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Chapter 125 Just Google
Rejecting the invitation of a senior vice president of Google was just a minor episode for Xiao Yi.

Compared to being able to freely research any problem that interested him, joining a company would only make him feel restricted.

So even if Google offered the best conditions, he would not agree to join.

The same goes for other companies.

However, this seems incredible to others.

At the age of seventeen, not even graduated from college, you can get a base salary of half a million dollars. How can you refuse this?

When Raghavan invited Xiao Yi, in addition to the four of them, there were many other people present, including some reporters.

As for Raghavan’s invitation, they all witnessed it with their own eyes.

When they heard the conditions given by Raghavan, they wanted to agree to them on the spot for Xiao Yi, but now...

As a result, Xiao Yi became famous that day and became famous all over the world.

All major media outlets have released the news, whether from the United States, Britain, France, etc.

Genius or idiot? 17-year-old boy rejects Google's $50 annual salary offer

"Pure Mathematicians' Pride? Or Pure Mathematicians' Stupidity? Xiao Yi gave up his $50 annual salary just to study pure mathematics"

《Shocking! The 17-year-old boy rejected Google's offer of $50 a year because...》

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Various eye-catching news headlines have sparked discussions among netizens around the world.

For example, on Twitter, this news even made it into the top ten of the trending list. It is worth noting that for the United States, a country where the hot lists are often filled with various entertainment or sports news, it is very rare for this news to make it onto the list.

And it's not just the US trending list, this news also topped the Japanese version of Twitter's list.

As Japan is a country that attaches great importance to basic mathematics, Xiao Yi's name is well-known in the Japanese mathematics community.

Of course, the main reason is that last year, Xiao Yi became popular in Japan after he pointed out the errors in Shinichi Mochizuki's proof of the abc conjecture.

Although, on the surface they all stood up for Mochizuki Shinichi, Xiao Yi's actions undoubtedly aroused the passion of the young people.

Well, it’s probably that kind of passionate spirit of the inferiors overthrowing the superiors.

All in all, Xiao Yi has become famous all over the world again this time.

Of course, not to mention the domestic situation.

On the Bihu hot search list, the first one is [What do you think of Xiao Yi rejecting Google's $500,000 offer and saying that he would rather study pure mathematics? ]

The most highly praised answer is this.

[Like other answerers have said, many people rejected Google's invitation, and Google is indeed nothing, but you have overlooked how good the conditions offered by Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's senior vice president of knowledge and information, who invited Xiao Shen, were.

Here is a record from a real on-site recording to show you exactly what the conditions are.

1. A base salary of $50 per year, and Xiao Yi will receive additional rewards for any achievements he makes, regardless of the field in which the achievement is made, such as pure mathematics. And this annual salary is only temporary, and Xiao Yi will receive a million-dollar annual salary after graduation.

2. Paid schooling. That's right, Xiao Yi can get this salary even if he is in school, and all his school fees are free, all provided by Google (Raghavan did not say anything about providing Xiao Shen with any university admission letter, probably because he knew that with Xiao Shen's ability, there is no school that he can't get a letter from?)
3. Immigration channels. If Google wants to handle immigration procedures for a person, it is too simple. Green cards and everything else can be easily obtained. I guess some people in Run will be envious. I don’t know how much they have paid for Run. Xiao Shen doesn’t care at all.

4,……

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All in all, there are a total of eight conditions mentioned above, and Raghavan also said at the end that the conditions he gave were only what he could give. As a technical executive, he could not actually give the best conditions in terms of finance or personnel. If their CEO were to come, the starting salary might be one million per year.

So, don't compare yourself with those who rejected Google. These conditions are for the top talents with many years of work experience even for Google. This is an area that other people cannot even touch. I would call it the God-forbidden area.

Well, by the way, let me answer a question that others have asked, which is why Google suddenly wanted to invite Xiao Shen. To put it simply, Xiao Shen recently came up with a mathematical method called Xiao's polynomial expansion, and then made a little move in the computer field, and then he did a big thing -

He directly laid the foundation for the encryption system in the field of information security for a long time in the future!

In the past thirty years, there is an algorithm called RSA encryption, which has been the main cryptographic method for information security. However, as our computer performance has improved, the security of this encryption method has become lower and lower, so in the future it may be gradually replaced by another ECC encryption algorithm. However, Xiao Shen used Xiao's polynomial expansion method to directly update the RSA encryption system to a new version. Now this version can be named "Xiao system".
For details, please refer to the second question on the hot search list. I will not elaborate on it here. Anyway, when Mr. Xiao took action, the computer world was shaken.

