I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

After finishing the conversation with the IMU representative, Shen Qi uploaded "Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis Based on 'Twin Matching Method'" to arVix in the hotel room.

There are still two days to stay in Washington. Shen Qi will attend the award ceremony the day after tomorrow. He is a candidate for the New Vision Award in Mathematics.

The speech this morning was performed so well, it seemed that the New Horizons Award in Mathematics could not escape Shen Qi's grasp.

Early the next morning, Shen Qi got up and opened his laptop to browse the official website of IMU.

Shen Qi was in a good mood: "Today is a good day, there will be good news as soon as the phone is turned on."

There were two messages on the IMU official website that attracted Shen Qi's attention.

"Shen Qi proved the supplementary impurity theorem of the 'Muller-Shen theorem' in Banach space. After verification by IMU, this theorem is established and named as 'Shen's impurity theorem'. The original paper was published in "Mathematical Invention". "

"At this year's Scientific Breakthrough Awards \u0026 New Horizons Awards Academic Report on the second day, Shen Qi published the conference report "Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis Based on 'Twin Matching Method'". The original text of the report was pre-recorded on arVix."

In the first message, IMU officially recognized the "Shen's Proximity Theorem".

In the second piece of news, IMU objectively reported the important academic events that happened yesterday.

The subtext revealed by IMU through the second message is that we do not deny Shen Qi’s proof of Riemann’s conjecture, and we also do not approve it.

IMU's attitude is noncommittal, which is normal. Shen Qi's report "Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis Based on the 'Twin Matching Method'" will take some time to verify.

On the homepage of IMU's official website, there is another news that is not news. In the introduction column of the most popular mathematician this year, Shen Qi's basic information has been added.

Avatar: Reprinted from Shen Qi's avatar on arVix, young and handsome with a cool hairstyle.

Name: Shen Qi

Nationality: Chinese

Age: 22

Institutions: Yanda, Princeton

Major: Basic Mathematics

Directions: number theory, functional analysis, algebra, etc.

Mentors: Erxiong Sun, Alan Muller

Academic achievements: proof of Walsh conjecture, proof of Muller-Shen theorem, Shen's impending theorem

Awards: Chern Mathematics Prize, Ford Prize

Very basic introduction, but of great significance, which shows that Shen Qi has attracted the attention of the most authoritative mathematics organization.

On Shen Qi's WeChat, the people of the Pearl River Delta, the people of the Yangtze River Delta, the people of the capital economic circle, the people of the Yangtze River economic belt, the people of the Northeast, the people of the Northwest, the people of the Southwest, the people of the Central Plains, the people of Hu Jian, the people of Fulan, the people of New Jersey, the people of New York State The people, the people of Washington, D.C., and the people along the road sent congratulatory messages one after another, and the comments reached 99%.

The system is not far behind: "New achievement! The International Mathematical Union has recognized the mathematical theorem named after the host's surname. The basic reward is 300,000 Xueba points, multiplied by the mathematics master talent coefficient 2.0, and the final reward amount is 600,000 Xueba points. Balance 621538

Click Xueba points, please confirm with the host. "

Today is the last day of the symposium, and the winners of the Breakthrough Prize and the New Horizons Prize will be announced tomorrow.

Shen Qi went to the main venue with a relaxed mind. He didn't report any tasks today, and went to listen to the reports of other mathematicians to relax.

As soon as he arrived at the main venue, Shen Qi was immediately surrounded by friends from the media circles, mainly American media.

A white male reporter asked: "Hello, Shen, I am a reporter from the Discovery Channel. In yesterday's report meeting, you published a proof of the Riemann conjecture, so this millennium problem has been solved by you and your team. Is it resolved?"

Shen Qi, who was in a particularly beautiful mood, talked and laughed happily: "It's a preliminary solution, and it needs to be widely recognized by the IMU and the international mathematics community in the end. It will take a certain amount of time, conservatively estimated to be more than three months. Did you know that Fermat's last theorem and The verification of the Poincaré conjecture lasted for more than two years, which is the characteristic of mathematics, it is not difficult to prove a conjecture, but it is not easy to prove this 'proof'."

A female reporter asked: "Hello, Shen, I am a reporter from CNN. It is said that you have won the 'New Vision Award in Mathematics' in advance, and you may even challenge for the grand prize of 3 million US dollars as the youngest at 22 years old." What do you think of the 'Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics'?"

"If you consider the Muller-Shen theorem and Shen's proximity theorem, as well as the proof of Walsh's conjecture, I think I am eligible for the 'Mathematics New Vision Award', after all, among mathematicians under the age of 30, in functional analysis and In the field of number theory, I have done well enough." Shen Qi stated the facts objectively, being too modest is not a virtue in the United States.

"If IMU can recognize my research results on Riemann's conjecture today, then I can say with certainty that my name should not be missing from the 'Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics'. Unfortunately, we all know that this is impossible. "Shen Qi expressed regret.

After accepting the interview, Shen Qi entered the main venue, listened to the reports of mathematicians from North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, and got some inspiration.

Another day passed, and the most exciting moment of this conference is coming.

Today is the last day of the Breakthrough Prize \u0026 New Horizons Prize Conference. The organizing committee will present several awards today, including:

Five "Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences", with a single award of $3 million.

A "Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics", with a single bonus of $3 million.

A "mathematics breakthrough award", the single bonus is also 3 million US dollars.

It can be seen that life science is particularly favored by the organizing committee. Five "Life Science Breakthrough Awards" will be awarded to five scientists or research teams in different life science fields. The total prize money in the life science field is as high as 15 million US dollars.

This is true every year, with five $3 million Breakthrough Prizes in the life sciences and one each in fundamental physics and mathematics.

According to the previous practice, the prize money of the "Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics" and the "Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics" of US$3 million each will be divided equally between two or more scientists or teams.

Shen Qi participated in the competition for the "Mathematics New Vision Award". There are three awards for young mathematicians, with a single prize of US$100,000.

In any case, compared with other awards, the prize money of the Scientific Breakthrough Award and the New Horizons Award is quite generous.

The single prize of the Nobel Prize is 1 million US dollars, and the Fields Medal is even less, only 15,000 Canadian dollars, equivalent to about 11,500 US dollars in US dollars.

There is a prize of 1 million US dollars for solving a mathematical millennium problem, but this thing is not easy to solve. Shen Qi and his team have worked hard for several months to get the Riemann conjecture initially, and it has not yet been recognized by the IMU.

"100,000 US dollars is 100,000 US dollars. The prize money of the Chern Mathematics Prize is 100,000 RMB, and there is no prize money for the Ford Prize. I also applied for Princeton's public fee and paid 20,000 USD for the award." Shen Qi didn't care about the prize money. , for him, honors and titles are more important, and a decent life is more meaningful than money, and he is eager to win another award.