The top student must be diligent

Nodding to them, Xiao Yi stood up, buttoned up his formal suit, and then walked onto the podium in his shiny leather shoes.

He had just stood here to give a report in the morning, and in the evening, he stood here again to accept this glorious moment.

"Congratulations," Koenig said with a smile.

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."

"Let me put this medal on you."

Then, Koenig picked up the Fields Medal next to him, raised the ribbon, and said to Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi bowed his head slightly, and then put on the Fields Medal.

He picked it up and took a look.

The design of the medal is full of symbolic meaning, reflecting the history and culture of mathematics.

The front center is the head of Archimedes, symbolizing the long history and wisdom of mathematics. There is also a Latin inscription around the head: "TRANSIRE SUUM PECTUS MUNDOQUE POTIRI", which means "surpass your own thinking and master the world".

The back shows a group of spheres and reliefs, symbolizing the geometry of mathematics and the exploration of three-dimensional space. There is also a Latin inscription: "CONGREGATI EX TOTO ORBE MATHEMATICI OB SCRIPTA INSIGNIA TRIBUERE", which means "mathematicians around the world are awarded this prize for their outstanding works".

"This is the Fields Medal..."

Xiao Yi felt emotional.

Recalling the past few years.

The days and nights he spent studying mathematics.

Well...

I can achieve today's achievements, all thanks to my peerless wisdom, top talent, and years of hard work.

[Wuqing Lianxue], give me an upgrade!

Ahem...

In addition to the Fields Medal, there is also a certificate and a prize of 15,000 Canadian dollars, because Fields himself is a Canadian and his legacy is all Canadian dollars.

As all the prizes were awarded, Xiao Yi also held the medals and certificates in his hands, leaving his figure in front of the camera, and finally, he left the rostrum and returned to the audience.

The award ceremony of the conference continued, and there were also the Lilavati Award and the Abacus Award. However, as the most important Fields Medal, as the results were all announced, the news began to spread to the outside world.

The news that Xiao Yi won the award at the age of 19 and became the youngest winner in history also caused a stir again!

Chapter 176 Interview

On major social platforms, people are still discussing what the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem is, and what the significance of this problem is after it is solved. At the same time, on the major hot search lists, [Xiao Yi proves the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem] is still hanging in the first place.

But now, the second place has been occupied by [Xiao Yi won the Fields Medal], and the popularity of this hot search is still soaring, and it is no longer a problem to surpass the first place.

Especially those netizens who learned during the day that Xiao Yi might win the Fields Medal at the opening ceremony of ICM in the evening, many of them did not sleep until 12:30 in the middle of the night, and kept watching the live broadcast, so they also witnessed the process of Xiao Yi ascending the podium with their own eyes.

As a result, they also became one of the main driving forces for the spread of this matter.

Finally, all major group chats, forums and other platforms were full of discussions about this matter.

For example, in the forum.

Probably the Mathematics Forum never thought that their forum would one day be able to enter the forum hot list, and a post in the forum [Urgent! Xiao Shen really won the Fields Medal! ], even directly ranked first in the hot posts.

Friends from all walks of life flocked to this post and joined the discussion.

Although the forum friends can be extremely aggressive in various controversial matters, they all expressed praise for this matter.

[Awesome! The first mainland mathematician to win the Fields Medal, really amazing! ]

[Amazing among gods, and he is only 19 years old this year, which is really out of the ordinary, nine years younger than Jean-Pierre Searle who won the award at the age of 28! ]

[No, buddy, I am also 19 years old? So can I win the Nobel Prize by the end of the year? ]

[Humor, have you finished your homework? Why don't you do your homework now?]

[Humor, you're already in college at the age of 19, and you're doing your homework. Have you ever been to college?]

[What a joke, you don't do homework in college, right? What kind of fake college did you go to?]

[I always approve of the aggressiveness of the 8u, and they can still argue about this]

[No, this is not cheating? This is not cheating? This is not cheating?]

[Xiao Shen: If it's not turned off, it's on? If it's not turned off, it's on? If it's not turned off, it's on?]

[I traveled back from 50 years later. I'll tell you a secret. 50 years later, Xiao Yi revealed that he was an alien, and the next day the earth was ruled by aliens, so don't believe Xiao Yue￥……%\u0026……! @￥ # ]

[Brother? Keep talking?]

[I guess he's been sanctioned by aliens (sad)]

[Maybe it's the Spacetime Administration? (Sad)]

[This is really awesome, the Fields Medal, the Nobel Prize in mathematics. If I could win this award, wouldn't I be able to easily become a counselor at Kyoto University?]

[No, buddy... Do you really think so, or are you joking? 】

[No matter which one it is, it’s a bit too humorous]

[Looking at your potential, if I can win this award, why don’t the president of Beijing University invite me to be their lecturer? 】

【Discharged from hospital! 】

…

With the heated discussions on major forums and platforms, this night in China seemed a bit uneasy.

