I reach the pinnacle of life by learning

Qiao Yu's academic report meeting is the most important event of Yanda Mathematics College this month.

Qiao Yu specially changed into a suit and waited for the opening time.

Song Tianyu bought the suit with him, and Armani bought it.

Qiao Yu thought that the suit might be a magic tool for beheading men, but after putting it on, Song Tianyu's eyes couldn't get off him, and he would let out a silly smirk every now and then.

Speaking of which, Song Tianyu was also on the scene this time, but as one of the school staff, he was responsible for the translation.

He often travels abroad, and because he speaks English fluently, he successfully competed for a job.

The academic conference hall of the mathematics center was slowly filled with people.

Qiao Yu took a glance, the faces underneath were either unfamiliar or familiar, there were scholars and reporters, looking at him calmly and carefully.

From this moment on, they are no longer Qiao Yu's gentle seniors, but harsh peers.

It can lift him to the top of the clouds, and it can also make him unable to turn over at any time.

Qiao Yu has held many press conferences. Because he is young and beautiful, he is also the heir of a chaebol. At the beginning, many news media loved to follow him around, but none of the press conferences could compare to this one. A small academic report.

"This is the prover of the twin prime number conjecture? I heard that he is young, but I didn't expect him to be younger than I thought."

"It doesn't look like a scholar, it looks like a star."

"It's the first time I've come to Yanda, and the development of Huaguo is better than I imagined."

A dozen or so foreign scholars who traveled across the ocean gathered and discussed in English with different accents.

They all held a booklet of papers in their hands, and they could pick it up as soon as they entered the door. It was the paper that Qiao Yu had published on the "Acta Mathematics".

In fact, such a major academic achievement has long held a report meeting.It's a pity that they waited for a long time but still didn't arrive, thinking that the Hua people didn't understand the rules.

Among these foreign scholars, the one with the most focused expression was Professor Hilton.

After all, besides his peers, he has another identity, that is Qiao Yu's reviewer.

Everyone knows that the paper on the proof of the twin prime number conjecture was passed from him.

Just like the imperial examinations in ancient times, the officials who preside over the examinations are the "teachers" of all candidates and are natural interest groups.

At this moment, the interests of Hilton and Qiao Yu are also one.

If Qiao Yu fails, it will also be a catastrophic blow to Hilton's reputation.He had to give an explanation for the thesis that Qiao Yu had passed before.

Annoyed this big man in the academic world, unless he can come up with achievements comparable to Ge Guess in the future, otherwise it will be difficult to develop in the mathematics world in the future.

Sitting next to Hilton were Zhou Shenxing, Dean of the School of Mathematics of Qingguang University, and Wu Zhitian, Dean of the School of Mathematics of Yanda University.

Both of them are veteran figures in the Huaguo mathematics circle, and only the two of them are barely qualified if they sit next to Hilton;

After all, Professor Sun Daqiang wanted to go home because the person who picked him up was an undergraduate.

Gregory Hilton has always had a good reputation in the academic world, but it is hard to guarantee that he will not feel dissatisfied because of it.

Although the two old deans are old, they speak English very fluently.

The three scholars sat in the front row, so they wouldn't be left alone.

To Qiao Yu's surprise, there were more foreign scholars attending the conference than he had imagined.

Besides, except for Professor Hilton, most of them are famous people.

As a newcomer who hit by mistake, he still underestimated the status of the "twin prime number conjecture" in the history of mathematics, not to mention the Goldbach conjecture that followed it.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the academic report will start on time.

"Thank you to all the seniors who came to my academic report meeting. I am afraid that the simultaneous interpreters will not express accurately, so I will use bilingual in this PPT and report."

After finishing this sentence, Qiao Yu repeated it again in English.

His English is a standard RP accent with a London accent, which sounds very clear and comfortable.

After the simple politeness, Qiao Yu directly cut to the point.

The role of PPT is not only to show, but more importantly, to tell.

Qiao Yu's PPT has black characters on a white background, and the key steps are marked in red. From an aesthetic point of view, it is obviously a failure, but to the scholars present, it is very clear.

Someone simply took out the paper and pen, and followed the steps on the PPT to calculate.

Unless there are obvious mistakes, generally speaking, no one will interrupt the academic report in the middle, and there will be a questioning session afterwards, which is the highlight of peer review.

In many cases, colleagues come prepared, so the problems are tricky and difficult to deal with.

And if the reporter can't answer the relevant questions, then he may face a very embarrassing situation... The proven theory may become unprovable or doubtful, and the honor he has won will be thrown back.

This kind of embarrassing incident of digging people's ancestral graves has happened more than once in academia.

Scholars with excellent academic standards are naturally not afraid to ask questions, but they are afraid of being nervous and stuck...

Allen couldn't help but glanced at Professor Philip beside him.The professor is from Cambridge University and is French.

His expression was serious, and he took the notes very seriously, as if he was about to bite off a piece of meat from Qiao Yu's body if he didn't pay attention.

Last month, a tenured professor at Durham University gave an academic report on "Kaplansky's Sixth Conjecture", but was sprayed by this professor Philip and directly shut down.

After the professor calmed down, he wrote a long paper to refute Philip's question.

However, after the academic report meeting, the professor was attacked by the media for a long time before publishing the paper, saying that he was academically misconducted.

Philip coughed at this moment, and said in a low voice, "Alan, you want to stick your head on my notebook."

Alan was a little embarrassed, but quickly straightened his back and whispered: "I'm just curious about what you wrote."

"It's not a big deal. It's all the questions I sorted out for the thesis before." Philip showed him his notebook, and several questions on it had been crossed out. "But this young man explained it in great detail, didn't he?" ?”

