Chapter 198 I Have to Go

It was the afternoon when the Shiingshen Chern Mathematics Award was announced.

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics.

Sitting in the office, Academician Xiang Huanan, wearing reading glasses, carefully stared at the "Annual of Mathematics" on the table, holding a pen in his hand, and doing calculations on the paper from time to time.

To learn is to live and learn.

Especially for those engaged in mathematics research, new results are born almost every month. The old man will never miss a top publication such as "Mathematics Annual". Whenever a new edition is published, he must bring it as soon as possible. flip through.

Just then, an unexpected visitor visits his office.

As soon as he entered the door, he laughed and shouted.

"Old Xiang, what are you doing?"

Xiang Huanan raised his head, saw Wang Xiping walking into the office, took off his reading glasses, and said with a smile.

"Yo, rare visitor."

As he spoke, he looked at the student at the desk next to him: "Xiao Li, go and pour a cup of tea for Professor Wang."

"okay."

The student named Xiao Li put down his pen, skillfully brought the electric kettle, and respectfully poured a cup of tea for the two old professors.

It wasn't the first time he came here to drink tea, Wang Xiping was naturally not polite, after taking the cup, he sat next to the tea table by the office wall and leaned comfortably on the sofa.

While flipping through the periodicals, Xiang Huanan talked to this old friend in a chatty tone.

"If you don't go to the math conference, what are you doing here?"

"It's not about awarding me, I'm going to join in the fun, why don't you come here and blow up the air conditioner." Wang Xiping smiled and continued, "Although I didn't go, I heard that this conference was very interesting. At the opening ceremony, Qiu Chengtong was even invited, and the Chen Shiingshen Mathematics Award was awarded to that young man in his twenties. It was originally rumored that this Chen Award was awarded by Yang Zhiguang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ma Changan from Aurora University. It turns out that the one surnamed Ma was kicked out."

The amount of information is a bit large, which is surprising.

But what surprised Mr. Xiang was not who won the prize, but...

"That old guy Wang Shicheng actually bowed his head to Qiu Chengtong?" He turned his eyes away from the journal, looked at Huanan and looked at his old friend, his tone of voice was full of surprise.

Because of a professor surnamed Tian, ​​Mr. Qiu had an unpleasant quarrel with the Department of Mathematics of Yanda University. It can be said that it is well-known in the mathematics circle.

In 2001, Yanda packaged Professor Tian, ​​who was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a full-time professor of Peking University to select domestic academicians. However, Qiu Chengtong was very shameless, and criticized by name in the newspaper - "A doctoral student I once supervised was second-rate in mathematics, and he had to get a high salary in China." Later, in 2005, he even accused him of academic fraud and listed Seven papers plagiarized.

This incident caused a stir in China at the time, but it ended in a low-key manner in the end.

However, Mr. Qiu and Liang Zi from the Yan University School have never solved it. It is precisely because of this that the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center finally settled in Shuimu University, not Yanda University, which has the highest mathematics department in the country.

Of course, although there are many academic circles in China, not all of them belong to a certain faction. After all, not all of them are passionate about power.

Especially those old professors who are already old and famous. Their names are academic capital. Their own theories have become a school of their own in the world. After all, to them, a lot of things are seen very lightly.

For example, Professor Wang Xiping is a person who doesn't take fame and fortune very seriously, and belongs to an old professor who is really passionate about education.

It is precisely because of this that although he is teaching at Yanda University, he has always had a good relationship with Qiu Chengtong, and he often visits the Chinese Academy of Sciences. And Academician Xiang Huanan, who he often visited, also belonged to the kind of old scholar who stayed away from the academic circle and studied quietly.

Wang Xiping took a sip of his tea and said with a smile, "You can't lower your head. If Ma Chang'an, an ignorant old man, wins the Chern Mathematics Award, he will have to lose his face to the other side of the Pacific Ocean."

"Is there another theory?" Xiang Huanan asked with a frown.

"Otherwise? Why do you think old man Qiu came back? He didn't do anything else when he came back, so he sent a message to Academician Wang Shicheng, saying that the Federal Mathematical Society is researching and awarding this year's Cole Mathematics Prize to Princeton Lu Zhou who gave a report."

A hint of bewilderment appeared on his expression, and Xiang Huanan immediately said with a smile: "This problem is indeed a bit serious, no wonder Academician Wang swallowed this breath."

Those who should have won the prize didn't get it, and those who shouldn't have won the prize, that's fine. But if the people who didn't win the prize ran across the Pacific Ocean to win the prize, and people then compared the two winners, the problem might be a bit big.

If someone with a heart finds out, the media will have to use the gossip in the mathematics world to make a fuss and make conspiracy theories.

As for a young man in his twenties, you can't expect him to have that "ideological awareness", suffer a dark loss, and even give Wang Shicheng the face of several old academicians, and reject the Cole Award, right?

But no normal person would be so stupid.

After all, the weight of that thing is much heavier than the Chern Shiingshen Math Award.

"Then it seems that this conference is interesting. The old man Wang Shicheng actually took the initiative to shake hands with Qiu Chengtong. It's a pity to miss it." Academician Xiang said with a smile.

Wang Xiping also smiled and said: "It's very interesting. I'm going to go there tomorrow. I heard that the kid will give a 30-minute report. What kind of group structure method, I took a look at the paper submitted for the conference, and it was quite interesting. The kid’s report level is not simple, it’s a pity not to listen to it.”

"That kid's level is indeed quite high, and I saw it when I defended him." Xiang Huanan said with a smile, "It's a pity that he didn't succeed in digging the wall at that time, and was cut off by that old man Lu Jianshen. I took him to receive the award."

"Don't talk about it, I'll get angry when you talk about it," Wang Xiping said indignantly, patting his thigh, "You said that Lu, who was engaged in physics, crossed over to our mathematics field to dig People, what is this called?"

"Oh, you have the ability to say this in front of Lao Lu, what's the use of saying it in front of me." Xiang Huanan said with a smile.

Wang Xiping laughed dryly, "This...forget it, that old guy can't take jokes, I'm afraid he'll have a heart attack."

Xiang Huanan shook his head with a smile, and turned a page of the journal in his hand.

However, at this moment, he suddenly froze for a moment, and his whole body remained motionless.

After quickly scanning the paper in front of him from beginning to end, his expression became more and more serious. After turning to the last page, his eyes swept to the last line of words, and he stopped there for a long time.

After a pause for a while, Xiang Huanan suddenly spoke.

"What time is the report you mentioned...? Where is it?"

Wang Xiping, who was drinking tea, didn't notice the change in his old friend's expression, and said casually.

"At three o'clock in the afternoon, Beijing Normal University, what's the matter? Are you going too?"

"I have to go..." Xiang Huanan sighed softly, put the "Annual of Mathematics" in his hand on the table, and said with approval in his tone, "You can read it for yourself."