Chapter 139 World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians
There is a saying that wealth does not return to its hometown, just like walking in brocade at night.
Xu Chuan has no intention of showing off, but he wants to live a better life at home than before.
Both from the economic aspect and the spiritual aspect.
Although money cannot solve all problems 100%, it can solve more than 90% of the problems.
Prices are rising rapidly these days. It is true that more than one million yuan can build a villa in a rural area, but to build it well, there is basically no money left.
Xu Chuan still wants to leave some money for his family. Anyway, these bonuses are of no use to him for the time being. It would be better to leave them to his family, lest he become rich and his family continues to live a poor life as before.
Money, after you earn it, you must use it, and money you don’t use is just a number.
It's just that it's more difficult to get his parents to accept the money. After all, he has already given a sum of money to his family before, and he will definitely not take it back from his parents again.
Fortunately, Xu Chuan was very familiar with his father. Sure enough, after he proposed to send money to his family in these two names, he hesitated for a while and finally nodded in agreement.
Let’s not talk about building houses or anything else, but giving feedback to the village and helping the village build ponds and dams, etc., Xu Jianguo would definitely approve.
Xujia Village is a small village with one surname and one village. The village is not big, with only fifty or sixty households in the village.
In the past few years, the Xu family received a lot of help from the village. Otherwise, Xu's father would not be able to earn much money a year with his ability to farm and occasionally do carpentry, and he would not be able to support the education of his two children, especially these two.
All the children are very good, and they have all been admitted to the provincial capital, so the expenses will be even greater.
Before Xu Chuan graduated from high school, his family could almost count the three hundred and sixty-five days a year they ate meat, and meat was only served when Xu Chuan or Xu Xiao came home.
If it weren't for the help of the village and fellow villagers, the Xu family would definitely be in debt.
Therefore, Xu Jianguo still supports Xu Chuan's idea of giving back to the village, but repairing ponds and dams does not require as much as half a million.
There were several ponds in the village, how they needed to be repaired, how the dams were built, how many excavators and how much money were needed. He could figure out these things after just a little thought.
"By the way, Dad, Mom, there is one more thing."
Seeing that his father agreed, Xu Chuan continued: "I have graduated from college. Next, I will study for a Ph.D. and study abroad. I will go to Princeton in the United States. If it is short, it will take two to three years. If it is long, it may take three to five years.
time."
You must talk to your family about studying abroad so that your parents won't worry.
Confucius said: "If your parents are here, you should not travel far away."
But many people misunderstand this widely circulated saying, thinking that children should not travel far away while their parents are still alive, so as not to fail to fulfill their filial piety.
But there is actually another sentence behind it: "When parents are here, if you don't travel far, you will have a way to travel."
This means that when your parents are in good health and you go out, you should let your parents know that where you are going is safe.
So Xu Chuan must make it clear to his family to avoid them worrying.
"Study abroad?"
Xu Jianguo was stunned for a moment. One second he was thinking about calculating how much money should be spent to repair the pond in the village, trying to save some money while doing good things. The next second he was shocked by Xu Chuan's words.
"Then you haven't been able to go home for the past few years?" Xu's mother asked tremblingly at the side.
Xu Chuan shook his head and said: "That's not the case. It's just that in the past few years of studying abroad, I might be able to come back every year during the Chinese New Year. After all, I still have a lot to learn, and I can't just come back like I did in China.
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Hearing this, Xu's father and Xu's mother breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. They thought that Xu Chuan would not come back for a few years after going abroad. After all, going abroad was too far away from rural people like them.
"Chuan'er, we definitely support going to study abroad, but after you go out, you have to take good care of yourself and call home more..."
Xu's mother was chattering, Xu Chuan listened attentively, nodding from time to time, while Xu's father ate in silence, occasionally looking up at his son.
Although Xu Chuan is an adult and has the ability to take care of himself, no parent would worry about his children traveling far away.
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After staying at home for a few days, he went to Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School to see Xu Xiao and left some living expenses and pocket money for her. Xu Chuan finally embarked on a new journey alone.
Back at NTU, Xu Chuan sorted out the things in his dormitory to prepare for his next trip abroad.
He actually doesn't have much daily necessities when he lives alone. He only has various books, manuscript papers, printed information papers and other things.
There are a lot of these things, they are piled up on bookshelves, drawers and other places. If you sell waste paper for 50 cents a pound, you can sell it for hundreds of yuan.
