From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

That's $100 million!

Who wouldn't want to get it?

Here I have to talk about the cleverness of the Clay Institute. The Cray Institute was established in 1998. It was quite unknown at first, but in 2000 it came up with a gimmick of a million-dollar bonus, and let it The reputation has also grown in academia.

However, for Lin Xiao, although 100 million US dollars is very eye-catching, but he is not unable to make money now. In addition, if he wants to receive 100 million US dollars at that time, he may have to go to Colorado, the United States where the headquarters of the Clay Institute is located. He will definitely not go, unless they are held in Huaguo.

So he didn't care about these awards.

In the following time, he naturally stayed in St. Petersburg and participated in the next conference report. Originally, he wanted to communicate with Perelman, but it was a pity that Perelman had finished attending his meeting. After the report, he disappeared, so he had no choice but to give up.

In this way, time passed quickly.

The current International Congress of Mathematicians has finally come to an end.

Undoubtedly, this conference will be one of the most historic conferences among all international mathematician conferences in the past and in the future.

Every participant felt that the trip was worthwhile.

However, when it was finally time to leave, I still had to leave.

July 7, St. Petersburg Airport.

On this day, many mathematicians who participated in the meeting left together, and Lin Xiao also followed the Huaguo team to the airport.

Of course, before boarding the plane, Lin Xiao was surrounded by many mathematicians who said goodbye to him.

Professor Searle said to him with a smile, "Lin, I hope that when I see you next time, you will give us another surprise."

Lin Xiao smiled: "Of course, I will try my best."

"Then I'm looking forward to it." Searle nodded and said with a smile: "If possible, I can try my best to hear a few more important conjectures completed by you before I pass away."

Lin Xiaozheng nodded emphatically.

Professor Searle is more than 90 years old. Although he seems to be in good health, who knows if an accident will happen.

Lin Xiao can only hope that his former mentor can live longer.

Next to him, the chairman of the International Mathematical Union, Carlos Keenig, was also here. Even though there was still something about the end of the conference and he couldn't leave for the time being, he still took the initiative to see Lin Xiao off.

He patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Professor Lin, I have already seen the miracle you mentioned at the beginning, but I also hope that you can let me see it more times."

"I also hope that you can see it more times." Lin Xiao responded with a smile.

Everyone else nodded.

They all believed that Lin Xiao would continue to create more miracles.

Then, other mathematicians including Deligne, Tao Terence, Pompieri, etc. also said goodbye to Lin Xiao one by one.

After a while, Lin Xiao looked at the time and was about to board the plane, so he said with a smile: "Okay everyone, I should leave too. If you have time, you must come to Huaguo to play!"

These mathematicians all laughed and said: "Next time."

Then, Lin Xiao also left the hall and went to the boarding gate.

Under the protection of four bodyguards including Shi Hao, they boarded the plane, and then the plane took off smoothly, starting the nine-hour flight.

After today, the average IQ in St. Petersburg has returned to the original point.

……

On July 7, Lin Xiao's plane arrived at Shangjing Airport.

When he arrived at the airport, he was naturally greeted by a lot of people, which made Lin Xiao feel the grand treatment of being a Fields Medal winner and Hodge conjecture prover. Huaguo Mathematical Society and Ma Gaoliang came to pick him up Having said that, many big figures from the government also came to pick up the plane.

In addition, there was a CCTV reporter's record at the scene, and he was interviewed.

However, because he had been on the plane for too long, he could say as little as possible during the interview.

Reporter; "Professor Lin, how does it feel to prove Hodge's conjecture? Do you feel a sense of accomplishment?"

Lin Xiao: "If you prove Hodge's conjecture, it's okay, not bad."

Reporter: "...you are really 'modest'."

"Hodge's conjecture is a very difficult problem that we have also understood. It is said that many mathematicians in the world have devoted their lives to proving Hodge's conjecture. You must have paid a lot to prove this conjecture. Less?"

