The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 172 The Creed of Science

Peking University-Chen Muhua: [photo.jpg].

Jingda-Chen Muhua: [Brothers, I am ready to board the plane. Don’t miss me in China. I will bear witness for you.]

The joint examination group created two years ago is still very popular today, and even the group chat level has risen to a very high level.

This naturally requires the contribution of those guys who are in the group every day.

At this time, Chen Muhua posted a photo in the group. It was a photo of him sitting in an airplane with the view of the airport outside the window. He also placed the plane ticket in the middle, and the flight on it was from Shangjing to St. Petersburg.

Today is July 7rd, and there are only three days left until what can be called the conference of the century in mathematics and physics.

It is time for the Chinese mathematics scholars and enthusiasts who are preparing to attend the conference to set off.

Chen Muhua is one of them.

As his photo was posted in the group, a lot of people who had been lurking in the group suddenly appeared.

Danfu-Xu Kangcheng: [Wo Ri, you really deserve to die! ]

【You deserve to die! 】*n.

A lot of people expressed envy.

Who among them wouldn’t want to attend this kind of lecture?
Jingda-Lupin: [@Jingda-Chen Muhua, don't forget, I am on the same plane with you now. ]

Kyoto University-Lupin: [photo.jpg]

Another photo of an airplane, also with a plane ticket to St. Petersburg.

There were a lot of question marks in the group, and finally everyone started to comment: [You two really deserve to die! ]

Then someone tagged the administrator of their group: [@青华-江隆, the administrators should come out to take care of things. Ban these two people. They went to the International Congress of Mathematicians without their friends and are still showing off here. How abominable! ]

As a result, this person was banned from speaking.

Qinghua-Jianglong: [photo.jpg]

Qinghua-Jiang Long: [Sorry, I am also on this plane now. If you scold them, it is the same as scolding me.]

[Dogs cannot be housed! ]*n.

Jiang Long then began to use the silencing technique, silencing these people one by one for 1 minute.

However, seeing that so many of them were going to St. Petersburg and were all on the same plane, it also attracted a lot of inquiries.

Finally they found out that it was the School of Mathematics of Kyoto University and Tsinghua University that specially organized this trip. Any student who wanted to participate could sign up. Of course, they still had to pay for the expenses themselves. The school was mainly responsible for leading the team.

In fact, every time an international mathematician's congress is held, schools like Peking University Tsinghua University will lead a team to attend. It was not because of Xiao Yi's report that this event was organized.

However, the reason why so many people were willing to spend money to go there was because of Xiao Yi's report.

Although it takes almost 10 days, and the round-trip airfare and accommodation will cost at least several thousand dollars, it is worth it considering that I can participate in such a historic conference.

For a while, people from other schools in the joint examination group expressed their envy.

[Damn, is this the treatment of Jingda Qinghua? ]

However, at this time, another master appeared.

HKUST-Ye Cheng: [What do you mean by that? If the students in our class want to go, they can go without spending a dime! It's all taken care of!]

This made the other people in the group even more jealous: [Huh? Why? ]

HKUST-Ye Cheng: [Brother Xiao paid for it and gave it to us! #Proud]

Afterwards, other people from USTC appeared in the group, admitted the incident, and showed their plane tickets.

Now, even the students from Kyoto University and Qinghua were envious.

Kyoda-Lupin: [Damn it, you guys deserve to die! ]

Jingda-Chen Muhua: [@Keda-Xiao Yi, Xiao Shen, woo woo woo, why are you not from our Jingda~]

HKUST-Ye Cheng: [Sorry, Brother Xiao is our HKUST man, the soul of HKUST, please stop thinking about our Brother Xiao.]

KUST-Ye Cheng: [@KUST-Xiao Yi, Brother Xiao, you must wait for your brother in St. Petersburg! ]

Jingda-Chen Muhua: [Look, Brother Xiao doesn’t even pay attention to you, you are useless]

HKUST-Ye Cheng: [That’s because Brother Xiao is very busy with work, so it’s normal for him not to reply]

Peking University-Chen Muhua: [Clam]

HKUST-Ye Cheng: [Urgent]

Xiao Yi rarely appears in this group anymore. Most of the time it is because he really has no time to hang out in the group and has no time to see what they are talking about in the group. However, the group calls him Xiao Shen and he has an idol burden.

