao Yu wholeheartedly.

In fact, whether this sentence is a compliment or a lament 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 too much time and that his foundation was not stable. This would cause Qiao Yu to struggle and even fail when he independently studied some basic problems or developed a new mathematical framework.

But Qiao Yu was only sixteen years old.

This means that Qiao Yu still has plenty of time to learn and make up for his weak foundation, to challenge world-class problems in the future, and even to create his own mathematics, just like what he is doing now.

This is the terrifying power of age advantage. Schultz even felt that it didn't matter if Qiao Yu wasted another two years since he was still so young.

Qiao Yu just felt very ashamed.

He had roughly understood why he didn't like to communicate with those mathematicians who left him their email addresses. It was simply because their foundation was weak and they were too inexperienced.

Without those inspirations, he would probably be nothing...

Thinking that he had only read a small part of the book list that Director Tian had planned for him, Qiao Yu felt ashamed. He actually had the nerve to go to the School of Philosophy to attend cross-disciplinary classes. It was indeed the case that ignorance is fearless. After all, only those who have experienced it know what he lacks the most.

After returning home, I can no longer go to class and show off everywhere, Qiao Yu was secretly alert.

He has already ordered a banner on Taobao that reads "Study for the rise of Chinese mathematics". Although it is just for show, now that he has done it, he can't let his tutor and Professor Yuan laugh at him in the future.

After all, he has aspirations for the future.

Let’s put it this way, studying 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 own job well, how can he achieve his life goals?
It’s just like Qiao Yu wanted to be a professional gamer before.

Imagine if he couldn't even play competitive games well after becoming a professional player, and was just a little bit short in every competition, but his goal was to become number one in the world and enjoy the admiration of everyone... This is obviously unlikely.

It's a blessing not to be scolded. Everyone who says "if you're a bad student, just practice more" is kind.

Therefore, if you want to achieve your goals, you must first truly excel in your industry.

Yes, after talking with Peter Schultz, Qiao Yu set a new goal for himself in his heart. In the next year, he would complete all the general undergraduate courses of the School of Mathematics of Yanbei University to lay a solid foundation.

If Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin knew what Qiao Yu was thinking at this moment, they would probably be relieved.

Of course, at this time, no one made these requests to Qiao Yu.

Be it professors from Huaqing, Yanbei or other Chinese universities, when they learned that the opening speech of this year's World Algebraic Geometry Conference would be given by the sixteen-year-old boy Qiao Yu, except for a few people, they were all excited.

After all, if Qiao Yu's report is good enough, it will invisibly enhance the voice of the Chinese mathematics community. Not only in the field of algebraic geometry, but also in the future when communicating with colleagues, these will be bragging topics.

Even before they mention it, someone might chase them and ask, "Hey, Professor XXX, I heard that someone named Qiao Yu gave the opening 60-minute talk at the World Algebraic Geometry Conference? Oh my god, is this true?"

Many times, the so-called sense of collective honor probably comes from this.

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Of course, it is not just the professors visiting the conference who are feeling excited at this moment.

In fact, many Chinese media that had not originally planned to report on this conference had already begun to take action when they received the news.

Especially some Chinese media with permanent offices in Paris.

Of course this is understandable.

In fact, if you carefully look through some major media, you will find that people are not keen on reporting on academic affairs, especially mathematics.

One of the reasons is probably that ordinary people don’t really care.

Except for the two months when the Nobel Prize is announced, some popular science bloggers may have an upward trend in traffic, but that’s about it. Not many people really pay attention to which scientists won the prize this year and why they won the prize.

It’s not that people don’t respect knowledge, but that they simply don’t understand it.

Even though what last year's Nobel Prize winner in physics did is closely related to current hot technologies, not many people know about it.

Yes, whether in China or anywhere else in the world, less than 2024% of people know that the Nobel Prize winners are John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto in Canada.

Even though the former's research results were the development of an associative memory model that can store and reconstruct information and simulate the working method of human brain neurons; the latter was once hailed as the father of artificial intelligence and invented the Boltzmann machine.

