From all-round academic master to chief scientist - Chapter 177 Interview, cost recovery

This report is over.

Like Goldbach’s conjecture, no one asked questions.

For such an important academic report, if there are questions to be raised, it is often the most fatal flaw in this theory.

The only ones qualified to ask questions are the top mathematicians sitting in the front row.

If they have no doubts about the proof process, then this academic report is considered complete.

As for other people who still do not understand the process because of their limited knowledge, their problems are not problems with this theory. It is their own problem, not Lin Xiao’s problem.

After all, it is an academic report, not a classroom.

Amid the applause of the crowd, Lin Xiao left the stage and walked towards the mathematicians he was familiar with.

The first is Professor Laurent Laforgue, the 2002 Fields Medal winner.

“Professor Laforgue, we meet again.”

“Haha, yes, you can bring me a surprise every time I meet you.”

“It’s my honor.” Lin Xiao smiled and said, “By the way, how is your job at Warwick Company?”

Laforgue smiled and said: “It’s very good, the salary is very good, and I can continue to engage in the research I like.”

“That would be best.”

Laforgue smiled and said: “It would be better if you could bring another surprise next time we meet again.”

At this time, another professor came next to him and said to Lin Xiao with a smile: “Lin, you did a good job.”

“Professor Werner.”

Lin Xiao nodded towards Professor Wendelin Werner, the 2006 Fields Medal winner.

“Haha, if I weren’t just a part-time professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, otherwise, I would have to compete with Professor Serre for your mentor.” Professor Werner smiled.

Lin Xiao smiled and said: “Although you are not my mentor, if I encounter problems in the future, I will not refuse when I ask for your advice.”

“Haha, of course I won’t refuse!” Werner laughed.

Next, another professor came over, this one was Cedric Villani, winner of the 2010 Fields Medal.

And it wasn’t just him, there were several French mathematicians who came over. They were all mathematicians sitting in a row. Many of them were Fields Medal winners. They also had one thing in common: They all came out of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and they were all considered Lin Xiao’s seniors.

At this moment, Lin Xiao finally felt what it meant to be a top university in the world of pure mathematics.

After all, there are 12 Fields Medal winners trained by the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, four more than the second-placed University of Cambridge.

“Lin Xiao!”

At this time, Lin Xiao heard someone calling him again. He turned around and saw Pompieri and a few people walking over.

His eyes lit up and he walked up with a smile: “Professor Pompieri, Professor Sarnak, Professor Deligne, you are here too.”

Pompieri smiled and nodded: “Of course, for such an important feast, we must come over to join in the fun.”

“I heard that you will go to Sweden to receive the Crafford Prize in May this year. Congratulations.”

Hearing Lin Xiao mention this matter, the smile on Pompieri’s face became even brighter: “Haha, this is indeed a surprise for me.”

The winners of the Crafford Prize are announced in mid-January each year, and the awards are awarded in April or May.

This award has a high status among various awards. Like the Nobel Prize, it is managed and awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Its purpose is to reward scientific fields that are omitted by the Nobel Prize.

Those who can win the Crafford Prize are generally those who have a very high reputation in related academic fields. The winners are all relatively old people, such as Pompieri, which also means great recognition of his past achievements.

As for the youngest winner, Tao Zhexuan. He received this award at the age of 38. He seemed quite unexpected among the people who were over 50 years old.

Lin Xiao smiled and said: “When the award ceremony is held, if I have the chance, I will definitely go and watch it.”

“Okay, I will also go back to my hometown in Italy for a while recently, and then go to receive the award during the award ceremony.” Pompieri patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder and said, “I’m just looking forward to seeing you there then. it’s your turn.”

“OK.”

Lin Xiao nodded.

At this time, Sanak next to him said: “By the way, Lin Xiao, why didn’t you come to our Princeton University to study? We were all looking forward to it at the beginning.”

When this question was raised, Pompieri and Deligne both looked at Lin Xiao.

