From small town scholar to chief scientist

Chapter 156 The Highest Prize in Geometry—The Veblen Prize in Geometry

Zhou Yi went out of the room, planning to sit in the office he hadn't been to for a long time.

By the way, may I ask which university the Veblen Prize in Geometry is held at.

This is an award from the Federal Mathematical Society, and it should be impossible to hold it in Great Xia.

There are many factors involved.

There are very few Daxia nationalities who have won the Veblen Geometry Prize.

All of them were obtained from Qiu's sect.

For example, Academician Tian, ​​and those from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Then there is Zhouyi now.

Zhou Yi's winning of this award has nothing to do with Qiu.

Not long after, Zhou Yi came to the office and saw Xiao Wanyi was still reading the documents seriously. He felt uncomfortable, so he left silently, ready to go to find Qiu.

After a while, Zhou Yi found Qiu.

"I was about to find you, but I didn't expect you to come to me on my own initiative. Let me guess what you are looking for me, old man."

Qiu was the first to speak,
"It's definitely not a matter of graduation. As for some opinions and tools, I will give you all I can give you. It's Bill's conjecture!"

Zhou Yi looked embarrassed, and only published the paper for a day or two. Didn't expect it to be so widely spread?

Zhou Yi nodded and said:
"Yes, Mr. Qiu. Bill's conjecture has been proved by me. I have full confidence. Now I just have to accept peer review and publish it in a magazine. I want to do it at the Veblen Geometry Prize conference." A report to expedite the process, where will the award ceremony be held."

There must be an award,

Just look at Academician Tian Zhen's status in the domestic mathematics community after he won the Veblen Geometry Prize.

Qiu Chengtong said:
"Mirno, the old guy, forced the Federation Society to change its location. It will be held at Princeton University. It will be held in less than ten days. I have already dealt with visa and other issues for you, and there will be my old ones there." Students will pick you up."

Zhou Yi said:

"Thank you, Teacher Qiu, for your trouble."

Qiu Chengtong said with a smile:
"Haha, don't worry, I am very happy that you can achieve these achievements, the plane the day after tomorrow, you pay attention to the time, and your new math tool, if there is no problem, you can continue to dig deeper, maybe there will be unexpected gains .”

Zhou Yi nodded and said:
"Okay, thank you teacher for your guidance."

Immediately, an assistant gave Zhou Yi all the things Zhou Yi needed, and Zhou Yi returned to his dormitory with a lot of things, and then packed up the preparations.

Ready to go abroad again.

The next day, Zhou Yi was not idle either. After making a PPT, he continued to study Zhou's analysis method.

This tool may be able to attack other number theory conjectures.

As for whether the ABC conjecture can be cut off, it is still unknown.

But if you dig deeper, there must be great rewards.

As time went by, Shuimu University posted a message on its official website that Zhou Yi would go to Princeton University to receive the award,
The highest award in the field of mathematical geometry and topology, the Veblen Prize,

By the way, I am doing a report on the proof of Bill's conjecture.

This news was made public in the mathematics circle for the first time, and many people engaged in analytic number theory were going to Princeton to witness history.

Both domestic and foreign ones will go there, guesses that are harder than Fermat's last theorem, and guesses that offer a reward of one million magnesium gold, no matter which one it is, it is very gimmick.

If it is really to be proved by Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi will undoubtedly be recorded in the history of mathematics again.

As for the self-media, it was also the first time to blow up.

"Shock! A 19-year-old boy, the youngest winner of the Veblen Geometry Prize in history. "

"Qiu Chengtong's teacher, is he going to contract the highest award of this geometry award?" "

"Madden!The mathematical conjecture that offered a reward of one million magnesium may be won by Zhou Yi, a genius mathematician! "

As for the various comments on the Internet, there are all kinds.