Really, even if 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 look confused.

This is true for physics, which is what people can understand, not to mention mathematics.

Even though the Fields Medal is only awarded every four years, and even if it is the year of the World Congress of Mathematicians, not many Chinese media will really pay attention to and report on these things. Because everyone who does 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 very simple. Mathematical research is far beyond the understanding of this era. Even relatively simple probability theory and statistical physics in mathematics. For example, Hugo Duminier, the winner of the 2022 Fields Medal.

The award was given for his research on probabilistic models in statistical physics, especially his deep understanding of spin systems and percolation models on two-dimensional and three-dimensional lattices.

This simple sentence contains many concepts that ordinary people have never come into contact with or cannot understand, such as what are two-dimensional and three-dimensional lattices? What is a spin-up system? What is a percolation model?

People are most interested in science when it comes to things that can be seen and touched.

For example, artificial intelligence, unmanned driving, physical robots, space stations, astronauts landing on the moon, immigration to Mars, and space carriers...

As for the mathematical algorithms and physical foundations involved in these things, ordinary people are actually too lazy to care.

Therefore, when media reporters report on this type of science, they often just want to complete their tasks. They certainly cannot imagine the amount of traffic, and the only thing they have to do is to not appear to be completely indifferent to basic science.

Of course there is one exception, especially in China.

That is when some Chinese people are recognized by the world academic community and given extraordinary treatment.

For example, many people who didn't even know about the Nobel Prize before now know that someone in China won the Nobel Prize for artemisinin. When artemisinin is mentioned, they will remember that person and the award she received.

This is a completely different way of thinking between ordinary Chinese people and ordinary Westerners. It is probably based on the collectivist education since childhood and an extremely simple and suppressed sense of national pride that has lasted for many years.

If we analyze the evolution of their thinking mode, it is probably that the award is selected by other countries, and our people winning the award is enough to prove that we are no worse than them, so I am no worse than them...

Whether people admit it or not, this is actually the result of the Chinese people's deep-rooted sense of collectivist honor.

Especially when a person gains honor worldwide, then this person has passively assumed more things in the hearts of many Chinese people. To a certain extent, his words and deeds no longer represent only himself, but even to a certain extent represent the entire Chinese nation.

As for Westerners, they probably just think, huh? That person has achieved some great things, oh, he may be great, we should congratulate him and applaud him. But he is just a person, no matter how great 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 provided us with any substantial help, if the community holds a welcoming ceremony, it will be considered a waste of taxpayers' money...

This is the difference, and also the difference in traffic.

So in fact, many Chinese media have been quietly paying attention to this World Algebraic Geometry Congress and have sent reporters to cover this conference.

The reason is simple. After all, there was a 16-year-old mathematical genius from China who gave a 30-minute report at the conference.

Of course, the level of attention is not actually high.

Because these reporters had basically confirmed before that Qiao Yu's 30-minute report would be held in a branch venue, not the main venue.

This means that only interested mathematicians will go to listen, after all, there are usually more than a dozen or even dozens of lectures held simultaneously in the branch venues.

Professors attending the conference will choose topics of their interest to listen to reports and participate in discussions.

No matter how much the photos taken on the spot are edited, they will not be too shocking.

It is even possible that some less-popular lectures will only have a few attendees.

Even if there were many mathematicians participating in Qiao Yu's lecture, it would be difficult to cause much sensation if they were all Asians. After all, the Chinese people now have a very high threshold for this.

Especially at so-called world-class conferences, Qiao Yu's reports attracted professors with oriental faces. Not only did they not feel proud, they even felt that the professors attending the conference were probably assigned the task under pressure.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on the general public.

Some of the messy things that happened before have depleted people’s confidence so much that their immunity has become stronger.

Therefore, even though they had received the reporting assignment before, most of the Chinese reporters who were confirmed to participate in covering this meeting were not very serious about it.

Many of them didn't even plan to go to the scene.

Anyway, this kind of news is destined to not cause any waves, so when the time comes, just quote other people's reports, take some pictures of the scene on the Internet and remove the watermarks to deal with it. It's not a big problem to even use other people's pictures directly.