Allen nodded subconsciously.

Indeed, Qiao Yu's tone was calm and unhurried, like an old pedant.And as if knowing that they have questions about it, he specially laid out the important and difficult points.

This is due to Qiao Yu's experience as a teacher before, and he can completely grasp the mentality of other people.There is also a whiteboard on one side as a supplement for things that cannot fit on the PPT.

A line of formulas was written, and the letters in the formulas were still cursive.

From time to time, a voice of sudden realization came from the audience: "So that's the case, no wonder I can't understand this step, which introduces the knowledge of topology..."

The PPT, which was originally scheduled to be finished in 30 minutes, took a full two hours in the end.

When Thanks appeared on the PPT above, Qiao Yu stopped the presentation and bowed deeply to the audience.

There was finally a smile on Hilton's face at this moment.

He was not a serious person in the first place, but Qiao Yu's performance made him very satisfied.Even, he felt that when he was young, he might not be able to achieve this level.

The audience burst into applause in an instant.

Taking advantage of the noise, Allen asked, "Philip, is there anything else you want to ask?"

Professor Philip shook his head: "No, I have nothing to ask. What about you?"

"I do not have either."

When Qiao Yu heard the applause, when he raised his head and saw Wu Zhitian's approving gaze, he knew that he had succeeded.

Qiao Yu is used to shutting herself in the room to prepare, the process is actually not exhausting, but the pressure is real.

During those few days, Song Tianyu brought him meals on the table.Otherwise, Qiao Yu might not be able to remember to eat.

The second part is to ask questions from scholars.

Sun Daqiang originally wanted to go forward to eat this crab, but after much deliberation, it seemed that he didn't have any valuable questions to ask, after all, Qiao Yu had already explained it in great detail.

If you want to explain the twin prime number conjecture to a person who doesn't understand mathematics at all, let alone two hours, I'm afraid 10 hours will not be enough.But who are they?The scholars in the audience at least have the title of associate professor. Are you embarrassed to ask Qiao Yu to explain 1+1=2 again?

In fact, Sun Daqiang suspected that if the question he asked was not new, he would even be cast a suspicious look by his peers: Did you miss the class?

Therefore, even though there was a knot in his throat, he could only secretly relieve himself.

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The last item of this academic report is a group photo of all participating scholars.

Qiao Yu stood in the center, looking very abrupt among a group of scholars with an average age of 45.

After the photo session, Hilton gave him a warm hug.

"Huaguo and Huaxia people always give me a lot of surprises. It's a pity that I didn't get to meet your grandfather, but I think he must also be a very good scholar." Hilton said, "I heard that you studied biology in college, I hope that in the future And hear from you in the mathematics world."

Qiao Yu replied: "Thank you, Professor. However, I have already minored in mathematics. Mathematics is my favorite subject, and I will not give up my exploration in this field."

Qiao Yu's face was stiff with laughter today, but it was a genuine smile.

This academic report will come to a successful conclusion.

Sitting under the stage, there are three very special people.

They are neither journalists nor academics.

They were Li Anran, the head of the department of Xinchuan College, and the two students who had been punished before, Fan Ye and Lu Siyu.

The three of them may not even understand advanced mathematics, let alone such profound knowledge, but it does not prevent them from hearing the thunderous applause in the arena.

The expressions of Fan Ye and Lu Siyu also changed from unconvinced at the beginning to bewildered and admiring later on.

"Even if you stay in Yanda for another ten years, your contribution to Yanda will not compare to Qiao Yu's two hours on stage."

"Don't talk to me about 'If criticism is not free, then praise is meaningless'. You call it criticism? It's called slander! Is it Qiao Yu who is ashamed in the end? It is Yanda who educated you to be like this."

The head of the department let out a foul breath and said, "Now, you know why I punished you."

Hilton declined Yanda's invitation for an academic visit, and instead chose to drive to the airport.

On Monday, he still needs to go back to Yale for classes.

Accompanying him was Associate Professor Allen of Harvard.

The two people had similar flight times and happened to know each other, so they simply took the same commercial vehicle.

Allen said enthusiastically, "Mr. Hilton, long time no see."

"Long time no see, Alan. I didn't expect you to come."

"I was an IMO judge in the previous session, and Qiao Yu was a contestant. I invited him to come to Harvard, but he didn't come, so I had to go by myself." Allen made a moderate joke.

There was a smile in the corner of Hilton's eyes: "I see, I have confirmed the nominees for this year's Cole Award."

The Cole Prize is awarded by the American Mathematical Society and is divided into Number Theory Prize and Algebra Prize.

Generally speaking, one session of number theory and one session of algebra.Adhering to the principle of preferring lack to abuse, if there is no particularly dazzling achievement in that session, the organizing committee would rather leave it empty.

The Cole Award is far less famous than Fields and Wolff, but it is already the leading award in related fields.

Allen was a little surprised, but felt quite reasonable.

"The media might be surprised. They thought you would nominate that professor from the same school..."

However, there is a problem before that, that is, the Cole Award is only awarded to the bachelors within the society, and the bachelors are elected internally.

But Allen thought about it, and for Professor Hilton, this shouldn't be a problem—he is the vice president of the American Mathematical Society.

This year, it happens to be the Cole Prize in Number Theory.

"If he wins, then he may be the youngest winner in the history of the Cole Number Theory Prize..." Allen touched his chin, "My impression is still the same as when he was awarded the IMO gold medal two years ago. Why does it feel like I'm going to become my old senior in a blink of an eye?"

Professor Hilton deliberately said in a deep voice: "Mathematics is the field of genius."

Allen added the next sentence: "Number theory is reserved for the geniuses of geniuses."