From all-round academic master to chief scientist

"Ah, my waist."

After getting off the plane, Sun Yu stretched his body and rubbed his waist.

Sitting on a plane for more than eleven hours is obviously not a comfortable thing.

Not to mention Sun Yu, several other people also looked uncomfortable. They felt that their buttocks were no longer their own, and their legs were almost numb.

Moreover, they couldn’t sleep well on the plane. The engine was rumbling. They were inexperienced and didn’t even buy earplugs or eye masks.

As a result, the fighting spirit that had been cheered up by the encouragement received from other passengers before taking off had already been castrated.

Now they just want to have a good sleep.

However, Lin Xiao was the only one who didn't feel anything. Looking at this person, he looked like he was dancing the Yangko dance, and asked doubtfully: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"Shouldn't we be the ones asking you, why don't you feel uncomfortable at all?" Ouyang Sheng asked with his hands on his hips.

"It's okay." Lin Xiao spread his hands, "I can sit like this for a whole day when I usually study."

Ouyang Sheng was speechless.

"God is worthy of being a God, and it is not something that we, mortals, can fathom."

"It turns out that there is still a big gap between us and Lin Shen."

"God damn waist." Lin Xiao went up and beat Zou Ziyi who shouted this.

As for why he didn't feel anything, it probably had something to do with the health capsule. I didn't expect this thing to be so powerful.

It seems that if you want to study well, you must first have a good waist.

"Okay, let's go, let's go to the hotel."

At this time, Professor Chen Qiusheng, the deputy team leader who was also rubbing his old waist, said something to them, so they left the place together without saying any more.

After arriving at the booked hotel, they had to catch up on the jet lag for the next day. There is a 5-hour time difference between Romania and China, which is almost half a day. In order to ensure that they can have enough energy on the day of the exam, it is still very difficult to catch up on the jet lag. Necessary.

Then the opening ceremony will be held tomorrow, July 8, and every participant must attend, and the day after tomorrow will be the first day of the exam.

However, they don't want to worry about these things for the time being, because they just want to have a good sleep at this time.

So the group went directly back to their rooms and began to rest.

…………

In this way, the day passed quietly, and on July 8, the opening ceremony officially began.

Following deputy team leader Chen Qiusheng, Lin Xiao and the others arrived at the opening ceremony, where more than 100 countries, more than 600 contestants, and more than 300 team leaders and observers, plus the conference committee members, and Some mathematicians who received the invitation and had time to come and participate, totaled over a thousand people.

With the lively atmosphere, the faces of different races, and the smiles on everyone's faces, perhaps only such an academic event can allow people from different countries to temporarily put aside their grievances and truly come together.

Lin Xiao looked at this place and sighed: "This place is really nice."

"What?"

Sun Yu asked next to him.

"Nothing." Lin Xiao shook his head. It would be great if the world's academic research could have such a situation.

Without further ado, they walked in, were guided by the staff to their seats, and sat down.

When people from other countries around saw a group of Chinese faces approaching, and then heard what they said, they naturally knew that they were Chinese players.

As a strong team in IMO, Huaguo is still quite eye-catching.

Of course, others observe them, and they observe others.

Li Boyuan said with emotion: "I just realized that there are still many girls who are good at mathematics."

Everyone else nodded in agreement, because there were also female faces among the contestants from other countries at the scene, including some beautiful ladies.

"Look at that, guys, I feel like I'm in love."

Ouyang Sheng pointed to a certain seat and said secretly, but at this moment, he quickly put down his hand and looked in another direction.

Lin Xiao asked: "Why don't you continue watching?"

"She looked over."

Lin Xiao: "...cowardly."

Sun Yu: "Learn more from Lin Shen. A hundred years from now, these will be just pink skeletons. And you have to know that foreign women tend to look older. Now they are seventeen or eighteen years old, which is their best age."

Ouyang Sheng: "I've always liked eighteen-year-olds."

Sun Yu: "You're a math student and you still want to be the King of Neptune? Just dream."

Ouyang Sheng: "...It seems so."

They study mathematics and want to find a girlfriend?

Write a letter to your girlfriend that says r=a(1-sinθ)?

Or (x+y-1)=xy?

Sorry, girls nowadays don't accept this. Unless this girl also studies mathematics, and your mathematics is better than this girl, otherwise, you will only get the sentence "straight guy who studies mathematics".

Several boys sighed in unison, looking melancholy.

Suddenly, at this moment, someone around him exclaimed: "Professor Pompieri!"

Because it was in English, Sun Yu and the others who were not good at English did not react for a while, but they couldn't help but turn their heads to look at such a loud voice.

I saw an old man walking along the aisle over there, and those voices were calling him.

Hearing this name, some of the people present immediately remembered it.

Professor Enrique Pompieri, an Italian, is a mathematics researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the winner of the 1974 Fields Medal.

1974 was obviously a long time ago, so Professor Pompieri is now quite old, and he looks to be in his seventies or eighties.

This makes people around me wonder, at such an old age, do you still have time to come to the IMO competition?

Professor Pompieri heard the sounds around him, smiled kindly at the people around him, and then continued to walk forward, and finally walked towards... the seats of the Chinese national team?

Everyone around looked over curiously.

On the Chinese team's side, Professor Chen Qiusheng looked at the Fields Medalist walking towards them, feeling very confused.

If someone hadn't shouted over there, he wouldn't have recognized that this was the Fields Medal winner. In recent years, probably because of his old age and physical problems, this big shot has rarely appeared in front of people. His fame had long since faded, and of course he didn't recognize it.

But what is this big boss doing here?

At this moment, Professor Pompieri spoke: "Excuse me, are you the Chinese team?"

"Yes, Professor Pompieri." Professor Chen Qiusheng nodded.

Professor Pompieri's eyes lit up and he continued to ask: "So, is Mr. Lin Xiao one of your participating team members?"

I went to have my wisdom teeth extracted this morning, but it was a bit late.

The doctor just hit him with a hammer, it was so scary...