Of course, it is impossible for Xu Chuan to buy these things as scrap paper. For him, these things contain memories.
And it is no exaggeration to say that in the future these things will all be cultural relics.
Think about Einstein's study notes. If they were auctioned, millions of meters of gold could easily be fetched.
Of course, this is also related to the death of Einstein.
Just like a painter, no matter how famous his paintings are during his lifetime, the price of his paintings will skyrocket after his death.
It's just that Xu Chuan is a little confused now. There are too many books and materials. He has read more mathematics books in the past year than other college students have read in four years of college.
On the bed in another room of the dormitory, there is a bed full of books.
"Forget it, let's sort out the key materials, take some unfinished ones to Princeton, keep some commemorative ones, and give the rest to the students in the mathematics department."
Xu Chuan muttered and began to sort out the books, materials and manuscript papers in the dormitory.
There are a lot of books, papers, manuscripts and other things in his dormitory. It is not practical to take them all away, but leaving them all in this dormitory would be too wasteful.
Many of these books and printed papers contain notes and insights he gained while reading them. These things are of little use to him because the knowledge is all in his mind.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But for other students in the mathematics department, these things should be regarded as treasures. From them, you can read all the way through his learning journey, as well as some problem-solving methods and
ideas.
More or less, it can bring some inspiration to others.
Especially those printed papers are of higher value, and not everyone has scientific research funds or money to buy these things.
Of course, the books and materials that could be sent out were limited to mathematics and physics. For one year in college, he didn't read many physics books, and he didn't even write his name on the textbooks he was handed out.
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After two or three hours of fussing, Xu Chuan finally finished emptying the dormitory.
The sorted things were divided into three piles.
The smallest pile of information is some manuscript papers, which are things he plans to leave behind, such as the weak Weyl-berry conjecture, the proof process and manuscript papers of the Weyl-berry conjecture, and the distortion and application of the Xu-Weyl-berry theorem.
These things had a very high nostalgia and collection value for him, so Xu Chuan kept them.
As for the middle part, there are several mathematics books and some papers and documents. These are his unfinished working manuscripts and corresponding books.
Such as the literature and paper materials related to the "mystery of the proton radius", as well as some of the data he manually analyzed and calculated.
He had to take these things to Princeton so that he could continue to complete the remaining work.
As for the remaining pile, they are all kinds of books, notebooks and some manuscript papers recording the complete calculation process.
These things are still of some use to the mathematics students of the same year.
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Living far and wide, Xu Chuan did not make a big fuss after sorting out the books and materials in the dormitory. He just quietly found the classmates who needed these books and gave them the prepared books.
There are more than 80 people in the mathematics department. No matter how many books he has read in the past year, it is impossible for each person to read one book.
Moreover, these books also contain his hard work and study notes, so he naturally hopes that the people who obtain them will treat them well.
Although NTU is a top 985 institution, not everyone still loves learning after entering. Most of them work hard, but there are also many who are just dawdling.
Everyone has their own choice. Xu Chuan cannot evaluate it, but he can make his own choice and give a little help to those students who are working hard.
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After finishing the things in hand, the Morning Star Mathematics Prize will be awarded.
After buying a high-speed rail ticket, Xu Chuan and Rong Zhizhuan, the dean of the Institute of Mathematics, headed to the capital. This year's Morning Star Mathematics will be awarded at the Seventh World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, which will be held at Shuimu University.
At this World Chinese Mathematics Congress, the Chen Xingshen Prize and the iccm International Cooperation Award were awarded together with the Morning Star Mathematics Prize.
The former was established by the International Mathematical Union in memory of the late Chinese mathematician Chen Shengshen to reward scientists who have made outstanding achievements in the field of international mathematics.
This is also the first mathematics award of the International Mathematical Union named after a Chinese mathematician. It is a lifetime achievement award similar to the Wolf Prize.
Although there is no age limit for the Chen Shengsheng Award, and Xu Chuan is qualified enough to receive this award, don't even think about it at this year's Chinese Mathematicians Conference.
This type of lifetime achievement award is basically awarded to mathematicians who are over forty years old or even older.
After all, if you give a lifetime achievement award to a mathematician under the age of 40, it is a bit like cursing others' short life or inability to make breakthroughs in the future. This is not good.
If the Chen Shengshen Mathematics Prize had been awarded at this conference, Xu Chuan might have won it. Unfortunately, the Chen Shengshen Mathematics Prize will not be held until next year.
