From university academician to chief academician

July 15, 2028!

In the evening, Ye Fei landed in Xiangjiang by plane.

He was accompanied by two of his students.

The Shaw Prize is an international award, and the participating scholars are all internationally renowned scholars.

Therefore, while Ye Fei was receiving the award, he took his two students out to see the world.

"Professor Ye!" As soon as Ye Fei came out of the airport, he heard someone calling him.

Ye Fei turned around and saw a short middle-aged man wearing short sleeves standing not far away.

Ye Fei took his two students, smiled and greeted him, and said, "Director Ma, long time no see, hello!"

Director Ma was the same Director Ma who entertained Ye Fei during his entire trip to Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

With that said, the two approached and shook hands eagerly.

After letting go, Director Ma smiled and said, "Professor Ye, things are different now. I can hear many legendary rumors about you in Xiangjiang."

"You are no longer an ordinary professor today!"

Director Ma was filled with emotions. In just a few years, Ye Fei had grown into a well-known scholar of Xia State with development in many fields.

Ye Fei shook his head funny and said: "Director Ma, please stop entertaining me. I am still me, an ordinary scholar."

Director Ma laughed and said, "If you are still an ordinary scholar, then all scholars in the world will be ordinary scholars."

Ye Fei looked to the left and right, and there were people coming and going all around. They were standing at the exit of the station.

Ye Feidao: "Let's stop bragging about each other in this business, let's go!"

"Okay!" Director Ma nodded: "Please!"

After speaking, Director Ma led Ye Fei and the others towards the parking lot.

Afterwards, we got into a shiny black business car and the driver drove towards the hotel.

After getting on the bus, Ye Fei introduced his two students to Director Ma.

Director Ma looked at Ye Fei's two students and said with a smile: "You must be exceptional to be Professor Ye's students!"

The two of them lowered their heads shyly, and Lin Yi said sarcastically: "Nothing, we are very ordinary."

After saying that, he looked at Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, we are very ordinary."

Ye Fei nodded and said to himself: "Yes, honest."

Although Wang Yuan and Lin Yi have good mathematical talents.

But it is only good among ordinary people. Compared with mathematical geniuses, there is still a certain gap.

Ye Fei predicts that it is impossible for these two people to become internationally renowned scholars in the future.

But it is possible to become a famous scholar in Xia Kingdom.

Director Ma looked at Ye Fei and said with a smile: "Your students are just like you, they are very low-key!"

Lin Yi added: "It's just that our mentor has a keen eye and discovered us among a group of outstanding people."

After saying that, he looked at Wang Yuan, who nodded and said, "Yes, our mentor discovered us among a group of outstanding people."

Director Ma's expression was stagnant, and he looked at Ye Fei with a smile: "You two students have really interesting personalities, haha..."

"Haha..." Ye Fei smiled awkwardly, then secretly glared at Wang Yuan and Lin Yi.

Wang Yuan and Lin Yi lowered their heads slightly and smiled sheepishly.

Afterwards, Ye Fei and Director Ma chatted some gossip.

Both of them are from academia, so naturally they talk about academia.

Although in terms of status, Ye Fei's status in the academic circle is much higher than that of Director Ma.

But Director Ma has been staying in Xiangjiang for many years. As the forefront city of Xia Guo International, all walks of life and fields are in line with international standards.

Therefore, Director Ma knows much more about the international academic community than Ye Fei does.

Director Ma said: "I have also heard about the Web 3.0 you developed, but I heard that Beili Country is also investing a lot of money in the development of Web 3.0."

"Professors from many of the world's top universities and top scholars in mathematics and computer science have been invited by Beili Country to do research."

“Even some Fields Medal winners and Turing Award winners have been invited.”

"The investment alone is more than 50 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to the index finger of a large international listed company."

"Now it seems that Beili Country is very determined to develop Web 3.0."

"And you said at the press conference that Web 3.0 will be developed by the end of December this year. Are you confident that Web 3.0 will be developed before Beili Country develops Web 3.0?"

Ye Fei nodded and said: "Of course, money is very important for scientific research, and talent is also very important."

“But it doesn’t mean that the more money you invest and the more talent you have, the more successful research and development will be.”

"If this were the case, it would not have been so long since our country developed low-nanometer lithography machines."

"Is Xia Guo short of money?"

"No shortage!"

"Is there a shortage of talent?"

"There's no shortage either."

"So, for scientific research, although money and talents are closely related, the success of scientific research is not determined only by money and talents."

