I just want to be a quiet scholar

Chapter 417

The quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians is held in St. Petersburg.

Shen Qi met many old friends in the field of mathematics in the hotel and the venue, and everyone chatted cordially and exchanged information.

IMU presented Shen Qi with the Chern Award in recognition of Shen Qi's outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics.

The Shiing-shen Chern Award is awarded once every four years, and one person is awarded each time. The mathematicians who receive this Lifetime Achievement Award are often old. They have dedicated their lives to mathematics and achieved outstanding achievements.

IMU’s description of the reason for Shen Qi’s award is: “The 26-year-old Chinese mathematician Shen Qi has reached the pinnacle of mathematics in the past five years.”

As the highest lifetime achievement award in the international mathematics community, the Shiing-shen Chern Award has a bonus of up to US$50.

According to tradition, the winner usually donates half of the $50 to institutions that promote the advancement of mathematics.

Following this practice, Shen Qi donated US$25 to the Nangang Mathematics Lovers Association to contribute to the development of mathematics in his hometown.

The Chern Award brought Shen Qi a basic reward of 150 million Xueba points, multiplied by the mathematics main talent coefficient of 2.0, and Shen Qi added 300 million Xueba points.

The reporter interviewed Shen Qi: "Mr. Shen Qi, you won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of 26. Does it mean that you no longer have any desire in mathematics? We found that since you proposed the SLW system and proved the Hodge conjecture, in the past year, There's not much movement in the math."

Shen Qi said: "There are still actions, but I don't need to write mathematics articles myself now. I have a very good elite mathematics team, and my duty is to lead my team to move forward. I also want to retire early, but No way, I can’t retire now. Desire? Of course I still have desire, the day I get the Wolf Prize and the Abel Prize is the day of my retirement.”

The reporter asked again: "Tomorrow the Fields Medal will be awarded, Professor Shen, do you have your prediction?"

Shen Qi: "I'm very optimistic about Mr. Figali."

Reporter: "What else?"

Shen Qi: "I'm not a prophet, how would I know?"

Shen Qi's interview was given to the Wolf Foundation and the Norwegian government by a good reporter @: "For the future of mathematics, please never award the Wolf Prize and the Abel Prize to Shen Qi."

The next day, the most important award in mathematics was awarded, the Fields Medal.

Shen Qi's prediction was quite accurate, and the first place was awarded to the Italian mathematician Figalli.

Figali waited for the Philippine Award after several sessions. He could not win the Philippine Award this time, and he will be over 40 years old in the next session.

Shen Qi broadcast live, and sent pictures and videos of the International Conference of Mathematicians to their center's WeChat group.

In the video, Figga delivered his acceptance speech in Italian. While speaking, his nose suddenly became sore, and he began to cry with a snort.

Zhou Yu'an shouted excitedly in the group: "My mentor has won the Philippine Award, awesome old Fei! What is Lao Fei talking about, who can translate it for you who understands Italian?"

Shen Qi translated: "Old Fei said that he loved football since he was a child and was selected for the Atlanta youth training camp. His dream is to become a member of the Italian national football team and win the World Cup. Football is his true love, and mathematics is just a hobby. Thinking that he has made no achievements in the field of football, but won a mathematics award in his early years, he felt sorry for himself, so he cried."

Zhou Yu'an didn't believe it: "I know that Lao Fei is addicted to football. He plays the goalkeeper position and has good footwork, but he couldn't say that at the Philippine Awards. Also, Lao Shen, do you understand Italian?"

Shen Qi: "The simultaneous translation machine on site contains dozens of languages, one of which is Italian."

After speaking in his native language, Figali spoke again in English.

This time Zhou Yu'an understood, his Italian mentor really meant that, but it was not as exaggerated as Shen Qi expressed.

"I won the Philippine Award and was promoted to be a big boss. Whatever the big bosses say is right, who made them big bosses." Zhou Yu'an learned a lot of valuable knowledge from Figalli, except for the pretense. There is still a certain gap among teachers.

The most important thing is that Zhou Yu'an realized that acting aggressively requires a stage, stand on that stage, act as you like, and the whole world will applaud you.

