From small town scholar to chief scientist

Chapter 192 I, Zhou Yi, Are Not Interested in Money
Although Zhou Yi's voice was quiet, the people around heard it too, and they all looked at some people around Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi, Pierre Deligne, John Milnau, Jean-Pierre Serre, Yau Shing Tong, Andrew Wiles, Peter Schulz and others.

And Gregory Margulis, John Griggs Thompson.

It has to be said that almost all the high mountains in the mathematics world are in the Badaling Great Wall, and the C position for taking pictures can only be selected from those few people.

But there is no doubt that the candidates in the first row are almost all these people.

The people who had been talking loudly stopped abruptly.

Deligne also knew the historical significance of this photoshoot, saying:

"Well, I propose to let the youngest Zhou Yi stand at the C position. Zhou's geometry, Zhou's analytical method and multiple expansions of Zhou's analytical method all show that he is the No.1 of future mathematics without any dispute.
Instead of standing in the C position like an old man, how about making way for the young people and convincing everyone? "

Milno immediately said:

"I agree."

Qiu Chengtong also echoed:
"I have no objection."

The three mathematicians have said so, and it is not easy for everyone to object directly.

But they changed their minds, Zhouyi's achievements in the future would be earth-shattering, they might as well be a favor and sell face, so as not to be hammered by Zhouyi in the future.

At this time Maynard and Harold Hoofgot also said:
"We agree too."

Not long after, everyone said yes.

Zhou Yi was stunned when he heard this,
ha?I became a C position?
Reasonably speaking, the C position should be Deligne.

Deligne said:
"Then arrange it in this order, Zhou Yi, John Milnor, Jean-Pierre Serre, Qiu Chengtong, Andrew Wiles, Peter Schultz, Gregory Margulis, John Griggs Thompson and the old man I'm in the first row,"

Not long after, Deligne lined up.

In the presence, those who have not won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Medal, or the Abel Prize are not eligible to take part in the photoshoot, except of course, Zhou Yi.

With Zhou Yi's current achievements, the achievements of some individual award winners are not as good as Zhou Yi.

Not long after, under the command of Deligne, everyone stood up, and dozens of people were all big names in the mathematics world.
In a solemn and solemn atmosphere, under the witness of countless media, the group photo of this Gechai report meeting was successfully taken.

Afterwards, each mathematician played separately and had an overview of the scenery of the Great Wall.

Deligne on the side said:
"In the future, it may be difficult for so many mathematicians to gather together to take pictures."

Milno said:
"If Zhou Yi solves a millennium problem, so many mathematicians can gather together, and if the Yuzhou Advanced Research Institute founded by Zhou Yi becomes a global mathematics center,

There is also the opportunity to gather so many people again. "

"Then it may be difficult for us to see."

Purcell looked at this beautiful river and mountain, and his eyes were full of endless nostalgia.

The mathematician who beat them these days was never a mathematical problem, but time, age, the passing of life.

Deligne chuckled lightly:

"Maybe we will come again in the second half of the year, maybe next year."

In the evening, everyone had dinner again, but this time everyone drank very moderately, but tasted the delicacies of the Great Xia Kingdom with their hearts.

Many mathematicians still have flights back home at night.

Zhou Yi sent a group of friends to the airport,

Before parting, Mirno said to Zhou Yi:

"I told them at the Federal Mathematical Society that the time for the Cole Number Theory Award has been advanced by five days. Remember to come to the Federation to receive the award."

Zhou Yi said:

"Okay, thank you teacher for your help."

"Well, see you later."

Not long after, Zhou Yi bid farewell to Deligne, Mirno, Saier and others one by one.

The photos taken during the day were also circulated on the Internet.

Even many official media of Yangshi News forwarded it one after another, and even Zhou Yi posted a group photo on various social platforms.

