The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 174 The real master

“He succeeded again.”

Deligne stood up, clapped his hands, and sighed as he looked at Xiao Yi who was greeting the audience on the stage.

At this moment, he had recovered from his previous trance.

Although this new method can help him achieve a purer proof of the Weil conjecture, after all, his teacher has passed away, and he himself is already a retired old man.

The obsessions I had back then have gradually faded away with the passage of time.

So, let’s immerse ourselves in this carnival moment of mathematics and physics.

Bombieri also smiled and nodded, looking at Xiao Yi on the stage, and said, "Back then, Grothendieck was probably about the same as him, right?"

"My teacher..."

Deligne smiled. "When he was 18, he was still a young man living in Montpellier who didn't want to go to math class."

Bombieri burst out laughing.

Having said that, Grothendieck did not like math classes at the beginning. That was only because he reconstructed a very general form of Lebesgue integral solely through self-study without any guidance. At that time, France was in the process of post-war reconstruction, and education naturally could not keep up. So for Grothendieck, there was no need to take such math classes.

To the extent that he naively thought that he was the only mathematician in the world at that time, this situation did not change until he went to Paris.

However, Bombieri did not refute it. After all, in his opinion, Xiao Yi was not like Grothendieck, but rather, the two people might be the same type of people.

In this information age, learning is very easy. If Grothendieck had lived in this era and had not worked in isolation like he did back then, who knows how many great achievements these peerless geniuses would have been able to make?

At this time, beside them, Edward Witten put down his draft paper and pen, stood up, and also applauded Xiao Yi.

Deligne smiled and said jokingly, "What? Have you finally finished your research?"

Witten said: "No, there are too many things to study. What can be studied in such a short time? I am just trying to derive the quantum Hodge theory he mentioned based on the method he mentioned."

"Quantum Hodge Theory..." Deligne nodded slightly. "I don't know much about physics. How much help can this thing bring to your physics?"

Witten smiled and said, "You really don't know much. This kind of thing can no longer be said to be of much help to us in physics. Instead, it should be said that it is of great help to all fields related to physics."

"This quantum Hodge theory is a further supplement to the topological quantum field theory. In other words, it allows the original topological quantum field theory to evolve directly from 1.0 to 2.0. Consider the significance of quantum field theory to today's physics..."

Witten glanced down at the pile of scratch paper he had just used and finally said, "All I can say is that the effect is immeasurable."

Deligne's eyebrows raised: "Is that so?"

Witten nodded slightly, and then said with emotion: "However, I am more concerned about how much role it can play in string theory."

"This theory is meant to be used to study string theory."

Deligne rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "You will bring honor to string theory."

……

"God Xiao is awesome!"

"Oh my god, my brother Xiao is invincible!"

In the back seats, Ye Cheng and the others were even more excited.

Although they didn't understand anything during the entire report and were sleepy most of the time, it didn't stop them from feeling excited when Xiao Yi announced that he had completed the proof.

After all, we are always young and passionate.

Ye Cheng is now a sixteen-year-old boy, and at this moment he can be said to be the most excited one among so many people around him. He applauded the loudest and shouted from time to time, attracting the attention of a lot of people around him.

He was so excited, as if he was Xiao Yi.

Well...but Xiao Yi on the stage didn't look very excited either.

However, for Ye Cheng, although he entered school with Xiao Yi, he was the youngest after all. And facing Xiao Yi, who was a few years older than him and always able to produce all kinds of results that surprised his classmates, Xiao Yi had undoubtedly established a very tall idol in the heart of this young man.

And he is even taller than his former idol, Terence Tao.

After all, for him, his idol Terence Tao only exists through what he has seen and heard, while Xiao Yi exists by his side, making him feel more real and close.

"Although it is impossible to become someone like Brother Xiao - no one in the world can do it anyway, but... I must work hard to be like Brother Xiao!"

At this moment, Ye Cheng was excited and had such a belief burning in his heart.

Although it feels a bit childish, what teenager doesn't have a childish vibe?

Of course, in addition to Ye Cheng, Lupin, Chen Muhua and others around him were also very excited and shocked.

The peer who took the exam with them that year is now standing on such a stage and solving problems of the same level as the Millennium Problem.

If it were placed in other fantasy martial arts novels, at least one would exclaim in amazement: He is like the demon lord from heaven, truly the Tai Sui God on earth.

Is there anything that Xiao Yi can't do?
They all wanted to ask this question.

But this question will probably never have an answer.

It would be better to ask what problem Xiao Yi wants to study next.

After all, once he sets his sights on a problem, the only outcome he'll have is that it will be solved.

……

The applause eventually died down. Of course, it wasn't because the audience wanted it to stop. It was just that the chairman of the organizing committee, Berezovsky, walked onto the stage and tried to persuade everyone to stop, with a helpless smile.