"Yes!" Director Ma nodded: "I agree with what you said."

Director Ma suddenly said seriously: "I just want to know now, can you really develop Web3.0 before the end of December?"

"Don't lie to me. I'm not asking on behalf of myself alone. I'm asking on behalf of many people in the academic circle in Hong Kong."

"They're all concerned about this."

In the past, Hong Kong, Bay Province, Korea and New Kingdom were the Four Asian Tigers.

But now, Xia Continent is the only dragon in Asia, and the other countries are younger brothers, relying on Xia Continent for development.

Therefore, Xiangjiang has always been paying attention to Xiaguo Continent.

Any disturbance on the mainland will attract Xiangjiang's attention.

Not only the academic community is paying attention, but also all walks of life and fields in Hong Kong are paying attention.

An event as big as Web3.0 can change the living habits of the entire planet.

Naturally, it attracted great attention from Xiangjiang.

Seeing Director Ma's serious expression, Ye Fei also said seriously: "Director Ma, I sincerely tell you that this is true. We will definitely develop Web3.0 before the end of December."

"We originally planned to launch Web 3.0 this month, but because of Buterin's departure, one of the four core technologies of the blockchain is missing."

"This will cause Web3.0 to be unable to be opened, and now we have found a way to replace Buterin's blockchain system."

"Moreover, the main research has been successful. It will definitely be successful in November this year, and Web3.0 can be launched in December."

When Director Ma heard this, he felt relieved.

Since Ye Fei said this, it means that Web3.0 will definitely be successfully developed by the end of December.

As a native of Xiangjiang and Xia, Director Ma naturally hopes that Web 3.0 will be launched in Xia and does not want Beili's conspiracy to succeed.

If the mainland of Xia Guo is good, then Xiangjiang is good!

When the country is strong, the people are strong!

As a member of the Xia Kingdom, he certainly hopes that the country will become stronger and stronger.

Director Ma smiled and said: "That puts me at ease. Professor Ye, I hope you can develop Web3.0 as soon as possible. I hope Web3.0 will be released in Xia Country."

Ye Fei smiled confidently: "I will definitely do it."

While talking, the car drove into a hotel.

Ye Fei got out of the car and pulled his suitcase into the hotel to check in.

This hotel was arranged by the Shaw Prize Council.

Everyone who attended the Shaw Awards Ceremony stayed at this hotel.

After completing the check-in procedures, Director Ma said: "I won't go up. I will come to Hong Kong University of Technology when I have time. After all, you are also a visiting professor at Hong Kong University of Technology."

When Director Ma heard that Ye Fei had come to Xiangjiang, he specially sent Ye Fei to the hotel and talked about something with Ye Fei.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "Okay!"

After Director Ma left, Ye Fei took the elevator upstairs with his luggage.

After putting down his luggage, Ye Fei wandered around the hotel.

This is a five-star hotel with a gym, swimming pool, bar, KTV, restaurant, coffee shop...

It is also a very luxurious hotel in the whole of Xiangjiang, and a night's stay costs about 3,000 yuan.

The entire hotel has been booked by the Shaw Prize Award Committee and will be provided to those attending the Shaw Prize Award Ceremony, with each person having a room.

One can imagine the wealth of the Shaw Prize Board of Directors.

Almost all the entire hotel is filled with scholars from all over the world.

Corridors, halls, bars, swimming pools, gyms...

Many scholars gathered everywhere to communicate. Ye Fei walked aside to listen. If he heard something he was interested in, he would stop and talk to them. If he was not interested, he would leave after listening for a while.

Today and tomorrow are not the Shaw Award ceremony. The Shaw Award ceremony will be the day after tomorrow.

Therefore, Ye Fei spent two days communicating mathematics with others.

In the cafe!

Ye Fei was sitting and chatting with a few people. The crowd was headed by a German mathematician, and the rest were all top or well-known international mathematicians. Ye Fei sat aside and listened.

The German mathematician was called Gerd Faltings, winner of the Fields Medal. He was 32 years old when he won the award.

Looking at the Fields Medal winners, most are in their thirties, and a very few are in their twenties.

Those who won awards in their twenties were all in their twenties.

Gerd is also the winner of the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.

Geld won the Fields Medal in 1986 and the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences in 2015.

This does not mean that the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences is more important than the Fields Medal.

It’s because the Shaw Award was founded in 2002, and the first Shaw Award Ceremony was held in 2004.

