From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 91 The Special Prize That Hasn't Been Released in 13 Years (5 More)
In addition to the four awards of gold, silver, bronze and honorary awards, IMO also has another award, which is the special award.

Special prizes are given to entrants who use an elegant solution or make a problem generalizable correctly.

The last time a contestant won a special award appeared in 2005, 13 years ago.

The special awards often appeared in the IMO held before the 90s of the last century, and some players even won two special awards before the 80s.

But this kind of situation is rare after the 90s, including after the 90s, only in 95 and 05 did someone win a special award.

And after 05, there has never been a special award again.

As for why?
Because the routines of various mathematics topics have been thoroughly studied, and the scope of IMO's questions is not strictly limited to a certain outline. It is wider than the mathematics knowledge students learned in middle school, but it is also more comprehensive than college mathematics. The range is much smaller.

For this reason, when the proposition group makes a proposition, even if it is to arrange and combine the knowledge within the scope of these outlines, it is always exhausted, not to mention that this is not a simple permutation and combination. After all, the members of the proposition group are all People, their level is also limited, although they can ask some difficult enough questions, but there are always traces of the routines.

In addition, because the educational environment in each country is different from that in the past, this has also led to the situation that no one has received a special award today.

However, this time, George Iger actually said that a special award would be given out?

The people present felt incredible for a moment, and then looked around, wanting to see who could win this award.

But soon, almost everyone looked at the seat of the Hua Guo team and looked at the boy in unison.

If one of the contestants present had the best chance of winning the special prize, it would probably only be that young man, right?

Sure enough, as everyone expected, George Ige solemnly announced: "The player who won this special award is Lin Xiao from the Huaguo team."

"He used a very special solution to solve the third question on the first day of the exam, and then completed the final proof with the most concise process."

Following George Iger's announcement, Lin Xiao's proof process also appeared on the big screen behind him. Of course, it has been compiled into an electronic version, which looks more clear.

Everyone looked at it, and those who understood it were soon shocked.

perfect!

This method is really perfect.

They all had to ask in their hearts, how did Lin Xiao come up with the idea of ​​introducing Euler's formula?
One is a combination problem, and the other is e^(iπ)+1=0. The former is only slightly related to algebra, and the latter can be used to solve it?

In their place, no matter how much time is given, they may not be able to think of this proof method.

In addition, Lin Xiao's transformation of the original formula during the calculation process made them even more amazed.

Without such a conversion, it is completely impossible to apply Euler's formula.

On the American team, James Lin watched Lin Xiao's proof process, shook his head slightly at last, and exchanged glances with his other teammates, all of whom could see the helplessness in each other's eyes.

The gap is really too big.

Can Huaguo's education actually teach such terrifying students?
They all couldn't believe it.

As for the Hua Guo team, they were once again caught in a surprise.

Li Huaimin looked at Lin Xiao and hugged him with both hands, with an unbelievable smile on his face, as if he was still a little dazed.

Probably like Guardiola when he saw Lewandowski scoring five goals in 9 minutes.

He really didn't expect that Lin Xiao would be able to win the special award, which hadn't been awarded for more than ten years.

For the Huaguo team, this is also the first time that one of their players has won a special award, which means that Lin Xiao made history for Huaguo IMO this time!

Li Huaimin gave Lin Xiao a thumbs up. He was so happy that he could only say, "Lin Xiao, you did a good job."

"Go to the stage to accept the award."

Lin Xiao nodded. He had already been mentally prepared for the special award. After all, the chairman had told him that there was a surprise for him.

And IMO what surprises can there be?
It's nothing more than a special award.

He sighed slightly in his heart. Last year, he felt that it would be a pity if he could not wear that golden medal on the IMO podium in his life.

Now, not only did he wear this golden medal, he even received a special award that hadn't been awarded for a long time.

However, at this time, his heart was still calm.

He left his seat again and walked onto the stage.

This time, he was the only one on stage.

And he also received everyone's attention.

"Congratulations, young man, that's what I call a surprise, how do you feel?"

George Eagle watched Lin Xiao approaching with a smile on his face.

"It feels good, thank you, Mr. Yige." Lin Xiao smiled back.

"Hehe, there's nothing to thank me for. This is all your own hard work, and it has nothing to do with me. Moreover, the special award was also decided by our organizing committee, so it's not just my decision."

"Excellent people have outstanding rights and honors." George Iger said with a smile, and at this time, the staff next to him also came over with a tray for the trophy.

The special award is a trophy, which is transparent and looks very special.

George Eagle held the trophy in both hands, and then handed it to Lin Xiao.

"This trophy has been waiting for its owner for a long time. After 13 years, it is finally shown to the world again. However, I believe that in the future, it will also be proud of you as its owner."

Lin Xiao took the trophy solemnly, with emotion on his face.

The first trophy I got.

All I got before were medals, only this one is a trophy.

Then he raised his head to look at George Iger, smiled slightly, and said, "I will not live up to its expectations."

George Iger was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "I'm looking forward to that day too."

He has served as the chairman of IMO for many years, and he has met countless mathematical geniuses, but only Lin Xiao is the student he thinks has the most mathematical talent.

At the same time, he is also the future mathematician who he believes has the best chance of winning the Fields Medal—in fact, he often tells the best performers in various countries that they have the opportunity to win the Fields Medal. This is also his encouragement to these young people. I hope They can work towards this goal in the future.

As for the 2014 Fields Medal winner he told Lin Xiao, he made it up.

Because the IMO gold medal that Arthur Avila won was more than 20 years ago, and George Ige was not the chairman of the IMO at that time. Avila presented the medal, then told him he had the potential for a Fields Medal.

Of course, he also believed that it was impossible for Lin Xiao to investigate this kind of thing.

Therefore, as long as Lin Xiao believed it, his words would definitely inspire Lin Xiao.

This is also what he, the chairman of IMO, can do for the future mathematics community and this young man.

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