"Everyone should take a break. If this continues, you won't be able to enjoy the banquet we prepared."

Finally, after Berezovsky mentioned the banquet, the audience gave face to the chairman of the organizing committee and stopped applauding.

Otherwise, the applause would most likely continue.

Seeing that everything had finally calmed down, Berezovsky said helplessly: "I'm really sorry that you all shouldn't applaud."

Amidst a burst of laughter, he continued, "Well, first of all, thank you Mr. Xiao Yi for your hard work in bringing us such a great result."

"This report not only proves the existence of Yang-Mills and the mass gap problem, but also the Hodge-vertex algebra analysis method and the quantum Hodge theory developed from it are very significant achievements in mathematics and physics. Not to mention that Mr. Xiao Yi also predicted the existence of a new particle in physics, the X particle."

"I believe this report is one of the most important reports in the International Congress of Mathematicians over the years." Berezovsky smiled. "Of course, this is to save face for so many other congresses. In fact, in my mind, the word 'one of' should be removed."

The audience applauded again, apparently expressing their approval of Berezovsky's statement.

Fortunately, the applause stopped quickly this time, otherwise it would probably have caused Berezovsky to have PTSD.

"However, any lecture will eventually come to an end. It is already 4pm and this lecture has lasted for hours. I believe everyone is tired and hungry. We have prepared a sumptuous banquet at the Parkland Hotel next door. Everyone is welcome to move to the Parkland Hotel and enjoy the banquet."

"After all, great theories also need time to ferment and the joint efforts of many scholars in the scientific community to extend the tentacles of the theory to all aspects of the scientific community. Before that, the most important thing is to fill your stomach."

Everyone present nodded in approval.

At this time, Xiao Yi, who was still on the stage, also picked up the microphone and said with a smile: "Mr. Chairman, what you said is correct. I have been speaking for so long that I am already hungry."

Everyone laughed again.

"Then please leave in an orderly manner under the guidance of the staff. Of course, don't forget to come back here at 7:30 in the evening to attend our official opening ceremony."

Berezovsky finally said this, and gave a preview of the opening ceremony in the evening.

Everyone thought so too, as there would be an opening ceremony in the evening.

Now, with Xiao Yi's report finished, the next highlight is the opening ceremony.

Gauss Prize, Chern Prize... and, most importantly, the Fields Medal.

Who will win the Fields Medal this year?

With anticipation for the opening ceremony, the more than 7,000 spectators present stopped talking and began to leave the venue under the guidance of the staff and headed to the Parkland Hotel next door.

Xiao Yi naturally went along as well. After all, he was really hungry.

A small cake in the left hand and a Russian-style steak in the right hand.

But unfortunately, as the protagonist of today, he will never be able to enjoy the party alone.

Soon he was surrounded by a group of old acquaintances in the mathematics world.

All these big names sent their blessings to him.

Schultz is relatively young, at least not twice as old as Xiao Yi.

He smiled and said, "Congratulations. The Hodge-Vertex Algebra Analytical Method is probably the best method in mathematics. It is more comprehensive than my original quasi-complete space."

Xiao Yi said modestly: "It just looks like that, in the end it still depends on the actual application."

Schultz shrugged. "That's not to mention that you can use it to solve the quality gap problem."

He raised his glass and gestured to Xiao Yi.

"No matter what, congratulations on becoming the second person to prove the Millennium Problem."

"Thank you." Xiao Yi also raised his glass with a smile and clinked it with Schultz.

After drinking the wine in the glass, Schultz suddenly remembered the topic he and Faltings talked about at the beginning of the lecture, so he asked: "By the way, I want to ask you a question. Do you think you are a master of mathematics now?"

Hearing this question, Xiao Yi was stunned at first, then he smiled and waved his hand and said: "Of course I am not, after all, I am still so young, and Master sounds very old."

Looking at Xiao Yi's expression of denial, Schultz felt that it was exactly the same as Faltings's denial before.

All we can see from this is humility, not the feeling of "I really don't think so".

Schultz couldn't help but glance at Faltings who was standing next to him.

Faltings smiled, tilted his head and winked at him.

Schultz couldn't help but shook his head helplessly, then drank the red wine in the glass in one gulp.

Xiao Yi looked at the two of them in confusion. What was going on?

But before he could think about it, he heard a voice of "Brother Xiao" in his ear.

Then he saw Ye Cheng and a group of people walking towards him in a mighty manner.

He glanced at the steaks on the table. Basically, only a few bites had been taken of them, and they were probably cold. He shook his head helplessly. He really didn't know how many more people would come later.

But when he turned around, he smiled and nodded to Ye Cheng and the others. Meeting old friends in a foreign land is also a happy thing.

……

Up to now, it was less than half an hour before the report meeting ended, but the news had already spread all over the world.