Moreover, Gerd did not have much famous research later. It was not until 2015 that he won the award for the promotion and development of basic tools in number theory, allowing them and others to solve long-standing classical mathematical problems.

Gerd mainly studies number theory, such as Model's conjecture in number theory, the parameter modular space of Abelian varieties, Riemann's theorem of arithmetic surfaces and Padic Hodge theory.

Gerd was explaining Riemann's theorem of arithmetic surfaces to everyone at the moment.

Ye Fei is studying the quantum layer conjecture, which is a basic problem of Riemannian geometry.

Naturally, a lot of Riemann's theorem is needed.

What Gerd explained at this moment was of great help to Ye Fei's research.

Gerd said: "Using Weierstrass function points, we prove the compact Riemann surface of genus g\u003e1..."

Gerd was talking eloquently, and the people around him listened very carefully.

Gerd said: "Through the Weierstrass function determinant theorem, we know that not every point is a Weierstrass function point."

"I am currently studying the Weierstrass function on the compact Riemannian surface M."

"We are looking for a suitable concept to study the upper and lower bounds on the number of Weierstrass function points."

Everyone nodded, admiring in their hearts.

As expected of a Fields Medal winner, if the upper and lower bounds on the number of Weierstrass function points are proved, then the genus on the compact Riemann surface can be proved.

Finally, a compact Riemannian surface was proved.

If the compact Riemann surface is proved, the Riemann hypothesis can be further proved.

Of course, proving the compact Riemann surface is still a long way from proving the Riemann Hypothesis.

However, if you don’t accumulate small steps, you won’t be able to reach a thousand miles; if you don’t accumulate small streams, you won’t be able to reach a river or sea.

As the most difficult conjecture among the seven major conjectures in mathematics, proving the Riemann Hypothesis cannot be solved by one person.

Rather, it requires the efforts of the entire mathematical community to prove the Riemann Hypothesis.

Ye Feidao: "Use the concept of q-th degree holomorphic differential!"

"Huh?" Everyone looked at Ye Fei in surprise.

A Beili country mathematician frowned at Ye Fei and said dissatisfied: "What do you know? Can you understand Professor Gerd's mathematical research?"

Ye Fei was the person with the lowest proven mathematics level among all the people present, and he was also the person with the lowest status as a mathematician.

All the people present are internationally renowned or top mathematicians, and have won international mathematics awards.

However, Ye Fei is not an internationally renowned mathematician, nor has he won any international mathematics awards.

Of course, these are not the main reasons why the Beili country mathematician reprimanded Ye Fei.

The main reason is that the relationship between Ye Fei and Beili Kingdom is very bad, and most Beili Kingdom scholars are very dissatisfied with Ye Fei.

Ye Fei ignored the Beili mathematician, but looked at Gerd and said: "Professor Gerd, if you introduce q-th degree holomorphic differentials, you should be able to prove the number of points of the Weierstrass function. Go to the upper and lower realms!”

Gerd frowned and thought. Everyone saw Gerd frowning and thinking, but they didn't bother him.

After a long time, Gerd's expression moved slightly, and a trace of interest flashed in his eyes. It seemed that Ye Fei was right. Introducing q-order holomorphic differentials could indeed prove the upper and lower bounds on the number of Weierstrass function points.

Gerd looked at Ye Fei and said, "Tell me carefully."

When the Beili mathematician heard Gerd's words, his lips moved, but he hesitated to speak. In the end, he did not say anything, but just glanced at Ye Fei angrily.

The rest of the people were attracted by the conversation between the two and did not notice the expression of the mathematician from Beili Country.

Even if they do, they won't pay attention.

They only pay attention to math, they don't pay attention to straight things.

Ye Fei stood up and changed places with a mathematician, so that he was in the middle of the crowd.

Ye Fei picked up the pen and paper on the table in front of him and wrote down the calculation process on it.

After finishing writing, Ye Feidao: "Suppose M is a Riemann surface..."

As Ye Fei explained, Gerd's eyes became brighter and brighter.

After Ye Fei finished speaking, he said excitedly: "Yes, that's how it should be explained."

"Introducing the concept of q-th degree total differential, we can obtain the holomorphic function g, such that..."

After speaking, Gerd looked at Ye Fei with bright eyes. Ye Fei felt a little uncomfortable when he looked at him, with a shy smile on his face.

Gerd said excitedly: "Your name is Ye or something..."

Gerd knew Ye Fei, but the names of Xia people were always so strange. He only knew what Ye Fei's name was, but he had forgotten the specific name.

"Ye Fei!"