This is news that is destined not to go viral, but people have nothing better to do than to defend their rights over this trivial matter.

But when the organizing committee made a temporary decision to change the meeting agenda and upgraded Qiao Yu's report from a 30-minute report in a separate venue to a 60-minute opening report, the situation immediately changed.

Something big happened before the meeting started?
A 16-year-old Chinese boy gave a 60-minute opening speech at the World Algebraic Geometry Conference?!

The title is that mathematicians all over the world should collectively listen to the voice of the 16-year-old mathematical genius from China?

Really, a piece of news that originally had no explosive points suddenly had the potential to become a hot news. Especially the name Qiao Yu, a casual search on the domestic Internet will show that he has been on the hot search several times before.

Especially in the most recent hot search, he appeared at the same time as Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin, and was described by many insiders in the mathematics community as a key figure in the century-long reconciliation in the Chinese mathematics community.

He was also the champion of last year's CMO and won the only perfect gold medal in the algebra and number theory track at the Xiaolibaba 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 mathematics community, the geometric Langlands conjecture!
So, the mathematicians who were preparing to attend the meeting in the hotel were actually fine, but the Chinese reporters were instantly furious!

After all, if reporters want to report on large-scale international academic conferences like the World Congress on Algebraic Geometry, they must have an invitation letter or a media pass issued by the organizing committee, otherwise they cannot enter the venue at all.

So in theory, if a journalist wants to attend the conference, he or she must first submit an application to the organizing committee and then undergo a review by the conference expert group.

The application materials should include an introduction to the media organization represented, as well as the purpose of the interview and personal information of the reporter.

The organizing committee of the conference should comprehensively consider the type of media organization and whether the interviewing reporters have a certain level of professionalism to determine whether they can accurately report the content of the conference. These are still very important for the academic community.

The media likes to talk nonsense, not just in China, but almost all over the world.

However, academic rigor requires that if the content of the meeting is reported, it must be ensured that this information can be conveyed to the public more accurately.

For example, if the content of the professor's report on the stage was clearly about the research progress on the zero-point distribution in the Riemann hypothesis, if the media exposed that Professor XXX claimed to have solved the Riemann hypothesis at the World Congress of Mathematicians and gave a 60-minute report, and received praise from the world's mainstream mathematicians, this would make the conference quite embarrassing.

Especially in an age 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 headlines of these irresponsible reports are shocking enough, the entire Internet may be filled with news about how the Riemann hypothesis has been solved by humans in a few days. The mathematicians who gave the report may also receive congratulations from many laymen with a confused look on their faces...

Just think about how embarrassing this would be.

This sudden adjustment also made many Chinese media reporters who had not planned to go to the scene anxious.

Especially Zhang Nuoke.

As a resident reporter of China News Service in Paris, he had actually received the task of reporting on this conference.

However, due to some reasons, Zhang Nuo was really tired of making news about a mathematical genius emerging in China.

Moreover, he often reports news about science and understands the operating rules of the academic circle better than ordinary reporters.

Although for a sixteen-year-old boy, being invited to give a thirty-minute session report at a world-class mathematics conference is indeed a very meaningful thing.

But precisely 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. With Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin involved, it is not impossible to receive an invitation from the organizing committee in the field of algebraic geometry.

The term "academic resources" is not just about research funding, but also covers all aspects of academic research. The mentor's personal connections directly affect whether one can attend some large academic conferences, win certain awards, attract some investment, and establish cooperation with some large companies...

There is no doubt that in the Chinese mathematics community, Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin have a lot of academic resources at their disposal, so many that it is not uncommon for them to push a sixteen-year-old boy to give a thirty-minute report in a branch venue.

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 was completely beyond the capabilities of Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin, and even beyond the capabilities of any current mathematics giant in the world.

After all, there are many different mathematical schools in the world, and no one of them can be definitive.

A sixteen-year-old boy wanted to give an opening report, and the organizing committee had to temporarily change the agenda for him. Unless his research results were truly meaningful, this would be an impossible task.

