From all-round academic master to chief scientist

Shang Peking University.

Formerly known as the Capital University, this century-old prestigious school has gone through many ups and downs, but what has never changed is the beautiful scenery where it was founded.

At this moment, nearly a dozen people were gathered on a lawn near the International Institute of Mathematics at Beijing University.

Among these ten or so people, several are mathematics professors from the School of Mathematical Sciences. Xu Ji and Zhou Wu are among them. In addition, there are several big bosses, including the dean, who are also here, so that from time to time, people around them When some students passed by, they saw these big guys and wanted to come up and say hello.

However, when they wanted to say hello, Zhou Wu waved his hand towards them to stop them.

Although he is the deputy director of the Mathematics Department, as the most junior among these bosses, he is responsible for keeping these students from shouting.

As for why random shouting is not allowed, it is because there is an interview going on in the middle.

The photographer from Huaqing Daily set up a camera and pointed the lens at a young student.

It was Lin Xiao.

Standing opposite him was a reporter from Huaqing Daily, a beautiful young female reporter named Zou Xiaoling.

"Hello, classmate Lin Xiao."

"Hello, Reporter Zou." Lin Xiao had a smile on his face, very sincere.

He had no choice but to be sincere when faced with the 1.5 million offered by Beijing University.

So even though he was not a student of Shangjing University yet, he went to Shangjing University to be interviewed. Take a look at the Boya Tower that happened to be exposed behind him, and the Weiming Lake with a few ducks swimming on it.

This soft advertisement is absolutely perfect.

"Haha, I really didn't expect that classmate Lin Xiao, who can solve world-class problems, is actually so young. Are you really seventeen years old this year?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Actually, one thing I want to correct is that I am 18 years old this year, born in 2000, and my birthday is in February."

"Of course, if we count based on the time when I sent the paper to the Annals of Mathematics, in January, I was indeed 17 years old and under 18."

"So that's the case, but it's pretty much the same. Whether you're 17 or 18, it's very impressive to be able to achieve something like that." Reporter Zou smiled and continued: "Then, I don't know what to do. How do you feel about such an achievement?"

"In terms of reflections, it's quite good. At least it proves that what I studied is meaningful." Lin Xiao replied with a smile, "As for being able to get so much recognition, that can be regarded as an additional meaning. .”

"Haha, it seems that Lin Xiao is a person who loves to learn. I heard that you are still in the third year of high school. Are you starting to study college mathematics by yourself now?" The female reporter nodded and then asked.

"Well, I have basically read all the undergraduate mathematics books, and now I have started to study the content for graduate students." Lin Xiao nodded.

"Wow, that's really amazing." The female reporter couldn't help but admire. Every time she interviewed such a young but powerful person, she had to feel sincerely ashamed of the gap between people.

It's really incomparable.

"So you used the university knowledge you learned to solve a world-class problem. How did you feel about the difficulty during the process of solving it? Is it difficult? After all, it is a world-class problem."

"The difficulty must be difficult." Lin Xiao nodded, convinced, and at the same time recalled the nine hours he spent solving this problem, "It was really a torturous nine hours..."

The female reporter was stunned: "Nine hours?"

"That's right." Lin Xiao said: "It took me nine hours to do it. It was the first time I encountered such a difficult question. When I did other competition questions before, it only took me an hour at most. .”

In fact, being able to write it in nine hours has a lot to do with the time the sage had at the time. Otherwise, God knows how long it would have taken him to finish it.

However, when he said this, everyone around him fell silent.

What they were thinking at this time was the same as Xu Hongbing's.

Nine hours, just say Jill!

If you can come up with a paper that can be published in the four top journals in ninety hours, you are considered awesome. But if you finish it in nine hours, are you still not a human being?

Are you comparing it to the competition questions you did? Are they on the same level?

Even the female reporter who didn't know much about mathematics felt that this was a bit outrageous. In the end, she could only laugh twice and said: "You are indeed a mathematical genius. In addition, I am also very curious, why did you want to solve it in the first place?" What about this question?"

Lin Xiao touched his nose. Now it was his turn to be embarrassed.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Lin Xiao's appearance, the female reporter asked.

"Okay, actually it's like this..."

Lin Xiao finally told the situation truthfully.

After hearing what Lin Xiao said, everyone present felt a sense of déjà vu.

Why is it so like the situation of Gauss, the Prince of Mathematics?

Re-engraving a classic?

Then Gauss spent one night solving the problem of how to use a ruler and compass to make a regular heptagon, and Lin Xiao spent nine hours proving a prime number problem?

Is this a coincidence between geniuses?

Everyone present realized that no matter what, when this story spreads, as long as Lin Xiao can achieve certain achievements in mathematics in the future, even if it is inferior to Gauss, it is very likely that the position used to promote Gauss's deeds will be used in future textbooks. It will all turn into publicizing Lin Xiao's deeds.

The interview continued after that, but the several Peking University mathematics professors standing next to him could only sigh in their hearts.

Lin Xiao's answers to every question in the interview made them feel incredible.

Let's just say that Lin Xiao has read all the books for undergraduate mathematics. With such an eagerness to learn, he is definitely the kind of student that teachers like them can only dream of.

Xu Ji also remembered that when he found Lin Xiao, the student was listening to Li Qun's report on representation theory and even understood it. Later, Zhou Wu said that when he found Lin Xiao, Lin Xiao was actually giving a speech to the person next to him. It should be a postdoctoral girl explaining a problem in the report.

The postdoc didn't even understand it, but he actually understood it and was able to explain it to others.

In this regard, Xu Ji could only say that he was going to make a decision about this student in the future, and even Jesus could not stop him. He said so.

Of course, one of the admission conditions provided by Beijing University to Lin Xiao was that he could choose any three professors to be his mentors after entering the school.

Looking at it now, let alone three, even if you choose ten, it is estimated that no professor in the entire college is willing to refuse.

Among this group of professors, there was actually a professor from the Department of Mathematics of Qinghua University who came to spy on the military situation.

Watching Lin Xiao's interview, he couldn't help but said bitterly: "I'm not from your school, and you still let me interview you here. How can I be embarrassed?"

"Can you take care of it?" Xu Ji said.

Qinghua’s professors were even more upset. Why couldn’t they get such students?

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