Just when they thought that Xiao Yi would not show up this time as usual, Xiao Yi actually replied.

HKUST-Xiao Yi: [Thanks for the invitation. I’m in St. Petersburg and just got off the plane.]

Then there was a photo with a bunch of foreign faces surrounding him.

If you compare these faces with the members of the organizing committee and the members of the International Mathematical Union Council on the official website of this conference, you will find that most of them match. For example, the chairman of the organizing committee of this conference, Berezovsky, is here, and the secretary-general of the International Mathematical Union, Martin Gretsche, is also here.

In addition, some famous scholars in the Russian mathematics community also came.

These people were naturally here to pick up Xiao Yi at the airport.

This was his first public appearance in front of the international mathematics community since he announced that he had proved the mass gap problem.

There were a lot of media gathered around, and photographers were holding cameras and taking pictures of him getting off the plane.

"Hello, Xiao Yi. I'm Berezovsky. Nice to meet you. On behalf of the organizing committee of this International Congress of Mathematicians, I would like to welcome you."

"St. Petersburg is the holy land of mathematics in Russia. It has been looking forward to the arrival of a great mathematician like you."

As Xiao Yi got off the plane, Berezovsky walked forward with a smile and extended his hand to welcome Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi also put down his phone, nodded to the chairman of the organizing committee, and shook hands with him: "Mr. Chairman, I am also very happy to meet you. I have longed for St. Petersburg for a long time. I believe this trip will be a good experience."

"I promise." Berezovsky smiled and patted Xiao Yi's hand, then began to introduce him to other people around him, such as the Secretary-General of the International Mathematical Union and others.

After some acquaintance, Berezovsky said to Xiao Yi, "We have arranged a room for you at the Parkland Hotel near the EXPOFORUM exhibition center. You can stay there during the conference. Let's go there now."

Xiao Yi nodded: "Okay."

Then he said nothing more, got on the special car arranged by the organizing committee, and went directly to the Parkland Hotel.

Sitting in the car, he took out his mobile phone and glanced at the joint entrance examination group. His appearance just now obviously made the students in this group very excited, and made more lurking people come out.

Now everyone is asking about the situation on his side, and many people are also wishing him a complete success in his report in a few days.

He smiled slightly, and then sent another message in the group: [Thank you all for your blessings. Everyone can pay attention to the report in three days. I won’t let you brothers down! ]

Afterwards, there was another round of excitement in the group.

They all said: [From now on, we can go out and brag that Xiao Shen is our brother! ]

Seeing their excited expressions, Xiao Yi was so happy that he waved his hand and directly sent red envelopes with a total value of 1 yuan in the group, which caused a scramble in the group.

Looking at the lively group chat, he smiled, finally closed his phone, closed his eyes, and began to relieve the fatigue brought by the almost nine-hour flight.

As for the 1 yuan he spent casually, he didn't care at all.

Today, as Yishui Bit has gradually dominated half of the Bitcoin mining software market, according to a report released by JPMorgan Chase some time ago, the market valuation of Yishui Bit's software has reached 10 billion US dollars, which is more than billion yuan in RMB, making it a veritable unicorn company.

Therefore, money has gradually lost its meaning to him, and he has achieved financial freedom without realizing it.

Unless he wants to build something ridiculous like a private particle accelerator.

This matter has spread throughout the business circle and has also sparked a discussion in society about whether studying well can lead to success.

Now, if anyone makes remarks like "What's the point of studying well? You still have to work for those who don't study well?", he will be attacked by countless netizens using Xiao Yi as an example.

Although there are many academic giants who are also quite wealthy, none of them is as representative as Xiao Yi, who is both a top scientist and the founder of a unicorn company.

When a success guru comes, everyone has to call him master.
His family has already moved into the luxury house they bought in Jade Court last year and are gradually getting used to their current life.

Generally speaking, there are no "mundane matters" that Xiao Yi can care about now.

He has reached the last level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and will continue on this level indefinitely.