All the major media outlets that had been paying close attention to Xiao Yi's lecture directly sent out the manuscripts they had prepared long ago as the results were confirmed.

"The most difficult math problem was solved today, a 19-year-old boy created a miracle!"

"A genius from the East solves a million-dollar bounty puzzle: Yang-Mills existence and the mass gap problem!"

《A Carnival of Mathematics and Physics! New Mathematics and New Physics!》

《A huge breakthrough in physics! Quantum Hodge theory and a new prediction: X-particles》

"Shocked! Xiao Yi actually did this at the International Congress of Mathematicians..."

……

With so much news and overwhelming publicity, this major event in the scientific community quickly came into the view of the general public and immediately received widespread attention.

Whether on Twitter, Facebook, INS or other international software, the discussion about this matter immediately became heated.

Of course, the discussion in China is basically the hottest.

Because in recent days, the news about Xiao Yi's lecture has already spread, especially in the academic circle. Regardless of whether they are studying mathematics or physics, everyone knows the news.

Probably even the academic circles involved in the specialty of postpartum care for sows know about it.

After all, Xiao Yi is a Chinese, so naturally he needs to be publicized. Moreover, this matter will not only enhance China's reputation in the mathematics and physics circles, but also enhance its status and image in the entire international academic community.

Therefore, before the report meeting started, many people were paying attention to it, and now as the news of Xiao Yi's successful report came out, it spread everywhere immediately.

And because when the report meeting in St. Petersburg ended, it was just after seven o'clock in China, and the program broadcast by CCTV was News LB. Although this matter did not reach the level that could be temporarily inserted, it was broadcast for a full ten minutes in the rolling news below.
Basically, anyone who pays attention to news lb will see this breaking news.

It can be said that this is already a great publicity for this matter.

In the subsequent news column, this news was officially reported.

Of course, the central bank’s propaganda efforts cannot match the strength of Internet communication in today’s information age.

When people pick up their phones, they will receive push messages from various apps.

For example, the news pushed by Tik Tok [Xiao Yi proved a world-class problem in his report at the International Congress of Mathematicians], or the news pushed by Bihu [You are invited to answer the question "In the opening report of the International Congress of Mathematicians that just ended, Xiao Yi completed the solution to the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem. Is there anything worth our attention about this report?"], and then there are the news pushed by various news software.

Of course, if you click on these major software and open the hot search list, you will find that this news has directly landed at the top of the hot search list, and its popularity is often several levels higher than the second place, unless the second place is also about this matter.

For example, on Weibo, the top three trending searches are all about this matter.

Netizens across the country were in an uproar.

[What the hell? What the hell? What the hell? What did I find when I opened Weibo? ]

[Ah? Ah? Ah? Are you kidding? I just played a game of Civilization VI, and then the outside world changed drastically? I even defeated one of the Millennium Puzzles?]

[It's already 6pm. Tell me, when did you start playing Civilization VI yesterday?]

[Wow, the news LB has been broadcasting this news for a full ten minutes, are you kidding me? ]

[The news was broadcast for ten minutes? Is this true? How come I didn’t know? I’m taking the civil service exam and I have to watch the news every day.]

[The following breaking news was played for ten minutes. ]

[What the hell? I didn’t even notice! ]

[Oh my god, the Millennium Problem is worth $100 million. Studying well can really make money! ]

[Just kidding, one million dollars, what is that to Xiao Shen? He can easily make millions. ]

[I can tell from the first glance that you are a bunch of people who don't understand math and physics at all. The most important thing about Xiao Shen's report is the Hodge-Vertex Algebra Analysis Method he proposed, right? And the Quantum Hodge Theory, I'm so excited. And, Xiao Shen predicted a new particle! X-particle, damn! How long has it been since physics predicted a new particle?]

[What? New particle? Is it the same as the God particle? ]

[I don't understand what you said. It is said to be a new particle, so how can it be the same as the God particle? This new particle must have not been discovered yet, and it may involve the unification of strong interaction and weak interaction! ]

[You all missed the point. The real point is that the opening ceremony of this International Congress of Mathematicians will be held at around 12 o'clock tonight. The Fields Medal will be awarded at that time. Guess who will win the award?]

[Hiss... Could it be? ]

[Now, on a foreign website, Xiao Shen has been considered the person most likely to win the Fields Medal, with more than 70% of the votes cast. It seems that it is really possible that it is him?! ]

[Fuck, I have to watch this tonight! ]

[Ah? Ah? Ah? Fields Medal? Holy crap!]

Every netizen who saw this news was shocked.

Fields Medal, the most important award in mathematics!
Will it really be awarded to Xiao Yi?

Suddenly, the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians tonight attracted the attention of countless Chinese people.

Can Xiao Yi win the award and become the youngest Fields Medal winner in history?
(End of this chapter)