[Professor Zhou's card, C is actually Professor Zhou! 】

[One thing to say, shouldn't C be those super masters in mathematics? How did he become Professor Zhou? 】

[Insider information, I heard that several super mathematicians at the scene refused to accept anyone, and finally unanimously decided that Professor Zhou would stand in the C position. 】

[Professor Zhou lies down in C position.I'm sure this photo must have gone viral in the math community and even academia. 】

[The reason for Yaoshou is that Professor Zhou didn't advertise. Are research assistants well known in China? 】

[There are many people who know it abroad, and many mathematicians are using it. 】

[I don't know anyone above except Professor Zhou Qiu Chengtong, embarrassing. 】

[Upstairs, you are not alone, I am too, woo woo woo.Witnessing Professor Zhou's growth all the way, I never expected that I don't know any of the people Professor Zhou is in contact with now. 】

At this moment, Zhou Yi had already returned to his room, and began to check the various information of Aerospace J, and looked at it in combination with Shannon's information.

Shannon's source coding theorem studies the limit of data compression abstractly, that is, by analyzing how to code to achieve high-efficiency and high-reliability information transmission, without considering the specific properties of the physical system as the information carrier.

Zhou Yi can clearly find that Shannon's ideas and methods for studying Kepler's conjecture.

These long-established mathematical geniuses who turned to applications are really a king, and so is Academician E Weinan.

"I've been able to study so far with these methods alone, and I don't know what new system I can develop."

Zhou Yi murmured.

As the father of information theory, Shannon's historical status and influence must be a highlight.

The success of Voyager's deep space missions, the invention of optical discs, the feasibility of mobile phone communications, the development of the Internet, the study of linguistics and human perception, and even the understanding of black holes and many other fields have had a very profound impact.

Seeing late at night, Zhou Yi slowly fell asleep. There are too many materials, so Zhou Yi has to take his time.

It cannot be done overnight.

The next day, Zhou Yi woke up as usual, had breakfast after a morning run, and went to the office.

Zhou Yi looked at the time, and it happened to be Monday, and he needed to teach number theory to the undergraduates of Shuimu University.

Now Shuimu University's mathematical strength, even if it is not Zhouyi, can be regarded as the top in the country.

With the addition of Qiu Chengtong and Bill Carr, two Philippine award winners, followed by a group of international mathematics masters, their strength has long been different from what it used to be.

After class, Zhou Yi accidentally met someone, Shan Peng.

Zhou Yi said:

"Professor Shan."

When Shan Peng saw Zhou Yi, he also greeted him and said:

"Professor Zhou, do you have your class today?"

Zhou Yi nodded and said:
"That's right, there is a basic number theory class in the morning, and I just finished it. The students of Shuimu University are very talented."

Shan Peng said:

"In recent years, we have indeed harvested a lot of good seedlings."

Zhou Yi and Shan Peng walked out of the teaching building, Zhou Yi said:
"Are you interested in joining the Yuzhou Institute for Advanced Study in two years?"

Shan Peng was a little surprised and said:
"Ok?"

"Isn't there a shortage of people? It's impossible for a research institute to rely on me alone. I'm going to contact Liu Gang and Ding Jian, and invite some foreign friends or Chinese mathematicians abroad."

Zhou Yi said.

Shan Peng was originally a member of the Qiu Chengtong Mathematical Science Center of Shuimu University. Now that Zhou Yi suddenly invited her, she was a little caught off guard.

"Yuzhou? It's a bit sudden. Let me think about it. Isn't there two years left? Let me think about it more."

Shan Peng said.

Zhou Yi said:

"it is good."

Not long after, Zhou Yi separated from Shan Peng,

Zhou Yi whispered to Peony:

"Send me Shan Peng's personal information again, and read her published papers by the way."

A voice sounded from the earphones on Zhou Yi's ears immediately:
"Shan Peng, a professor at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center of Shuimu University, is engaged in research in the direction of geometric representation theory.

In 2011, he obtained a Ph.D. from Paris VII University.After graduation, he worked at the French National Center for Scientific Research as an associate researcher, and carried out research work at the University of Caen, MIT, and the University of Paris-Sud.

At the end of 2017, he returned to work at Shuimu University full-time.

He has won the Qiushi Outstanding Young Scholar Award, the ICCM Mathematics Silver Award, and will be invited to give a 2022-minute report at the International Conference of Mathematicians (ICM) in 45.

He also serves as an editorial board member of "J. Algebra", and has published many high-level academic papers in top mathematics journals such as J. Amer. Math. Soc., Invent. Math., Duke Math. J., Adv. Math., etc. "

Zhou Yi sighed:
"You have to come to Yuzhou Advanced Research Institute, and Ding Jian, neither of them can escape."

