Father Mavie

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In the evening, civilians carrying old newspapers filled the church, and there were still two or three hundred people on the street outside.

Ma Wei accepted their newspapers one by one, asked them to write their names, and waited aside.

Sudoku puzzles in newspapers are not difficult. This nine-square logic game was first published in "The Times Evening News". Because of the good response, other newspapers followed suit and gradually spread.

Simple Sudoku puzzles can't help Mavi. When Levin went out to distribute newspapers, he solved all the puzzles and got his own answer. Now he only needs to compare the answers he solved to know Who are gifted in logical thinking?

"Mr. Chechurin, Mr. Sakharov, Miss Shangina"

The names that had solved the correct answer were read out of Mavi's mouth one by one, and the people who were named showed excited expressions, and they immediately found Christopher to receive the reward.

"Mr. Crisp, Mr. Almeyev?"

Ma Wei, who was checking the answer, stopped suddenly, looked at the newspaper in his hand and fell into deep thought.

The answer in the newspaper is different from the answer he solved. Originally, Ma Wei thought that the other party's answer was wrong, but after careful observation, he found that
The other party used a different solution, and the way of solving the problem was completely different from his, and he also got the correct answer.

The answer to a Sudoku puzzle is unique, and multi-solution Sudoku puzzles do not conform to the standard rules, but how rigorous can a Sudoku puzzle published in a newspaper to pass the time be?
Ma Wei encountered an exception.

The newspaper in his hand, the other party gave another way to solve the problem, which made his eyes shine.

Mavi couldn't wait to look at the signature on the newspaper - Misha.

Misha?

He froze for a moment, raised his head, and found a girl in the crowd who was wearing a large wool coat and whose height was not as high as the chest height of an adult man.

The other party grabbed the open opening of the woolen coat and huddled in the rearmost corner, staring straight at him with a pair of dark brown eyes. It was the girl Ma Wei had seen during the day.

Ma Wei got up and walked in front of Misha, asking, "You solved this answer?"

"Yes." Misha nodded: "My sister is a tutor, she taught me how to read. Did I solve it wrong?"

"No. You got it right." Ma Wei smiled and said, "Go over there to get the reward you deserve, don't rush away."

As he said that, Ma Wei raised his voice and shouted to everyone: "Anyone who solves the correct answer, please stay for a while, we have a second test, and the reward will be even richer!"

"Levin! Has Her Highness Katerina come yet?"

"Not yet!" shouted Levin, who was standing at the door looking forward.

The second test cannot be as simple as the first public screening. For this reason, Ma Wei specially asked Edward to inform Katerina, asking the other party to bring the professors from the Royal Academy of Sciences, and let them come up with the questions to start the second test.

Katerina should have been on the way after receiving the news. Ma Wei calmed down and carefully approved the newspaper.

Among the 230 answerers who came to the church, only 100 of them got the rewards with correct answers, based on the number of newspapers Levin sent out.
The correct rate is only a few hundredths.

And this number will be further reduced in the second and third tests.

A true one in a million.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, a carriage approached from the far side of the street and slowly stopped at the door of the Znamensky Cathedral. Katerina got out of the carriage first, and behind her were several old-faced, thin-haired but bright-eyed people. A bright old man.

"Father, I have brought you the man."

Katerina pointed to the old people and said, "These are professors and vice presidents of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Romanov Kingdom, elites in the fields of physics, chemistry, and mathematics. They have countless students, right? long?"

"Your Highness is too polite."

The Mediterranean old man standing at the forefront said with a smile: "Without the funds sponsored by His Highness every year, the Academy of Sciences would not be able to achieve today's achievements. Father Mawei, I heard from Your Highness that you have found a group of geniuses. May I ask where are they?"

"It's the way it is."

