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Chapter 293: Chapter 205: Geniuses are All Eccentric_3

"Hahaha."

Andrei Okounkov is a mathematician from Princeton and is also a mathematician based in the United States. He has met Terry Tao before. "I’m not familiar with Zhao Yi, but Terry has always been like this. You’ll get used to it."

"Crazy for research."

Perelman curled his lips, then thought of his own award and excitedly said, "Tonight, I must drink a few more glasses, get all dizzy and muddled, sleep it off and wake up to my first day after receiving the Fields Medal..."

"It’s just too perfect!"

Okounkov quickly distanced himself. He realized he was the more normal one of the two.

...

The awards ceremony was over.

The end of the ceremony does not mean the end.

The start date of the International Congress of Mathematicians is calculated from the beginning of the awards ceremony, which is the real opening ceremony. However, each event lasts longer than planned, and the most intense academic discussions often take place before the opening ceremony.

The conference will continue for a few more days until the scheduled closing time.

Many people were discussing the award recipients, and quite a few people felt sorry for Zhao Yi. The Fields Medal encourages creative research, and Zhao Yi’s ’three-dimensional tremor waveform chart’ is indeed creative. After expanding the pair of prime solutions, it was only a matter of time before it would completely replace the Riemann Conjecture.

The influence of the ’three-dimensional tremor waveform chart’ would undoubtedly continue to grow, and he hoped to compete for the Fields Medal using the ’three-dimensional tremor waveform chart’ he had developed.

Regrettably, Zhao Yi had only expanded the second pair of prime solutions during the Congress of Mathematicians, otherwise, he would have very much liked to receive the Fields Medal.

Of course.

Even if he didn’t win the Fields Medal, winning The Nevanlinna Prize wasn’t too shabby.

Zhao Yi had not even turned nineteen yet, and in four years he would be only just over twenty-three. If he contributed more mathematical research during this period, his chances of winning the Fields Medal would be even greater.

The upper age limit for the Fields Medal is forty, so he still has many opportunities.

In many people’s eyes, Zhao Yi is already a ’future Fields Medal winner,’ a thought that scares quite a few people.

The youngest winner in the history of the Fields Medal was Charles Fefferman, who was twenty-nine at the time.

Zhao Yi is still a decade away from turning twenty-nine, and he will have two opportunities to win the Fields Medal in the next decade. Unless something unexpected happens, he will definitely become the youngest recipient of the Fields Medal. frёeωebɳovel.com

Of course.

That’s just a projection of the future.

Right now, everyone’s attention is on Zhao Yi winning The Nevanlinna Prize. As soon as Zhao Yi left the venue, he ran into a reporter from his home country who had come to interview him.

The reporter handed the microphone to Zhao Yi with a professional smile and said, "Hello, Mr. Zhao..."

"Just call me by my name." Zhao Yi always encountered this kind of problem. Strangers didn’t know what to call him. Most people at the conference had a ’Professor’ title and, if not, they at least had a PhD, so they could be called ’Professor so-and-so’ or ’Dr. so-and-so.’

Zhao Yi had just graduated from high school and could only be addressed as Mister, but that sounded odd, yet calling him by his first name seemed disrespectful.

Zhao Yi didn’t mind. Calling him by his first name made him seem younger.

Being young is so great!

If possible, he really wished he could stay eighteen forever.

The reporter nodded and said, "Alright, Zhao Yi, congratulations on winning The Nevanlinna Prize, becoming the only scholar in our country to have won this award. Can you tell me how you’re feeling right now?"

"I’m okay."

Zhao Yi’s answer was very nonchalant. After chatting with Tao about algorithms and hearing many people saying that he has a good chance of competing for the Fields Medal next time, he found that he couldn’t muster any excitement. It was as if receiving The Nevanlinna Prize was a given, just like collecting a salary.

Speaking of which, The Nevanlinna Prize did come with more than ten thousand euros!

It’s not much, but it’s better than nothing!

When the reporter heard Zhao Yi say ’it’s okay’, he was somewhat at a loss for words. Zhao Yi was the first person in the country to win The Nevanlinna Prize and also the first person from his country to receive an award at the International Congress of Mathematicians.

And all he had to say was... ’it’s okay’?

The reporter took a deep breath to calm himself down and quickly changed the subject. "A few days ago, your academic presentation was a great success. You expanded the prime solutions of the waveform function and pointed out the logical error in Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, a British mathematician. Do you have anything to say about this?"

"Mr. Wiles is a mathematical genius, and I respect him."

Zhao Yi said, "My research aim was to expand the prime solutions of the waveform function, but it was Wiles’ report that sparked my inspiration."

"I am very grateful to him!"

"But with mathematics, right is right, and wrong is wrong. Someone who is serious about mathematics cannot treat something that is wrong as correct. I just did what I was supposed to do, what I had to do."

"Mathematics and science develop through continuous innovation and correction of errors."

"But I think this is probably a hit for him."

"I hope he won’t be too affected. I hope he can bounce back, adjust his mindset, and throw himself back into the research of mathematics and science."

"..."