If these young talents join, Yuzhou Institute for Advanced Study will not only have more young masters of mathematics, but also ensure that there will be no faults in the next few decades.

Now the mathematics bigwigs joining Shuimu University are all elderly people. How many years can they work for?

30 years at most.

And these young people in their 30s can play for at least 60 years.

In 60 years, many things will become obsolete, only mathematics will not become obsolete, and the influence it brings is also unparalleled.

This is why Zhou Yi is very eager to recruit young talents.

As Zhou Yi walked, he wondered what other talents from abroad could be found.

As soon as Zhou Yi returned to the office, Zhou Yi heard several of his apprentices discussing Xu Chenyang.

Zhou Yi patted his forehead, and then remembered that he had a fellow in Princeton.

Isn't it Xu Chenyang?

He is a native of Yuzhou.

Back then, he was gone by popularity, so I could poach him back.

Wonderful!

At that time, in Yuzhou, with the support of the central court and local government, it may not be impossible to make a difference.

Zhou Yi also had frequent contact with Xu Chengyang in Princeton back then, and invited him to his home for hot pot, so it must be feasible to dig him out.

As for the status of the golden generation of Shangjing University, the grievances between the School of Mathematical Sciences of Shangjing University and Mr. Qiu are the affairs of the previous generation, and it has nothing to do with them.

The Cole Prize in Number Theory was held at Princeton University this time, and Zhou Yi thought it was an opportunity.

After seeing Zhou Yi's return, several students stopped talking, but their expressions were still full of excitement visible to the naked eye.

After all, yesterday I met a lot of bigwigs in the mathematics field, and I also met a lot of foreign masters and doctoral students. My contacts and vision have been greatly improved.

Zheng Keyu on the side said:
"Teacher, Shen Yiyu is coming, his graduation thesis has been submitted, all trivial matters, I heard from my junior sister that their school will give the green light, so she wants to ask about the dormitory."

Zhou Yi said after listening:

"Same dormitory with Chu Li and the others?"

After Zhou Yi finished speaking, he looked at Chu Li and Bai Yuting.

Chu Li said:

"Okay, we also want to share a dormitory with Junior Sister."

Zhou Yi nodded and said:
"That's it. For other trivial matters, you can contact the person in charge of this matter."

Zheng Keyu said:
"Ok."

Zhou Yi was also very curious about this student who was admitted to Shuimu University from a junior college.

This is how much ability can be done.

Just as Zhou Yi continued to browse information about information theory, a call came into Zhou Yi's cell phone.

Zhou Yi answered the phone and said:
"Hello."

"Hello, Zhou Yi, I'm Cao De."

A voice rang on the phone.

Zhou Yi said:

"Oh, so it's Academician Cao, what's the matter?"

Cao De said excitedly:

"Good news. Traffic B is going to use a new type of asphalt to use this kind of asphalt on national highways. It will reward you with 100 million yuan. In addition, it will pay you 0.1% of the patent fee, which is about 1 million yuan."

Zhou Yi said in shock:

"how much is it?"

Cao De emphasized:
"One hundred million, the higher-ups feel that they have treated you badly, and there will be additional compensation later."

Zhou Yi: . .

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment, [-] million, the small goal is so easy to achieve?

It's only been less than three months.

Cao De on the phone said:

"Not only the asphalt project, but also the previous power grid has saved the country tens of billions. If you pay 0.1% for your patent, there is also 1000 million."

Zhou Yi's face was numb, it turns out that making money is so easy.

Back in the day, when Zhou Yi delivered couriers to fill the floors with money, it was life-threatening.

Now the money feels useless.

"There is good news."

Cao De took a breath and said,

"Overseas Pakistan and other small countries in Asia and Africa are going to buy your asphalt patents. It is estimated that the money in your hands will exceed 10 billion. This is just asphalt patents.

The power grid major was also discovered by other countries, and the whole world is preparing to buy power grid patents. It is initially estimated that hundreds of millions of patent fees will be incurred. "

Zhou Yi: . .

If you are not careful, you will be rich and free.

Before Cao De finished speaking, the voice on the other end of the phone kept saying:
"The main reason is that the asphalt road on the OMG side is already good. We just broke through a bottleneck technology, so we couldn't sell OMG, otherwise we would make more money.

