From failed candidate to chief scientist

Chapter 212: You shouldn’t have sold all our Mathematics Research Center, right?
"I'm back!"

Jiang Fanjun's somewhat excited voice sounded in the office, and then a dusty figure broke into the office.

"Ok?"

Jiang Fanjun, who rushed into the office, looked at the situation in the office and couldn't help but feel a little dazed. He couldn't help but retreated and looked at the door again and again to make sure that he was in the right place, but...

"Teacher Jiang, you are back!"

Sun Yi's voice came from the office.

"Sun Yi, why are you here?"

Jiang Fanjun had a question mark on his forehead. He was on a business trip. Why did he come back and his office was occupied by others?

"Teacher Jiang, you can be here, why can't I be here?"

Sun Yi looked at Jiang Fanjun with a smile.

"Uh...you mean..."

Jiang Fanjun's eyes suddenly widened.

"You... you... can't..."

Sun Yi nodded.

At this time, Shan Gang and Lu Xiaoyan, who heard the noise next door, also came over.

"Teacher Jiang, I have good news for you. Xiao Yizi is now a member of your algorithm center!"

"Congratulations to Teacher Jiang, your algorithm center is pleased to have a general!"

Jiang Fanjun was still a little confused, and it took him a while to understand what was going on from Shan Gang.

"Okay, okay, Sun Yi, it's great that you can come!"

Jiang Fanjun clapped his hands and laughed.

"I was worried that our algorithm center didn't have enough manpower, but I didn't expect you, Sun Yi, to come, hahahaha!"

"Come on, come on, these are some specialties I brought to you on this business trip. You can try them."

Jiang Fanjun opened his suitcase, took out the special gifts he had brought, and divided them among Shan Gang and the other three.

"Teacher Jiang, I heard that you went on a business trip to GIMPS to give a report? How is it? Is everything going well?"

The three of Shan Gang chatted enthusiastically around Jiang Fanjun.

"Haha, how can that be called smooth? It can only be said to be too smooth! Hahaha!"

Jiang Fanjun's face glowed red and he laughed heartily.

"Let me tell you, when I went to GIMPS to give a report this time, you didn't see the shocked expressions on those people's faces..."

Jiang Fanjun talked freely and told about his experience this time.

And Shan Gang also shared with Jiang Fanjun the major events that happened at the Mathematics Research Center.

Hearing that Lin Mo had completed the AdS/CFT conjecture demonstration and held a joint report meeting of the eight schools, Jiang Fanjun's eyes widened, as if he had only been away for two weeks, but he seemed to have missed hundreds of millions.

In the evening, when Lin Mo came back from get out of class, he learned that Jiang Fanjun was back. He waved his hand and called Tian Fangyi and Zhang Qihua to have dinner at a high-end restaurant outside the school to greet Jiang Fanjun.

"Lin Mo, you are really amazing. I have only been out for two weeks and you have completed another research that shocked the world. Come on, come on, I respect you. With your leadership, our mathematics research center will surely prosper and create new achievements." brilliant!"

During the dinner, Jiang Fanjun was very happy and raised his wine glass to toast Lin Mo.

Jiang Fanjun's statement made no sense to everyone here. The entire Mathematics Research Center is centered on Lin Mo. Without Lin Mo, it would be impossible for the Mathematics Research Center to achieve such impressive achievements. Everyone stood up one after another, thinking Lin Mo toasted.

Lin Mo hurriedly raised his glass in reply. After finishing the drink and sitting down, Lin Mo didn't want to talk more about this topic and directly changed the subject.

"Teacher Jiang, how was your trip to Chou Country this time? What did you gain?"

Jiang Fanjun knew what Lin Mo was asking. In addition to giving a report at GIMPS during his business trip, another important task was to promote the name of Dongshan University's Mathematics Research Center and try to bring back some algorithmic projects.

"Haha, I went this time, and the harvest was very rich. This time, I came back with several big orders." Speaking of this, Jiang Fanjun was excited for a while, and began to tell about the projects he had received.

"First of all, I sold the improved algorithm of Mersenne primes to GIMPS. Of course, GIMPS is very poor and can't afford any money at all, so it is considered to be free for them to use the algorithm, but..."

"They agreed to advertise our algorithm and put it on the top of the GIMPS homepage to explain that the latest optimization algorithm is provided by our Dongshan University Mathematics Research Center."

"Oh, by the way, there is also the prize money we received for discovering 15 Mersenne prime numbers, a total of US$15."

"Only 15 U.S. dollars? I remember that a Mersenne prime didn't cost 10 U.S. dollars before? Why did we find 15 of them, and it was only 15 U.S. dollars?"

Shan Gang asked with some dissatisfaction.

"Hey, who made GIMPS poor? They originally wanted to discover a Mersenne prime number in four or five years, so they set a prize of 10 US dollars. But who would have thought that we discovered 15 of them all at once, and in their account, We only have this much money now, so we basically gave it to us.”

Hearing Jiang Fanjun's explanation, everyone was stunned, and Shan Gang just muttered something.

"Ok."

"GIMPS is a non-profit organization, so it's normal to have no money."

Lin Mo nodded. He didn't expect to get too much money from GIMPS. The most important thing was to use GIMPS to make the name of the Mathematics Research Center known.

"What about the big order you mentioned, Mr. Jiang?"

"Well, after my report at GIMPS last night, many organizations approached me. The reason why it took me so long to come back was to discuss projects."

"Let's talk about our old customer, Holt Labs. This time they approached me and hoped that we could provide our optimized multiplication algorithm. They offered $100 million, but I didn't agree."

"You didn't even agree to a million dollars?"

Lu Xiaoyan exclaimed, that's a million dollars.

"Then I must disagree. You must know that the algorithm based on the Kratz conjecture proof sold to them before was sold for 100 million US dollars. This is an algorithm with a wider range of applications and can improve the efficiency of multiplication algorithms by 100 times. , how can a mere US$[-] million be enough?”

Jiang Fanjun raised his eyebrows proudly.

"Then...Teacher Jiang, how much did you sell?"

Teacher Jiang made a yes sign with his hands.

"Two million dollars?"

Doubling it would not be bad.

But Jiang Fanjun shook his head.

"It can't be $2000 million, right?"

Shan Gang asked with obvious suspicion.

Because 2000 million U.S. dollars is too high. If converted into Xia Guo currency, it would cost more than [-] million.

More than [-] million to buy an algorithm?Is this Holt Laboratory stupid and rich?

"That's right! It's 2000 million US dollars!"

"hiss!"

Everyone present took a deep breath.

$2000 million?How can this be?

Everyone's eyes sparkled with incredible light.

"Teacher Jiang, you shouldn't have sold all our Mathematics Research Center, right?"

Shan Gang was outspoken and took the lead in asking questions.

"How is that possible? How is it possible that our Mathematics Research Center is only worth 2000 million US dollars? Moreover, even if I want to sell it, I can't sell it, right?"

Jiang Fanjun made a joke.

(End of this chapter)