The day after Shen Qi won the Ford Prize, the IMU (International Mathematical Union) presented this year's Ramanujan Prize.

The winner is the Iranian mathematician Anuz, 37 years old, who has made outstanding contributions to abstract algebra.

The Ramanujan Medal is awarded to mathematicians under the age of 45, and this important award is often considered a surefire path to the Fields Medal.

Next year is the year of the Philippine Award, and Shen Qi knows that there is a more than 99.99% chance that next year's Philippine Award will not be with him.

One of the most effective ways to win a Fields Medal is to solve world-class mathematical problems.

The validation cycle for world-class math problems typically lasts for several years.

The verifiers are the IMU and the world's top mathematicians convened by the IMU.

After Perelman proved the Poincaré conjecture, it took four years for the IMU to verify Perelman's results.

After Wiles proved Fermat's theorem, the IMU verified it for three years.

Bocherz guessed and proved himself, and it took another two years to verify his magic group moonlight conjecture that he concocted.

After several years of waiting, all three mathematicians were eventually awarded the Fields Medal.

There is no doubt that the Riemann conjecture is on the same level as Poincaré's conjecture and Fermat's theorem.

Even if Shen Qi unilaterally proves the Riemann conjecture, the subsequent verification of the IMU will continue for several years.

Well, the math is progressing, the IMU is getting stronger. But for the verification of RH, the IMU will have to take a year or two.

Therefore, Shen Qi's mentality was more urgent some time ago, he was eager to prove RH immediately, give IMU a year or two to verify it, and win the award next year.

If you can't catch up with next year's Philippine Awards, you can only wait another four years.

Just wait, Shen Qi has already figured it out, and he will only be 26 years old five years later, which is still young.

What we need to do now is to continue to accumulate academic capital and academic top scores.

In July, two of Shen Qi's group theory papers, "A Study on the Elementary Domains of High-Dimensional Fuchsian Groups" and "Non-Zero Elements in Convergent to Stable Homotopy Groups", were published in the Pacific Journal of Mathematics and the American Mathematical Transactions Journal, respectively.

The IF of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics is 2.231 and that of the American Transactions on Mathematics is 1.875.

System: "New Achievement!The host publishes papers in internationally influential mathematics journals, and the basic reward is 25,000 Xueba points, multiplied by the IF value and the mathematics main talent coefficient of 2.0 respectively, and the final reward is 205,300 Xueba points. The balance 1224110 points of Xueba, please confirm with the host. ”

"Good, upgrade math to level 11. ”

In the system set by the system, Shen Qi finally became a master of mathematics.

Host, Shen Qi

Age, 21 years old

Mathematics Level 11 (Master), 0/2 million

Physics Level 6, 932/150,000

Sports level 5, 2910/50,000

English level 5, 726/50,000

Language level 5, 731/50,000

Politics level 5, 472/50,000

Chemistry 3, 422/5000

Mob level 3, 533/5000

History Level 2, 1129/3000

Geography Level 2, 679/3000

Balance of student points: 24110 points

A week later, the Princeton Department of Mathematics awarded Shen Qi a master's degree.

After coming to Princeton for nearly a year, Shen Qi published a total of three papers, all of which were converted into credits.

Among them, the Walsh conjecture published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society proved that the paper had the highest number of credits, at 70 credits.

The two papers that have just been published are converted into 45 credits and 35 credits respectively.

Shen Qi received 80 credits in the first semester of graduate school through coursework.

Together, Shen Qi currently has 230 credits, which is 5 credits more than the minimum credit requirement of 225 for a master's degree in the Department of Mathematics of Pupu University.

The Department of Mathematics at Princeton does not have a master's defense, and graduate students can choose to leave the school after completing the minimum number of credits, or they can stay and continue their PhDs.

Nine out of 10 graduate students in the Department of Mathematics at the University will choose to stay on campus to continue their PhDs.

Shen Qi is one of them.

"After all, it took me two semesters to get a master's degree in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Ordinary People's University. ”

Shen Qi put on a master's uniform and took a photo at the gate of Princeton to keep a souvenir.

There is no large-scale ceremonial event like the graduation of undergraduates, graduation ceremonies or anything.

Feverman, the head of the Department of Mathematics, handed Shen Qi a master's degree certificate and said lightly: "Take it, don't be complacent, this is just the way to go." ”

"Thank you. Shen Qi received a master's degree in mathematics from Princeton.

In this concise handover ceremony, Shen Qi completed the first phase of his goals after coming to Princeton.

System: "New Achievement!Congratulations to the host for obtaining a master's degree in mathematics from Princeton, tying the fastest record in the history of the school, with a basic reward of 400,000 points, multiplied by the coefficient of 2,0 in mathematics, and finally awarded 800,000 points." The balance is 824110 points, please confirm with the host. ”

"This is really a certificate in my hand, and I don't panic. ”

Shen Qi was in a good mood, and he collected and categorized the Princeton master's degree certificate in mathematics.

Advanced Certificates: Master's Degree Certificate in Mathematics from Princeton, Ford Medal Certificate, Chern Prize in Mathematics Certificate

Senior journal paper: Journal of the American Mathematical Society×1

Intermediate journal papers: Pacific Journal of Mathematics ×1, American Mathematical Transactions ×1

This is the trophy of Shen Qi after he came to Princeton, there are only a handful, not many of them, but they are worth archiving and collecting.

After thinking about it, Shen Qi was +3 in the collection of intermediate journal papers.

When he was an undergraduate at Yan University, he published a total of three SIC papers, which can be regarded as intermediate journal papers.

The remaining seven, as well as a general journal paper from high school, were all classified by Shen Qi as entry-level journal papers.

The statistics so far are:

Advanced Certificate ×3

Intermediate Certificate × 5: Undergraduate Degree Certificate in Mathematics of Yan University, Undergraduate Degree Certificate of Physics of Yan University, Outstanding Student Certificate of Yan University, Champion Certificate of Capital University Athletics Meeting×2

Entry-level certificate × 3: IMO Champion Certificate, CMO Champion Certificate, CPhO Champion Certificate

Political Ideology and Moral Character Certificate × 1: Provincial Three Good Students

Senior Journal Papers×1

Intermediate Journal Papers×5

Entry-level journal papers×8

"It seems that the past few years have not been wasted. Shen Qi checked the main trophies of the past few years, took pictures of the master's degree certificate of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Liberal Arts, and sent it to the circle of friends to report the news to his relatives in the motherland.

Zhou Yu'an was the first to like and the first to leave a message: "Congratulations to King Shen for getting a master's degree from Puda in only one year, see you at Puda in January next year!"

Shen Qi made a phone call to China and called Zhou Yu'an: "Have you received an offer from the University?"

"Yes, yes, hahaha, I just received it yesterday! In the whole of China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, I am the only one who has received an offer from the graduate school of the Department of Mathematics of the University this season, and there is only one place. Zhou Yu'an couldn't stop laughing, sounding very happy.

"That'...... What about Ou Ye?" Shen Qixin said that this question was probably asked in vain, if it is really like what Zhou Yu'an said, there is only one offer from the Department of Mathematics of General University this season, then Ou Ye can only wait until the next season, and she will not be able to report to Princeton until September next year at the earliest.