Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 263 Notice
Zhou Ming had rejected so many awards before, even the Crafford Award established by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1980. Zhou Ming refused to go to the scene to receive the award due to his busy work. In the end, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences finally chose This method of live broadcasting the award on the Internet, this is how Zhou Ming moved the award.

The International Mathematical Federation is also worried that Zhou Ming will refuse to go to the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Rio de Janeiro this year, just like he has rejected many other awards in recent years, so it has issued both the award notice and the International Congress of Mathematicians in a grand manner. Invitation card.

Although the Fields Medal is internationally recognized as one of the three top mathematics awards, it is also known as the "Nobel Prize in mathematics", and its prestige in the field of mathematics is not less than that of the Craford Medal of Mathematics.

But in many people's eyes, it is really normal for a top genius like Zhou Ming to act a little differently from ordinary people.

Although there are endless speculations about Zhou Ming's rejection of many international awards in recent years, some say it's because the prize money of those awards is too small, some say it's an expression of indifference to fame and fortune, and some conspiracy theories say It's not that Zhou Ming doesn't want to go abroad to accept the award, but that he is restricted.

In short, the discussion on the Internet about Zhou Ming's rejection of many awards has never been interrupted.

However, every winner of the Fields Medal can receive a Canadian dollar bonus of 5000 yuan and a gold medal. At this time, 1 Canadian dollar is about five yuan in soft sister coins. If the Canadian dollar is converted into soft sister coins, it will be 5000.

In addition to the gold medal, although this bonus is far inferior to the scientific breakthrough award known as the "Oscar of science" with a strong commercial atmosphere, the [-] soft sister coins plus a The gold medal also has a lot of money, which is more than the prize money of most international mathematics awards.

Although the Breakthrough Prize is high, if you really tell a scholar who studies mathematics that he can choose between the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize, most mathematicians will definitely choose the Fields Medal of.

Therefore, if Zhou Ming didn't receive those awards because of too little bonus, the International Mathematical Federation is not too worried. They are afraid that Zhou Ming is really indifferent to fame and fortune, and they will have nothing to do with it.

And judging from the fact that in the past year, even if the award was broadcast live on the Internet, there was no need to go abroad to receive the award at the award ceremony, the saying of indifference to fame and fortune is becoming more and more accepted by many people.

It is normal for the International Mathematical Union to be worried, because when Zhou Ming received the email from the International Mathematical Union, his research on the "evolution" of genetic medicine was progressing steadily and rapidly.

Now Zhou Ming has enough confidence to develop the "evolution" of gene medicine in [-], without waiting until next year.

These few months are also the most critical moment. How could he put down the research he was doing and spend a few days traveling to Brazil just to attend a conference and receive an award?
If this was Zhou Ming one or two years ago, Zhou Ming would really like to go to the International Congress of Mathematicians without considering his personal safety. After all, the Fields Medal is considered one of the top awards in the field of mathematics. one.

But now Zhou Ming doesn't value these various awards as much as before. Even for the Fields Medal, in Zhou Ming's view, whether to receive it or not is purely two words-follow the fate.

Of course, this resignation is also under the premise that personal safety can be guaranteed.

Take the Shiingshen Chern Mathematics Award last year as an example, because it is a domestic award, and the awarding place is naturally in China. Zhou Ming naturally does not have to worry about appearing when he used the life simulator to simulate what he experienced when he went abroad in the world. those situations.

Therefore, Zhou Ming felt that if he had time, he could consider accepting this award.

Later, Zhou Ming went to the North Pole for the "mutation" of the ancient virus. Fortunately, he did not stay there for a long time. I spared some time to attend the award ceremony, so I went to receive an award, which is called fate.

If Zhou Ming had stayed at the North Pole for a longer period of time, Zhou Ming would have missed the Chen Shengshen Mathematics Award. This is called missing out.

This is what Zhou Ming said about resignation.

