A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 76 It’s all a good thing
Barbaria, DAMO Academy, Mathematical Competition Organizing Committee.

Inside the monitoring room, the atmosphere was relaxed and lazy. Data from each contestant was jumping on the huge screen in real time, like a surging ocean of numbers.

The members of the invigilation team chatted casually. Since there was no limit on the number of questions to answer, they naturally didn't care whether anyone cheated or not.

The preliminaries are just an entry threshold, the finals are the real highlight.

"Someone handed in the paper early!"

Suddenly, a monitoring staff member glanced at the screen and said as if he had seen a ghost.

He subconsciously rubbed his eyes, thinking he was hallucinating. According to the big data statistics of the detection system, at this time 97% of people were still working on the third question, 2% were working on the fourth question, and only 0.1% had started looking at the fifth question.

It is really too outrageous to hand in the paper at this time.

Everyone else's attention was drawn to the monitoring system as well.

"It's only been four hours. Is this guy here to have fun?"

After checking the system and finding that it was normal, one of the monitors smiled and clicked to view the details.

"What? You did six questions!"

After taking a look at the answers, he frowned and was keenly aware that something was unusual.

Generally speaking, even contestants who have registered to play will not submit their test papers until the end of the exam.

After all, the contestants don’t have to stay in the classroom. At worst, they can just not do the questions. What if they want to do them again after having enough fun?

Without hesitation, he picked up his phone and called the person in charge.

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In the School of Mathematics at Jiangcheng University, Yuan Xinyi looked up from his desk and looked at his vibrating cell phone, frowning.

He didn't know about other people's situations, but he hated being interrupted when he was working. It was very likely that his inspiration would disappear because of a phone call.

He still prefers communicating via email to phone calls.

I was careless today and forgot to put my phone aside while working.

Fortunately, today's phone call did not interrupt his inspiration, otherwise the person on the other end of the phone would have to be prepared to bear his wrath.

I stood up and picked up the phone. It was Sun Jianfeng, the dean of Barbary Adamo Academy.

"Hey?"

Yuan Xinyi answered the phone. He was not in a bad mood. Of course, the person on the other end was not a low-ranking official either. They had some cooperation.

Today seems to be the day when the Barbaria Mathematical Competition begins.

"Professor Yuan, I hope I didn't disturb you?"

Sun Jianfeng's polite voice came from the microphone. He had no choice but to be polite. He called all the mathematics professors on the organizing committee, and only Yuan Xinyi answered the phone.

He didn't waste any words and got straight to the point. "Well, we have a test paper here that we need you to verify. Is that convenient?"

"Exam paper?"

Yuan Xinyi looked up at the mechanical clock hanging in the office, wondering what the other party was talking about.

"Yes, someone submitted the test paper four hours and three minutes into the exam."

Sun Jianfeng explained, "We briefly reviewed his paper and found that all six questions he answered were correct. However, some of his answers were different from the standard answers and needed to be verified by Professor Yuan."

Yuan Xinyi took the phone from his ear, held it in front of his eyes and took another look. After confirming that the person calling him was indeed the dean of the Dharma Academy, the sense of absurdity in his heart became even stronger.

What kind of joke is this?
Get six questions right in four hours?
He is a member of the organizing committee of the Barbaria Mathematical Competition. He participated in the selection of the topics for this preliminary round and naturally knew the difficulty.

Not to mention the others, just the fourth question, even a mathematical researcher with a solid foundation would not be able to figure it out in several hours.

Not to mention that questions 5 and 7 are equally difficult and complicated to solve. Moreover, the preliminaries are not divided into tracks like the finals. These questions involve multiple fields such as geometry, probability and random processes, algebra, and applied mathematics.

Today, various sub-fields of mathematics are extremely complex, and it is extremely difficult to master the knowledge in each field.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult to answer six questions covering knowledge from various fields within four hours!
In other words, mathematicians who can do this will not participate in this competition.

"I've already sent the answer to your email. Please take a look when you have time. I won't bother you anymore."

Sun Jianfeng didn't argue, just said one sentence and hung up the phone. Yuan Xinyi looked at the hung up phone, returned to his desk thoughtfully, opened his mailbox, and saw the email from Sun Jianfeng.

After a slight hesitation, he opened his email and downloaded the attached PDF file.

The first two questions are multiple-choice questions, so there is no need to look at them. The proof for the third question is very neat and there is no problem. Yuan Xinyi spent more than ten minutes to complete the verification.

Question 4…

The moment he saw the answer, Yuan Xinyi's eyes lit up and he sat up straight subconsciously.

"Ok?"

"Lie algebra?"

"Can this question be solved this way?"

Burying his head in the screen, Yuan Xinyi concentrated on checking the solution process of the fourth question. He had participated in the selection of preliminary questions and naturally knew the fourth question. He had also thought about the solution at that time, but he did not notice that Lie algebra could also be used to solve it.

This clever solution not only greatly simplifies the complex calculation process of this problem, but also makes the solution process more concise and clear, so that people can understand it at a glance.

"Imagination is unconstrained!"

"Amazing!"

Half an hour later, Yuan Xinyi sat in front of the computer screen, staring blankly at it, sighing from the bottom of his heart.

Although mathematicians like them rarely do exercises, he doesn't care much about students' scores.

But the process of solving this problem still reveals too much. The ability to use tools and the ability to construct ideas in an imaginative way are necessary for mathematicians.

This talent is overflowing from the answer sheet!

"I don't know if he's a graduate student from Yanbei or Tsinghua?"

Yuan Xinyi muttered.

He was very sure that the person who answered the question was not very old. It is said that handwriting reflects the character of the person, and the same is true in mathematics. Experienced scholars can easily tell the age of the person who answered the question from the answering process.

This kind of energetic aura is definitely not something that any old guy can possess.

Without even looking at the next question, Yuan Xinyi picked up his phone again and dialed the number he had just made.

Mathematicians are always curious.

But the call was not connected.

He didn't know that after calling him, Sun Jianfeng went straight to the office of the president of Babaria Public Welfare.

"Xiao Ming, this year's competition is not peaceful. We need to discuss it."

Xiao Ming, chairman of the Barbaria Charity Foundation, looked up and asked with amusement, "What could go wrong with the competition?"

"Some people submitted their papers early and scored very high, at least 95 or above. Based on past experience, they can at least make it into the top ten in the preliminary round."

"So exaggerated?" Xiao Ming also piqued his interest. "It's only been less than five hours since the exam started. Could it be AI?"

Sun Jianfeng shook his head. "The system detected no trace of AI."

"Also, I checked the information of that contestant."

Sun Jianfeng's face was solemn. "The contestant's name is Chen Hui, a freshman at Rongcheng No. 2 Middle School. He's only sixteen years old!"

"Isn't this a good thing?"

Xiao Ming was completely baffled. "A genius emerged from the competition. Isn't this a good thing that will increase our reputation?"

"Have you forgotten what happened last year?"

Sun Jianfeng's eyes were gloomy. In his opinion, someone must be trying to repeat the same old tricks, deliberately finding fault and undermining the authority of the Barbaria Mathematical Competition.

Of course Xiao Ming knew what Sun Jianfeng was talking about. It was nothing more than the incident involving the technical secondary school students that caused a lot of controversy last year.

But what does it matter?

"You are still too stubborn!"

Xiao Ming shook his head and chuckled, "Anyway, this is a good thing for us!"

(End of this chapter)