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Ning Wei discovered that the biggest advantage of being a well-known mathematician is that no one can refute his random mathematical theories. It was as if he could make Jiang Chenlu feel ashamed of his ignorance with just a few words. This was definitely a very satisfying experience.

Really, when you need to quarrel, directly using your major to crush it can often bring unexpected results, especially in mathematics. If there are few people who understand, there will naturally be fewer people who dare to question.

This also made Ning Wei feel in a good mood when he went out. He felt even better when he saw his neighbor Liu Wei opening the door at the opposite side almost at the same time. He smiled and said hello: "Brother Liu, to be honest, are you secretly talking to me?" Is there surveillance or bugging installed in your home? Otherwise, how can you grasp the time so well every day, and you don’t need me to knock on the door to remind you."

Liu Wei quickly replied: "It has nothing to do with surveillance. Just master your living habits and footsteps. You go out about five minutes later than the two sisters every day, and your footsteps are different from theirs. Or everyone The footsteps are all different."

"Oh, so Brother Liu, you just sat at the door and eavesdropped on our activities when you got up in the morning?" Ning Wei nodded and said suddenly.

Liu Wei smiled bitterly and could only reply: "My ears are better, so I don't need to sit at the door and eavesdrop."

"Haha, I know, Brother Liu, I'm joking with you." Ning Wei said with a smile, and then became serious the next moment, and said seriously: "But you must not eavesdrop at night. After all, Liu Brother, you are still a cute single dog."

The turn was a bit too sharp, and before Liu Wei could even hide the bitter smile, Ning Wei showed it to her face, and then stared blankly.

Just as he was about to have a good argument with Ning Wei, great mathematicians would not bully others like this. The young scholar took the lead in walking down the stairs with a confident step: "Let's go, why are you standing there?" ? Do you really want to eavesdrop in the middle of the night?"

"I don't have that hobby!" Liu Wei said dullly.

"Oh? Let me ask you a more personal question, Brother Liu, have you ever done anything wrong?"

"Sorry, I refuse such boring questions."

"Haha, I knew you hadn't! Well, actually I haven't either, but I think I must be ahead of you..."

"..."

…

Talking about boring topics with Liu Wei on the road made the iron-clad knight suffocated until he had nothing to say. Ning Wei felt that his mood was much brighter. When he walked into the office, poured himself a glass of water, turned on the computer, and immediately logged into Weibo. He had to read the email he had written to Professor Flender to see if it could make him happier. Well, who doesn’t want to be happy every day?

Ning Wei still trusts March's copywriting ability, which is also one of March's most important abilities.

In the future, those copywriting that we really want to write and must write, but are too lazy to write ourselves can be handed over to March. Of course, this still requires him to continue to develop the level of intelligence in March. So far, it doesn't matter if your friends and businessmen use it with you, but if it is scaled up to be used by humans all over the world, the effect will be obvious. Homogeneous copywriting that exceeds the standard will embarrass everyone.

Because this short essay is positioned and required to be a letter sent to an American mathematics tutor, it is naturally written in English. Reading is naturally not a problem for Ning Wei. Many netizens may not understand it, but it doesn’t matter, anyway. The target readers must be able to understand it.

Judging from past practice, when Ning Wei's Weibo was not as popular as it is now, every Weibo post he posted ended up appearing on the Internet without exception. Therefore, pure English expression can quickly target the people who should see this Weibo.

In fact, Ning Wei had done the same thing before, and the sword he thrust at Lucason Flanders was also written in English. However, March obviously handled it better than him. The email was published in the form of pictures, and the copy was in Chinese and English: "This should be regarded as a belated letter of apology, addressed to the respected Professor Flender."

Then there is the original text of the email in the picture:

"Dear Professor Flanders: Hello! I am Ning Wei. Please allow me to call myself your student. Although you have not given me any guidance in mathematics, you are my well-deserved mentor in life. Maybe you have a deep understanding of life. The title "mentor" is questionable, but please don't worry, I will slowly explain everything to you next, and I believe you will be honored after reading it."

"I remember that it was only a year ago. I was still an ignorant undergraduate student who only focused on delving into the mysteries of mathematics. I hoped that I could delve deeper into the direction of partial differential equations. I am honored that you and I had the same topic selection at that time. We also chose the same topic. I took the NS equation as the research topic. After unremitting efforts, I finally got some ideas and proposed a new type of space solution method that is different from Gevrey analytic space and Sobolev space. Now everyone seems to call it Ning's space. .”