[Book of Changes?It’s nothing more than a reserve in the United States. I think he will be the same as the golden generation of Peking University and will not return to China. 】

[So what if you win an award, it’s not a Fields Medal, and you’re learning from the people of Magnesia, how dare you say that you’re not a reserve soldier studying in the United States? 】

[The youth is strong, the country is strong, Zhou God is upupupupupupupupupupupupupupupupupupupupupup. 】

[Zhou Shen didn't advertise. It's been a long time since I saw Zhou Shen interacting in the bib, woo woo, come back and interact, even if you advertise, I'm willing. 】

[God Zhou, it's time to change the paper by lottery! 】

[You are also so happy about the award from the people of Magnesia? 】

[The seven millennium problems have not been proven, and Zhou Yi will never be recognized by me. 】

As for Yuda, the banner has been pulled up long ago,

"Warmly congratulate our school alumnus Zhou Yi for winning the Veblen Prize, the highest award in geometry. "

The teachers and students of Yuda University have long been familiar with it.

Before Zhou Yi left, he basically contracted a lot of banners, but what they never expected was that,

After Zhou Yi left, he could still make such a big commotion.

In bedroom 404, Zhang Yuan looked at the flood of news about Zhou Yi on the Internet,

He sighed involuntarily and said:
"Yang Shuai, tell me, do I have a chance to study for a doctorate under Zhou Yi in the future?"

Yang Shuai put down the keyboard in his hand and began to think about it. After a while, he said seriously:

"One thing to say, there is a real opportunity, don't look at other people's postgraduate study and Ph.D., it will take 7, 8, 9 years, but Zhouyi is different. I am sure that Zhouyi will graduate early and break the record.

We are only juniors now, and it takes two years to graduate, plus three years of postgraduate study, which means that maybe after Zhou Yi becomes a professor, we have not yet graduated from graduate school. "

Zhang Yuan:...

These words are too damn shocking.

At this time, Zhouyi has come to the country of magnesium.

It's a lot of fun to go to Princeton.Zhou Yi first took the train to a railway junction station, and then needed to take a special train to enter the small town of Princeton.

As for the student Qiu mentioned, he was a middle-aged man named Tan Mingming, who was an associate professor at Princeton, and he was a handsome middle-aged man.

Tan Mingming said:

"God Zhou, I have admired you for a long time! You are too hot, please accept my knee."

Zhou Yi: . .

"Your proof of Beer's conjecture made people who study analytic number theory in this world unable to sleep at all. I heard, I just heard, I heard from a classmate at Oxford University that Wiles read your paper overnight. "

Tan Mingming's words were filled with amazement.

That was Wiles who proved Fermat's conjecture.

Zhou Yi: . .

"Wiles probably won't read my thesis, but his apprentice, Anna Cariani, might read it."

"No, he will definitely read it, and maybe he's already here."

Tan Mingming said seriously.

Zhou Yi: . .

This brother is really enthusiastic.

"Actually, there were not many people who came to Princeton in the past. The number of people on the train has increased these days. Most of them are students from other schools. They all want to witness history. If you really prove it, it is very likely that you will be in Yangzhou One name."

Tan Mingming's tone and eyes were full of envy.

"Uh,"

Zhou Yi didn't know what to say, this person was a round older than himself, why did he look a bit unreliable.

As the train moved forward, Zhou Yi finally came to Princeton.

Tan Mingming said:

"Junior Brother, we are staying at the Nassau Hotel. Before that, we have to go through part of the Princeton campus."

Although Zhou Yi was still holding his luggage, he kept looking at the buildings and scenery of Princeton University.

The buildings on this university campus are more of a classical style. The off-white stone has a heavy sense of history, but it is not depressing. This is Zhou Yi's idea.

The Nassau Hotel is just behind Princeton University, only a street or two away, very convenient.

The setting of the hotel is very quaint, and the color inside is dark and elegant, which makes people feel away from the glitz.

On the wall of this hotel, there are many pictures of bigwigs, basically characters in math textbooks.

Tan Mingming said to Zhou Yi:
"This is a photo of Professor Deligne and Professor Milnor. The grand slam winner of the three major mathematics medals (Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Wolf Prize), and the second of several people standing at the pinnacle of mathematics .

As for their achievements, I believe you are also aware of them, so I won't say much.The meeting will start in about three days. I will take you to see the meeting place. If you have anything to do in the past few days, please let me know. "

Tan Mingming said very enthusiastically.

The boss on the wall is a boss, and Zhou Yi in front of him is also a boss. Not surprisingly, Zhou Yi will also win a grand slam.

And the youngest winner in history.