Even if the president of the World Alliance made this unreasonable request, he would probably be scolded by a group of mathematicians and become depressed.

Zhang Nuoke never doubted the ability of mathematicians to insult people.

Because he actually experienced it.

At that time, he had just become a working journalist. After offending a mathematician, the other party used rigorous logic, language without foul language, and a slow tone to perfectly prove that he was a fool who knew nothing.

Zhang Nuoke, who was a member of the school debate team during his studies, couldn't even find any logical loopholes in the other party to refute. He was speechless for a while, and the other party even gave him a contemptuous look when leaving.

It was at that time that he began to cram on various professional knowledge and eventually became an overseas resident reporter.

In short, 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 feeling relieved, Zhang Nuoke immediately reported the news to the country.

This is actually very good for journalists stationed abroad. They can completely ignore the time difference and contact their colleagues in China anytime and anywhere.

It was at this time that news about the sixteen-year-old Chinese boy Qiao Yu giving an opening speech at the World Algebraic Geometry Conference quickly spread within the official media, and even began to attract great attention...

Not everyone understands the geometric Langlands conjecture, but it is definitely a hard-earned honor to be taken seriously by so many Fields Medal winners that they even had to adjust the conference agenda the day before the opening of the conference to let Qiao Yu give the opening report speech.

What does it mean that if the youth are strong, China will be strong? !
As a result, many Chinese professors who were invited to attend the conference received calls, especially Qiao Yu’s mentor Tian Yanzhen.

“Well, although Qiao Yu’s achievement this time is not his own, the geometric Langlands conjecture itself is extremely important to the world’s mathematical community because it involves a unified theory, which is also what the world’s mathematical community has been pursuing.

From this perspective, this achievement is indeed worthy of being broadcast in the central media. Qiao Yu also made a very important contribution. He not only found an error in the original paper, but also corrected it in his own way.

What is most valuable, or worth reporting, is that his solution to this problem provides many new mathematical ideas and tools for the mathematical community. This is why the conference organizing committee temporarily adjusted the agenda and let him give a 60-minute opening speech, even though there was only a one-day buffer.

"My suggestion is that you should not 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 some quiet time to adapt and prepare."

"No, even after the conference, I suggest not to have too frequent interviews and reports. Academic research still requires a relatively quiet environment and a stable mentality... Oh, he also has Weibo? I really don't know about this... Well, but my point of view remains unchanged. Of course, limited interviews can still be arranged."

……

Well, Qiao Yu didn’t know that a simple adjustment of the meeting agenda had made him a hot commodity in the eyes of countless media people, as well as a source of traffic recently.

After all, he thought it was no big deal.

Although he has never attended a world-class mathematics conference, he has attended many small lectures and reports.

The most recent one even had two Fields Medal winners in attendance, who asked all sorts of tricky questions.

Just so so……

Not to mention that he was still immersed in his own world at this time.

On the one hand, he was worried about his lack of basic knowledge, which prevented him from even participating in a very interesting project; on the other hand, he was somewhat looking forward to finding a way to explore how a certain man would react after he finished his report tomorrow.

I don’t know if the man will smash his phone when he hears the news. After all, it’s five or six years of hard work. Tsk tsk tsk…

Before falling asleep, the only thing Qiao Yu felt a little regretful about was that he had confirmed that the man did not attend the meeting.

I got the news from Dennis.

Of course, Qiao Yu handled this issue with almost no mistakes. He just said it in a joking tone at the seminar, hoping that Professor Sam and Professor Frank would not be hard on him, a little Karami, because of this matter.

Then he successfully learned the news he wanted to know from Dennis.

Professor Sam came, but the man couldn't come because he had other plans.

But it doesn’t matter.

No matter how he evades it, he will eventually find out about this, and he may even have already known it.

Thinking of Professor Frank’s frustrated look, I could feel full of happiness even in my dreams.

Yes, people are often like this. Once they feel immersed in happiness, good things tend to happen.

This is probably what the ancients said: good things always come in pairs, right?
……

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 very smooth.

