Schultz was indeed sincerely praising Qiao Yu.

In fact, whether this sentence is a compliment or a pity depends on the age group.

If Qiao Yu was already a young man in his twenties, Schultz would probably regret that Qiao Yu had wasted so much time that his foundation was still unstable. This would have led to Qiao Yu independently studying some fundamentals. When solving difficult problems or developing a new mathematical framework, it will be very difficult, or even fail.

But Qiao Yu is only sixteen years old.

This means that Qiao Yu still has a lot of time to learn and make up for his weak foundation, to attack world-class problems in the future, and even create his own mathematics. Just like what he is doing now. Age advantage The horror lies in this, Schultz even thinks that it doesn't matter if Qiao Yu wastes another two years, he is still so young anyway.

Qiao Yu only felt ashamed.

He has roughly understood why he doesn't like to communicate with the mathematicians who left his email address. It's simply because he has a weak foundation and is too incompetent. Without those flashes of inspiration, he is probably nothing.

Qiao Yu felt ashamed when he thought that he had only read a small part of the book list that Director Tian had planned for him. He actually had the nerve to go to the Philosophy Academy to attend cross-border lectures. It turns out that the ignorant are fearless. After all, only those who have been there will know. The part he lacks the most.

After returning home, he couldn't go around listening to lectures and blabbering blindly. Qiao Yu was secretly alert in his heart.

He had already ordered a banner on a certain website that read "Reading for the Rise of Chinese Mathematics." Although it was just for show, since the show was already on display, he couldn't let his tutor and Mr. Yuan laugh at his jokes in the future. After all, he has pursuits for the future.

Let's put it this way, studying mathematics is now his job, and becoming a billionaire who can develop a large community is his goal in life. If a person can't even do his job well, how can he achieve his goal? Life goal?

It's like Qiao Yu wanted to become a professional game player.

Let me ask you, if he can't even play competitive games well after becoming a professional player, and falls a little behind every time he competes, but his goal is to become the number one in the world and enjoy the admiration of thousands of people... This is obviously impossible. Is it possible? Being scolded is already a sign of incense, and everyone's comment "just practice more" is considered gentle.

Therefore, if you want to achieve your goals, you must first be truly outstanding in your industry.

Yes, after talking to Peter Schultz, Qiao Yu set a new goal for himself in his heart. In the next year, he will complete all the general undergraduate courses in the School of Mathematics at Yanbei University and lay a solid foundation. If It would probably be very gratifying for Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin to know Qiao Yu's inner thoughts at this time.

Of course, no one made these demands on Qiao Yu at this time.

Regardless of whether they were professors from Huaqing, Yanbei or other Chinese universities, when they learned that the opening speech of this year's World Congress on Algebraic Geometry was given by a sixteen-year-old boy, Qiao Yu, except for a few, they were probably all excited.

After all, if Qiao Yu performs well enough in this report, it will virtually strengthen the voice of the Chinese mathematics community. Not only in the field of algebraic geometry, these will be bragging rights when communicating with peers in the future.

They don’t even need to mention it first, maybe someone will chase them and ask: "Hey, Professor XXX, I heard that a man named Qiao Yu gave the opening sixty-minute report at the World Congress on Algebraic Geometry? God, this is true. Of?」

In many cases, the so-called collective sense of honor probably comes from this.

Of course, it was not just the professors who visited the conference who were excited at this time.

In fact, many Chinese media outlets that had not originally planned to report on the conference had already begun to take notice when they received the news. This was especially true for some Chinese media outlets with permanent offices in Paris.

Of course this is understandable.

In fact, if you look carefully at some large-scale media, you will know that they are not keen on reporting on academic affairs, especially mathematics. One of the reasons is probably that ordinary people don't actually care.

Every year, except for the two months when the Nobel Prize is announced, there may be an upward trend in the traffic of some popular science bloggers, but in fact it is just like that. Not many people will really pay attention to which scientists won the prize this year and the reasons why they won the prize. And why.

It’s not that everyone doesn’t respect knowledge, it’s that they simply don’t understand it.

Even if last year's Nobel Prize winner in physics did something that is closely related to current hot technologies, not many people know about it.

Yes, no matter in China or anywhere in the world, absolutely less than 10% of people know that the 2024 Nobel Prize winners are John Hopfield of Princeton University and Jeffrey Sheen of the University of Toronto in Canada. Dayton.