“Uh… about this…” Lin Xiao scratched his head and said, “Because I have been to Paris before, so I have a good impression of this place, so I came here.”

After hearing this answer, several professors from Princeton University expressed helplessness, “If I had known, I would have asked you to come to our Princeton University to have a look.”

“Hey, you old guys, are you here to poach people?”

At this moment, another old man came over, pointed at these top mathematicians from the United States, and said angrily.

This old man is none other than Jean-Pierre Serre.

When meeting this old man in mathematics, even Deligne has to respect him.

After all, Searle and his teacher Grothendieck were good friends, and some of Searle’s results even played an important role in laying the foundation of modern algebraic geometry for Grothendieck. It can be said that without Searle’s original efforts, Grothendieck would have been Whether Dick could lay the foundation for modern algebraic geometry remains unknown.

In addition, the Weil conjecture proved by Deligne was also the result of Professor Searle, and the two had collaborated on this.

“Professor Searle.”

All three of them shouted.

Serge walked up to Lin Xiao, patted him on the shoulder and said, “Lin is my student now, so don’t think too much about your little thoughts.”

Upon hearing this, Deligne and the others couldn’t help but look at each other, showing helplessness.

Although foreign countries don’t pay much attention to seniority, Lin Xiao became a student of Professor Serre. To a certain extent, he and Deligne were considered peers.

Next, after Lin Xiao chatted with these mathematicians for a while, the three CCTV reporters based in Paris suddenly came over.

“Lin Xiao!”

Hearing someone calling his name in his native language, Lin Xiao immediately turned around and saw three reporters, a smile appeared on his face: “Reporter Chen, Reporter Sun, and Reporter Zhang.”

“Lin Xiao, when I heard your report just now, what you said was really amazing!” Zhang Ning gave Lin Xiao a thumbs up. Lin Xiao is seven years younger than her and can give such a report. Being an international reporter for CCTV is already a pretty good career in Paris, but compared with Lin Xiao, she has to be envious of it.

Lin Xiao looked surprised: “Huh? Do you understand?”

“Ah this…” Zhang Ning was stunned, she understood a hammer.

Chen Ming and Sun Xiang both laughed. Chen Ming said with a smile: “Zhang Ning probably didn’t understand. She was playing with her phone in the back just now.”

“Boss!” Zhang Ning patted Chen Ming angrily.

Seeing this scene, Lin Xiao smiled, and then asked: “By the way, do you have something wrong?”

Chen Ming smiled and said: “Just like last time, we need to interview you. Do you have the time?”

“Of course no problem.”

Lin Xiao nodded. Of course he would not refuse the request of his compatriots, and it also happened to allow friends at home to hear his voice again.

Having said that, it has been a long time since it was a hot search topic in China.

After Lin Xiao agreed, Chen Ming thanked you and said, “Thank you then. What time do you think is suitable?”

“Now you can.”

Anyway, there is nothing going on, and being interviewed is not a big problem.

“Then I’ll trouble you.”

Lin Xiao waved his hand, “It’s no trouble.”

At this time, Professor Serge saw that he seemed to have something to do, so he patted him on the shoulder and said: “Remember to come back early. Tonight, the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris has prepared a Lin Xiao Night for you. As the protagonist, you must come early.” Come on.”

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: “I know.”

…

Later, Lin Xiao and the three reporters found a suitable interview location and started the interview.

“Excuse me, how do you feel about the success of your proof?”

The first conventional question was asked first. Lin Xiao smiled slightly and replied: “Success is sometimes accidental, but sometimes it is inevitable. So if you ask me what I think, then I can only confidently say that this is just me.” This is just the fourth mathematical problem solved, and there will be more in the future.”

Such a confident answer made the three reporters’ eyes light up.

Probably Lin Xiao is the only one in the world who can say such a thing, right?

Chen Ming nodded with a smile and asked his second question: “We noticed that you mentioned the Mona Lisa at the beginning and end of your report. Is there any meaning?”

Lin Xiao smiled: “You must have seen the hot search some time ago, right? I am called the Kung Fu Master.”

