After the thunderous applause, Ning Jie quietly watched Alessio Figali deliver his acceptance speech on the stage.

Obviously, this young mathematician is very excited to win the world's top mathematics award...

Well, if you want to compare with Dominic Duncan, it is obvious that Alessio Figali is not too young for his age. At thirty-six, he is a full ten years older than Dominic Duncan, but for

As a profession, scholars are still in their prime years.

Of course these are not the point.

Ning Zi suddenly discovered a problem. He had not prepared an acceptance speech at all.

Alessio Figali could thank many people on stage and easily waste the few minutes left by the organizer for him, but it is obvious that Ning Zi has no such awareness at all. In terms of academic achievements, he needs to be grateful most.

It's March, but obviously no one wants to hear a story about a man and a cat on this occasion.

Not to mention that March doesn't even bother to express gratitude.

Then Ning Zi suddenly discovered that having him deliver such a long acceptance speech might be a disaster for today's conference.

At this thought, Ning Zi's eyes fell on Dominette Duncan beside her.

He raised his hand and patted Dominette Duncan, who was looking at the stage intently. The guy turned his head and looked at him in confusion.

Ning Zi ignored it and just explained: "If you are going to go up on stage first, try to talk for a while and delay for some time. If I go up first...when I look at you, you go up and help me out."

"Um..." Dominette Duncan looked at Ning Zi for a moment, and could see the seriousness in this guy's eyes. Then he looked at Alexio Fei who was still excitedly talking about his dare to think on the stage.

Gary, after nodding, began to pray in his heart that it would be best if he could go on stage first.

If he goes on stage and talks nonsense for a while, it won't be a big problem, and everyone should be able to tolerate it.

But if Ning Zi takes the stage first, it would be a bit outrageous to go up and grab the microphone before his name is even read at the quadrennial mathematicians conference. Probably only Ning Zi can think of it.

He didn't hesitate for too long. Alessio Figali on the stage had already finished his speech, and took him to receive his medal and bonus from Mori Shigefumi - a check for US$1,500, and left.

Got off the podium.

Although the prize money is not comparable to the Nobel Prize or the Turing Award, what is certain is that the weight of the medal and the courtesy received after winning the award will definitely not be worse than the other two awards.

"Next, I will announce to you the second winner of this year's Fields Medal... Well, I don't want to sell it this time. He was supposed to be the young mathematician who broke the record as the youngest winner of the Fields Medal.

, of course, in fact, he has still broken the record of being the youngest recipient of the Fields Medal now that he is on stage. Well, please welcome Dominique Duncan, this Norwegian mathematician who almost made history."

Mori Chongfumi said with a smile on the stage, and the audience applauded again.

Dominette Duncan felt relieved when Shigebumi Mori said, "He should have broken... the record." The task assigned by Ning Zi became simpler. Of course, this arrangement is in line with common sense, because Wang

It’s only appropriate to explode it last.

Of course, he was just relieved, because when he walked on stage, he still had to think about how to speak more.

…

"Thank you, thank you Professor Shigebumi Mori, and thank you all. There is no doubt that today will be an extremely important day in my life, although I have been prepared...well, I admit that the organizing committee has notified me of the award in advance.

Probably, um... two months in advance... Yes, Mr. Chairman informed me of the good news in January. He was probably worried that I was too young and not stable enough, so he gave me more time to think about how to say my acceptance speech.

"

A small joke brought a burst of laughter from the audience.

Ning Zi did not laugh, but he felt that Dominette Duncan had a talent for speaking.

When the laughter stopped, Dominette Duncan continued: "But I am still very excited at this time, even so excited that I don't know what to say. So let's talk about my understanding of mathematics. Everyone should know that I am now

I am an exchange professor at Yanbei University of Physical Education in China. Before my trip to China, I thought it was mathematics. Well, at least pure mathematics should be very conservative and follow its own evolution. A very special law is extremely mysterious.

way of evolution.”

"But after I went to China, I met a person who made me change my view. Well, I believe everyone knows his name. Yes, it is him, Ning Zi, my guide in the field of mathematics.

Ming Deng... Yes, I said it right, it's Ming Deng, because he used a very powerful way to extinguish many of my illusions about mathematics..."

Another burst of laughter also made many people around Ning Zi focus on him.

Ning Zi is helpless...

After all, he made it very clear that he was just asking Dominette Duncan to waste more time, rather than asking him to help him give his acceptance speech.

Of course, Ning Zi didn't care about this, he just felt sorry for Dominette Duncan.

Mentioning him in a large space when delivering a speech on this occasion is indeed a bit unpredictable. But at this time, he can't remind him. He can only see how Dominette Duncan performs.

"Really, I'm not exaggerating. In fact, I convinced President Summers to let me go to Yanbei Sports University to be an exchange professor. The idea was to compete with Ning Zi. Yes,

I want to prove to him that I am the true pride of heaven, the youngest and most promising person in the world of contemporary mathematics. I even thought about declaring war on him by spending the rest of my life picking off the brightest pearl of modern mathematics, so that Ning Zi can

Understand who is the strongest opponent in his life."

"But something happened that completely eliminated all my thoughts... I guess you must want to know what it is, right?"

Dominic Duncan was right. When he asked this question, applause rang out again, and some people even started to whistle, and some people shouted: "yes, yes!"

Look, time can be delayed very easily. The current president of the International Union of Mathematicians who is hosting the award ceremony next to him can't even interrupt him. After all, who doesn't want to hear the stories of mathematicians? Many well-known mathematicians

Isn’t it true that stories are told on such occasions, and then passed down from generation to generation, and eventually become legends of various later generations?