If you don't lick it before he wins the prize, is it possible to wait for him to lick it after he wins the prize?
At that time, I'm afraid there will be no place for me, Tan Mingming.

Zhou Yi nodded and said:
"Well, okay, thank you, brother."

The winner of the third prize in the mathematics world, as far as Zhou Yi knows about this world, there seem to be only five people,
The other three are Gregory Margulis, John Griggs Thompson and the youngest Fields Medalist Jean-Pierre Serre.

It's hard to say which of the five is strong and who is weak, but Deligne has the Craford Award.

But there are only two Fields Medals, Wolf Medals and Cradford Prizes, one is Deligne and the other is Qiu Chengtong.

Therefore, among the comments of some big names in the comment area of ​​Douyin Bihu and station C, there is only one real grand slam, and that is Professor Pierre Deligne.

After Zhou Yi memorized the route, he began to think about whether to visit Professor Mirno, and Professor Mirno had given him a lot of help.

Zhou Yi also asked about some mathematical ideas over the phone.

Zhou Yi decided to pay a visit and said:

"Brother, take me to visit Professor Milno?"

"Now? Don't you eat first?"

Tan Mingming said in surprise.

"Need not,"

Zhou Yi said.

"Okay, come with me."

Tan Mingming said.

Not long after, Zhou Yi came to a courtyard.

"Wait here for me, I'll go talk to Professor Milno."

Not long after, Tan Mingming came out. Besides Tan Mingming, there was also a white-haired old man.

"Hey, Mr.zhou? I'm Mirno."

Mirno introduced very familiarly.

Zhou Yi walked up and said respectfully:

"Hi, Professor Mirro, I'm Zhou Yi, thank you for your help before."

Mirno directly gave Zhou Yi a bear hug, completely unable to tell that he was an old man in his 90s.

"Congratulations, you have solved another world-class conjecture, and you will get a million magnesium gold."

Milno was very enthusiastic, and dragged Zhou Yi into the house.

Zhou Yi was a little surprised and said:
"Have you read the paper too?"

"Look, people who study analytic number theory at Princeton are very optimistic about your paper, especially the new mathematical tools in it, which are very novel. I think it seems that you can make a second expansion on this basis, but they haven't seen it yet. I understand very well."

Zhou Yi raised his brows, he deserved to be the winner of the third prize, he was really sharp, he was able to see through his analysis method and expand it a second time.

The key point is still analytic number theory, which is not what he is good at.

A grand slam winner really doesn't save fuel, and Qiu also said so.

These old guys have very sharp eyesight.

After Zhou Yi communicated with Mirno for a long time, he came to his room under the leadership of Tan Mingming.

After bidding farewell to this enthusiastic senior brother, Zhou Yi lay on the bed, digesting some new things he had obtained with Mirno.

Sure enough, it is still necessary to communicate with outsiders more in order to obtain some useful things.

Relying on the system alone, unless you get a sudden inspiration every time, or directly get the proof method of the world-class conjecture,
Otherwise, communication is essential.

Maybe things that others don't use temporarily are sharp swords for you, and mathematical tools that you don't use temporarily are his sharp weapons in the hands of others.

As time went by, Zhou Yi also visited Professor Milno from time to time, and met Professor Deligne through Professor Milno's guidance.

The extensive knowledge made Zhou Yi amazed.

Every mathematician master has extremely broad knowledge.

The time finally came to the day before the awards ceremony, Zhou Yi was a little nervous besides a little excited.

I remembered that the last time I spoke in front of the world's top mathematicians was at the International Congress of Mathematicians.

This time, I am afraid that the big guys in the world who are engaged in analytic number theory will come here.

The next morning, the largest lecture hall of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton was crowded with people.

In addition to the mathematicians who were invited to participate in the conference, there were also many uninvited mathematics professors and students.

Most of these students came with their masters.

Some are students of this university, and some come at their own expense.

Although these people did not receive the specific awarding time, it did not prevent them from coming earlier.

Some didn't even go back all night.

Those who came late could only watch in the aisles and corridors. As for the corners, they were already full.

And a lot of media are under the big podium. There are local reporters from the country of Magnesia, as well as reporters from Europe. Of course, there are also many official reporters from the country of Great Xia.

As for reporters from other countries and media, they were also crowded.

