The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 20 Academicians' Interests

In Shangri-La Hotel in Shangjing, a banquet is being held.

This is a mathematics academic conference organized by the China Mathematical Society. Participants include mathematics professors from various universities across the country, as well as related research institutes, societies, etc., mathematics enthusiasts, and mathematics students who have registered for the conference.

There are so many such academic conferences in the mathematics community that they are almost too frequent.

Of course, for these scholars and professors who study mathematics, they also like to attend such conferences.

The reason is simple, because if they don’t attend academic conferences, they basically don’t know what they can do in their daily lives.

Doing a project?
They did do this, but the saying about mathematics is the same for anyone who studies mathematics in the world - if you don't know how to do it, you won't be able to learn it no matter how hard you try.

So sometimes, the period of a mathematics project is often very long, even starting from one or two years.

When they are not working on research projects, they usually have free time, so they might as well attend academic conferences. Maybe by listening to other people’s reports and communicating with other friends, they can get some ideas for their own research projects.

What's more, attending academic conferences can legitimately spend project funds, which has basically always been one of the main expenditure items of mathematics project funds.

After all, a mathematics project application may cost hundreds of thousands of yuan, but in reality, when solving the project, mathematicians only need a pen and a piece of draft paper. From the beginning to the end of the project, the total cost may not even reach 100 yuan. If the extra money is not spent, it will affect subsequent project applications.

Therefore, in order to spend the extra project funds, the leaders of the mathematics projects will try all kinds of ways to spend these funds, and academic conferences are a good way to do so.

As this method achieves multiple goals at once, more people attend mathematics academic conferences.

"I heard that Professor Liu recently found a good student in our affiliated high school?"

At the banquet, several mathematics professors who were quite familiar with each other were sitting together, and Liu Bin was among them.

When Liu Bin heard his friend asking about him, he smiled and said, "He is indeed a very good candidate. Who knows, he may become the Cao Yuan of our mathematics community in the future."

The friend next to him is actually a professor at the School of Mathematics of USTC. When he heard what Liu Bin said, his eyes widened. Cao Yuan is very familiar to them, the teachers at USTC. He was expected to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he was 22 years old. If Xiao Yi can be called the Cao Yuan of mathematics, then wouldn't he win the Fields Medal by then?

"Professor Liu is so optimistic?"

Liu Bin nodded. "You may not understand because you have never met him, but judging from the talent he has shown, it is enough for me to believe that he has such a future."

Today is already Thursday, and he has been attending this academic conference for 4 days. During these 4 days, in addition to participating in the academic conference projects, he also spent some time looking at Xiao Yi's draft paper.
Every time he watched it again, he would be amazed in his heart.

He wanted to see Xiao Yi's way of thinking and then... learn from it.

Yes, he, the professor, is trying to learn from Xiao Yi.

But obviously, it is difficult to learn anything in this way alone. After all, only geniuses can think like geniuses, and there is no such thing as imitating geniuses.

At this time, Liu Bin turned his head and looked at another professor next to him and said, "Professor Xu, I remember that you are in charge of Hua Luogeng's class, right? When this student I am optimistic about enters the school, you will know how great he is."

Professor Xu was stunned after hearing what Liu Bin said, then he laughed and said, "I thought you wanted me to help that student get into Hua Luogeng's class."

Liu Bin waved his hand: "You are joking. Do I need help to run the students I like? If they really need help, then they are not worth my attention."

Professor Xu shook his head and laughed: "Okay, I know who you are, Liu Bin." "According to what you said, that student is in his third year of high school and will take the college entrance examination... Then it won't be long before he comes to our school, in the second half of the year."

Liu Bin laughed: "He did take the college entrance examination this year, but he is actually a sophomore in high school."

"Second year of high school?"

The professors present were all stunned.

"Could it be the junior class?" Professor Xu reacted quickly.

"Yes." Liu Bin nodded.

This aroused the interest of several professors, and they also understood why Liu Bin compared him to another Cao Yuan. After all, the latter also graduated from the junior class of USTC.

"Oh? A math genius is going to emerge in the junior class of HKUST?"

Just at this moment, a voice was heard.

Several people turned to look, and the eyes of several professors from the University of Science and Technology lit up.

"Academician Hu!"

Hu Guangde, honorary president of the Chinese Mathematical Society, is also an academician of the School of Mathematics at USTC. He can be said to be the treasure of the School of Mathematics at USTC.

They didn't expect that they could get the attention of Academician Hu while chatting here.

"Hey, don't be so serious, Xiao Liu. I just heard you say that you met a good seedling. Come and tell me about it."

Hu Guangde sat directly next to them and said with a smile.

When Liu Bin heard Hu Guangde's words, his heart moved.

Although he believed in Xiao Yi's ability, he had not thought of introducing him to their academy's treasure right away. After all, their Academician Hu had studied and exchanged with the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, and had met countless mathematical geniuses. If he rashly went over and said that he had discovered a genius, Academician Hu might just treat it as a joke.

It’s just that Academician Hu is obviously quite free now, so he decided to come and listen.

And this... is this a good opportunity to introduce Xiao Yi to Hu Guangde?

For any mathematician, having a good teacher is a very important thing. Just like those famous mathematicians, their teachers are basically also famous mathematicians.

Thinking of this, he immediately said, "If I tell you directly, you may not feel it so deeply. I will contact the student directly and you can test him in person."

"Anyway, you'll be able to see him sooner or later after he enters school."

When Hu Guangde heard that Liu Bin immediately took advantage of the opportunity to introduce this student to him, he was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. This Liu Bin really knew how to seize opportunities.

However, this also aroused his interest. What kind of student could make Liu Bin value him so much?

(End of this chapter)