Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 169 Awards
They were telling Zhou Ming that this matter should be clarified with their superiors, and they hung up the phone after letting the superiors make a decision.

Zhou Ming, on the other hand, didn't think about it any more after hanging up the phone. A bonus of 50 US dollars was nothing to Zhou Ming, who was already worth over [-] million.

The reason why Zhou Ming said that he could not go to receive the prize, but that he could pay directly was because he felt that the free money should not be in vain.

However, if you can't go to the scene to receive the award, it's hard to say whether there will be money there.

And Zhou Ming went to bed after reading the book for a while, but the Royal Swedish Academy has already started a discussion on whether to send this bonus to Zhou Ming.

Founded in 1739, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is headquartered in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. It is the highest academic institution and the largest science center in Sweden. Selection of academic awards and editing of high-level journals.

"This person really does not follow the routine. Grigory Perelman rejected the 'Outstanding Mathematician Award' awarded to him by European Mathematics in 1996 and the Phil When it comes to prizes, people always refuse directly.

How can anyone be like him, who refuses and does not refuse, but does not come to accept the prize, and asks us to transfer the prize to his card.

Now that this year's list of winners has been announced, what do you think should be done? "

At this time, the person in charge of the Crafford Mathematics Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was frowning and said to the other judges.

Perhaps because the Royal Swedish Academy is in charge, the procedure for announcing the Craford Prize is the same as that of the Nobel Prize. They call the winners a few minutes before the winners are announced to inform them that they have won the Craford General or the Nobel Prize. bell award.

Shortly after Zhou Ming received the call, the Royal Swedish Academy announced the subjects and winners of this year's Crafford Award.

There is only one subject for this year's Crawford Award, and that is naturally Mathematics Zhou Ming.

Once this news was released, it caused a lot of discussion in the academic circle, especially in the mathematics circle.

However, due to the time difference between Sweden and Huaguo, when Sweden announced the winner of this year's Crafford Award, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening on Huaguo's side, and many people were asleep, so the related discussions on the Internet were heated. On the contrary, it is not as high as abroad.

At this time, Grigory Perelman, mentioned by the person in charge of the Crafford Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy, is also a god in the mathematics world. He is a Russian Jewish mathematician born in 1966.

Grigory Perelman published an article in the preprint archive in November 2002, the first in a series of articles.

These articles of his proved the geometric conjecture, a special case of this conjecture is the Poincaré conjecture, that is to say, he proved the Poincaré conjecture.

The Poincaré conjecture is a conjecture proposed by the French mathematician Poincaré. The content of the conjecture is: any simply connected, closed three-dimensional manifold must be homeomorphic to a three-dimensional sphere.

Simply put, a closed three-dimensional manifold is a three-dimensional space with boundaries; simple connectivity means that every closed curve in this space can be continuously shrunk to a point.

Or in a closed three-dimensional space, if every closed curve can shrink into a point, this space must be a three-dimensional sphere.

Later, this conjecture was extended to more than three-dimensional space, known as the "Higher-dimensional Poincaré conjecture".

It is precisely for this reason that many experts believed at the time that the solution to the Poincaré conjecture was likely to help scientists figure out the shape of the universe.

The Poincaré conjecture is also known as one of the world's seven major mathematical problems (also known as the Millennium Prize problem). These seven major problems are seven mathematical conjectures announced by the Clay Institute of Mathematics in the United States on May 2000, 5. .

According to the rules set by the Clay Institute of Mathematics, as long as the solution to any conjecture is published in a mathematical journal and goes through a two-year verification period, the solver will be awarded a $100 million prize.

Later, in 2004, the Steklov Institute of Mathematics recommended Perelman to be elected as an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, but he rejected it. Not only did he reject the recommendation, but he also resigned from the institute the following year.

Since then, Perelman has disappeared without a trace.

At the International Mathematical Congress held in Madrid, Spain in August 2006, the International Mathematical Union decided to award Perelman the Fields Medal known as the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics".

However, in the face of this huge honor, Perelman still chose to refuse, and he also refused to accept the $100 million bonus of the "Millennium Mathematics Prize".