Of course, the same is true abroad. Although ordinary people do not know much about these things in academia, if a genius comparable to Einstein appears, it will naturally arouse widespread discussion.

At the same time, when the time came to the next day, major news media around the world also began their second effort.

During the interview, Tao Zhexuan gave his own opinion when faced with the reporter's question "Do you think Xiao Yi was too young to win the Fields Medal?"

"Well, compared to the ages of all winners of the Fields Medal in history, Xiao Yi's age is certainly too young."

"Of course what you need to know is that I am speaking from an objective point of view, not a subjective point of view. After all, 19 years old is quite young for any important award."

"If you want to ask me whether I think this is a good thing or a bad thing, then I would say you are being narrow-minded."

"This matter has been discussed for a long time, and I strongly agree with a sentence I saw before: The Fields Medal, as an award that limits the age of the recipient, is intended to reward those who are young enough and can make significant contributions in mathematics. Mathematicians who have achieved results, so as long as a mathematician reaches the threshold for winning the award, the younger he is, the more he should be rewarded, so that the purpose of the Fields Medal can be fully demonstrated, which is also in line with John The wishes of Mr. C. Fields.”

"Like those two lines of Latin on the Fields Medal: Beyond one's own mind and mastery of the world, mathematicians around the world award this award for their outstanding work."

"So, Xiao Yi deserves such an award."

Faced with Terence Tao's answer, the reporter continued to ask: "Don't you think this is unfair to those mathematicians who are about to be over 40 years old and have a chance to win the Fields Medal?"

Tao Zhexuan smiled: "No, I think it's fair, because they should compete with the other three main districts, not Xiao Yi."

"It would be unfair to them if you insist on letting them compete with Xiao Yi."

"Listen to me, even in the history of mathematics, there are not many people who dare to work with a person who proved the twin prime conjecture, Goldbach's conjecture, Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture, and Yang-Mills's existence and mass. The gap issue is for people to compete.”

…

In addition to Terence Tao, many other well-known scholars have also been interviewed and asked the same questions.

Faltings’ answer was very rude: “The Fields Medal is not for people with incompetent abilities. Let Xiao Yi wait 4 more years for someone who can only rely on luck to win the Fields Medal.” ? "What is he?"

Deligne's answer was relatively eccentric: "This person must be a powerful player to prove the Riemann Hypothesis, right?"

In addition, the physicist Edward Witten was also interviewed. He did not say anything about this matter. He just smiled and praised the International Mathematical Union: "IMU is indeed a very courageous academic organization, just like Just like when they awarded me the Fields Medal, I was quite surprised at the time. But now they are able to award the award to a 19-year-old young man, which fully demonstrates that they have indeed abided by the rules of award evaluation and did not All based on some stupid convention."

"At this point, I think the Nobel Prize selection committee deserves to learn something."

The reporter probably did not expect that Witten would take this opportunity to criticize the Nobel Prize selection committee, and immediately asked: "Are you saying this because the Nobel Prize is always awarded to old scientists?"

Edward Witten waved his hand: "That's not true. After all, I am also an old scientist. Although there is a high probability that the Nobel Prize will not be awarded to me, I just think that Xiao Yi has proved the existence of the quality gap and can definitely obtain it. The Nobel Prize in Physics, but unfortunately, God knows how many years those guys on the Nobel Prize jury will have to wait before awarding the award to Xiao Yi.”

When the reporter heard what he said, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately asked: "Do you think Xiao Yi is qualified to win the Nobel Prize in Physics?"

19-year-old Nobel Prize candidate in physics!

Gee, what a hot headline, it’s enough to stand out from all the Fields Medal news!

In response, Witten nodded and said: "Of course, first of all, the mass gap phenomenon has been discovered in experiments, and now being able to prove it mathematically is also a theoretical recognition of this phenomenon. "

"After all, you must know that physics is a subject that pays attention to the combination of experiment and theory. Both are indispensable. Otherwise, the mass gap problem would not be included as one of the millennium problems."

"In addition, Xiao Yi's conclusion has also brought many important results to the physics community. For example, the matter about the mass of the W boson some time ago, and the X field discovered from it. At present, the existence of the X field has been indirectly proved through the mass of the W boson. Although we still have to strive to discover it directly, these results are also real."

The reporter laughed. At this moment, he had even thought of the headline of the news: [Just won the Fields Medal, will he win the Nobel Prize again? ]

Although Xiao Yi may not win the Nobel Prize, the gimmick of this title must be pulled to the full.

Studying journalism.

...

And the Guardian reporter who interviewed Edward Witten went back and issued a press release with this title. It was really a great success. For a while, everyone was discussing whether Xiao Yi could win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

As a result, Xiao Yi himself was also questioned.

"Brother Xiao, I heard that you are going to win the Nobel Prize in Physics?"

Just when Xiao Yi was eating the third Russian braised beef in the past few days, he heard Ye Cheng's question from the side.

Xiao Yi, who had just taken a bite of beef and a mouthful of rice, was immediately choked by this question.