The Science Fiction World of Xueba

Pang Xuelin stayed in the capital for more than ten days, handling visa procedures for the United States.

March 15, 1993.

Capital International Airport.

Accompanied by Xie Yongxin, president of the Chinese Mathematical Society, and Geng Huan, deputy director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pang Xuelin boarded the plane to the other side of the ocean.

Ah Qing naturally accompanied her.

Pang Xuelin and his party got on the plane at 3:30 pm on March 15th, and did not arrive at Newark International Airport near New York until 17:00 EST, which is later known as Newark Liberty International Airport.

In the 9/11 incident in 2001, United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, departed from this airport. The airport was subsequently renamed Newark Liberty International Airport to commemorate the incident.

After going through the immigration procedures, Pang Xuelin and his party had just come out of the international passenger corridor, and they were greeted by nearly a hundred reporters with long guns and short cannons and flashing lights.

During this period of time, several keywords such as Fermat’s conjecture, Pang Xuelin, 20 years old, high school graduate, and elementary school teacher were all over the screen in the Western media, and they also aroused great interest from the Western public.

The 20-year-old mysterious genius boy from China has solved a mathematical problem that has plagued mankind for three hundred years.

No matter from which point of view, no matter which country people, this news is very topical.

The media has been noisy for more than half a month. After learning that Pang Xuelin boarded the plane to the United States for a report meeting, almost all the top media in the world sent teams to interview.

Pang Xuelin naturally became the focus of everyone's attention.

"It's Xuelin Pang, they came out..."

Pang Xuelin was recognized by the reporters as soon as he came out of the international passenger exit.

Soon, dozens of reporters surrounded the crowd, and the microphones in their hands almost poked Pang Xuelin's face.

"Pang, there are rumors that the paper was written by someone else, and you are just a puppet launched by the Chinese government. Is this true?"

"Pang, Robbins Cook, a professor of mathematics at New York University, claims that your proof of the Fermat conjecture has major flaws. What do you think of his point of view?"

"Pang, may I ask that you are just an ordinary high school graduate, how did you master those difficult mathematics knowledge?"

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Fortunately, the person who picked up the embassy was nearby and had already contacted the security at the airport. Geng Huan stepped forward to communicate with him, and the group went to the parking area of ​​the airport without saying a word under the protection of the security. go.

The reporters did not intend to let go of Pang Xuelin at all, they kept asking questions while chasing after the crowd to take pictures.

Ah Qing timidly followed Pang Xuelin.

During the half month since he came out of Lingziding Village, Pang Xuelin was gradually refreshing Ah Qing's worldview.

Especially after boarding the plane to the United States, those blond foreigners made Ah Qing even more timid.

Pang Xuelin pulled Ah Qing to his other side, avoiding the cameras of the reporters.

Maybe it was because he was walking too fast, or maybe he was pushed by someone accidentally. He had just walked 20 to 30 meters when Ah Qing fell to the ground with a bang.

"Ah Ching,

all right! "

Startled, Pang Xuelin quickly stopped and helped Ah Qing up.

"Teacher Pang, I'm fine!"

Taking advantage of this pause, everyone was surrounded by reporters again.

"Teacher Pang, are you okay, why don't I carry Ah Qing behind my back?"

Geng Huan walked to Pang Xuelin's side and said in a low voice.

Before coming to the United States, Geng Huan had roughly described the attitude of the Western media to Pang Xuelin, and had prepared a countermeasure.

That is, no interviews will be accepted before the official report meeting.

But now, Pang Xuelin found that if he continued to keep silent, he might not even be able to leave the airport.

"Geng Si, take care of Ah Qing, I'll come out and say a few words."

After speaking, Pang Xuelin stood up directly and said loudly in English: "Quiet, please keep quiet! Everyone, listen to me."

Soon, the noisy scene became quiet in an instant, and all the reporters aimed their microphones at Pang Xuelin.

Pang Xuelin said: "This is a public area. In order not to interfere with the normal operation of the airport, I can only give a brief response."

"First, I will not be interviewed by any media until the report meeting is over."

"Secondly, for all your doubts about me, I believe that after the Fermat Conjecture report, you will get a clear answer!"

"Third, after the report meeting is over, I will accept formal interviews with three media outlets. You can submit an interview application to the Chinese embassy in the United States, and I will select a suitable platform from which to speak out. If you continue to block here, then Sorry, I will not accept interviews from any media that blocked the road at the scene!"

Maybe Pang Xuelin was too imposing, maybe Pang Xuelin's threat played a role.

In short, after saying these words, the reporters on the scene were quiet for a while, and even silently gave up a passage for Pang Xuelin and his party to pass through.

In the evening, Pang Xuelin attended the welcome dinner hosted by the Chinese Consulate General in New York.

Stayed in the consulate general for one night, and early the next morning, Pang Xuelin took the convoy arranged by the embassy to Princeton.

The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton has arranged for Pang Xuelin to stay in a five-star hotel, which is near the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

When the convoy arrived, Deligne had already been waiting for a long time with many bigwigs from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

When Pang Xuelin got off the car, he immediately saw the much younger Pierre Deligne standing at the front of the crowd.

"Professor Deligne, hello, I'm Pang Xuelin!"

Pang Xuelin stepped forward and shook hands with Deligne in fluent English.

"Pang, welcome to Princeton!"

Deligne was a little surprised at Pang Xuelin's English proficiency, but he quickly realized it and said with a smile, "Come on, let me introduce you. This is my colleague Andrew Wiles!"

"Professor Wiles, hello!"

Pang Xuelin shook hands with Andrew Wiles with a strange expression.

It was this big guy who really turned Fermat's conjecture into Fermat's last theorem in history.

However, Pang Xuelin was not too embarrassed about stealing the achievements of this big guy. After all, compared with the proof method of Ponzi geometry, Andrew Wiles' method of proving Fermat's conjecture was too complicated. On the significance, and Ponzi geometry is far from being on a par.

"Pang, hello!"

Andrew Wiles looked at Pang Xuelin with a complicated expression, and shook hands with Pang Xuelin.

Deligne continued: "This is Professor Edward Witten!"

"Professor Witten, hello!"

Pang Xuelin couldn't help being slightly surprised when he looked at the middle-aged man with a rectangular face and slightly protruding chin.

This boss is a god-like figure in the physics world of later generations. He is almost recognized as the first person among theoretical physicists and the one with the highest H index among contemporary physicists.

Needless to say, his achievements in physics, in the field of mathematics, he also has a profound influence.

He is the only physicist who has won a Fields Medal, which is enough to explain his weight.

In pure mathematics, he used Jones polynomials to explain the Chern-Siemens theory", a work that had profound implications for low-dimensional topology and led to the derivation of quantum invariants.

Although in this era, the M-theory, which has a profound impact on the entire theoretical physics, has not been proposed by Witten, it does not affect the status of this big guy in academia.

"Pang, welcome to Princeton, I can't wait to hear your report!"

Edward Witten said with a smile.

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