"But at that time, the ignorant math boy just wanted my research to be seen by more people, so he decisively submitted the manuscript to the "Annals of Mathematics". Do you remember? You were also one of the reviewers at the time. In order to tell In my world, it is not that you can get rich rewards if you study hard in academics. It was you who risked the disapproval of the world and single-handedly prevented my paper from being published in the "Annals of Mathematics."

"Please allow me to say sorry. At that time, I was still ignorant of the dangers of this world. I was even deceived by villains and made some disrespectful remarks against you. I even made you angry and sent you to the hospital! Only now do I really understand I know that you actually did that for my own good at that time. Because it was your guidance to me at that time that made me understand that the sun is not always shining on the path of pursuing the truth, and there is also darkness that the sun cannot penetrate."

"It is precisely because of your teachings that I made up my mind and spent nearly a month without sleep to reorganize the completed turbulence algorithm and add many parts that could mislead my senior colleagues in the industry. Through the reduction of specific functions. Really, without you, I might have submitted the final draft of the prepared turbulence algorithm directly without you. The idea of ​​the original and pure version of the turbulence algorithm in that paper is the same as The code will bring unbearable losses to me now."

"People often understand who is truly good to them only after experiencing the vicissitudes of life. Unfortunately, they are often blinded by their youth at the time and cannot distinguish between good and bad. Fortunately, it is not too late for me to understand, but After understanding your painstaking efforts, I am even more disturbed by the rude words I once made, so I hope you can provide me with a private account, and I will send you one million to express my gratitude and gratitude to the young people you once had. Apology for ignorance.”

"Your juniors and students: Ning Wei."

…

It took me about a minute to read this short essay, and overall Ning Wei was actually very satisfied with it. It was the last million that Ningwei felt was a little inappropriate. If the old professor was really shameless, he replied to his email and sent him a private account. He didn't want to give it to him, and he didn't want to break his promise.

"In March, what's the point of one million yuan?"

"There is no one million yuan? There is only one million yuan, and there is no unit. This is to express your sincerity more truly. Of course, if he really wants the one million yuan and sends the account number, the right to explain is yours. For example, you can To remit one million Korean won, it is about 5,500 yuan according to the current exchange rate. If you are more shameless, dad, you can also choose one million Lao kip, so one million Lao kip is equivalent to about 650 yuan. , or one million South Guilds worth about 280 yuan. In short, you can choose any foreign currency recognized in the foreign exchange derivatives market."

After receiving March's explanation, Ning Wei turned around and looked at the original text of the email. Sure enough, it was only one million, and there was no unit behind it. Sure enough, what bad thoughts could a kitten have? How could you attack the wallet of the person you are closest to?

Looking at the one million like this, I really feel that it is much more pleasing to the eye, and it can better express my true feelings, except that the layout is a little smaller.

Ning Wei felt that one million could actually be changed to 100 million, which would further show his gratitude. Even if I transfer 100 million South Guidance to this big boss, it is only RMB 28,000, less than 5,000 US dollars. He seems to be able to afford it. Speaking of which, March is so sensible that it breaks my heart. She really knows how to save money for him. Money.

"Okay, there's nothing else to do. I mainly want to praise you for writing a good essay. Go and do your work."

"Goodbye!" The kitten shook its tail, then twisted around and disappeared into the computer.

Really, it is definitely the ultimate dream of many scientific researchers to have such an assistant who is available at a moment's notice, who is obedient, sensible, and is particularly good at writing essays.

…

Not surprisingly, everyone who should have seen this Weibo has seen it, such as the big guys at Cisco, especially Huang Yunjian. After all, his most important task at this stage can be summarized as Ning Wei must not be allowed to talk nonsense on public social platforms. As soon as he received this task, the president of Cisco Greater China downloaded the Weibo software on his mobile phone. , also paid special attention to Ning Wei and allowed the software to push messages to him.

Really, when he saw the latest news pushed by Weibo early in the morning, "The person you follow posted a Weibo." Huang Yunjian's heart almost jumped into his throat. After all, this was so terrible. It was not even a day yet, but he was planning to visit Ning Wei in the morning to talk about this matter. Why did this guy just post a Weibo message so unexpectedly?

After subconsciously clicking on the Weibo content and seeing the brief copy on Weibo, President Huang breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, Cisco didn't seem to be on the table. Then Huang Yunjian read the contents of the two pictures below very carefully. After reading the first two paragraphs, he felt thankful again. He would rather be grateful not to Cisco, but to Professor Lucason Flanders.

After he read this letter, really, he suddenly wanted to thank this old gentleman from Princeton University, a former Fields Medal winner. If what this letter describes is true, he believes that at least tens of thousands of software engineers around the world and by extension hundreds of thousands of practitioners in related industries will want to express their most sincere gratitude to this older generation of mathematician.