Lin Xiao took it for granted: "Of course! It took me nearly four months to solve this problem, and I really paid a lot."

I think that after he went out, no one could recognize his appearance.

reporter:"……"

four months?

talent?

Where are you leaving Versailles?

The reporter took a deep breath, and then continued to ask: "Then compared with your Lin's conjecture? Which one do you think is difficult?"

"Well...then Hodge's conjecture is more difficult, after all, Hodge's conjecture has to take into account the n-dimensional situation."

Finally, there was a normal answer, the reporter breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked curiously: "Then how difficult do you think?"

"Difficult... it will be difficult for a month."

Reporter: "?? What is going to be difficult for a month?"

Lin Xiao laughed and said, "It took about three months for me to prove Lin's conjecture, and four months for Hodge's conjecture. Isn't that just a difficult month?"

Reporter, and everyone around: "..."

Since when is the difficulty of a top mathematical conjecture calculated on a monthly basis?

Probably only Lin Xiao has this ability!

Chapter 298 No One Knows Better Than Me

Although Lin Xiao's interview was still a bit outrageous, the CCTV reporter happily went back with the interview record.

After the interview, there were still some entertainments, but Lin Xiao rejected them all.

Although the status of the people who invited him is quite high, he is not afraid of making others feel dissatisfied after pushing him down.

Anyway, he is a scientific researcher, and the Dingguang Research Institute is there, so no matter how high someone else's status is, can it affect his continued research?

Not to mention that with his current status, he no longer needs to care about others.

So, An An returned to Yanbei Garden with peace of mind, and he took a good rest for a day to prepare for the work ahead.

As for what to do next, it was naturally the final step of the X-ray project.

Assemble.

……

The night passed.

After a good night's rest, Lin Xiao got into the car driven by Shi Hao with full energy and went to Dingguang Research Institute.

The other three Zhonghai bodyguards who protected him before going to St. Petersburg with him naturally returned to their original posts. After all, they have all returned to China, which is naturally much safer than abroad. There are many people around.

Soon, when they arrived at Dingguang Research Institute, looking at this long-lost research institute that belonged to him, Lin Xiao didn't have time to express his feelings, but let Shi Hao drive the car to the side of a newly built building.

This building is the new dust-free workshop of their research institute.

Strictly speaking, it is a lithography machine assembly-test dust-free workshop.

The structure of this kind of clean room is slightly different from that of ordinary clean rooms. In addition to the clean environment, the foundation is also different.

Their foundations use extremely dense and heavy metal materials.

This kind of foundation, which is heavier than ordinary buildings, makes the whole car have higher performance in terms of stability and impact resistance.

For example, in the dormitory, when a heavyweight roommate gets off the upper bunk, you may feel the ground shake, but in this clean room, this kind of thing will not happen, basically you will not feel anything shock.

As for why this kind of dust-free workshop is needed, it is naturally for the stability of the operation of the lithography machine.

As an instrument with working precision at the nanometer level, its requirements for stability can be called the highest in the world, and any vibration may cause instability during operation.

Of course, the cost of such a clean room is naturally very high.

However, it is all for making lithography machines, so there is no need to care about these costs.

Soon, Lin Xiao got out of the car and came to the door of the workshop.

After entering the door is the office area, not counting the interior of the workshop.

As Huaguo's first workshop for testing ultra-high-precision lithography machines, this office area is relatively large, capable of conducting various data tests, and there is also a conference room that can accommodate Lin Xiao to hold the core meeting of the X-ray project.

Soon, after Lin Xiao walked in, people in the office area saw him, they all got up and shouted respectfully: "Mr. Lin!"

Seeing this chief designer whom he hadn't seen for a long time, all the people present were deeply moved.

With the spare time of their X-ray project, they solved a world-class math problem by the way. Who else could do it except their Chief Teacher Lin?