For most people, it is difficult to have a good sleep, whether they are in a positive state of extreme happiness and excitement or a negative state of extreme frustration and anger.

But if it is the former, we tend to be kind to everything around us, but if it is the latter...

So Professor Frank got into an argument with someone on the plane...

He even offended the flight attendants.

If he hadn't retained some sanity, he might even have gotten into big trouble.

Of course, this experience made him feel even worse.

However, due to extreme fatigue, he fell into a deep sleep when he arrived at the hotel, and was awakened by the ringing of his cell phone at 7:30 in the morning.

As expected, it was his dear Grandpa calling.

After he booked the ticket yesterday, he sent a message to Lucas Eisen. The hotel room was also arranged in advance by this Grandpa, so he was able to check in directly after arriving last night.

"Frank, did your trip go well last night? I assume you are already in your room?" "Yes, Grandpa, everything went well. I arrived at five in the morning."

"Okay, although the meeting doesn't start until 9:30, I think you should meet with Qiao Yu together with the professors in the research group during breakfast. Delini, Schultz and I will also be there. As I said yesterday, many people are optimistic about Qiao Yu.

They even call Qiao Yu the amazing Chinese math kid, so if you want to achieve something as soon as possible, I think you should build a good relationship with such young people. Take advantage of the fact that you are all Chinese, Frank. "

"Okay, Grandpa, I'll be up right now and in the dining room after I take a shower."

"Yes, I remember it's the restaurant on the third floor. Remember to be there before eight o'clock."

……

After hanging up the phone, Frank closed his eyes to calm himself down, then quickly got up from the bed and rushed into the bathroom.

I deliberately turned up the water temperature because when you are extremely sleepy, a hot bath can help you wake up quickly from that deep fatigue.

After taking a shower and changing his clothes, Frank took three deep breaths in front of the mirror before going out.

Until you completely overcome that tense and complicated mentality.

There was no way, this meeting was unavoidable, even though he was not fully prepared.

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On the other side, Qiao Yu had just finished taking a shower. As usual, he washed his face with the soap he brought from China to show his respect for this conference.

Well, as a five-star hotel, they naturally provide such toiletries in the bathroom, and even thoughtfully prepare things like body lotion for travelers.

But there is no way, Qiao Yu is the kind of person who gets used to something and doesn't like to change it easily.

Even though the products provided by the hotel may be more high-end than those for daily use, Qiao Yu does not intend to change his choice until the products he uses make him feel uncomfortable.

This has nothing to do with the price or quality of the product, it is simply a habit.

Afterwards, he met up with Tian Yanzhen and several professors from Yanbei University and went to the restaurant together.

Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin had told him that the conference did not start at the opening ceremony, but when they arrived in Paris. The right thing to do when attending such a world-class conference is to take advantage of every opportunity to communicate with other valuable mathematicians. In many cases, mathematical inspiration comes from the collision of different mathematical ideas.

Qiao Yu summarized it and concluded that socializing is also a part of participating in a mathematicians' conference, and it may be a very important part.

As for the value of other mathematicians, it probably depends on their status, the content of their research, etc...

This requires him to judge for himself.

What’s even more interesting is that, in addition to the mathematicians who are invited to attend this world-class mathematician conference, there are also many mathematics students and even mathematics enthusiasts who attend at their own expense.

As long as they submit an application to the organizing committee and it is approved, they can even place their canvases in various venues or even some public places.

It is a bulletin board used to publicize one’s latest research results and discuss with interested mathematicians.

Of course, this kind of publicity is often not recognized by the mainstream mathematics community, and it is very much like everyone huddling together for warmth.

But occasionally there are some novel ideas that are appreciated by a professor and may even change someone's life.

In any case, the conference focuses on communication.

Qiao Yu naturally would not refuse this kind of communication.

"Professor Delini called me just now. He invited all the main collaborators of the Geometric Langlands Conjecture to meet with you before the report. In fact, you have already met most of them, but Professor Sam and Professor Frank are also here. You should be more thoughtful when you talk later and don't be too irritating.