The second place for this year's Philippine Award is the German mathematician Schulz. He is very young. If he fails to win the Philippine Award this year, he can survive another one.

Colleagues at Shen Qi Mathematics and Physics Research Center sighed with emotion: "Schultz, he still won the prize after all."

Schultz delivered his acceptance speech in English. He said that his father was a physicist, his mother was a computer scientist, and his sister was a chemist. Their family lacked a mathematician, so he became a mathematician.

Xiao Junlong: "Things, calculations, transformations, numbers, Schultz and his family can rule the world."

Zhou Yu'an: "One can pretend better than the other! The Philippine Awards Conference has become a conference for pretending."

Cui Xiaoyi, who doesn't understand mathematics, knows English. She praised Schulz: "Blonde hair and long legs, this German brother is very handsome, and his whole family is a schoolmaster!"

Zhou Yu'an: "So what if he's handsome, so what if the whole family is a top student, his wife ran away."

Cui Xiaoyi: "Huh? Seek the truth!"

Zhou Yu'an: "Ask Director Shen, he knows the truth."

Shen Qi said in the group: "Don't discuss other people's privacy, it's impolite. Alright, that's all for today's live broadcast, if you need me to bring a gift, send me a private message."

With two honors in mathematics and physics, Shen Qi returned to China.

Shen Qi handed over the two medals to Ouye for safekeeping, and kept the prize money for himself.

Bringing back 25 US dollars from Europe, Shen Qi spent tens of thousands of dollars on dinner, out of his own pocket, and shared the joy with colleagues and friends.

As the first Chinese mathematician to win the Shiingshen Chern Award and the Casteler Award, he brought back two international science awards in one wave. The country and Yanda University commended Shen Qi.

There are verbal commendations as well as material rewards.

Not far from the west gate of Yanda University, there is a quiet space in the midst of the hustle and bustle. It is the land of Yanda University. The area is not big enough to build a house and do greening around it.

Today, the person in charge of the relevant state department and the dean of Yanda School of Architecture invited Shen Qi to visit the land outside the west gate of Yanda.

"Professor Shen, is this location okay?" The leaders of relevant departments asked what Shen Qi meant.

Shen Qi observed for a while and said, "It's okay."

The leader said to the dean of Yanda School of Architecture: "Dean Han, then you will have to work hard for your School of Architecture, and produce the drawings as soon as possible."

Dean Han looked at Shen Qi and said with emotion: "Professor Shen, there are not many people who can enjoy this kind of treatment, and you are one of them. Don't worry, Principal Lu has told me that this house must be designed to a high level by our School of Architecture. It is unique and makes Professor Shen feel at ease and comfortable.”

"Wait!" Shen Qi didn't understand, he asked, "Both leaders, can we be more specific?"

"It's like this." The leader of the relevant department was responsible for explaining in detail, and he said: "Professor Shen, in view of your achievements over the years and your great contributions to the country's scientific research, the country has decided to build a brand new building for you. The villa. The money for building the building is paid by the state, and the design is done by the School of Architecture of Yanda University."

"This... I can't bear it." Shen Qi waved his hands again and again, living in a villa is the treatment of an academician, and not every academician can enjoy the treatment of a villa specially designed for him.

The School of Architecture of Shuimu University once designed a unique, beautiful and comfortable villa for Mr. Yang Zhenning as the foothold of Mr. Yang after returning to China. This can be said to be the highest treatment given by the country in terms of housing.

The leader took Shen Qi's hand and said with all his heart: "China has produced several Nobel Prize winners, but only you, Professor Shen, have the Fields Medal. This is not what I said, but what IMU said, and it is the consensus of the international mathematics community."

"Let you live in the elevator building. I've wronged you. You must enjoy academician treatment. As far as I know, several academicians nominated Professor Shen as a co-opted academician last year. Regardless of whether you can be elected as an academician this year, you will live in the villa first. It is a national decision. Of course, it takes a certain amount of time to build a house. Before the house is built, Professor Shen still has to be wronged to live in the elevator building temporarily. I hope you understand."

(End of this chapter)