The deputy chief designer Yang Kaiping was also here. After seeing Lin Xiao, he greeted with a smile: "Oh, Huo Guess is okay, Professor Lin, you are here."

Hearing Yang Kaiping's voice, Lin Xiao turned his head to look, then laughed and said, "How do you know?"

Yang Kaiping laughed, "Why can't I know? I saw the news this morning, and you are amazing. Such a difficult conjecture was evaluated as 'okay' by you."

"What's more, 'it was difficult for a month', 'it took nearly four months' and so on. I used to take any subject for a year or a half, but it's different for you."

Lin Xiao said with a smile: "Back then, Einstein published five papers a year. On average, one paper was published every 2.4 months. I'm still a little short."

Yang Kaiping: "..."

You are awesome.

You are already against Einstein, so I have nothing to say.

"Ahem, forget it, I won't tell you anymore, you haven't been here for so long, now I have to tell you about our current situation."

"Well, let's go in and talk."

Lin Xiao said.

Then, they entered the office and started talking.

"First of all, Chen Yuanchun and his team have built double worktables based on the drawings you gave, and now they have built five workbenches. After testing, the accuracy and stability have reached the standard, and they are now in our workshop. .”

Speaking of this, Yang Kaiping recalled the situation when they tested the five double workbenches. When they saw that their double workbenches could easily operate with his established precision, everyone in their entire workshop was shocked. I don’t know how long I’ve been celebrating for this, but it’s a pity that Lin Xiao, the chief designer and designer of these double workbenches, was attending the International Conference of Mathematicians at the time, so he couldn’t participate, which made the scene a little less commemorative.

Of course, compared with the lithography machine they are about to build, there is no need to care about the commemorative significance.

He continued: "Then there are other components, all of which are ready, which means that we are now waiting for the machine to be installed!"

Lin Xiao nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad."

Finally, the X-ray machine that has been waiting for so long is about to be born.

As the chief designer, he has been looking forward to it for a long time.

"only……"

But at this moment, Yang Kaiping showed a look of embarrassment on his face.

"Just what?" Lin Xiao wondered, could there be any surprises?

Yang Kaiping sighed and said, "We are running out of funds."

"This dust-free workshop has spent a lot of money, and it also needs to spend a lot of money to maintain a constant temperature and dust-free maintenance every day. In addition, we only need Except for the ten units built, ten sets of other components are basically ordered, but our original 50 billion budget has basically bottomed out. This is because we still have a lot of payment for the goods and have not paid it. "

"So... if the funds are gone, we won't be able to proceed."

Speaking of this, Yang Kaiping showed a look of helplessness, a dime would be difficult for a hero, let alone a scientific research project like theirs that was supposed to cost money.

Ordinary dust-free workshops, such as 30-class clean workshops, are not so expensive, about 1000 yuan per square meter. Their workshop has about 2000 square meters, so they can only spend 30 million yuan at most, but The [-]-class clean room is the lowest clean room, just an ordinary clean room, not even a food processing class.

The cost of a [-]-class dust-free workshop of the food processing level is almost [-] per square meter.

And their clean room for integrated circuit manufacturing, not to mention the solid metal casting foundation under their feet, their clean room alone is the top-level clean room.

As for the cost of a first-class dust-free workshop, the price is directly tens of thousands, not to mention that their workshop also requires a constant temperature system, which needs to keep the temperature constant at 21 degrees Celsius, otherwise, even if It is an error of one degree, and the whole lithography machine has to change at the nanometer level, so this is another huge expense.

In this way, it will directly cost hundreds of millions, or even close to one billion. Therefore, they really have no money now.

So why does semiconductor research and development cost money? It takes so much money to build a [-]-square-meter dust-free workshop, let alone other research and development.

However, this seems like a huge problem to Yang Kaiping, but after Lin Xiao listened to it, he only said: "That's it?"

Yang Kaiping: "... Isn't that enough?"