Bill's conjecture, which claims to be harder than Fermat's last theorem, is worth millions of dollars. There are enough gimmicks to drive these media and reporters crazy.

They even wrote two drafts, a successful draft of Zhou Yi and a failed draft of Zhou Yi.

At the end of the meeting, with a few classic speeches from Zhou Yi and pictures, it was a piece of news full of traffic.

The report starts at 10 o'clock, and there will be enough time for the bigwigs present to ask questions.

More than 20 days have passed since the paper was published, and those who can understand it have already understood it.

Those who don't understand may have to read it for half a year to a year.

After this report, according to Professor Milnor, Wiles will also organize a review team of 6-8 people to conduct independent review at the same time based on the minutes of the Zhouyi report meeting.
Finally, all the review comments are summarized, and the final decision is given.

It can be said that whether Zhou Yi can win the prize depends on whether Zhou Yi can explain his original tool analysis method clearly.

Zhou Yi is sitting in front at the moment, constantly showing his own proof process in his mind, although the system check is correct,
But the person facing the question is the smartest person in the world,
If the explanation is not clear, it will not be recognized by the world's mathematics community.

Because of Zhou Yi, Tan Mingming sat next to Zhou Yi. Tan Mingming joked:
"After today, no surprises, junior brother, you will become famous in the country or Europe, and it will be even more sensational than your solution to Hilbert's No. 18 problem."

Zhou Yi smiled slightly, it was indeed as senior brother Tan Mingming said.

Solving Hilbert's No.18 question only let the mathematics community know the existence of Zhou Yi, and know that there is a rising star in mathematics in Daxia Kingdom, who is the scheduled winner of the Fields Medal in 2026.

But it doesn't mean that the whole world knows Zhou Yi.

That's millions of dollars in gold, and countless people value this bonus more than any incomprehensible academic achievements.

With this bonus, you can live a very chic and comfortable life in this life.

Not long after, Zhou Yi saw a familiar person walking up to the podium.

It was IMU Chairman Carlos E. Kenig (Carlos E. Kenig). Zhou Yi wondered that it was him.

He was also at the last ICM conference.

Before the meeting started, Tan Mingming on the side said:

"It seems that Carlos deliberately applied to be the host tonight. Carlos is a professor at the University of Chicago."

Zhou Yi nodded and said:
"Thank you, brother, for clarifying the confusion."

After a while, Carlos said with a smile:

"Hey guys, we meet again, it seems like the last time we saw each other."

Everyone fell silent when they heard Carlos speak.

"The last International Conference of Mathematicians was very exciting. The only regret is that the young Zhou Yi was not awarded a medal to prove his contribution. However, Mr. Qiu took the lead and awarded him the ICCM Mathematical Gold Medal;

But tonight, we can proudly tell you that we can present the Oswald Veblen Prize (Veyblen Geometry Prize), the highest award in the field of geometry, to this young genius who has just turned 19 years old.

Let's congratulate Zhou Yi! "

In an instant, the entire audience applauded thunderously, and many people cast envious eyes.

At the age of 19, he has already achieved so many achievements in mathematics, making many PhDs and masters in the audience envious, and even many mathematics professors are also envious.

As for jealousy, this kind of thing is only jealous of people who are a little stronger than themselves, not much stronger; but they will not be jealous of a person who is far away from them.

And this guy is younger than most of them here.

Not surprisingly, in the next few decades, more conjectures in the mathematics world will be proved by him, and even more important conjectures will be proposed from Zhou Yi.

It is more valuable to propose important conjectures than to prove some big conjectures.

These conjectures are the way to illuminate the progress of mathematics.

Only with more conjectures can more branches and theories of mathematics be discovered.

Under the signal of Carlos, Zhou Yi stepped onto the podium, took the medal, and said politely:

"Thank you."

"Haha, this is what you deserve. This is the second time I have presented him with an award. Guys, are you envious?"

Carlos said happily.

Envious, envious of you rubbing other people's traffic, shit, old guy.

I saw Carlos continued:
"Whether it is the proof of the unity of the 'lattice type' Newton problem in the 5, 6, or 7-dimensional space or the birth of Newton's Zhouyi Theorem,

Or the birth of Kepler's Theorem of Changes, or the complete solution of Hilbert's No.18 problem, he deserves it all.

