Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 292: Chapter 205: Geniuses are all Strange _2

Zhao Yi was primarily focused on Terence Tao.

Terence Tao was a Chinese mathematician, who had a greater reputation than the other three award-winners combined.

Terence Tao was a true genius. At the age of thirteen, he won gold in the International Olympic Mathematics Competition. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Flinders University at sixteen, and completed his master’s degree at the same university at seventeen. By twenty-one, he had his Ph.D. from Princeton University, and from the age of twenty-four, he served as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

This year was filled with accolades for Terence Tao. He had already received the Nevanlinna Prize and MacArthur Fellowship, and now, at this mathematics conference, he had won the most prestigious prize in the field of mathematics - the Fields Medal - for his research achievements in number theory, harmonic analysis, and combinatorics. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

His track record was truly astounding.

However, Terence Tao wasn’t the only genius in the family; his wife Laura, who held the position of engineer at NASA, was once a student at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Their relationship was a classic case of teacher-student romance, even though there was only three years difference in their ages.

Even on the Fields Medal’s stage, Terence Tao was the brightest one there, overshadowing the other laureates.

The majority of the attendees’ attention was on Terence Tao.

Terence Tao didn’t mind being the center of attention. He seemed to have always mentally prepared for winning the Fields Medal. He casually collected his prize, a calm expression on his face as he walked over to sit next to Zhao Yi.

"Hello, Zhao Yi."

Born in Australia, and of Chinese Australian heritage, Terence Tao had never been to China. His parents were from Hong Kong, which influenced his Mandarin, giving it a Cantonese accent. However, his speech was not pure Cantonese. It sounded a bit strange.

"Hello."

Zhao Yi and Terence Tao shook hands politely. "Congratulations on receiving the Fields Medal!"

Terence Tao glanced at the medal in his hand, chuckled lightly and casually stuffed it into his pocket. "Next time, it might be you. I’ve heard about your presentation on three-dimensional tremor waveforms. It expanded upon the Riemann Conjecture, quite remarkable."

"I’ve been researching the twin prime conjecture, but progress has been slow."

Just as Zhao Yi was about to reply, Terence Tao continued, "I have a research problem that I hope you can help with."

"What?"

Zhao Yi was taken aback.

"It’s related to my research. Are you interested in digital information compression?"

Zhao Yi hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "I have some knowledge."

Terence Tao laughed lightly, "In fact, my research encountered a problem and needs the help of an algorithm master. It’s related to digital information compression technology."

"My colleagues and I have been studying a kind of new digital information compression technology. The theory is completed already. You can check my WordPress. But we’re still missing the core algorithm for practical application."

"Recently, I’ve been thinking about this issue, like in medical imaging devices, the images collected are processed through Fourier Transform... "

"If it’s normal photography, the situation is completely different. Cameras capture images that need to be compressed, while playback on devices requires decompression."

"Compression takes several times more computational power than decompression..."

"But the paradox is that the more complex the capture device is, the worse it performs, and the better the decompression device is, the higher the hardware level. This waste of hardware resources is a kind of anti-hardware algorithm model..."

"So we need to find a way to..."

Terence Tao continued to talk, his explanations were generally quite clear, and most of it Zhao Yi could understand, but some of the more technical aspects, like the Fourier Transform, he recognized by name only. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

"...That’s why I’ve decided to end my course on partial differential equations and offer a class on Fourier Transform."

"Perhaps the students can give me some inspiration."

Listening to Terence Tao, Zhao Yi felt a bit odd. He found geniuses to be quite peculiar indeed.

Wasn’t this supposed to be the time for celebrating the success of winning the Fields Medal?

Shouldn’t they be crying tears of joy and excitement?

After receiving the Fields Medal, Terence Tao nonchalantly pocketed the money as though it were just his salary. Then he came over to seriously discuss research with him?

Besides, geniuses are quite capricious.

While researching a new digital information compression technology, he decided to change his course from partial differential equations to Fourier Transform, which is related to information conversion?

Alright.

Zhao Yi suddenly felt no excitement about the award. He also became very calm and began to discuss algorithm questions with Terence Tao.

Although some of the topics that Terence Tao was talking about were difficult, Zhao Yi could still hold a conversation when it came to the field of algorithms. The two of them quite seriously engaged in conversation about algorithm questions on the award stage, disregarding what was happening around them.

Even as the host introduced Terence Tao enthusiastically and called for applause for all the award-winners...

The two of them never even looked up.

Grigori Perelman was sitting next to Terence Tao. He could clearly hear their conversation. Leaning towards another laureate, Andrei Okounkov, he pointed in Terence Tao’s direction and said in an odd tone, "Are all Chinese people like this? It’s the Fields Medal ceremony and I’m shaking with excitement... They’re discussing Fourier Transform..."