Before learning that he was going to deal with this young Chinese mathematician, Huang Yunjian asked his secretary to collect all the previous information about Ning Wei. And I read these materials at least three times in the business class of the plane from Hangzhou to Beijing. Naturally, he was very clear about the grievances between Ning Wei and Mr. Lucason Flanders.

I didn't feel anything when I watched it. It's nothing more than a big shot using the connections and resources he has accumulated over the years to delay the rise of a young mathematician. He may also want to steal the mathematical ideas. How should I put it, I have seen this kind of thing a lot, so of course I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. Similar calculations and methods abound in the shopping mall. Compared with the darkness he has experienced, the old professor's method is really innocent.

It’s just that it’s obvious that Professor Flender has picked the wrong person. The rise of some geniuses is inherently unstoppable. But I didn't expect that there would be such a thing at that time...

Huang Yunjian immediately found Ning Wei's information and began to search for the timeline above. Sure enough, according to the information, the first letter about the turbulence algorithm was published on November 15th, and the second article was published in Science around December Christmas, which is enough to show that the turbulence algorithm has been designed. , began the laboratory testing phase.

The last paper with the complete mathematical ideas and code of the turbulence algorithm was at the end of March of the following year. It happened to be about a month after the news revealed that the editor-in-chief of the "Annals of Mathematics" Connerson sent an email to Ning Wei. We collected the time when Ning Wei registered the turbulence algorithm patent, and everything seems to be going right!

how to say……

Although he knew that Ning Wei was giving eye drops to an old professor who had cheated him, Huang Yunchian was still furious! Assuming that the old professor hadn't caused such a fuss at that time, then the mathematical ideas of the turbulence algorithm and the final code that everyone has seen from science are pure versions without any technical processing, so naturally there would not be so many troubles now. .

Thinking that this math tycoon might have caused billions of losses to many companies, and thinking that if this incident hadn't happened at that time, he wouldn't have had to humbly watch a man not much older than his son in Ning Wei's office. The young man was pretending to be cool, and at the same time he was thinking about how to make this young man happier. Thinking that he would have to pretend to be a grandson for the second time when he was so old, Huang Yunchian immediately flew to the United States to thank this young man. Professorial impulse.

Of course, all he can do now is save these two Weibo screenshots to his mobile phone immediately, and then combine them with his timeline and send them via mobile email to the mailbox of Luo Zhuoke, the company boss who is directly responsible for him in the special stage. . There is only so much he can do at the moment. Of course, his purpose in sending these messages is definitely not to help Ning Wei disgust Professor Flender. It is simply to let the company's bosses know more about what they have to face. Characteristics of the young mathematician so as not to make wrong judgments.

After all, only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle!

…

Huang Yunjian's actions probably caused Cisco executives to see Ning Wei's Weibo five minutes earlier. Yes, it's only so much earlier, and even one more minute doesn't exist. At this sensitive time, Huang Yunjian was definitely not the only one staring at Ning Wei's Weibo, and the pictures used in this Weibo happened to be in English. Those pictures full of letters could be understood by everyone without even needing to be translated.

It's just the time difference that makes Silicon Valley's response a little slower. After all, it's already off-duty time. Even if a special person is assigned a special task, it's impossible to ask for more. When Cisco executives, including Zhuo Ke, read the content of this letter, their first feeling was that they were confused, very confused.

Anyone who can reach the top of the pyramid in any industry is not a fool. No matter how upright anyone is after reading this email, they will probably not really think that Ning Wei is thanking Professor Flender. On the contrary, I don’t know how strong the smell of the eye drops is. But after reading this email and comparing the situation at that time, it makes people feel uncomfortable when thinking of the name Lucason Friend.

how to say? This is like a brother named Cisco who was walking on the road and suddenly saw a bright yellow thing that looked like a gold ingot lying nearby. When Brother Cisco saw it, he was immediately moved and ran over to get the gold ingot. When he reached out to pick up the gold ingot, he discovered that it was a piece of fresh cake. Cisco was so unconvinced that he even subconsciously licked it, confirming that it was indeed cake.

So the question is, why does this lump of cake look so much like a gold ingot? Cisco accidentally learned the truth. It turned out that it was indeed a gold ingot, but a wizard named Lucason Flanders had just passed by, and he didn't know what he thought. He used witchcraft to turn the gold ingot into a gold ingot. He had just pooped his baby, and it was still stuck to his hands and tongue. If he didn’t wash it, he would be disliked wherever he went. Wash it, and visually he might be pooped clean...

