As the controversy over the Wolf Prize in Mathematics becomes more and more widespread across the Internet, this situation has caught the Wolf Foundation by surprise. In order to prevent the award from losing its authority in the academic world, the Wolf Foundation had to convene an emergency meeting The board of directors will discuss the final decision.
"Everyone here is a member of the awards committee. Regarding whether to disqualify Mr. Xu Yun from winning the award."
"I want to hear what you think."
Israel.
Wolf Foundation Headquarters.
In the conference room, Ms. Winnies, as the chairman, was wearing a white women's suit and sitting at the main seat of the conference table, flanked by board members of the awards committee.
Last year, they did not award the award to Xu Yun who proved Hodge's conjecture because of his age.
Senior mathematics professors in the academic field were selected.
I thought it would not be too late to award Xu Yun an award after a few years. Who would have thought that Xu Yun would solve Goldbach's conjecture again at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
and became the youngest Fields Medal winner.
Coupled with the proposed topological group theory theory, this makes their foundation very passive.
It seems that the fairness and gold content cannot be compared with the Fields Medal.
Under this pressure, he had no choice but to hurry up and present the award to Xu Yun, hoping to keep up with the authoritative status of the Fields Medal.
As a result, the other party did not have time to come and receive the award, and some scholars even asked to be disqualified from winning the award.
Being able to sit here and participate in the meeting, everyone must be very clear about the situation. When faced with the chairman's inquiry, someone immediately expressed their attitude.
Open up the conversation completely and create an atmosphere for discussion.
"Dear Chairman, all awards are jointly determined by our awards committee and representatives of the academic community. They are based on the winners' contributions to the academic community. How can we arbitrarily cancel the award qualifications?"
"I will never agree to cancellation."
"Mr. Xu Yun's contribution to the mathematics community is obvious to all, and he should win the Wolf Prize in Mathematics."
"Only by awarding the award to Mr. Xu Yun can we prove the authority of our Wolf Prize in Mathematics."
Several older board members must have been amazed by Xu Yun's mathematical talent, and their words were full of protection.
After all, the award was determined by them, and it would undoubtedly look ugly if it were canceled because of such a trivial matter.
But since this meeting has been organized for discussion, there cannot be just one voice of support.
Otherwise, specific response plans would have been formulated long ago.
And this is exactly what happened. After the words of the people in front of them finished, they listened to the people on the opposite side to add to them.
"Xu Yun does have a strong mathematical talent. He solved two world mathematical problems one after another and created miracles. But since he refused to come to receive the award, it was equivalent to giving up automatically. It is normal for us to disqualify him from winning. About I believe no one in the academic community will say anything about this.”
"Now many scholars from outside are asking us to disqualify them, and we must deal with it as soon as possible."
"I think he doesn't want to receive this award at all."
The endless arguments between the two parties made the conference room more and more noisy, and it seemed that no satisfactory result could be reached in a short period of time.
Wynnes has not been president of the foundation for a long time, but she is certain that this is the first time since the establishment of the Wolf Prize that someone has allowed the entire awards committee to argue to this point.
There are only a few days left before the scheduled award ceremony, and the problem must be solved before then.
Otherwise, if it affects the award ceremony, it will only reduce the authoritative reputation of the Wolf Prize.
As an international award that has been established for such a long time, she does not want problems to arise in her own hands.
After thinking for a moment, she suddenly reached out and slapped the table, forcing everyone present to quiet down.
"Everyone stop."
Although almost all the directors are much older than Winnies, no one looks down on this lady.
It can be said that the moment I heard this sentence, I immediately fell silent.
They all raised their eyes and looked at Winnies, wondering what decision the female chairman would make.
After paying attention to everyone, Winnis took a deep breath, and then slowly opened her mouth to settle the matter directly.
"We must distribute the awards we deserve. Those scholars on the Internet are all from the Neon Mathematics community and have no status in the International Mathematical Union." After first characterizing the matter, she expressed her attitude: "We at the Wolf Foundation I won’t compromise with anyone.”
Due to Winnis' identity, as soon as these words fell, the person who originally agreed to be disqualified suddenly stopped saying anything.
However, some people have raised new questions.
"Then how do we award awards to them? Is it possible to postpone the award ceremony until the other party has time?"
The so-called awarding is not only a necessary sense of ceremony, but also a proof of the authority of the award.
This is why the Fields Medal is announced every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
If you choose to mail the medal directly to Xu Yun, it will appear that the Wolf Prize in Mathematics is worthless.
But postponing the awards ceremony is definitely not an option.
Before Winnis could respond, several strong objections immediately sounded in the conference room.
"How can the time that has been set be delayed?"
“This is something the Wolf Foundation has never had to do since its inception because of one person.”