It was his series of actions that made many scholars and ordinary people admire him, calling him a strange man in the mathematics world and a true mathematics researcher.

However, Zhou Ming's situation is completely different from this Perelman's. He directly refused to win the award, and Zhou Ming couldn't go to the scene to accept the award because of something, rather than refusing to win the award.

"Professor Zhou is not only involved in the field of mathematics, he has also made great achievements in biology and artificial intelligence, and his achievements are not inferior to his achievements in the field of mathematics.

Moreover, I heard that his research group has just researched the results of artificially synthesized glucose, artificially synthesized starch and other artificially synthesized grains in the past two months.

At the beginning of the year, he also developed a soybean variety called Super Bean, whose yield is said to be two or three times that of the best soybean variety on the market today.

In terms of artificial intelligence, the artificial intelligence that can accurately predict the protein structure is also developed by their company, and the person in charge of this project is Professor Zhou.

There is also an artificial intelligence paper titled "Discussion on an Algorithm for Training Neural Networks and Performing Other Tasks" published in the "Journal of Intelligent Systems" in Huaguo last year, which has also been circulated by many people.

Although the title of this paper is about the discussion of algorithms, there are actually many predictions made by Professor Zhou about the future development of artificial intelligence. There are already companies and research teams in Huaguo who have gone in the direction mentioned in this paper. And some results have been achieved.

For such a scholar who has blossomed in three directions and has achieved such achievements in many fields, I think it is true that he said that he is busy, and he will not say that just to perfuse us. "

One judge said.

It has to be said that as Zhou Ming's deeds continue to spread, more and more people are interested in him. Obviously, the person who just shared so much information about Zhou Ming must be someone who has had a detailed understanding of Zhou Ming before. Otherwise, it would be impossible to say so much.

After listening to what the judge said, the person in charge also showed a pensive expression. After a moment of silence, he said to the judge who just spoke: "Then what do you think we should do? It's really like this Send the bonus directly to his card?"

“I think since he can’t come to receive the award in person, there is no need for us to have him come to receive the award in person.

Now that information technology is so advanced, we can let him make a video call with us at that time, and we will present him with awards across the screen.

In this way, we can not only let him show his face at the award ceremony, but also give him the prize money in a legitimate way, and also reflect our humanity. "

The judge made his own suggestion.

"Well, yes, this is indeed a very good suggestion." The person in charge nodded in satisfaction after hearing the judge's suggestion.

……

While people at the Royal Swedish Academy were discussing Zhou Ming's affairs, Zhou Ming had already fallen asleep, and he slept soundly.

However, Zhou Ming was woken up by the phone ringing soon.

"Who is calling so late?" Zhou Ming, who was awakened by the ringing of the phone, opened his eyes in a daze. He picked up the phone on the bedside table and didn't even look at the caller ID at first glance, but just looked at the time .

"Calling at two o'clock in the middle of the night, who is this?" Zhou Ming was complaining, looking at the caller ID, and found that it was the overseas call just now.

"Did they discuss it so soon?" Seeing the caller ID, Zhou Ming realized that the call was from the Royal Swedish Academy.

"Hello." After Zhou Ming answered the phone, he greeted the other end of the phone with a lazy voice.

"Hello, Professor Zhou Ming, I am the person in charge of the Crafford Mathematics Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy. The conditions you proposed earlier, after our discussion, we think your proposal is acceptable.

After all, you are not only a mathematician, but also a biologist and a scholar in the field of artificial intelligence. We can understand that you are too busy to come here.

However, we hope that you can accept the award via video when the award is presented, that is, we will make a video call to you at that time, and you can accept the award through the screen. "

On the other end of the phone is no longer a young female voice as before, but a thick male voice.

"Ah?" Zhou Ming was in a daze, at first he didn't quite understand, and then he said quickly, "OK, OK, video calling is fine, and it shouldn't take long by then, right? When is the specific time? You have to tell me in advance, I will not be able to find time to come."

"The specific time is June [-]th. We will contact you in advance when the time comes." The male voice on the other end of the phone said.

