From all-round academic master to chief scientist

Time passed in a blink of an eye.

The college entrance examination started as usual on June 7 and June 8. Millions of high school students across the country poured into their respective examination rooms. As the papers were distributed, they began to fight for their futures.

For Lin Xiao, there was nothing interesting in this exam. Except for Chinese, he left half an hour early for all other subjects.

As for how he felt after finishing the exam, to be honest, he didn't feel anything at all, because except for Chinese, he was confident of getting full marks in the other three subjects. Even for Chinese, there were still some questions about whether he could get full marks for composition. topic, he thought it was no longer a problem.

As for whether there is any pressure, there is no need to ask. He took the college entrance examination just to get rewards from the city and Beijing University.

After all, that's millions of dollars in pocket money.

However, the results will not be announced until later this month, so it will take some time to know whether he can get the top pick.

In this way, a week after the exam, Lin Xiao rarely gave himself a few days off. He only maintained the habit of doing three math competitions every day. The rest of the time was spent with friends, such as playing a few games in an Internet bar. Play, play, relax.

On June 11, at 8:30 pm, he was fighting in Summoner's Rift with Chen Ang and several classmates.

At the end of the game, Lin Xiao looked at his 21-0-11 happy man, plus five kills, and laughed loudly: "I am the number one Yasuo in Golden City!"

"The boss is awesome!"

"Boss 666!"

Chen Ang and others all shouted, "There is nothing we can do. Lin Xiao is really good at this."

However, just as they were about to play the next game, Lin Xiao suddenly saw a notification from the mailbox pop up in the lower right corner of the screen.

He received an email.

The content of the email was all in English. He thought it was some random email, maybe news about Steam's quarterly discounts, and was about to delete it, but at this moment, he saw the signature of the sender.

IMU (International Mathematical Union).

"Huh? Isn't this the International Mathematical Union?"

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment.

Chen Ang, who was next to him, saw that he had not entered the room, so he shouted: "Old Lin, do it quickly."

"Wait a moment."

Lin Xiao said: "I'm reading an email."

"What email? Isn't it a girl sending you a white letter?"

Lin Xiao opened the email and rolled his eyes when he heard Chen Ang's words. But when he saw the content of the email, he couldn't help but be surprised, "It's from the International Mathematical Union. This... seems to be... Invite me to give a report at the conference?”

After entering the email, he noticed several English words in it, "invite" and "report". Was this actually an invitation letter inviting him to give a 45-minute report at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in August this year?

Next to him, Chen Ang and several other friends who played black almost thought they heard wrongly, "What did you say? What league? League of Legends?"

"... The International Mathematical Union invited me to Brazil in August this year to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians, and by the way... give a report." Lin Xiao said speechlessly: "How did you hear six words into four? .”

However, compared to Lin Xiao's complaints, several friends who played black only felt that they were like a puppy passing by the road, but was run over by a wheel called "Awesome" for no reason. A single dog fed a mouthful of dog food is even more innocent.

"Lin Shen, please take back your magical powers!" Several people said in mourning.

Everyone is playing the game well, why did you receive an invitation to such a high-profile international conference?

"I was wrong, I shouldn't have asked more questions." Chen Ang even looked like he wanted to slap himself.

"Okay, okay, let's get started."

Lin Xiao chose not to fight them. He returned to the game interface, entered the preparation room, started matching, and then returned to the email interface and continued reading.

His English ability is still very strong, so it is easy to understand the meaning of this letter: [Hello Mr. Lin, this is the International Mathematical Union, the International Congress of Mathematicians Committee, you are in the "Annals of Mathematics" No. 187 The function transformation construction part proposed in "Proof of the Existence of Infinitely Many Prime Numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence" published in the third volume of the issue aroused the interest of many like-minded friends.

Because there happens to be an invited speaker on number theory who is unable to attend the conference due to personal reasons and has free time, we sincerely invite you to arrive in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August this year to participate in this International Congress of Mathematicians. We will Schedule your forty-five-minute lecture on number theory on August 2 in Hall 5 of the Rio Congress Center.

It would be better if you could focus on explaining your function transformation construction ideas in your report.

Of course, the original plan required us to submit the conference report manuscript two months in advance so that we could make revisions and send it to the participants on the day of the report. However, due to time constraints and unexpected events, you can do so before July 15th. To submit, the following is the submission URL...

Before submitting, please also reply to this email to indicate that you will participate in this conference. Of course, if you have other arrangements and are unable to attend, you can also directly reply to this email.

Sorry to bother you, hope you can reply within a week...】

After reading the letter, Lin Xiao fell into thinking.

Going to the International Congress of Mathematicians?

Do you want to go?

this is a problem.

I am going to Romania to participate in the IMO on July 3rd, which will end on July 14th, and then I will get to Brazil before August 1st. This is really too tight.

However, this is the International Congress of Mathematicians held every four years, and it happened to happen to me. It would be a pity if I didn't go.

The International Congress of Mathematicians is held every four years. Each time, more than a hundred outstanding mathematicians from 19 fields are invited to give lectures.

Being invited to be a speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians is a high academic honor, which means that his research work has an important international impact, and shows that the world mathematics community recognizes the speaker's achievements in recent years.

Of course, Lin Xiao was still very confident in the paper he wrote.

The 'bridge' he built to solve problems was indeed a brand new method, and it indeed inspired many mathematicians, including Professor Sarnak, who sent him a letter of thanks. There are already three mathematicians.

Just like the thank-you letter that Professor Sarnak sent him, he also attached his new paper, which quoted Lin Xiao's paper, which is expected to be published in the four top journals.