Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 202 An award only members can get?
"Hey, Dean Zhou, it's me, Zhou Ming." After Zhou Chunli answered the phone, Zhou Ming announced his name.

Although he knew that the other party looked at the caller ID and knew that the call was from him, but in order to show that the call was indeed made by himself and not by someone else using his mobile phone, Zhou Ming still said his name.

"I know, I saved your number, what's the matter?" Zhou Chunli knew that since Zhou Ming called him, he must have something to say, so he asked directly.

Because Zhou Chunli had told Zhou Ming that little card before, if it wasn’t an emergency, it was best not to make that phone call, and although Zhou Ming had something to do with Zhou Chunli this time, it wasn’t too urgent. So I didn't follow the contact information on that little card.

"I'm going to buy a car, and I want to hire a driver. I'm not at ease if I go to the market to recruit, so I want to ask if you have anyone to recommend." After Zhou Chunli asked Zhou Ming about his business, Zhou Ming It was also straight to the point and explained to him the purpose of making this call.

When returning to Jinling from Jingu before, Zhou Ming, who was on the high-speed rail, felt that it would be inconvenient to take the high-speed rail now, and sometimes it might be inconvenient to answer a more confidential call, so he thought of buying a car.

At that time, Zhou Ming thought of looking for a driver from above.

After all, as the research results of Zhou Ming and his team continue to increase, his research will definitely become more and more advanced, and the more advanced these researches, the more confidential they will be.

Therefore, the driver Zhou Ming is looking for here is naturally not the kind of ordinary driver, but the kind of driver who must at least have some skills and is reliable. Naturally, the most reliable way to find this kind of driver is to ask the above to help, so there will be no accidents. whats the matter.

And Zhou Chunli also understood Zhou Ming's meaning immediately after Zhou Ming finished saying this, and he said to Zhou Ming: "Okay, no problem, I will talk to that person in a while, and let him personally talk to the troops. While talking.

However, do you want this driver in a hurry? "

"It's not urgent, I don't need to go anywhere recently, just take your time over there." Zhou Ming said.

Soon, Zhou Ming hung up the call with Zhou Chunli, and at this time he also walked into his office.

As for Zhou Chunli, he had already parked the car and was about to get out of the car.

However, after receiving Zhou Ming's call, Zhou Chunli started the car again, left Huaguo Academy of Sciences University, and went to another place.

When Zhou Ming walked into the office, the first thing he did was to turn on his computer.

After turning on the computer and logging into his mailbox, Zhou Ming discovered that someone had sent him two emails.

Clicking on one of them, it turned out that this email was sent by Jay Kisling. The content of the email was similar to what Zhang Mingjie called Zhou Ming just now. He wanted to come to Huaguo University of Science and Technology and Zhou Ming to discuss the synthesis knowledge of biology.

After reading this email, Zhou Ming didn't think much about it. After all, this is within the territory of Huaguo, and the people who came were also very famous scholars in the field of synthetic biology. Zhou Ming didn't think they would do anything to him.

After closing this e-mail, Zhou Ming opened a second e-mail a little bit.

"Huh? It was actually an email from the American Mathematical Society. I have never been to the United States, so why did they suddenly send me an email?" Before clicking on it, after seeing the sender of the second email, Zhou Ming began to sigh a little strangely.

The American Mathematical Society is an organization for mathematical research and education. It has many publications. It was established in 1888 when Thomas Fiske went to Yingguo and was inspired by the London Mathematical Society.

After clicking on the email sent by the American Mathematical Society and carefully reading the contents, Zhou Ming finally realized why the other party sent him such an email suddenly.

It turned out that they were notified that they had been nominated for the Cole Prize in Number Theory, but the specific selection results will be completed and announced next month. If Zhou Ming wins this year's Cole Prize in Number Theory, then they Email notifications are also sent.

However, it is estimated that the written documents will not be sent to the school until December.

As for the award ceremony, if Zhou Ming finally won the Cole Mathematics Prize, they will specify the specific time and place when they send Zhou Ming an email.