Because the awarding ceremony of the Fields Medal was held at the International Congress of Mathematicians sponsored by the International Mathematical Union, and this year's International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Zhou Ming was studying the "evolution" of genetic medicine. critical period.

The day is unfavorable from time to time, so after receiving and reading the e-mail from the International Mathematical Union, Zhou Ming quickly replied an e-mail stating that his research is now at a critical juncture, and he really couldn't get away. Mail past Rio de Janeiro to attend this year's International Congress of Mathematicians.

After sending this email, Zhou Ming called Li Mingzhi again.

This Li Mingzhi has always been very concerned about Zhou Ming's mathematics. He told Zhou Ming a few years ago that if Zhou Ming solved any mathematical problems or won any awards in the field of mathematics, he would definitely To tell him immediately.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhou Ming had been doing experiments in the laboratory of the Luzhou Institute of Life Sciences since the start of the "evolution" project of genetic medicine, and he seldom even went to school, and the higher authorities also attached great importance to this project, Li Mingzhi would probably still be the same now, coming to Zhou Ming every once in a while to inquire about his research plans on mathematics.

Therefore, when the International Mathematical Union informed him that he had won the Fields Medal this time, although Zhou Ming had already sent an email stating that he could not go to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to attend this year's International Congress of Mathematicians, he felt that it was better to tell Li Mingzhi about the news. One sound is better.

Beep, beep, beep...

After a few beeps, Li Mingzhi finally answered the call.

When the phone rang, Li Mingzhi was reading in the study. When he picked up the phone and saw the caller on the screen, there was some surprise on his face.

"Hey, haven't you been studying 'evolution' since last year? Why did you contact me suddenly today? It's still this time."

After Li Mingzhi answered the phone, he joked to Zhou Ming that it was already past nine o'clock in the evening when Zhou Ming called him.

The reason why they were surprised was that since Zhou Ming proposed and participated in the research on the "evolution" project of gene medicine, the two of them had very little contact.

Usually Zhou Ming is not at school and stays in the laboratory all day. Even if Li Mingzhi wants to go to Zhou Ming's office to look for Zhou Ming like before, there is no way to find him.

"I'm busy doing experiments during the day, so I have time to do other things at night. When I came back, I found that I had received an email from the International Mathematical Union, saying that I had won the Fields Medal. , invited me to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to participate in this year's International Congress of Mathematicians."

Zhou Ming didn't say anything nonsense, and said to Li Mingzhi straight to the point.

In order to speed up the progress of the experiment, the experiment did not stop when Zhou Ming was away at night, but was replaced by other researchers. This project can be said to have never stopped 24 hours a day.

And when Zhou Ming mentioned the International Mathematical Union in this sentence, Li Mingzhi had already guessed what Zhou Ming was going to tell him this time.

Regarding this year's Fields Medal of Mathematics, the discussion in Huaguo is much hotter than before, and in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology, whether it is teachers or students, their discussions are also Very intense.

Although part of the reason for this is that everyone thinks that one of the winners of the Fields Medal this year will definitely have Zhou Ming, but it is not this matter that everyone discusses the most, because this is already a certainty. Nothing to discuss.

What everyone discussed most was the number of winners of this year's Fields Medal and the specific winners.

The number of Fields Medals awarded each time is two to four, but the number is not fixed, sometimes it is two, sometimes it is four.

However, in the last three years of [-], [-] and [-], there were four Fields Medal winners. In addition, there are indeed many young people who have emerged in the field of mathematics in recent years. .

Regardless of whether it is by introducing quasi-complete spaces to transform arithmetic algebraic geometry into p-adic domains, and applying Galois representations and developing new cohomology theories, he was hired as the highest level at the University of Bonn in Germany at the age of 24 Professor - Peter Scholzer of W3 Professor.

Or proved the boundedness of Fano algebraic varieties and the Iranian mathematician Kocher Bilcar of the minimal model theory, or the comprehensive analysis of number theory, homogeneous dynamical system, topology and representation theory, solved the arithmetic object Indian-Australian mathematician Aksaj Venkatesh on long-standing problems with distributions...