"Yes!" Gerd smiled and said: "Your name is Ye Fei. Thank you very much for the ideas you provided me. I owe you a favor. Let's leave each other's contact information!"

"As long as it doesn't violate my morals and bottom line, I promise to help you with mathematics once."

Ye Fei quickly shook his head and said: "Professor Gerd, no need, I just came up with a sudden idea after listening to your explanation."

Many people around were listening to Gerd's mathematical explanation, and everyone's thoughts followed Gerd's train of thought. Naturally, many inspirations came to them.

Ye Fei just absorbed everyone's inspiration and finally found the most correct solution for Gerd.

Therefore, Ye Fei felt very sorry when Gerd said he owed him a favor.

Gerd said seriously: "I don't want to owe you anything."

Seeing his serious expression, Ye Fei sighed helplessly.

Ye Fei has long heard that Germans are the most old-fashioned, but they are also the most rigorous in doing things. You must not deceive me!

The others looked at Ye Fei with envy, but the Beili countryman was envious and jealous.

This is a favor from Fields Medal winner Gerd!

Most people can’t get it even if they want it!

Instead, Ye Fei wanted to push the favor away.

I was so hungry that I was starved to death.

Ye Fei nodded and said, "Okay!"

After speaking, Ye Fei took out his mobile phone and exchanged contact information with Gerd.

Next, they continued to communicate, but everyone paid more attention to Ye Fei to see if Ye Fei had any good suggestions.

And Ye Fei lives up to expectations and can always give some correct insights.

This surprised everyone.

Unexpectedly, Ye Fei was so talented and insightful in mathematics at such a young age, and could always come up with very clever ways to solve mathematical problems.

Gerd also nodded slightly and thought: "A young mathematician with great potential, I don't know if he can compete for the Fields Medal in the future."

"If you can win a Fields Medal, then we can give each other a run for our money."

Mathematicians are divided into many grades. Fields Medal winners are one grade and the highest grade.

Winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics belong to the second level, and winners of the Gauss Prize, Chern Prize, Nevin Linner Prize and Abel Prize belong to the third level.

The Calaford Prize belongs to the fourth level, and the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences belongs to the fifth level.

The remaining mathematicians who have not won international awards are in the sixth grade.

Of course, the abilities of mathematicians are also different between each grade.

Even Fields Medal winners have strong and weak abilities.

For example, Terence Tao is relatively strong among Fields Medal winners.

Yau Shing-tung is also a Fields Medal winner, and he is better than Terence Tao.

Terence Tao is known as the Mozart of mathematics, and Shing-tung Yau is known as the Caesar of mathematics.

It's just that Terence Tao is still very young now, while Qiu Chengtong is already old.

In terms of potential, Tao Zhexuan is higher than Qiu Chengtong.

Qiu Chengtong has more experience than Tao Zhexuan.

At night, Ye Fei returned to his room and recorded all his thoughts on the computer.

After a long time, Ye Feixin said: "The lectures I attended these two days have been of great help to my research on the quantum layer conjecture."

"With this research progress, the quantum layer conjecture will probably be proven by September."

“After the quantum layer conjecture was proved, I immediately published the paper.”

"Aim to get the paper approved by the end of September."

"In this way, I will be selected for the academician selection."

Ye Fei is full of expectations for the academician selection.

In the Xia Kingdom, there are many things that only academicians are qualified to do.

"As long as I am selected as an academician, I can lead some major research."

"But without becoming an academician, many things are always tied up."

The major research mentioned here is nuclear fusion.

If Ye Fei was not an academician, it would be impossible for him to preside over the research and development of nuclear fusion.

Academician title is not important, what is important is status and power.

This way you can do more.

Fusion is not like Web3.0.

Web3.0 is because Ye Fei developed asymmetric encryption and developed it from scratch, so the country asked him to develop Web3.0.

However, the country has been developing nuclear fusion projects and has achieved certain results.

Then Ye Fei did not create the research and development of nuclear fusion from scratch, but let him preside over it halfway.

At this time, you must be an academician, otherwise the country will not be at ease, and those participating in nuclear fusion research and development will also have objections.

Ye Feixin said: "Academician, it is a professional title that all scholars dream of."

"But this is just an important first step in my academic career. There are still many ways to go."

Ye Fei has very clear plans for his future. Academicianship is the first step, followed by winning many international awards.

The ultimate goal is to prove the seven major conjectures of mathematics.

"Of course, it's still unknown whether it can be proven!"