Just like now, his goal is only to let the academic community know that the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problems have been solved by him, and to let everyone know how he proved it - well, the second goal is still a bit too difficult. He can almost foresee that in a short period of time, there will be no more than 10 people in the world who can understand his report, so it is enough to achieve the first goal.

Without thinking any more, he entered a state of meditation.

The convoy was running steadily under the midday sun, gradually heading towards the city on the other side of the horizon.

The report meeting has also entered the final countdown...

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Mathematicians and physicists from all over the world gradually gathered in the city of St. Petersburg.

This city plays a very important role in the history of mathematics.

Leonhard Euler once studied the Goldbach conjecture here; Daniel Bernoulli created his "Principles of Fluid Mechanics" here, and Bernoulli's law later became the principle of airplanes flying. Many Russian Fields Medal winners also came from St. Petersburg. At the beginning of the 21st century, less than two years after the seven major problems of the millennium were proposed, a sloppy scholar named Gregory Perelman who lived in St. Petersburg proved the Poincare conjecture with two papers published on arxiv...

The history of mathematics in St. Petersburg is most of the history of mathematics in Russia.

And now, another millennium puzzle is about to be proven here.

While people are expressing their feelings, they are also becoming more and more expectant.

Until the day of July 7th arrived.

……

At nine o'clock in the morning, people were already coming and going outside the EXPOFORUM exhibition center.

The participants have formed a long queue, waiting to enter.

According to the data released on the official website, this conference attracted more than 7000 participants, which is definitely the highest in history. Of course, this is mainly because there are many theoretical physicists participating. CERN next door, which has thousands of theoretical physicists working there, also gave their scholars several days off to allow them to attend this conference and witness the proof of the mass gap problem.

This is also a test for the coordination ability of the organizing committee of this conference. For example, their EXPOFORUM exhibition center, the largest hall No. 4000 has a standard capacity of 7000 people. Now, in order to ensure that more than participants can be accommodated, the site has to be rearranged.

For the conference organizing committee, this is probably a mixture of pain and joy.

"Wow, there are so many people."

In a certain queue, there were quite a lot of Chinese faces, looking at the situation on the scene, they couldn't help but reveal an expression of amazement.

These people are students from several major universities in China.

Chen Muhua said with emotion: "He is indeed worthy of being called Xiao Shen!"

Standing behind him was Ye Cheng, who said, "After all, he is my brother Xiao."

Lupin was standing next to him. He waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Don't worry. Don't forget that when Xiao Shen proved the Goldbach conjecture, there were more than 1 spectators in the Great Hall of the People. Now there are only more than people. It's a small scene."

"That's it?" Chen Muhua rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "Although there are not 1 people, more than people is still a small scene? Why don't you try it?"

Lupin said stubbornly: "I can do it too."

Ye Cheng: "Nan Bang, it's good enough if you can have 100 people watching you."

"What the hell..."

They immediately started fighting.

We used to quarrel in the group, but now we finally meet offline, and it’s time for a real-life PK.

Just like when they met yesterday, dog manager Jiang Long had already been severely beaten up.

But not long after they started fighting, a sudden noise broke out in the crowd, and everyone looked in a certain direction.

Ye Cheng and the others were also attracted and looked over, then their eyes widened: "Oh my god! Xiao Shen!"

Xiao Yi was seen walking towards this side surrounded by a group of organizing committee members.

Obviously he just came from the hotel.

People at the scene shouted to Xiao Yi.

And Ye Cheng and the others were naturally among them.

Probably because they were all shouting in Chinese and using nicknames like "Xiao Shen" and "Xiao Ge", Xiao Yi also turned around and noticed them, then smiled and nodded at them and greeted them.

Ye Cheng and the others suddenly felt as if they had successfully chased their idol.

The foreigners around saw that their shouting actually attracted Xiao Yi's attention, so they couldn't help but ask: "Isn't his name 'Xiao Yi'? Why did he respond when you called him 'Xiao Shen' and 'Xiao Ge'?"

Ye Cheng and the others laughed, "You can try calling him like this, maybe he will respond?"

So these foreigners started shouting in strange accents.

As a result, Xiao Yi actually looked over, which made these foreigners excited. At the same time, they confirmed one thing: Xiao Yi might have multiple names, and maybe "Xiao Yi" was just his stage name.

