Chapter 149 The International Mathematical Olympiad begins

Just when Liu Zichen and his party came to Tokyo.

On the other side, Zhou Qian and Zhao Zihan also came to Paris, where this year's International Physics Olympiad was held.

There is one more student in the physics competition than in the chemistry competition, which is a group of five.

Like the chemistry competition, after Zhou Qian and Zhao Zihan came to Paris, they were arranged by the organizers to go to the university dormitory in Paris alone, and each of them was accompanied by a translator and tour guide.

Among Yang Xin's five students, only Wang Lingni went to Turkey under the leadership of the team leader.

This year's Math Olympiad is being held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Among the five subject competitions, the most eye-catching is undoubtedly the Mathematics Olympiad, which is also the first to be examined.

This year, more than 600 students from 114 countries participated in the mathematics competition.

Wang Lingni was arranged to a hotel alone, accompanied by a Chinese student studying in Turkey, named Zhou Lili.

"Wang Lingni, today's Olympiad is about to start, I'll take you to have some breakfast, and then we'll go to the exam room." Zhou Lili said to Wang Lingni.

The six members of the Chinese national team broke off contact after coming to Turkey, and the examination rooms were also assigned to each of the six examination rooms.

Wang Lingni is only 13 years old this year, and she looks like a primary school student, if it weren't for Zhou Lili's sister, she really wouldn't have been able to deal with this Olympiad exam alone.

The two of them left the hotel, and after breakfast, the two came to the examination room at eight o'clock in the morning.

This is a public university in Turkey and is one of the six examination venues chosen by the organizers of this year's Mathematical Olympiad.

"Don't be nervous when you take exams, just think of it as if this is your school's classroom, and that's what happens when you participate in the Olympiad, the more nervous you are, the more likely you are to make mistakes. ”

Outside the examination room, Zhou Lili tried to enlighten Wang Lingni, who was a little nervous.

"Thank you, Sister Lily, I'm much better. Wang Lingni took a deep breath.

"Come on!"

With Zhou Lili's encouragement, Wang Lingni followed candidates from other countries into the examination room.

After entering the examination room, Wang Lingni found her place under the arrangement of the invigilator.

After all the candidates arrived, they waited for more than ten minutes before the invigilator gave everyone the questions.

What Wang Lingni got was three Olympiad questions translated into Chinese.

The three questions on the paper are algebra, geometry, and number theory.

After seeing the question type, Wang Lingni felt that the first question was very simple, the second question was slightly more difficult, and the third question was the most difficult.

However, even the most difficult questions seemed relatively simple to her, and after thinking about it for a while, she had already thought of several ideas for answering the questions.

Wang Lingni only took an hour and a half to answer the three questions, and then she carefully checked them several times, and after seeing that there was indeed nothing wrong, she was relieved.

Looking left and right, there were still many foreigners around her who were burying their heads in answering questions, and some were biting the pen and thinking hard.

Before going abroad, the waiting teacher told her not to submit the paper in advance after answering the questions.

However, if she didn't submit the paper in advance, she would feel bored.

After a while, she felt too bored and couldn't look around, so she decided to answer the question again.

This time, she used a different solution to answer all three questions.

However, after answering the question, I looked at the time displayed on the electronic screen in front of the classroom, and less than an hour had passed.

In other words, she had to wait in the exam room for more than an hour.

After thinking about it, she simply picked up the pen again and answered the question with the third method on the blank page.

It wasn't until she had answered each question with three solutions that someone began to hand in the paper and leave.

Seeing that others had handed in the papers, the honest Wang Lingni was the second to hand in the papers and leave, and if she didn't hand in the papers, she would be bored to death.

"Wang Lingni, how did you do in the exam?" After leaving the examination room, as Wang Lingni's translator and tour guide, Zhou Lili stepped forward to ask as soon as possible.

"That's good, I should get it all right. Wang Lingni smiled and nodded.

After the first day of exams, Wang Lingni finally met the other players and team leaders of the Chinese team.

"Wang Lingni, how did you do in the exam?" Professor Nie Qizheng, the team leader, asked Wang Lingni with a smile.

He didn't dare to ask other people, for fear of affecting his mentality, but Wang Lingni knew that he would definitely do well in the exam.

"Teacher Nie, I did very well in the exam, and the three questions are very simple. Wang Lingni said with a smile.

Nie Qizheng is a well-known mathematician in China and an academician of the Academy of Engineering.

This time, as the leader of the mathematics group, I led the team to participate in the Mathematics Olympiad, which can be regarded as giving the Mathematics Association a big face.

"Wang Lingni, you should come to Peking University to study, I will guarantee you to study in my graduate school. Professor Nie said to Wang Lingni.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Nie, I still want to study chemistry, and I haven't graduated yet. Wang Lingni politely refused.

"Your talent for math is so good, it's a shame not to study math. ”

"Our teacher said I was better at chemistry than at math. ”

"Your teacher is the same Yang Xin teacher, right? How does he know that your talent in chemistry is better than your talent in mathematics?" Professor Nie said.

"Our teacher Yang has tested me, and I really learn chemistry much faster than mathematics, and the most important thing is that I also like chemistry very much, so I'm sorry Teacher Nie!" Wang Lingni said weakly.

The professor in front of her, when she was in China, offered to accept her as a student several times, but she also refused several times.

In fact, Nie Qizheng also saw that Wang Lingni's mathematical talent was too good, and she was still so young, only 13 years old, it was inevitable that she would meet Hunt Xinxi.

Wang Lingni refused him, but made him feel that he couldn't give up, so he invited him again and again.

He was also very helpless about Wang Lingni who didn't want to learn mathematics and wanted to learn chemistry.

I don't know how her teacher Yang brainwashed her, so she decided that her chemistry talent was better than her mathematics talent, and if she had to learn chemistry, he couldn't wait to go to Laozhai Village to beat people.

The brief meeting with her teammates made Wang Lingni's mood much better.

After the first exam, the organizers did not take the second exam immediately the next day, but organized teams from all countries to spend a day in Istanbul.

On the third day, the second exam of the math competition officially began.

On this day, Wang Lingni was still taking the exam in the last exam room.

Today's three questions are slightly more difficult than the three questions the day before yesterday, but this is not a problem for Wang Lingni.

At the end of the exam, she still wrote three solutions to each question.

The next day, the fifth day of the Olympiad, Wang Lingni finally ended living alone in the hotel and reunited with several team members.

As Wang Lingni's translator and tour guide, Zhou Lili can be regarded as having completed the task.

"Sister Lily, thank you for taking care of you these days. Wang Lingni said goodbye to Zhou Lili with teary eyes.

"Don't cry, I'm about to graduate, and when I graduate, I'll go back to China and play with you." ”

"Hmm. ”

The math competition exam is over, but it's not over yet, because it will take a few days for the results to come down.