But just the two continents of Asia and Africa are enough for us to eat. "

Zhou Yi wondered:
"Why don't countries in Africa and Asia buy Omagnesia's patents?"

Cao De smiled and said:

"Because our price is lower and more durable than their asphalt, they are not competitive with us at all, and Tsarist Russia is also planning to buy our asphalt patents,

Their land area is large, and our asphalt can not deform at low temperatures, and it may be another big business by then. "

Zhou Yi had heard that all kinds of technology patents that were stuck in the neck made money before, but he didn't expect to make so much money.

It's a pity that this deal is a one-off deal, and the next one may have to wait decades.

Unless there is a war in those countries and the roads are damaged, it is possible to continue selling, otherwise it will be very difficult.

The same is true for the power grid, which is basically a one-shot deal.

Unless the power grid is updated in the future, someone needs to be found to rebuild the mathematical model, but after the paper is published, it can be refurbished and used at the level of applied mathematicians in other countries.

Zhou Yi said:

"Thank you, Academician Cao, for your phone call. I really made a lot of money this time around. I don't know how to patent asphalt roads and power grids. I don't think it's possible for me to get so much money alone, right?"

Academician Cao De said:

"Our team gets 0.05%. It doesn't matter whether it's money or not. The important thing is that we can get promoted and get what we want because of these technologies. And contributing to the country is what our generation of scholars should do. "

Zhou Yi was silent, and came all the way. People of the older generation, such as Academician Cao, Teacher Tang, Yuan Yuan, etc., are all people with family and country feelings.

Some break through the bottleneck technology for the country, and some spare no effort to cultivate talents for the country.

"It's a pity that we didn't have time to come the night you proved Brother Guess, and it's a pity that we couldn't witness another achievement of yours in mathematics."

Cao De sighed.

In the final analysis, Academician Cao also came from a mathematics background, but only changed to applied mathematics in response to the needs of the country, and the same is true for Academician E Weinan.

Zhou Yi said:

"My field of mathematics will not stop here. I will send you a special invitation next time. Don't regret it."

"Haha, I'm waiting for your invitation."

Academician Cao laughed.

After Zhou Yi hung up the phone, the five students looked dull,
Damn, they heard every word of the phone call just now.

I thought that my teacher was only so strong in mathematics and artificial intelligence, but I didn't expect to involve other aspects.

Do you want to be so perverted, my teacher is only 19 years old, not only young and mature, but also very calm.

That's more than one billion money and wealth.

Zhou Yi glanced at them and said indifferently:
"I, Zhou Yi, am not interested in money. It's just small money. You can earn so much money when you have a certain foundation in mathematics. If you study with me, Zhou Yi, you must have this kind of confidence."

Zhouyi poured chicken soup casually, unless these apprentices all learned pure mathematics, they would earn a lot of money in the future.

Of the five apprentices, three were very excited and said:
"We'll try."

"Do you think Zhou's geometry is still difficult now? Is Zhou's analytical method still difficult?"

Zhou Yi said lightly.

"Disaster!"

This time, five people said in unison.

Zhou Yi is in a cold sweat, please don't be so direct.

"I'm going to Princeton University to receive the award later, do you want to go?"

Zhou Yi glanced at them and said,

"It will take about five days. I have other things besides accepting the award."

There was light in the eyes of the five people. They also wanted to go to Princeton University, but then the five seemed to have made a decision. They all shook their heads and said:
"We are not going to go. In five days, we can read one or two more pages of papers. Although it is the teacher who pretends to be yourself, you always tell us,

If you have time to watch others act aggressively, it is better to use this time to improve yourself and give yourself the opportunity to act aggressively earlier. "

Zhou Yi:? .

"I said that?"

"Ahem, I told you, you were telling us a few days after we came here."

Zhou Yi: . .

Originally, he wanted to take them out to learn more, but Zhou Yi felt very relieved to see his apprentices so obedient and hardworking.

"That's fine, it's settled like this. My senior sister Xiao Wanyi still has a relatively deep understanding of Zhou's analysis method. When I'm not around, you can ask her for advice."

After Zhou Yi finished speaking, he continued to read the literature. Reforming a world-class transformative technology is not a matter of a day or two.

(End of this chapter)