The birth of Zhou's geometry has opened up a new branch for our big family of mathematics. Although it is still very immature, if someone digs it, it will definitely gain a lot.

Today's protagonist, do you think so? "

Carlos changed the subject and said to Zhou Yi.

Immediately, Zhou Yi's favor rose greatly, and it was more useful to praise Zhou's geometry and advertise Zhou's geometry than to praise Zhou Yi himself.

Zhou Yi's current task has not been completed yet, and no one has even contributed, which makes Zhou Yi very depressed.

There is no free labor, which makes people feel embarrassed.

Zhou Yi said very modestly:
"Thanks to Senior Carlos for his praise, Zhou's Geometry is worthy of everyone's digging, especially for those Ph.

Thank you for your recognition, and thank you to those who have helped me, thank you. "

There are many doctoral students in mathematics in the audience, so seize the opportunity to advertise.

At this time Carlos said:

"Actually, this award is just a foreplay to warm up the atmosphere. Today's focus is on the report on the proof of Bill's conjecture.

Guys, have you been waiting for a long time? "

All the people present eagerly hoped to move on to the next step, but this damn Carlos said again:
"In this report, Zhou Yi will introduce his new mathematical tool, Zhou's analytical method. If it succeeds, our genius Zhou Yi will not only get a million magnesium gold, but we will also gain a new mathematical tool. tools that may play an important role in analyzing number theory."

Looking at this Carlos who looks like a host of ceremonies, it is hard to imagine that he is the winner of many mathematics awards.

He is also the world's top mathematician, using theory and tools to widely apply harmonic analysis to various fields of partial differential equations.

"Young genius, are you ready? You know, if you fail, it may become a joke all over the world, not just the joke of mathematicians after tea, but also the joke of the people of Omagnesia.

It's too late to give up now. "

Carlos' tone suddenly became heavy, obviously trying to scare Zhou Yi.

At the same time, many bigwigs in the audience looked at Zhou Yi curiously.

How should this young man choose? He is only 19 years old. Does he have the psychological pressure to bear the consequences of failure?
Think about when they are 19 years old, they may still be studying for a master's or doctoral degree?
Wiles looked at Zhou Yi intently. He was [-]% sure that the paper was correct.

The remaining [-]% depends on his explanation.

Zhou Yi said very forcefully:
"Of course I'm prepared, I can answer all the questions!"

"Okay, the next stage will be handed over to you, we look forward to your success!"

Carlos said,
"Of course it was a great attempt even if it didn't succeed. Michael Atiya had achieved enough success back then and was still studying mathematics tirelessly. Zhou Yi, as a leading figure in mathematics of the younger generation, we may be able to give enough tolerance. "

It can be seen that Carlos likes Zhou Yi very much, and even gave Zhou Yi a vaccination.

Zhou Yi glanced at Carlos very gratefully, and said three grams of oil in a voice that only he could hear.

Then the entire podium is the stage of Zhou Yi.

All eyes were on Zhouyi.

At this moment, countless people held their breaths, no one whispered to each other, no one made any sound, and a needle could be heard.

Zhou Yi walked slowly to the center, and then said to the top mathematicians in analytical number theory and media reporters from all over the stage:
"Hi everyone, I am Zhou Yi from the Great Xia Kingdom. Next, I will give you a math report on Beer's Theorem."

PS: I don’t know if the monthly tickets will be doubled tomorrow, and I don’t know if I can get to 1000 tickets. Based on the current results, it is basically impossible. . .So the witty author books a monthly pass for the next month!Kudos to my wit! (free word count)
　Quick Fact: John Milnor spent many years at Princeton before finally going to Stony Brook University.By the time he left, he had already achieved success and fame. He wrote science fiction here, and it was an overhead world, so he changed it a bit.

　　But it is also reasonable to say that Milnor is a Princeton man.

　　The author's logic is self-consistent!So don't spray about this, humble...

　　Written on September 2022, 9.

　　Also no updates tonight.In the future, there will be a change, either 4000 words, or 6000 words, or 8000 or 1W.Anyway, at least 4000 words.A wave of high-quality goods, please give a full order, kowtow!

　　
　
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