Professor Frank, in particular, has a special relationship with Professor Lucas Eisen. Professor Eisen is the director of the Stanford Mathematics Department, the vice president of AMS, and a member of the current IMU Executive Committee. Most importantly, 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 gave instructions in person.

Although Tian Yanzhen doesn't care about the open and secret struggles in the mathematics community, everyone is generally friendly on the surface. Especially when people are qualified to speak based on their strength, they tend to pay more attention to their posture.

Of course, Qiao Yu next to him did not pay attention to the person that Tian Yanzhen introduced. He was paying attention to another person.

"Ah? Professor Sam and Professor Frank are here too?" Qiao Yu asked in surprise.

This has become a habit. Whenever he is in front of other people, he will always put Sam and Frank's names together.

And he would put Professor Sam first, at least for now. At least before his goal was achieved, Qiao Yu didn't want anyone to know that he knew that he had some possible relationship with Professor Frank.

Okay, that's a little confusing, but that's what I mean.

This question was not surprising to Tian Yanzhen, as he could understand Qiao Yu's little worries.

So I just casually comforted him, "It's okay, don't be nervous. Their presence today means that the project team has already communicated well. Don't worry, no one will bother with a kid like you in public."

Apparently Tian Yan really mistook Qiao Yu's excitement for worry.

In fact, in the eyes of adults, for teenagers who are just sixteen years old and like to show off, these two emotions are sometimes no different, and it is generally difficult to distinguish them.

"Oh, it's okay. I'm just a little curious about what they think of me. I'm definitely not nervous because they can't beat me up. Even if they wanted to beat me up, they can't run as fast as me. Not to mention you're there to block me!"

Qiao Yu made a witty remark, which earned a smile from Tian Yanzhen. Finally, when no one was paying attention, he said two words lovingly: "Naughty!"

……

Contrary to 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 great professors unexpectedly.

Qiao Yu quickly identified Frank from those people. After all, among the four most important members of the entire geometric Langlands conjecture research team, he had only not met Sam and Frank yet. Moreover, these two people not only had an age difference, but also a different skin color.

Qiao Yu had thought many times about what kind of mood he would feel when he saw this man in person. Now that he really saw him, he suddenly realized that he didn't have many emotions. It was probably just like seeing a stranger.

Of course this seems to be a good thing, 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 with dignity, just like this time.

Of course, there might be a next time. Life needs happiness, and doing something like this every time can make him happy.

"Look, who's here? Qiao Yu, you will be the brightest star in today's meeting." Pierre Delini came forward first and teased with a smile.

For the old gentleman, saying nice things to a child certainly cannot be described as compliments.

"Thank you, Professor Drini."

"Okay, let me introduce you to Lucas Eisen. He is at Stanford University. If you want to study abroad at Stanford in the future, he can be your recommender."

"Hello, Professor Eisen."

"Hello, Joe, seeing a handsome and energetic young man like you makes me feel younger too." Lucas Eisen said with a smile.

Like many other teenagers, Qiao Yu smiled shyly.

"I don't need to introduce you to Dennis and Pan. This is Professor Lauren Sam."

"Hello, Professor Sam."

"Hello, Joe. Dennis and I talked for a long time yesterday and told you about some of your ideas. I have to admit that the method you used is very interesting. I never thought of it. I hope we can have the opportunity to cooperate in the future."

"Thank you, Professor Sam, there will definitely be one." Qiao Yu immediately agreed.

"This is Professor Eunice Frank from Berkeley. You haven't met him or Professor Sam, but you must have read their papers." Pierre Delini added when introducing Frank.

Qiao Yu did not hide his smile and looked at the man as usual.

"Hello, Professor Frank."

Frank has been observing Qiao Yu silently. He can basically conclude that Qiao Yu really doesn't know him, at least he doesn't know the relationship between him and him. After all, it is hard to imagine that a sixteen-year-old boy can be so scheming.

Didn't even look at him.

"Hello, Qiao Yu." In order to create a sense of intimacy, Frank spoke directly in 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 the man openly.