Even though the former's research result is the development of an associative memory model that can store and reconstruct information, simulating the working mode of human brain neurons; the latter was once known as the father of artificial intelligence and invented the Boltzmann machine. .Really, even when someone talks a lot about artificial intelligence in front of you, if you ask him if he knows the Nobel Prize winner in 2024, he will probably just get a confused look on his face.

This is true for physics where people can understand what they are studying, let alone mathematics.

Even if the Fields Medal is awarded only once every four years, even if it is the award year of the World Congress of Mathematicians, not many media in China will really pay attention to and report on these things. Because everyone who works in the news knows that except for people in the mathematics circle , no one will pay too much attention to these things.

This thing has no traffic.

The reason is also very simple. There are too many mathematical studies that exceed the understanding of this era. Even the relatively simple probability theory and statistical physics in mathematics. For example, the 2022 Fields Medal winner Hugo Duminier. The reason for the award is for Research on probabilistic models in statistical physics, especially a deep understanding of spin systems and percolation models on two- and three-dimensional lattices.

A simple sentence contains many concepts that ordinary people have no contact with and cannot understand. For example, what is a two-dimensional and three-dimensional lattice? What is an upper spin system? What is a percolation model? What people are most interested in science is the ability to Things that are visible and tangible.

Such as artificial intelligence, such as unmanned driving, such as physical robots, such as space stations, such as astronauts landing on the moon, such as colonizing Mars, and such as aerospace aircraft carriers.

As for the mathematical algorithms and physical foundations behind these things, ordinary people are actually too lazy to care.

Therefore, media reporters often report on this kind of science with the mentality of completing the task. The traffic volume is definitely unimaginable, and the reporting is simply to avoid appearing to be completely indifferent to basic science.

Of course there is an exception, especially in China.

That is when a Chinese person is recognized by the world's academic community and given extraordinary treatment.

For example, many people who did not even know about the Nobel Prize before know that someone in China won the Nobel Prize because of artemisinin. Even when artemisinin is mentioned, they will remember that person and her award.

This is a completely different way of thinking between ordinary Chinese people and ordinary people in the West. This is probably based on collectivist education since childhood, and an extremely simple and suppressed national pride complex for many years.

If you analyze the evolution of his thinking model, it is probably that the award is selected by other countries, and our people win the award, which is enough to show that we are no worse than them, so I am no worse than them...

Regardless of whether people admit it or not, this is actually the collectivist sense of honor buried deep in China’s bones.

Especially when a person wins honors around the world, then this person has passively taken on more things in the hearts of many Chinese people. To a certain extent, his words and deeds not only represent himself, but even represent himself to a certain extent. It already represents the entire Chinese nation.

As for Westerners, they probably only think, Huh? That person has achieved some great achievements, oh, he may be great, we should congratulate him and applaud him. But he is just an individual, and no matter how great he is, it can only represent him. I have nothing to do with myself, even if we are neighbors in the same community.

Even before this person has no substantial help to us, if the community comes forward to hold a welcome ceremony, it will be considered a waste of taxpayers' money.

This is the difference, and it is also the difference in traffic.

So in fact, many Chinese media have been silently paying attention to this World Congress on Algebraic Geometry, and they have also sent reporters to cover this conference. There is no other reason. After all, this conference has a 16-year-old mathematical genius from China. Give a thirty-minute report at the conference.

Of course, the level of attention is actually not high.

Because these reporters have basically confirmed it before, Qiao Yu’s 30-minute report will be held in a branch venue instead of the main venue. This means that only interested mathematicians will listen. There are usually more than a dozen or even dozens of lectures held at the same time. Professors participating in the conference will choose the topics they are interested in to listen to the lectures and participate in discussions.

No matter how you retouch the on-site photos, they won’t be too shocking.

Even some low-profile lectures may only have a few attendees.

Even if there are many mathematicians participating in Qiao Yu's lecture, if they are all from the East, it will be difficult to cause a big sensation. After all, Chinese people have a very high threshold for this topic.

Especially at so-called world-class conferences, Qiao Yu's report attracted professors with Eastern faces. Not only did everyone not feel proud, they even felt that the professors participating in the conference were assigned tasks under pressure. Of course, this cannot be

Blame the general public.

Some of the messy things in the past consumed people's confidence so much that their immunity became stronger.

Therefore, even if they received the reporting task before, most of the Chinese reporters who were determined to participate in reporting the meeting were not very interested. Many of them even had no intention of going to the scene at all.

Anyway, this kind of news is destined to make no waves. When the time comes, just quote other people's reports and intercept some pictures of the scene online to remove the watermarks. Even using other people's pictures directly is not a big problem.

