From all-round academic master to chief scientist

[Mr. Lin, thank you for your outstanding contribution to the problem of prime numbers. Your steps in constructing functions in "Proof of the Existence of Infinitely Many Prime Numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence" inspired me a lot. The email is attached I have received my new paper and asked Mr. Lin to review it. 】

Lin Xiao couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this email.

"This seems to be the professor who left me the comment?"

The comment that Professor Sanak left for him was the 'culprit' that made him so famous now.

Of course, Lin Xiao is also feeling pain and happiness now. Although he has been paid attention to by many people, he has also received many rewards. The 1.5 million from Beijing University has doubled the more than one million he originally received.

Then he wrote back a letter to express his gratitude. No matter what, he was a big man who won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He was just an ordinary high school student who had solved a world mathematics problem.

"Lin Shen, today is the last day of class, why don't you go?"

At this time, Sun Yu shouted to him.

"Oh, go right away and wait for me to send you an email."

"send email?"

"Well, Professor Sarnak from Princeton University sent me a thank-you letter, and I have to send him a reply."

Sun Yu: "...As expected of the God of Forest."

This ordinary sentence put on a hint of coolness.

Soon, Lin Xiao sent an email and went to class with Sun Yu.

Today is May 15th, the last day of the first training. After class, you can go home tomorrow. The next time you come back will be a month later, and you will be ready to participate in the competition.

As for the last class, there was nothing much to say. Teacher Li Huaimin briefly summarized the learning results of the month and praised their performance.

Although Lin Xiao has been studying graduate-level mathematics content, he has not given up on practicing for the Olympiad. As he now does more and more questions, he can guarantee that basically all tests will be done two hours early. , sometimes even handing in papers three hours in advance.

For the study of college mathematics, it is not only his knowledge that has been strengthened, but his ability to apply knowledge has also been improved to a considerable extent. Therefore, it is no longer difficult for him to solve such questions that are simply prepared for the test. .

As for the other five people, after this month of training, the improvement they have received is also visible to the naked eye. In short, they come to ask Lin Xiao less often, which is enough to prove that they have greatly improved.

In this way, as the class ended, Li Huaimin announced that the training was over. They had a meal together in the afternoon, and took the transportation home the next day and returned to their respective homes.

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Time passed quickly, more than half a month later.

June 4th.

Jincheng Middle School.

The college entrance examination is coming up in three days. According to previous rules, there will be no classes in the last two days, so today's senior high school students have already packed their classrooms and schoolbags, and are ready to take graduation photos.

On the playground, the students in Class 1 of Science all put on their bachelor's uniforms and stood on the steps for a group photo. The boys stood in the two rows at the back, the girls stood in the two rows in front, and the teachers and school leaders sat at the front.

However, there is one exception.

As one of the most outstanding students of Jincheng Middle School over the years, Lin Xiao was pushed to seat C in the first row by her classmates and teachers, and sat with Principal Hu.

Principal Hu also smiled and patted his hand and said, "Just sit here with peace of mind. Maybe this group photo will remain in the history of our school in the future."

Lin Xiaoduo was a low-key person, so of course he thought it would be better if he stood in the boys' row, but he had no choice but to sit down obediently because the principal said so.

When the photo studio master saw that everything was fine, he began to give instructions. Soon, "3! 2! 1!"

"eggplant!"

Everyone shouted in unison, and then the picture was frozen on the camera.

"good!"

The master took one look at the finished film and clapped his hands and shouted, and the whole class also clapped with smiles on their faces.

With this photo taken, it also means that they and these classmates who have been with them for three years have finally reached the final step.

Afterwards, everyone came down the steps one by one. As for the photos and so on, they went to the photo studio to get them by themselves. Every classmate found his best friend and chatted. Some boys even ran away Go and confess to the girl you had a crush on.

As for Lin Xiao, Principal Hu held his hands with both hands and said with a smile: "Classmate Lin Xiao, your high school is over, but you still have a long life. I hope you can have a bright future." further."

"Thank you, principal." Lin Xiao nodded.

"Well, I won't say much else. You are already outstanding. If I weren't more than forty years older than you, I probably wouldn't be able to talk to you like this." Principal Hu said with emotion: "Then, I wish you the best. The future is bright, but when you return...you are still a young man."

When talking about "still a teenager", Principal Hu's words are full of the sincere expectations of elders for younger generations.

"Thank you principal. I also wish the principal good health and success in work."

"Haha, thank you."

Principal Hu nodded, then patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder and said, "Okay, go say goodbye to your classmates. I don't know when we will see you next time."

"Um."

Lin Xiao nodded and looked at Principal Hu's back as he turned away. Although he and the old principal had not spoken many times, it could be seen that the old principal had expectations for every student.

This is the true educator.

Shaking his head, Lin Xiao walked to the group of male classmates with whom he was close. Chen Ang was also here. When he saw Lin Xiao approaching, he shouted with a smile: "Old Lin, we are rich and noble, don't forget each other."

Lin Xiao waved his hand: "No problem."

Several other boys also started teasing Lin Xiao. On the last day, everyone just talked about whatever they had.

Otherwise, after going to college in the future, the only time we can get together will probably be during the Spring Festival every year.

"Lin Shen, when are you going to participate in IMO?"

"I will go to Beijing in July or mid-June."

"Awesome."

"666!"

Several classmates sighed with emotion. In the past, some people said that studying was useless, but now look at Lin Xiao, how amazing he is, and he can directly honor his ancestors.

At this time, Jiang Jie came over. This top student who once regarded Lin Xiao as a competitor looked at Lin Xiao with complicated eyes.

He already knew that Lin Xiao was not comparable to him at all. He could no longer even compare to Lin Xiao's current level.

Therefore, he had long lost the motivation to compete with Lin Xiao, and he no longer regarded Lin Xiao as his imaginary opponent.

He said: "Lin Xiao, I wish you... get the gold medal in the IMO competition."

Lin Xiao turned his head and glanced at Jiang Jie. After being stunned for a moment, he nodded with a smile: "Thank you, I'll just wait for the good news then."

Although Jiang Jie's character was not very likable, the two of them had never had any substantial conflicts, so Lin Xiao didn't have a bad impression of him. After all, everyone has their differences.

Seeing Lin Xiao's appearance, Jiang Jie breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he didn't hate him, it was just because of his own psychology.

But at the same time, he felt lonely. Maybe it was because Lin Xiao didn't care at all about people like him who might not be able to pass the exam in Qingbei, right?

But he wanted to participate in the world competition, and he solved a world problem in high school and published a top journal in mathematics. Even Beijing University and Qinghua University wanted to compete.

The gap in between... He could only say in the end: "Yeah."

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