I have to say, after gaining weight, his face has completely deformed. He doesn't look as handsome as in the photos on INS, but instead looks a bit more stable.

This made Qiao Yu decide to criticize Qiao Xi when he got home.

If he hadn't seen the man's photo of himself graduating from MIT on Instagram, he wouldn't have recognized him at all.

This also made Qiao Yu very alert. He couldn't be this fat when he was in his thirties. He needed to exercise more.

"Actually, I came to the United States after high school," Frank explained.

"No wonder, Professor Frank, where in China were you from?" Qiao Yu asked curiously.

Frank hesitated for a fraction of a second before answering, "Oh, I used to live in Star City."

Qiao Yu said happily: "What a coincidence! To be honest, I was also born and raised in Xingcheng. No wonder your accent has a bit of Xingcheng flavor."

"Oh? You're from Star City too? That's a coincidence, but you speak Mandarin."

"Haha, that's because teachers in schools now only teach Mandarin."

The big guys beside them smiled and watched the two of them talk in Chinese for a few sentences before Tian Yanzhen went out and said, "Okay, let's eat something first. Qiao Yu, you can't go on stage to give a report on an empty stomach later."

……

Breakfast at the Monet Hotel is also a buffet. After everyone dispersed, the two continued chatting smoothly, still in Chinese.

"To be honest, I had no intention of attending this meeting. I only came here because I heard that you solved this problem. Can you tell me how you solved the problem of conjugate ridge singularities?" Frank followed Qiao Yu and turned the question to an academic direction.

"Professor Frank, this is actually very simple. It is just about introducing the LGIR tool and a consistency correction operator. If you were given more time, you would definitely be able to think of it. I just got there first. But there is definitely not enough time now. You will know at the report meeting later." Qiao Yu answered casually.

This one sentence made Frank speechless.

"Actually it's not that simple..." said Pan Jingyuan who was standing next to the two of them.

Dennis and Sam were no longer with the three people because they couldn't understand Chinese, and only Pan Jingyuan came over.

"Haha, Professor Pan, thank you for your compliment." Qiao Yu looked at Pan Jingyuan and said with a smile.

In fact, the reason Pan Jingyuan came to join in the fun today was because he always suspected whether Qiao Yu had any conflicts with Sam or Frank, but now it seems that this is really the first time they met.

No one showed any special look...

It seems that everything is just a coincidence.

Frank shrugged, picked up a piece of bread and put it on the plate.

To be honest, he didn't have much of an appetite. Qiao Yu, on the other hand, had a good appetite, and took a bunch of things, and also got a glass of milk.

Then the three of them sat together naturally.

"Professor Frank, is this all you want to eat?" Qiao Yu asked with concern after sitting down.

"Oh, I haven't had a very good appetite lately." Frank answered casually.

"Ah? That... can't be because it was my achievement this time? Really, Professor Frank, at that time I was simply attracted by the creative thinking mode of the geometric Langlands conjecture, and subconsciously wanted to study those structures.

Really, at that time I felt that the proof process of you and Professor Sam had a very special beauty, like the beauty of imperfection. At that time I wanted to discuss it with you or Professor Sam, but I didn’t have your email address.

Later, by chance, I suddenly realized where the problem was... Hey, you won't blame me, right?" Qiao Yu said carefully.

These words made Pan Jingyuan next to him not know what to say.

The beauty of imperfection...

What kind of description is this?
Frank, on the other hand, just twitched his lips slightly, smiled bitterly and replied: "Of course it's okay, we can only say that our proof has loopholes. In fact, our goals are the same, and your method is better. In fact, I am very happy. After all, this problem has finally been solved. Just like Professor Sam said, maybe we can work together in the future."

"Phew...that's 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, I heard from Professor Pan that you have spent many years on this topic."

Frank smiled bitterly, while Pan Jingyuan glared at Qiao Yu and said, "Ahem, Qiao Yu, I really want to know how you suddenly got this inspiration."

"I don't know either. After I called you that day, Professor Dennis came to see me the next day. After I told him my general idea, I suddenly thought of a complete method as soon as I returned to the room, and then I proved it. Maybe the goddess of mathematics didn't want the professors' previous work to go to waste?"