In addition to solving the security issues of RSA encryption, Xiao Shen also developed a protocol. Although it was developed with Terence Tao, James Maynard, and another Leonard Kleinlock, Xiao Shen was responsible for the mathematical principles of the main part of the protocol.

As for this protocol, it is nothing big. In the future, all cross-blockchain transaction protocols in the world will basically adopt their protocol.

Unless it is a trading platform that does not want to ensure the security of cross-chain transactions, as for this type of trading platform, everyone who knows about it will know, so just avoid it in the future.

In short, it was these two things that made Google decide to invite Xiao Shen to join. After all, these all demonstrate Xiao Shen's ability.

In addition, they also received a $1000 million bonus for completing the agreement. Even if it is divided equally, Xiao Shen can at least get $250 million. Maybe Tao Terence and others will give half of the money to Xiao Shen because they see that Xiao Shen has made the greatest contribution. So, I think Xiao Shen really doesn't care about the salary at Google. If he wants to make money, he can just do some projects like this and make plenty of money.

The above is what I want to say in response, so don’t say that rejecting Google is a normal thing. I don’t think many people can refuse such good conditions.

I think Xiao Shen is the kind of true "seeker of the Way". He only wants to pursue his own "Way" and does not want to be restricted by anything! 】

This answer has received more than ten thousand likes, and there are thousands of comments below.

[You are absolutely right. I am a computer scientist, and I happen to be working in the field of information security. I read the paper published by Xiao Shen and his colleagues these days. I can only say that I bow down to them. The mathematical methods used in it are simply too terrifying. If you are good at mathematics, you can do whatever you want.]

[I am a graduate student in computer science at Qinghua University. I happened to attend a class taught by Professor Yao these two days. It also involved information security. He happened to talk about Xiao Shen's achievement, saying that his achievement is basically equivalent to benefiting the entire information security field. In the future, the world will probably save a lot of money on information security. And the protocol they came up with can be summed up in two words - awesome.]

[Oh my god, there is a big shot from Yao's class here? I remember that Professor Yao started his research on multi-party secure computing, right? The millionaire problem he proposed at the beginning was the beginning of multi-party secure computing. How did he evaluate this protocol?]

[I am not in Yao's class. Yao's class is for undergraduates and has nothing to do with us. It's just that Professor Yao occasionally gives some classes for us graduate students to listen.

As for Professor Yao's specific evaluation, it is more or less like this: "The protocol developed by Xiao Yi can be regarded as providing a new idea for the future development of our multi-party secure computing, that is, to achieve innovation in mathematical methods. For example, if we can come up with another mathematical method similar to Xiao's expansion, then our multi-party secure computing... well, it should be the entire computer field, and it will probably enter a stage of technological explosion. After all, mathematical methods are the foundation of our computer technology.

Of course! I am not recommending that you follow Xiao Yi's example and come up with some new mathematical methods or something. After all, there is an old saying that goes, "Do what you can."

Well, that’s more or less what Professor Yao said. 】

[Okay, what a new idea! Is this something that anyone can adopt? Only God Xiao can do this.]

[If there is no weapon spirit on Xiao Shen's body, I will eat a ton of it! ]

[What the hell? 1000 million US dollars, is that true? Then God Xiao must have made a fortune? Awesome! ]

【…】

As the influence grew, more and more people began to join in the evaluation, and more and more people realized that Xiao Yi's rejection of Google's invitation was nothing. The real point was the achievements Xiao Yi had made that made Google willing to spend so much money to invite Xiao Yi to join.

More and more computer professionals have begun to speak out and explain to people how important Xiao Yi’s two achievements are.

And just like that, time passed quickly.

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In the city of San Jose, this Joint Mathematics Conference finally came to an end amidst a lot of excitement.

At the closing ceremony.

"Next, we will enter the most important part of this joint mathematics conference, which is our award ceremony!"

In the center of the conference, Hales Carr stood in front of the podium, facing everyone present, and announced: "The first award to be presented is the Cole Algebra Award!"

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Thanks to Gengtang for the reward of 500 Qidian coins!
Thanks to Yuandeng Hualing for the reward of 400 Qidian coins!
Thanks to Shenyue Qingchen for the reward of 200 Starting Coins!
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