"Who can say for sure when he will have time, I disagree."
Seeing the chaos in the conference room again, Winnis couldn't help but frown slightly, with a flash of displeasure on her face.
"okay."
"I've decided what to do."
He dropped these words in a deep voice, and then told his decision.
"The award ceremony will go ahead as planned. I will go to Jingzhou City in person to present the award to Mr. Xu Yun."
These words undoubtedly shocked everyone present. They obviously did not expect that the chairman of the Wolf Foundation would personally go to the city where the winner is located to present the award.
This is definitely the first time in history.
But for now, this is indeed the most suitable solution, and the key is that there is no need to discuss disputes.
"It's the chairman."
With such a result, other board members had no choice but to accept it and implement it as soon as possible.
After all, they can't think of any other better solution.
The meeting is now coming to an end. Although the whole process did not take too long, at least the matter was finally resolved.
After receiving an answer, they stood up and left one after another.
Soon only Winnis and the female secretary beside her were left in the huge conference room.
"You are the most talented mathematician in the new century? I am very much looking forward to meeting you for the first time." He looked forward but was thinking about other things. After whispering softly, he stood up and told the secretary next to him: "As soon as possible Prepare the procedures for me to go to Jingzhou City, and also inform Mr. Xu Yun of our Wolf Foundation’s decision.”
"Okay, Ms. Winnies," the blonde female secretary replied.
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The screen switches to Jingzhou University.
Xu Yun was not affected by outside comments and was still busy researching solid-state battery technology.
And the theoretical writing of the paper has begun.
Yesterday, Han Xiaoya and her roommate came over. In order to thank them for their kind reminder, he also paid for a feast for the two women at his own expense.
In addition, Chen Shihe also came over to pay attention to the situation. Of course, he unconditionally supported his decision not to accept the award.
Chen Shihe is about to assume the role of wife. For her, Xu Yun does not need to achieve any higher achievements.
We just need to live a good life together.
It is indeed easy to worry about going overseas to receive an award or something.
Originally, Xu Yun thought that this matter was over and he was about to start preparing for the New Year.
Unexpectedly, I received another email from the Wolf Foundation only about a day apart.
"Eh~"
"There's new mail."
In the personal office of the Institute for Advanced Mathematics at Jingzhou University, Xu Yun sat at the computer and looked up literature.
When I suddenly saw a new email reminder pop up and discovered that the sender was still the Wolf Foundation, I couldn't help but have a question mark in my mind.
Do you really want to disqualify me from winning?
An idea flashed through his mind, but he didn't think much about it. He moved the mouse and clicked on it.
If he was just a little surprised just now, then he was very surprised after reading the content of the email.
"It's really unexpected that Chairman Winnies will come to Jingzhou City to hold award ceremonies simultaneously."
Learning from the email that the chairman of the Wolff Foundation was coming to present him with the Wolff Mathematics Prize in person, Xu Yun mumbled and immediately stood up and walked towards Qin Xiangxin's office.
Since everyone has achieved this step, he must receive this award.
But you must know that Kyungshu University has never had the experience of hosting an authoritative international mathematics award ceremony. Seeing that there are only a few days left, it must be arranged as soon as possible to avoid losing the face of the school and the domestic mathematics community.
They came all the way to present the award, but the understatement would make the award ceremony shabby.
It will inevitably give the outside world an excuse to not take it seriously.
Therefore, we can only tell the school about this matter first and let Qin Xiangxin, Wu Zhongping, Yuan Chengming and others handle it.
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"Xiao Xu."
"You're here just in time. Old Tang has put forward some new ideas on algebra. Please help me explain it."
Qin Xiangxin, who was surrounded by Tang Yanshan and He Antai around the writing board, suddenly felt happy when he saw Xu Yun coming over and quickly waved to say hello.
Although there are only a few lifelong members of the Institute of Advanced Mathematics at Kyongshu University, it is Xu Yun who actually plays the leading role. They usually ask Xu Yun for advice when they encounter mathematical problems.
Although it was somewhat against the rules for a professor to ask for advice from his own students, he immediately put it aside after hearing Xu Yun's explanation.
After all, being able to have a Fields Medal winner give advice is an opportunity that domestic university professors can only dream of.
Xu Yun originally wanted to say something about the awards, but was interrupted by Qin Xiangxin and forgot to speak.
After hearing this, he walked directly towards the writing board and laid his eyes on the mathematical formulas written on it.
"Has Professor Tang been studying the singularity theory recently? I'll take a look first."
Seeing that it was the singularity theory in algebraic geometry and complex geometry, Xu Yun said casually, took the marker from Qin Xiang's novice hand, and started quickly calculating directly on the writing board.
(End of chapter)