Zhou Ming was busy sleeping, so he didn't say much to him and quickly hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Ming continued to sleep again.

The next day was the [-]th, which was exactly when Zhou Ming had agreed to start the experiment.

However, this morning, when Zhou Ming came to the previously agreed classroom, all the people in the classroom surrounded him in a hurry.

This is also because Zhou Ming is young, and he never puts on airs when he gets along with them, so these people and Zhou Ming are like friends.

If it were a serious person in charge, it would be too late for them to hide from Zhou Ming. How could they surround him like this.

"Professor, you're on the hot search again." It was Wan Xingwen who spoke, because he usually gets along as a friend, so when he called Zhou Ming, he also called you, not you.

Zhou Ming is not as old as Wanxing Wenda, so he is not used to being called you Zhou Ming, it seems that he is so old.

"Hot search? What hot search?" Zhou Ming woke up and forgot about answering the phone last night.

"The Crawford Prize in Mathematics? Professor, you don't know you won the award, do you?" Seeing Zhou Ming's bewildered expression, Wan Xingwen asked him in surprise. Seeing Zhou Ming's appearance, others They are also a little curious.

The news about the award was all over the top searches. It would be a bit unbelievable if the winner didn't know about it.

"Oh~~~ The Crawford Award you mentioned, I know, I know. I answered the phone in the middle of the night last night, and fell asleep again after answering the phone, and I forgot about it when I got up in the morning."

As soon as Wanxingwen mentioned the Crawford Award, Zhou Ming realized what he was talking about.

"Our school has issued related notices on the school's official website and major online platforms." Wan Xingwen said, he turned on his phone, opened the photo album, and took a screenshot.

However, Wanxingwen's screenshots were not specifically for Zhou Ming to see, but for posting to friends and circles of friends to show off.

Although he wasn't the one who won the award, it didn't stop him from posting on Moments to pretend to be cool.

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the 2016 Crafford Award-winning disciplines and winners. Zhou Ming, a 2015 alumnus of the School of Life Sciences of HKUST and a professor of the School of Mathematical Sciences of HKUST, is credited with creating and improving the twin prime number conjecture and Goldbach's conjecture. He became the first Chinese mathematician to win this honor with his mathematical method.

The award will be held in June 2016 at…”

Looking at the pictures cut by Wanxingwen, there are not only the official website of HKUST, but also Weibo and station B. Although the websites are different, the copywriting is the same.

"I didn't expect it to be uploaded so quickly." Zhou Ming also sighed after reading the screenshots Wan Xingwen handed over.

"Okay, let me talk about the experiment first, and then you go to the laboratory to start the experiment." Soon, Zhou Ming stopped entangled with them about the award, but talked about the experiment to be started today .

Just when Zhou Ming opened his mouth to talk about the experiment, his cell phone rang.

Zhou Ming took out his cell phone from his pocket and found that it was Li Zhizhi, the dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences. He couldn't answer it, so he pressed the answer button.

"Xiao Zhou, you have won the Crawford Mathematics Prize. Congratulations. Where are you now?" After connecting the phone, Li Mingzhi congratulated Zhou Ming.

"Dean Li, I'm at the laboratory of the School of Life Sciences now." Zhou Ming said.

"That's fine, I won't bother you. Let's talk when you have time." Knowing that Zhou Ming was at the laboratory, Li Mingzhi quickly hung up the phone and didn't bother Zhou Ming again.

After Li Mingzhi hung up the phone, Zhou Ming also turned his phone to silent and started talking to them about the experiment.

After turning the phone to silent, Zhou Ming was much quieter this morning. After all, he couldn't hear the phone ringing anymore.

However, this cleanliness was broken at noon.

"Dean Li, why are you here in person? Just call if you need something." At noon, Zhou Ming was taking time to read in the office after lunch. He didn't close the door of the office, so Li Mingzhi left directly. Come in.

"The Royal Swedish Academy just issued a notice not long ago, saying that this year's Crafford award ceremony will be held online because you can't go to the scene to receive the award. What's going on?" Li Mingzhi asked after seeing Zhou Ming. Zhou Ming asked.

(End of this chapter)