As a mathematician, Zhou Ming knows a little bit about these foreign and domestic mathematics awards. This Cole Award was established in memory of Professor Frank Nelson Cole, who has served the American Mathematical Society for 25 years. The Number Theory Prize was established in 1931 and the Algebra Prize in 1928 to reward achievements in the fields of number theory and algebra.

However, based on Zhou Ming's superficial understanding of this award, it seems that the Cole Award is only awarded to members of the American Mathematical Society. Zhou Ming, let alone a member of the American Mathematical Society, has never been to the United States. He handed out this award?

The somewhat strange Zhou Ming thought about it, and finally decided to call Li Mingming, the dean of the Academy of Mathematical Sciences, and ask. Friends for many years must know more about this kind of thing than this young man.

Picking up the phone, flipping through the address book, Zhou Ming quickly called Li Mingzhi.

"Hey, why did you call me so early in the morning? Is there something else?" Li Mingzhi on the other end of the phone asked Zhou Ming with a smile after he answered Zhou Ming's call.

Hearing Li Mingzhi's familiar words, Zhou Ming seemed to feel that he and Dean Li had exchanged identities. The previous words were almost all about Li Zhizhi's coming to him, Zhou Ming and Li Zhiming said.

However, Zhou Ming didn't feel anything else. After Li Zhizhi finished speaking, he said to Li Zhizhi: "Dean Li, do you know about the Cole Prize in Number Theory?"

"The Cole Prize in Number Theory?" Li Mingzhi immediately became interested when Zhou Ming came up and asked about such a mathematics award. He repeated it in surprise, and then quickly realized that he asked Zhou Ming, " You won the Cole Prize in Number Theory?"

As soon as he finished asking, Li Mingzhi denied his guess, and continued: "No, it's only September now, and in previous years, even if the results were released, it would take until October.

Why are you asking this all of a sudden?Or did you hear something? "

In the end, Li Mingzhi asked Zhou Ming in a tone of disbelief, because as far as he knew about Zhou Ming, Zhou Ming would never leave Luzhou all day except to receive awards and attend meetings. How could the people who stayed at the school suddenly know such secret news?

He had never heard anyone around him mention such a thing.

"It's like this. After I came to school today, I found an email from the American Mathematical Society in my mailbox. I clicked on it and it turned out that I was nominated for the Cole Prize in Number Theory.

However, as far as I know, the Cole Prize in Number Theory seems to be awarded only to members of the American Mathematical Society?I have never been to the United States, and I have never entered any mathematical society. How could they give me this award?
I'm a bit curious about this, so I'm here to ask you. "

Zhou Ming explained to Li Zhiming.

"Oh...so that's what you asked.

This is mainly because your understanding is not comprehensive enough. Although this Cole Award is not completely international, it is not only awarded to members of the American Mathematical Society who have made outstanding contributions, but also to those who have published outstanding articles in American journals. people.

You are like Pete Schulze, an arithmetic algebraic geometer in Technetia, who is also one of the leading figures of the younger generation of mathematics. At the beginning of this year, when you held a report on the proof of Goldbach’s conjecture at school, he also came. Algebra Prize Winner.

But his undergraduate education and postgraduate education were completed in Technetium, and he was also not a member of the American Mathematical Society.

So you don't have to worry about this. Although it is a nomination, since you have been nominated, you will definitely win the award in the end.

They gave you this award, and you deserve it. Based on your achievements in the field of mathematics, let alone the Cole Prize in Number Theory, even if you take the Fields Medal, Wolf Medal and Abel Prize in mathematics It is normal for the three most famous and valuable awards in the world. "

Li Mingzhi said to Zhou Ming that although he spoke normally, his tone did not have that normal calmness at all.

"Wo~~~, that's it, I understand." After listening to Li Mingzhi's explanation, Zhou Ming was about to hang up the phone.

"Wait a minute." Seeing Zhou Ming's calm tone, Li Mingzhi felt something, and quickly said to Zhou Ming, "You don't want to go to the scene to present the awards like the previous Craford Awards, do you?"

"Its bonus is only 5000 US dollars, which is more than 3 yuan if it is converted into RMB, which is not interesting." Zhou Ming said.