Still only Ning Zi smiled bitterly in her heart.

Oh……

He admired Dominette Duncan more and more.

After telling this little story on this occasion today, even if he has good intentions in the next three months, this mathematician will probably not be able to go back to Harvard.

Dominette Duncan's hype even made Ning Jie feel sad.

The opportunities in life are really amazing. Of course, there are some reasons for this. If it weren't for his request, this guy probably wouldn't be so open-minded.

"Well, since everyone wants to hear it, I can only reluctantly tell you." After saying that, Dominic Duncan turned to look at the alliance chairman beside him and said playfully: "Chairman Mori Shigebumi, please Give me some time, okay? It doesn't matter, I can let Ning Zi talk for a while later. He claims to have social fears, so he will definitely not refuse my proposal."

The chairman smiled, obviously this was encouragement.

"Yes, I just mentioned that that day I mustered up the courage and wanted to tell Ning Zi face to face like a knight. It was not a big deal to solve a problem in Clay's laboratory, because I had 100% confidence in myself. I am confident that the NP-complete problem will be completely solved in the near future. In this way, I did not contact Ning Zi in advance and directly found the room where Ning Zi lived at the time."

"But do you know? When I knocked on his door, there was no response. I only heard a cat meow... Yes, he went out, and then his cat opened the door for me and extended a warm invitation. I walked into his room. Oh my God, that must be the most enthusiastic cat I have ever seen, you know? I have never seen such a smart kitten, and then I accidentally saw the manuscript paper Ning casually threw on the table. …”

"Okay, everyone, I know very well that as a mathematician, I shouldn't peek at the manuscript papers used by fellow mathematicians for calculations. Especially when he is not in the room, but who can refuse a person who has just solved the NS equation? What about the graffiti-like calculations of mathematicians? Yes, I did something wrong. I picked up those manuscript papers and read them. Then everyone must not have imagined what I saw. I guarantee that none of you can imagine..."

Dominette Duncan pretended to be a show-off, and then got a round of boos...

"Yes, a very amazing fact. I saw him deriving the infinite series of an exponential function on the manuscript paper. Of course, I know that this is very simple for everyone. In fact, he can derive the infinite series of any exponential function. The numbers may not be difficult for everyone, but Ning Zi’s derivation steps are very simple. He used a formula that I have never seen before and got the answer in only three steps."

"I couldn't believe it, so I started to calculate, and it turned out that he was right. Then I started to verify again, and then I discovered an amazing fact. This formula can easily deduce the infinite series of any exponential function. After verification, it is Correct. I believe everyone understands what this means. Yes, and this is just the simplest formula in that stack of manuscript paper."

Having said this, the audience became quiet...

If there really is such a universal formula, this formula itself can become a specialized mathematical research topic. However, they only found out about it today. It is certain that Ning Zi has never published this research result.

What’s even more exaggerated is that Dominique Duncan also said that there is only the simplest formula?

What do more complex formulas do?

When Dominic Duncan revealed the news, even members of the Chinese delegation were shocked...

None of them, including Fan Zhenhua, Lu Zhengyue and Fang Xu, knew that there was such a story or that there was such a formula in Ning Ji's manuscript. At this moment, Fan Zhenhua and Lu Zhengyue exchanged a look...

Yes, this kind of thing must never happen again in the future.

Why didn't they think of collecting all Ning Zi's manuscripts before?

"So you must have never imagined that Ning Zi used those wonderful formulas when analyzing the L function! Those formulas are really so wonderful that they can make the special values ​​​​of the L function extremely troublesome.

They all became as obedient as the most docile lamb. I swear in the name of God, it is definitely the most wonderful formula I have ever seen in my life, even surpassing the shock that I felt when I saw Euler's formula for the first time. It is simply wonderful.

To the top."

At this moment, more eyes were subconsciously cast in the direction of Ning Zi. Ning Zi could even feel the eyes of the elders on the podium moving away from Dominette Duncan and towards him.

Ning Zi no longer knew how to evaluate Dominette Duncan. He even felt that he might have made a wrong decision just now...

Of course, it can't be said that it's all bad.

At least he really didn't have to say anything later. Dominette Duncan almost used up the time of two people to make speeches.

"Really, I am not exaggerating in the slightest. You can imagine my feeling when I mustered up the courage to challenge the achievements of a mathematician younger than me, but saw the formulas he invented first.

What a feeling. It’s like I thought I only needed to climb Mount Everest to prove that I was better than him, but I never thought that the person I wanted to challenge had quietly landed on the moon.”

"Even when I asked him why he didn't write a paper and publish these formulas, he just told me that if such a simple thing was used to publish a paper, he would feel guilty that it was a waste of the paper! God, you guys

You can imagine how much I wished when I heard this sentence that a thunderbolt would strike me to death! It turns out that I had published so many papers before, not even water papers, because I couldn't find a few papers.

It can surpass the value of those formulas!"

"Yes, what else can I say! Thanks to Ning Zi, he made me realize my talent. It also made me understand that my ability to win the Fields Medal may just be some kind of luck, not entirely due to my strength.

, because I met a person who made me speechless with his strength! He made me understand how unreasonable mathematics is, just like a beautiful goddess who can show her graceful dancing to everyone, but only

She will open her arms to one person, but unfortunately, that person is not me!"

"So that's it, but in the end please allow me to do another reversal. Thank you to the goddess of mathematics for allowing me to have such a wonderful situation."

This is the end of Dominic Duncan's speech.
To be continued...