If Frank wasn't around, Pan Jingyuan would think that what Qiao Yu said was very sophisticated.

But now Pan Jingyuan was a little troubled, as if he shouldn't have come to join in the fun.

The table finally became quiet. It seemed that everyone had lost interest in chatting after Qiao Yu's words, and they all started eating the food in front of them in silence.

But only Qiao Yu was eating happily.

Of course, this only shows that young people have better appetites.

As for Frank, he obviously had no appetite and 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. Yes, a professor at Berkeley, just like Hua Xia, this is a senior title. In addition, there is his email address and research field information.

"My email address is on it. Like I said, maybe we can work together in the future. In the next stage, I may do some research on conformal field theory. If you are interested, you can join me."

"It's an honor, Professor Frank. But it may take some time. You may not know that I am still in Professor Li's research group, doing research on the two-dimensional generalization of Chevalier's theorem. When this project is completed, you must let me join the group."

"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 conference hall, Zhang Nuoke was watching the cameraman beside him adjusting the equipment.

This is a photographer from Huaxia Chinese Media.

After his news spread back to China, the country's attention to this World Algebraic Geometry Conference was obviously much higher. If nothing unexpected happens, today's news program from 7 to 7:30 may even schedule about a minute and a half to broadcast this video news.

The material naturally has to be taken from the shots taken by this cameraman.

Don't underestimate these ninety seconds. You should know that the information density of the seven o'clock news program is very high. The host is required to broadcast 290 to 300 words per minute in a clear and fluent manner. Ninety seconds means more than words.

A mathematics conference, in a news program broadcast nationwide, the host was asked to say more than 400 words to report on this mathematics conference in a fancy way, not to mention that there were pictures. You can imagine how much importance the station attached to it.

This also made him curious about this metaphor.

I wonder how this sixteen-year-old boy will perform.

Fortunately, the conference will begin soon.

Zhang Nuoke turned his head and glanced into the conference hall. The large conference room that could accommodate thousands of people was almost full of mathematicians from all over the world... What a grand occasion.

……

The opening ceremony of a mathematician's congress is usually not too complicated.

In particular, today's conference is not like the World Congress of Mathematicians, which has a cumbersome award ceremony.

Soon, under the coordination of the host, the bigwigs of the organizing committee walked down from the stage, leaving the most dazzling stage to Qiao Yu.

Even though the mathematicians in the audience had already been prepared, when they saw such a young face walking onto the podium, there was still a burst of noise mixed with the applause, which seemed a little abrupt.

Of course, these are all small things for Qiao Yu.

He was in a really good mood at the moment, especially when he found that among the big guys, including the team of the geometric Langlands conjecture, especially that man was sitting in the first row, where he could see the clearest, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

That man's expression seems too serious... It's just a lecture, why is he so serious?
"Hehe... ahem... sorry, I seem to have been a little too excited! But everyone knows that this is my first time standing on the podium to give a report, so I hope you can forgive me and let me do it again."

There was some friendly laughter from the audience.

When the laughter died down, Qiao Yu gathered his thoughts and his expression became serious: “First of all, I would like to thank the organizing committee for giving me this opportunity to share with you the partial proof process of the geometric Langlands conjecture, and I would also like to thank everyone 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 in the research process. Of course, there are also contributions from Professor Sam and Professor Frank.

Although their research results have some minor errors, it is these errors that inspired my thinking and made us understand how to avoid failures caused by minor errors in key details.

First, I want to talk about a special type of conjugate ridge singular points. The characteristics of this type of singular point are that it not only exhibits a common singular structure locally, but also has a complex ridge-like extension globally. At the same time, its local geometric structure has a conjugate relationship with other points at the far end of the algebraic variety, or even non-adjacent singular points..."

After he finished speaking, Qiao Yu also opened the PPT that had already been reviewed by the organizing committee's review committee.

A standard singularity of the spine structure was also presented to more than a thousand mathematicians attending the conference.

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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