Of course, the Cisco brothers here can also be replaced by Ericsson, or almost any other network equipment company that has tried to imitate the turbulence algorithm and is at a loss at the moment. Not to mention that the impact of this farce is not limited to the internal network communication equipment. The contracts have spread its influence to all walks of life, and even made countless knowledgeable financial industry executives tremble.

If you add in the engineers and coders who worked overtime for this matter but had to bear the blame, as well as the technical executives who were forced to resign, and the negative emotions of these people have to be taken into account, everyone will find out the truth at this time It doesn't really matter what it is, because at this time, there is just a lack of a scapegoat who can take it all down and show that everyone is not so stupid!

From this point of view, Ning Wei chose such an opportunity to send such an email and made the email public, which was an obvious conspiracy. Even though he knew that Ning Wei was taking revenge, in the current environment, Ning Wei was able to introduce such an outlet that allowed everyone to vent their emotions. In a sense, those big bosses who were at the center of the pressure I have to thank him.

Of course, this did make many people have a deeper impression of Ning Wei's temperament. In the shopping mall, the most difficult person to offend is never a modest gentleman. Of course, it is difficult for a true gentleman to have the last laugh in an environment of intrigue. But people always have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Who would be willing to provoke a guy who is bound to retaliate if he has no choice?

Think about it, it has been more than a year since Lucassen Friend dragged Ning Wei away from his dissertation. At that time, Ning Wei even sent the boss to the hospital because of the emotion he posted on Weibo. According to common sense, this matter should be over. But this young Chinese scientist chose this most sensitive period to bring out this old thing again, and this time his attack was even faster and more accurate, without giving the opponent any chance to counterattack. This is an attempt to kill a world-famous senior figure in mathematics...

Of course, in the information age, no one could stop this news from spreading. After reading the email from Huang Yunchian, Luo Zhuoke was silent for a moment, and then forwarded it directly to many people. Of course, in this simple process, it is inevitable to curse.

"This idiot!"

…

In Princeton, United States, night has fallen, but Lucason Friend is still working hard in his office. His group is still researching NS equations, but the only difference is that the direction has been changed. He hopes to find the ultimate secret of fluid calculation through a description that is different from Euler and Lagrangian. He hopes to bypass Ning's theory. spatial methods to solve mathematical problems that have plagued the world for many years.

This involves the dignity of a master of mathematics in his later years and cannot be slacked off. For this reason, he even gave up the habit that he had persisted for twenty years - walking on campus every morning. Of course, it can also be understood that this was actually thanks to Ning Wei. After all, I used to take a walk every morning. The greatest pleasure was enjoying the respectful and awe-stricken eyes of those young students, not being pointed at from behind.

Big changes occurred in his later years, which also made this math master's temperament become much more extreme.

But this is often the case in life. The more you think about making some achievements to justify yourself, the easier it is to fall into a dead end. Especially since he is over sixty years old and has long passed the golden age of mathematical research. Now even when facing the manuscript papers on his desk, it is difficult to find the sudden inspiration he had when he was young. On the contrary, sitting still After a long time, I only felt tired from the bone marrow, and then I hated it even more.

Especially a few days ago, when he learned that the Wolf Prize in Mathematics had been awarded to Ning Wei, two cups in the office had already been broken. Give a lifetime achievement award to a young man in his twenties? In Friend's opinion, this is simply a disgrace to the mathematical community! Especially when this young man also made fun of the entire mathematical world, thinking of being hailed as the savior in March of that year, this industry leader wanted to vomit three liters of blood.

But he knew very well that no matter how angry he was, some facts couldn't be changed.

The turbulence algorithm and its release in March have already grasped the lifeblood of the giant industry of the current Internet and the future Internet of Things. This is a huge achievement that no one can deny. In other words, even if we don’t talk about Ning Wei’s contribution in promoting the understanding of NS equations, his current achievements are enough to be written into textbooks. This is the most embarrassing thing.

The young man he once tried to suppress has become a leader in the industry. It is hard to imagine that when he is a hundred years later, future generations will comment on last year's dispute in this way. An old word has been engraved in his mind, well, if he can be thirty years younger...

Just as this idea came to his mind, his cell phone rang. Lucasson glanced at the cell phone next to him. It was a call from Bernard, one of his former students. This student who came to the United States from the United Kingdom and settled in the United States is now an academician of the American Academy of Mathematics, a professor of mathematics at MIT, and a visiting professor at the Clay Institute of Mathematics. Of course, Flanders also helped, so the two The relationship between people has always been pretty good.

Lucason Friend took off his eyes, then picked up the phone, answered the call, and joked: "Bernard, it's not like you to call me at this time. I remember Susan didn't like it." You were in contact with any of your peers when you were at home, so you weren’t afraid of her kicking you out of the room?”