After Ma Wei expressed his thoughts, the scientific elite headed by Vice President Alexei nodded and responded: "It's a good idea to use Sudoku puzzles published in newspapers to find geniuses, but it's not necessarily a good idea." We can find real geniuses. But since we are here, we should come up with a few test questions, Professor Kovalev, how about you come up with the questions?"

As a professor of the Faculty of Mathematics, Kovalev naturally became the best candidate for the question. He pushed down his gold-rimmed glasses, walked up to Misha and the others without a smile on his face, examined them for a while, and said in a deep voice, "I made the question." The questions will be difficult, and those who are not confident can leave."

Hearing his words, some people in the crowd retreated, turned away with bread in their arms, and didn't even have the courage to answer the question.

"To engage in science, you must have enough confidence."

Seeing that the remaining people did not intend to leave, Professor Kovalev continued: "If you don't even think you can do it, how can you explore profound academic issues?"

"The question I want to ask is still the Sudoku type, but on the basis of the Jiugongge, a new Sudoku problem is derived, Siamese Sudoku."

Picking up a quill, Professor Kovalev drew five superimposed cubes on the white paper. Each cube has nine horizontal and vertical grids connected to each other. The difficulty is much higher than the interesting Sudoku puzzles in newspapers.

Levin and the others hurriedly copied down the questions he asked and put them in front of the candidates.

"Solve this problem within an hour, those who time out will leave consciously, don't waste time." Professor Kovalev said coldly.

The remaining test takers did not dare to waste time. After getting the questions, they immediately found a space to sit down and began to think hard.

"Boss"

Levin came to Ma Wei and asked in a low voice, "Can you solve this problem?"

Ma Wei looked at the complicated topic, and shook his head after a while: "If you give me enough time, yes, but it won't work within an hour."

At this time, everyone realized that the questions given by Professor Kovalev were really difficult, and only a true genius could solve them within an hour.

Time passed by, Professor Kovalev and others sat on stools, drinking freshly brewed black tea, chatting with Katerina in a low voice, most of the questions they asked were when the funds for the next quarter would be released , some of the professors even wiped their tears secretly, and said in a crying voice that they would soon be unable to support themselves and had to give money
Facts have proved that even the top scientific research tycoons cannot escape the fate of asking for research funds.

Engaging in scientific research is a job that burns money.

Half an hour later, Misha who was sitting in the corner suddenly put down her charcoal pencil and stood up, holding the topic in her hand, she walked up to Ma Wei: "I'm done."

Ma Wei hurriedly took it, and was about to check whether the answer was correct when Professor Kovalev snatched it away.

A horrifying sight shot out from behind the gold-rimmed glasses. Professor Kovalev stared at the answer Misha had solved, his face gradually became serious. After a long time, he raised his head and asked, "Mutual exclusion principle of strong chain and weak chain. Regional block theory. Assumptions Can't finish it. It's incredible, what's your name?"

"Misha."

"Who is your teacher?"

"My sister."

"What's your sister's name?"

"Dasha."

His brows were deeply frowned. Professor Kovalev had never heard of a woman named Dasha in the mathematics world. He found the vice president of Alexei and asked carefully to confirm that this woman named Dasha was not from the science world. member, and Misha has no teacher post.
"Misha, I want to give you another debut question." Professor Kovalev said seriously.

Misha glanced at him, then at Ma Wei, and nodded in agreement under the latter's encouraging gaze.

Seeing that Kovalev was serious, Deputy Dean Alexei and the others looked at each other, got up curiously, came to Misha's side, and looked at her.
Solve the math problems that Kovalev himself posed little by little.

Tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tuts, the vice-president and the professors almost lowered their heads to the paper. As Misha’s strokes became slower and slower, and the calculation entered a bottleneck, Kovalev said, “Don’t forget it.”

"I'm sorry." Misha said with her head down, "I can't figure it out."

"It's normal that it can't be solved. This is the Poincaré conjecture, and there is no answer so far."

Kovalev took a deep breath: "Misha, would you like to be my student?"

(End of this chapter)