As for the iccm International Cooperation Award, it is similar to the Chen Shengshen Award. It is mainly awarded to leading mathematicians who have outstanding achievements in the field of mathematical sciences and are highly respected in recognition of their outstanding lifelong contributions to reaching the peak of China's mathematics career.
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At this World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, in the entire NTU, only Xu Chuan and Rong Zhizhuan were invited to participate in this mathematics conference.
The only person invited to the stage to give a report at the mathematics conference was Xu Chuan. Rong Zhizhuan was invited because of Nanjing University. After all, it is one of the top universities in the country and must be invited.
As for other mathematics professors at NTU, none of them received invitation letters.
Of course, you can still attend without receiving an invitation, but you will have to pay for food, accommodation, etc. at your own expense, and you will not be able to attend the party on the last day.
Xu Chuan followed Rong Zhizhuan, and the two of them arrived at Wenjin International Hotel next to Shuimu University.
This is one of the best hotels near Shuimu University. A normal room costs two to three thousand yuan for a night's stay.
However, Xu Chuan, as a guest invited to attend the mathematics conference, naturally does not need to worry about food and accommodation, as the Chinese mathematics conference has already been arranged.
After handing the invitation letter to the staff at the front desk, Xu Chuan signed his name on the report form and took the passed participation card in the surprised eyes of the young and beautiful front desk lady.
"Dean Rong, which room do you live in?"
Dragging his suitcase, Xu Chuan and Rong Zhizhuan walked side by side toward the elevator, pressed down on his floor and asked.
"Let me take a look." Rong Zhizhuan turned over the room card in his hand and said, "1719."
Xu Chuan nodded and pressed the seventeenth floor.
The elevator door closed slowly, but it was blocked by someone's hand halfway.
"Sorry, please wait."
A voice came into the elevator, and Xu Chuan looked up. It was a young man who was older than him, blocking the door with his hand, and a familiar figure followed behind him.
When this familiar figure saw Xu Chuan, his eyes suddenly lit up and he took the initiative to say hello with a smile.
This familiar figure is none other than Academician Zhang Weiping of Sun Moon University. He had previously wanted to recruit Xu Chuan to Sun Moon University as a disciple, but unfortunately Xu Chuan ended up running away to Nanjing University.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing Xu Chuan again, Zhang Weiping had mixed feelings and regretted not persisting for a while.
He knew that Xu Chuan's talent in mathematics was good, but he never expected that he could be so good that he solved a world-class mathematical conjecture in just one year of college.
It would have been better if I had persisted in this.
After briefly losing consciousness, Zhang Weiping came back and walked into the elevator, stood next to Xu Chuan, smiled and greeted Rong Zhizhuan.
"Dean Rong is here too. You Nan University has produced a good student. If I had persisted during the IMO training, maybe Xu Chuan would have been my student."
Rong Zhizhuan smiled and nodded: "Xuchuan is indeed very good, but there are also many mathematical geniuses at Sun Moon University. Is this classmate behind you Hu Xingjian? He won the gold medal in the Qiu Chengtong College Student Mathematics Competition two years ago. The same
outstanding."
In the past two years, he served as a judge in the Qiu Chengtong College Student Mathematics Competition. He naturally knew this player who won the gold medal. Although his talent was not as good as that of Xu Chuan, he was still outstanding.
Zhang Weiping shook his head, not caring about the feelings of the young people around him, and said directly: "Who among the younger generation can compare with Xu Chuan?"
"Xingjian, let's get to know each other, "This is Dean Rong Zhi of the School of Mathematics at NTU, and the guy next to him is the genius I mentioned to you before, Xu Chuan, the one who proved Weyl-Berry's conjecture."
"Hello, Dean Rong, hello Sichuan God."
Following Zhang Weiping, Hu Xingjian quickly appeared and said hello.
On the side, Zhang Weiping continued: "In this mathematics conference, you should have a good exchange and study with Xu Chuan. He is a top mathematician in the direction of spectral fractals you are studying."
As he spoke, he looked at Xu Chuan again and said with a smile: "Xu Chuan, this is my student, Hu Xingjian. He is in his second year of graduate school this year. His study direction is genealogy theory and Hilbert spaces. I know you will come to this conference, so
I specially brought him here to learn from you, don’t hide your secrets, and give him good guidance.”
Xu Chuan quickly said: "Don't take advice seriously, just learn from each other."