News that is destined to not be popular, people are so full that they are trying to defend their rights over this nonsense.

But when the organizing committee made a temporary decision to change the agenda of the meeting and upgraded Qiao Yu's report from the original 30-minute report in the sub-venue to a 60-minute opening report, the situation immediately changed. Before the meeting started

, suddenly played a big game?

A 16-year-old Chinese boy gave a 60-minute opening report at the World Congress on Algebraic Geometry?!

The title says that mathematicians all over the world must collectively listen to the voice of a 16-year-old mathematical genius from China?

Really, a piece of news that had no breaking point in the first place suddenly has the potential to become a hit. Especially for the name Qiao Yu, if you just search the domestic Internet, you will know that it has been on the hot search several times before.

Especially in a recent hot search, he appeared at the same time as Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin, and was described by many insiders in the mathematics community as a key figure in the great reconciliation of the Chinese mathematics community. He was also the champion of last year's CMO, and played an important role in Little Li Baba's World Mathematics.

In the competition, I won the only gold medal with a perfect score in the algebra and number theory track!

The most important thing is that according to the authors' inquiries, the reason why Qiao Yu's report suddenly became more important this time is that Qiao Yu helped mathematicians solve an extremely important conjecture in the mathematics world, the geometric Langlands conjecture! So!

, the mathematicians who were preparing to attend this meeting in the hotel were actually not doing well, and the Chinese reporters immediately went crazy!

After all, reporters who report on-site for large-scale international academic conferences such as the World Congress on Algebraic Geometry must have an invitation letter or a media pass issued by the organizing committee, otherwise they will not be able to enter the venue. So in theory, reporters who want to attend the conference first need to

Submit the application to the organizing committee and then accept the review by the conference expert group.

The application materials must include an introduction to the representative media organization, as well as the reporter’s interview purpose and personal information.

The organizing committee of the conference must comprehensively consider the type of media organization and whether the reporters have certain professionalism to judge whether they can accurately report the content of the conference. These are still very important for academia. The media likes to talk nonsense, but not just

This is true in China, almost all over the world.

However, academic rigor requires that if the conference content is reported, it must be ensured that the information can be conveyed to the public more accurately.

For example, what the professor reported on stage was clearly about the research progress on the zero-point distribution in the Riemann Hypothesis. If the media exposed it, Professor XXX claimed to have solved the Riemann Hypothesis at the World Congress of Mathematicians and gave a 60-minute report. Being praised by the world's mainstream mathematicians will make this conference seem quite embarrassing.

Especially in an era when people have become accustomed to relying on search engines, and even artificial intelligence has begun to rely on searching for online information content.

If the titles of these irresponsible reports are scary enough, in a few days the entire Internet may be filled with news that the Riemann Hypothesis has been conquered by humans. The mathematician who gave the report may also receive congratulations from many laymen with a confused look on his face. ..

Just think about it and you know how embarrassing this would be.

This sudden adjustment also made many Chinese media reporters who had not planned to go to the scene anxious. Especially Zhang Nuoke.

As the resident reporter of China News Service in Paris, he had actually received the task of reporting on this meeting before.

However, due to some reasons, Zhang Nuo was really tired of doing this kind of news to highlight the emergence of a mathematical genius in China.

Moreover, he often reports news about science and knows the operating rules of the academic circle better than ordinary reporters.

Although it is indeed very meaningful for a sixteen-year-old boy to be invited to give a thirty-minute session report at a world-class mathematics conference. But it happened that Qiao Yu, Tian Yanzhen, and Yuan Zhengxin Due to the good relationship between the two big bosses, Zhang Nuoke thought that there was actually nothing to report in this report.

The reason is very simple. Arita Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin are involved in the operation. It is not impossible to receive an invitation from the organizing committee at the branch venue in the field of algebraic geometry.

The term academic resources has never been just as simple as research funds, but also runs through all aspects of academic research. The tutor's personal connections directly affect whether you can participate in some large academic conferences, whether you can win a certain award, and whether you can attract some investment. , can we establish cooperation with some large enterprises...

There is no doubt that in the Chinese mathematics community, Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin have a lot of academic resources, so much that it is not unusual for a sixteen-year-old boy to give a thirty-minute report at a branch meeting.

But when Zhang Nuoke learned that Qiao Yu's report had been upgraded to the opening report of this meeting, he immediately realized that things were not that simple. After all, this was completely beyond the capabilities of Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin, and even beyond the world. The scope of abilities of any current math giant.

After all, there are many schools of mathematics in the world, and there really is no one that can keep their word.
To be continued...