This year's Fields Medal candidates are a bit more compared to previous ones, so everyone guesses that the number of Fields Medal winners this year should also be four.

But among the four winners of the Fields Medal this year, except for Zhou Ming, who is a sure thing, the other three are not [-]% able to win this medal.

Each of the three remaining winners has their own opinions.

Except for Zhou Ming who is [-]%, most people think that Peter Scholzer from Germany is the most likely to win the award. He participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad four times in high school and won three gold and one silver. He is also known as a genius juvenile.

If Zhou Ming, the dark horse, hadn't jumped out, Peter Scholzer would have been the most popular candidate for Fields this year.

With the remaining two slots, the consensus is less consistent, and no one is as widely recognized as Peter Scholzer.

Many students in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology believe that Zhou Ming's first doctoral student solved Zhou's conjecture last year, and Liu Haowen, a senior who has graduated this year, should also be able to win this year's Fields Medal. gain a place among the people.

Under such heated discussions, as a mathematician who was invited to give a lecture at the No.20 Second International Congress of Mathematicians in [-], how could Li Mingzhi not care about it.

If Zhou Ming hadn't spent all day in the laboratory of the Luzhou Institute of Life Sciences and couldn't find anyone, he would have found Zhou Ming a long time ago. Has he received the notice from the International Mathematical Union?

It's also fortunate that Zhou Ming has been busy with the "evolution" of genetic medicines since last year. Otherwise, before Zhou Ming received the email from the International Mathematical Union, Li Mingzhi would have gone to Zhou Ming's office every day without hesitation.

"Got it?" After hearing Zhou Ming finished speaking, Li Mingzhi's face was also full of joy, "I've been waiting for your call, and I'm still worried that you have been busy with experiments now, even if you received the International Mathematical Federation I will be notified, and I forgot to tell me.

I didn't expect you to remember to tell me about this after receiving the email.

By the way, it won't be rejected like other awards, right? "

"Yes, I contacted you as soon as I answered the email. However, it can't be regarded as a complete rejection, I just mean that I can't go to the scene to accept the award.

If they really do the same thing as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the establishment of the Crafford Award, and make the right awards in the form of the Internet, I don't need to go to the scene, I can spend an hour or two to receive an award. "Zhou Ming explained.

"I guessed that you might be like this, alas, it's up to you, this is also your own business."

After listening to Zhou Ming, Li Mingzhi sighed and said.

However, Zhou Ming finally made a call, and Li Mingzhi didn’t want to hang up so soon, so he continued to say to Zhou Ming: “The few graduate students of your mathematics asked me some questions before, and I heard from them that you gave them The set topic is Hail conjecture.

Your Zhou's conjecture and hailstone conjecture are all left to your students to solve. Are you planning to not study specific mathematical problems yourself in the future? "

"No, isn't it usually busy and no time?" Zhou Ming explained.

After receiving confirmation from Zhou Ming that he would not, Li Mingzhi said again: "Liu Haowen's entry procedures have been completed, I chatted with him, and the topic he plans to study next has also been determined, which is related to Hodge's conjecture. I was wondering at the time. , which is very different from his undergraduate and postgraduate research directions.

Later, I heard from him that you recommended him to conduct research in this area. Are you going to solve the Hodge conjecture next? "

"Well, but it's still early." Zhou Mingdao, he didn't expect that he would call Li Zhizhi to talk about the email from the International Mathematical Union, but Li Zhizhi seemed to have endless words .

Hearing what Zhou Ming said, Li Mingzhi immediately beamed with joy. This was even more exciting than when he heard Zhou Ming say that he had received an email from the International Mathematical Union.

However, Li Mingzhi also knows that Zhou Ming is currently busy researching the "evolution" of genetic medicine, and there is definitely no time in a short period of time. If he really has to wait for him to start formally studying Hodge's conjecture, he will have to wait a few years for him to complete the genetic medicine" After the development of "evolution".

(End of this chapter)