Li Mingzhi: ...

Confused by Zhou Ming's words, Li Mingzhi didn't know what to say.

It turns out that you are really not indifferent to fame and wealth, but really feel that the money is too little, which is too willful.

Li Zhiming thought so in his heart.

Awards like the Cole Number Theory Award, which is awarded every three years, although its prize money is not high, its reputation in the mathematics world is not low. Although it is not as famous as the three major awards in the mathematics world, it is also It is definitely an internationally renowned mathematics award.

"Hey, Dean, are you still there?" Seeing that Li Mingzhi stopped him, and after asking himself a word, Zhou Ming was a little surprised.

"In, in... Zhou Ming, this is not..." Li Mingzhi wanted to say something to persuade Zhou Ming to accept the award, because he knew that the American Mathematical Society would not be as easy-talking as the Royal Swedish Academy. If Zhou Ming still said no As time went on, they definitely wouldn't hold any webcast awards like the Royal Swedish Academy did.

However, after Li Zhizhi stumbled and said a few words, he finally failed to say something to persuade Zhou Ming to go to the United States to receive the award on the spot.

Because Li Mingzhi thought about it carefully, and really couldn't think of any good way to persuade Zhou Ming.

If you want to talk about the prize money, the prize money of the Cole Number Theory Prize of the American Mathematical Society is really not that good, it is only 5000 US dollars. Zhou Ming is not someone who needs that kind of money at all.

Let's talk about how much reputation in the mathematics world will increase after winning this award, and how many people will be recognized.

Does Zhou Ming need these?

In terms of fame, he published several mathematical papers in the top four journals of mathematics within one year, and later used his innovative mathematical methods to prove the twin prime conjecture and Goldbach's conjecture.

He also refused to go to the award ceremony of the Crafford Award, and the Royal Swedish Academy held a live webcast award ceremony for him.

All these achievements and behaviors have already spread Zhou Ming's reputation in the mathematics world to the whole world. Why is there such an award as the Cole Number Theory Award to allow Zhou Ming to be recognized by others?
"Actually, I mainly see that the Cole Prize in Number Theory is usually held at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society. There will definitely be many well-known mathematicians attending. If you go to participate, you can also meet some other scholars in the mathematics community. It’s better to communicate with them more.

However, since you are busy and don't have much time to pass, forget it. "

Li Mingzhi finally found a reason for what he was going to say just now, and finally didn't say anything to dissuade him.

"Dean Li, I actually know what you mean.

However, since we want to build Huaguo University of Science and Technology into a holy land of mathematics in the world, we can't always think about going to other places to communicate with scholars in the mathematics field. Scholars come to us. "Zhou Ming said.

Hearing Zhou Ming's explanation, Li Mingzhi was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "Oh, I understand what you said, but development also takes time.

Moreover, we do not have any well-known world-class mathematics awards here, and there is no world-class mathematics organization.

Unless you solve the last unsolved four-color problem of the world's three major mathematical problems in modern times, perhaps solve world-class problems such as NP-complete problems, Hodge's conjecture, Riemann hypothesis, etc., and then give a lecture on it .

Otherwise, it would be impossible for all the masters of mathematics in various fields from all over the world to come to us to exchange ideas. "

"Dean Li, you really make me a god, and you also underestimate these tens of billions of people in the world.

Even if I can solve one of these problems that so many people have been unable to solve for decades or hundreds of years, it is definitely impossible to complete it in such a short time as solving Goldbach's conjecture, and it will definitely take a lot of time , Waiting for that time, the day lily will be cold. "

Zhou Ming naturally knew what Li Zhizhi's last sentence meant, and he said to Li Zhizhi in a speechless voice.

Li Mingzhi naturally doesn't believe what Zhou Ming said. Now he feels that as long as Zhou Ming is willing to study and pick any one of the problems he just mentioned, it will take at most one or two years for Zhou Ming to solve it. .

However, just when Li Mingzhi was about to speak, he heard Zhou Ming say another sentence, which immediately made his eyes widen, and he couldn't wait to listen to the following.

(End of this chapter)