Seeing the familiar student's name coupled with the fact that he was recalling the prosperous years in the past made the boss feel much more comfortable at this time, and he even had the interest to joke casually.

Then the person on the other end of the phone ignored his teasing and said in a serious tone: "Lucasson, haven't you opened your mailbox tonight?"

"Email? What, did you send me an important email?" Lucason said, his hand already on the mouse.

"No, I didn't send you an email. Do you remember Ning Wei? That Chinese young man sent you an email. I just saw it. It was a screenshot of the email sent to me by a friend. He sent it to Your email has been published on the Internet. I think you may need to take a look at the content of this email, then consider some things, and be prepared. Lucasson, this time things are very difficult."

"Ning Wei?!" Upon hearing this name, the vague words and the heavy tone of his student, Lukassen felt his heart sink a little bit, and his blood pressure rose a little bit...

If we were to choose a name that Lucassen least wanted to hear right now, Ning Wei would definitely be at the top of the list. Unless he can directly step on this young Chinese man again and make him learn to respect an old man, Lucasson probably doesn't want to have anything to do with Ning Wei in his life.

And now this young man actually took the initiative to send him an email?

"Okay, I'm turning on the computer. Are the private emails sent to me published on the Internet? He wants to... wait a minute..."

In just one sentence, Lucason had already seen the email lying quietly in his work email. He had received it about fifteen minutes ago. The suffix of the email address indicated that the email came from a faraway eastern country.

He clicked on it and his words began to pause. The letter was actually not long, but without reading a single sentence, Lucason could feel his heartbeat speeding up, until he read the last sentence of the letter, " So I hope you can provide me with a private account, and I will send you one million to express my gratitude and apologize for my youth and ignorance."

What a thank you letter! Killing people and punishing the heart, this is killing people and killing the heart!

The beautiful scenes from the past that I just recalled began to fade away from my mind, and a sudden feeling of dizziness came over me...

"Lukason, Lukason, are you okay?"

Concerned words came from the phone, which made Lucason Friend stabilize his mind, sit upright again, and asked: "Tell me, Bernard would rather publish it in "Science" There’s really something wrong with the algorithm and code given in that paper, isn’t it?”

"I don't know much about this. After all, I don't research the direction of artificial intelligence, but you should also know about the chairman of Ericsson appearing in interviews with the media, right? I think if it weren't for something being grasped, he shouldn't have I will make that statement on the TV media."

Lucassen closed his eyes, opened them again, clamped the phone with his neck, and began to search for the video Bernard said on Google with both hands. After pressing the Enter key, a full screen of news popped up on the website. There was no need to go there. Watch the video and you can see the summarized opinions from the news.

The other person's explanation continued to come to his ears: "Actually, it's not just Ericsson. You should know that after the chairman made these remarks publicly, our people did not immediately express their position, which shows the seriousness of the matter. Clay Research We upgraded the network equipment before, but just yesterday we accepted the suggestion and changed back to the backup network."

Bernard's words were subtle, but any smart person would understand the underlying meaning. In many cases, all recent news must be combined and studied carefully to taste the flavor.

"I understand, Bernard, thank you for your reminder. Maybe I should take the initiative to resign, and I can still get some dignity." Lucason Flanders understood the implication of Bernard's words and murmured lowly.

"Teacher, I believe everything is temporary..."

"No need to comfort me Bernard, I understand what those people think. They will definitely sacrifice me to please that young man. They used to do this, and there will never be any exceptions. I am already old."

"Actually, there is another news that I think I should inform you. The institute has decided to award the Cray Research Award and the million-dollar bonus promised by the Millennium to him. As you know, Ning's space has been widely recognized by the mathematical community. , almost all recent research on NS equations cannot bypass the definition of Ning's space, and this news will be officially announced tonight. So Lucassen, there is really no need to be angry..."

How does it feel to return to the starting point after all your hard work in the second half of your life has been ruined...

It was probably the feeling of suddenly being unable to lift one breath.

"boom……"

"Lukason, Lukason..."

…

Huaxia, Institute of Mathematics, Yanbei University, Ning Wei’s Office.

When Huang Yunjian saw Ning Wei, he smiled flatteringly and said as soon as he saw it: "Dr. Ning, after careful research and careful discussion by various departments at the company headquarters, we are willing to accept the second plan you proposed. Of course, it will take some time to organize and prepare the data. You We can provide a set of operating standards for how we can cooperate here, and we will choose..."

"Wait a minute, Lao Huang, what is the second plan I mentioned yesterday?"