Chen Ming and others nodded. Of course they knew about this matter. They originally wanted to interview Lin Xiao again, but they couldn’t contact Lin Xiao later, and then he showed up here.

Lin Xiao said: “I was standing in front of the Mona Lisa, and suddenly I had an idea, and then I thought of a direction to prove the twin prime numbers, and then I also succeeded, so I wanted to prove the twin prime number. Prime number conjecture, call it my Mona Lisa.”

“So that’s it.”

Everyone suddenly realized that in ancient times, Wang Yangming studied bamboos to gain knowledge, and now Lin Xiaoge’s “Mona Lisa” proves the twin prime number conjecture?

Several reporters immediately came up with several news headlines.

Chen Ming asked with a smile: “So did you really have an epiphany?”

Lin Xiao said: “If I want to describe it, it should be an epiphany. But actually, I think everyone should have such an experience, right? For example, when you used to do math problems, you didn’t know how to write them at first, and then Suddenly I had a flash of inspiration, and I realized it, and that was considered an epiphany.”

Chen Ming thought for a while and said: “That’s true. I have had this experience before. However, you solved world-class problems, and the questions we wrote were all questions asked by others.”

“A truth.”

Lin Xiao smiled.

“Have any of you ever done it?” Zhang Ning next to her whispered: “When I encounter anyone who doesn’t know it, I just copy the answer directly.”

Everyone laughed, and Sun Xiang said, “So it’s a good thing that you majored in foreign languages, not science and engineering.”

Several people laughed again.

Then, Chen Ming continued to ask other questions. After the interview, Lin Xiao said goodbye to them and returned to the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Today, there is still a party waiting for him here.

…

Meanwhile, in the United States, at the home of David Cayman.

He watched Lin Xiao’s academic report live broadcast until it was over, then shut down the computer with an angry expression, then logged into his social software and posted an update.

[This is persecution of the truth! Everyone only paid attention to Lin Xiao’s proof, but no one paid attention to another person’s proof. This is disrespectful to academics! 】

He didn’t understand that he clearly announced that he had completed the proof before Lin Xiao, but in the end everyone only paid attention to Lin Xiao’s proof, but no one cared about his, and no one even mentioned it to him.

Even those friends in mathematics who once spoke for him, there are not many people speaking up for him now.

Everyone praised Lin Xiao’s proof, but remained silent about his proof.

This made him so angry that he didn’t go to school for many days.

“I’m looking for the Los Angeles Times!”

Suddenly he thought that this media, through the other party’s voice, would definitely help him.

So he quickly took out his mobile phone and called, “Myron, you must help me…”

“Help you? The premise is that your proof is right! Your proof is wrong, how can we help you?”

Cayman was stunned for a moment: “My proof is wrong? This is impossible?!”

“You still don’t know? Oh my god, dear Professor Cayman, you are a mathematician, but let me, a reporter, tell you that your proof is wrong?” Myron said impatiently: “Originally, our “Los Angeles” The Times has found several well-known mathematicians to speak out for your proof process, but they all said that your proof was wrong. What else is there to say? In order to avoid you being upset, I did not give You mention it, but you don’t even know it?”

Caiman couldn’t believe it on his face: “I…”

His proof was actually wrong?

Why haven’t you told him yet?

But this is the fact. No one told him that his proof was wrong. After all, Lin Xiao’s proof was successful, and then telling him that the proof failed would be a bit hurtful. So everyone seemed to unanimously not tell Cayman, Everyone assumed someone else would tell Cayman.

As a result, Cayman fell into an information asymmetry, so much so that he is not aware of it to this day.

Myron said: “Okay, that’s it.”

After hanging up the phone, Myron threw the phone aside. Originally, he had high hopes for this guy, but this is what happened?

Suddenly, he remembered the words he had recorded about Cayman, “Now is the time to recover the cost.”

Then, he found his voice recorder and went to find their editor-in-chief.

…

Please give me a monthly pass.