Xiao Yi probably never imagined that such a rumor would spread about him in the future.

At this time, he had already entered the meeting venue directly under the leadership of Berezovsky and others.

Of course there is no need to queue.

Who has ever seen a speaker having to queue up to give his or her own report?
……

As Xiao Yi entered the venue, the people outside recovered from their excitement and continued to line up to enter.

However, they were also looking forward to this report even more.

Time passed quickly.

In Conference Hall No. 4000, after some arrangements, the number of seats has expanded from the original 7000 to more than .

It looked quite crowded, and as more and more people entered the venue, it felt even more like a sea of ​​people.

However, the people who had arrived at the scene were not annoyed by the crowds. They were just looking forward to 10 o'clock when the lecture officially began.

In this way, the hour hand finally pointed to the number 10.

The lights on the podium in the lecture hall came on, attracting everyone's attention. As they looked over, they saw the chairman of the organizing committee, Berezovsky, coming out.

No one was surprised. As this report was the first event of this mathematicians' conference, even the opening ceremony was delayed to tonight. Berezovsky had to come out first to meet people.

He stood in the middle, bowed slightly to everyone present, and then said: "Dear guests from afar, welcome to St. Petersburg to attend the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians. I am Berezovsky, chairman of the organizing committee of the conference."

"For reasons that everyone knows, this time, which was supposed to be the opening ceremony to announce the Fields Medal, Gauss Medal and other awards that everyone cares about, has now become an academic conference."

"However, I think people's attention to this report is probably no less than that to the Fields Medal winners."

"The topic of today's lecture is the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem, one of the two most important unsolved problems in mathematical physics. The other is the well-known existence and smoothness problem of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations."

"If the answer to the latter is the last problem in classical physics, then the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problems will be the most concerned problems in quantum physics."

"It not only involves quantum field theory, the most cutting-edge theory in physics, but also the fundamental nature of the strong interaction force among the four fundamental forces. Although physicists have experimentally proved the existence of the mass gap, it is still an extremely difficult problem to prove this problem mathematically. The mathematical community believes that only more complex mathematical tools can achieve this for us."

"Today, the speaker of this seminar will bring his new mathematical tools to introduce to us how the mass gap in the strong interaction exists from a mathematical explanation!"

"Then let us welcome Xiao Yi!"

Amid the applause of the audience, Xiao Yi walked out from the backstage and appeared in front of more than 7000 audience members.

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."

Xiao Yi nodded to Berezovsky, and the latter also clapped, nodded at him with a smile, then left the rostrum, walked down the stage and sat in his seat.

Xiao Yi was the only one left on the stage again.

He faced the more than seven thousand pairs of eyes in front of him and smiled gently.

If he had faced more than ten thousand pairs of eyes in the Great Hall of the People, he might have felt a little nervous.

Now, the [Ruthless Link] BUFF has been upgraded to level 5, and he is not at all fluctuating about the scene before him.

Listen to the truth.

He bowed slightly.

As the applause died down, he said, "Hello everyone, today is July 7th."

"I have been in St. Petersburg for a few days. Coincidentally, this period is also the time when the white night phenomenon appears. Perhaps these two days of nights with the sun's rays have left a lot of impressions on everyone."

"And the same is true for me who has never seen the White Night."

"Goethe said that in this world, there are two things worth admiring for a lifetime: the starry sky above our heads and the morality in people's hearts."

"Now that I see the seemingly endless light in the sky, I think Goethe was right."

The chatty beginning caught people's attention, and this period of time is indeed the time when St. Petersburg belongs to the city of white nights every year.

At this time, Xiao Yi suddenly changed the subject: "However, for us scientists, these things are too romantic."

"The creed of science is every theory that has been tested, every law that has been summarized, and every recognized theorem."

“Therefore, all truth is what we most look up to.”

"Today, I want to bring you a new truth."

"Of course, it also needs to be tested and approved by you."

"Then let's get started."

Xiao Yi snapped his fingers, and the topic of the report appeared on the multimedia screen.

【Yang-Mills theory has a strictly positive mass gap. 】

And he began to narrate the proof process.

……

(End of this chapter)