After the seminar, Shen Qi exchanged business cards with some scholars and experts.

One of them, a gentleman from Washington, D.C., who had been chatting with Shen Qi for a long time, did not belong to any of the eight Ivy League universities.

"So you're eligible to run for the Ford Award, congratulations, Mr. Shen!" said the middle-aged white man.

Fields Medals, Wolf Medals, Abel Awards, Ramanujan Awards, Crawford Awards, Fermat Awards, Cole Awards, MacArthur Genius Grants, ...... Shen Qi had heard of many mathematics awards, but he had never heard of the Ford Prize.

If it weren't for the fact that this gentleman's business card said "American Mathematical Association", Shen Qi would not have talked to him for so long.

But no matter what, if you can get one more award, Shen Qi asked politely: "May I ask Mr. Randall, what are the qualifications for the Ford Award?"

"Publish high-level math papers, and you, did it. Mr. Randall said.

"Okay, I see, thank you, Mr. Randall. Shen Qi shook hands with Randall.

Randall added: "The entry fee is $20,000, and if you don't win the prize, we will refund you the full amount of $20,000." ”

"Do you still need to pay the money first?" Shen Qi was inexplicably surprised, your American Mathematical Association's method is the same as some fraudulent organizations.

Landall said as a matter of course: "To run for the presidency of the United States, you have to spend money first, and if you can't get the election, you won't be refunded." ”

"Okay, I see, goodbye. Shen Qi said goodbye and left.

Randall made a phone gesture and shouted, "Call me!"

Back at Princeton, Shen Qi checked on the Internet, the American Mathematical Association is located in Washington, D.C., this institution must be a formal institution, and they have set up many awards, from American mathematics competitions for middle school students to international mathematics awards.

The Ford Prize was established in 1964 in memory of Mr. Ford, the former president of the American Mathematical Society.

It's just that the Ford Award will be selected after paying the money first, which makes Shen Qi feel unhappy.

$20,000 is not a small amount, and it also gives people a sense of shame of spending money to buy a prize.

Professor Mueller disagrees with Shen Qi: "There is no shame in this, I won the Ford Prize in 1999 and the cost of running was $30,000. Recently, the U.S. economy has been in a bad situation, and the entry fee for the Ford Award has been lowered to $20,000. ”

Yes, it seems to be yes, Shen Qi recalled, in Professor Müller's personal profile, he wrote that "he has won the German Science Progress Prize, the Leibniz Prize, and the Ford Prize".

"That's the way the United States is, it's a very realistic country. Princeton, the only one, is truly a holy place. "However, it is not always necessary to spend money to 'buy' the Ford Prize, and the final selection criterion is the quality of the candidate's paper." I can grant you $20,000 in academic funding if you want to compete for the Ford Prize. ”

"Then I'll try. Shen Qi saw that the public paid him a chance to run for the Ford Award, so he could only reluctantly make it difficult.

Princeton is a private university, and some of the research funds come from the U.S. government, and Shen Qi doesn't know the specific source of funding for Professor Mueller's scientific research projects, so he thinks it's American public money.

The U.S. government's money is not spent in vain, and as long as everyone gives a little love, the world will become a better place.

Shen Qi decided to participate in the competition for the Ford Prize, not only for mathematics, but also for world peace.

So an old German man, a young Chinese, spent $20,000 from the U.S. government.

The $20,000 was sent to the American Mathematical Association in the form of a check for the Princeton research team, in accordance with the regulations of the U.S. government, relevant academic institutions and Princeton University.

At the end of this year, Shen Qi was shortlisted for the Chern Prize in Mathematics and the Ford Prize at the same time, and he entered a "season of awards".

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Chinese Mathematical Society, Capital, China.

The selection of this year's Cherry Prize in Mathematics has entered its final stage.

The Chern-Chern Prize in Mathematics was established in 1986 and is held every two years.

Each year, two young mathematical researchers receive this honor, and their nationality must be Chinese.

The Chern-Sing Prize in Mathematics is funded by Hong Kong entrepreneurs and organized by the Chinese Mathematical Society.

This is a major event, and the president of the Chinese Mathematical Society is personally involved in the selection of candidates.

After two rounds of fair, just, rigorous and serious screening, the review panel handed a list to the president of the Chinese Mathematical Society.

There are four names on the list, and now they are in the two-of-four stage, and two of them will win this year's Chern Prize in Mathematics.

Staring at this list of four choices and the details of the candidates, the president fell into deep thought and hesitated.

Huang Weifeng, a full professor in the Department of Mathematics at Fudan University, is 39 years old and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT. ”

He Lin, a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is 36 years old and holds a doctorate degree in mathematics from Yan University. ”

Yu Xiaolei, associate professor of the Department of Mathematics of Zhejiang University, 32 years old, holds a doctorate degree in mathematics from Yan University. ”

Shen Qi, a 21-year-old graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton, studied in the Department of Mathematics at Yan University. ”

"The Yan Gang is really powerful, and three of the four candidates have a Yan background. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Wuhan University with a bachelor's degree and completed his master's and doctoral studies at Mizuki University.

"President, our selection criteria do not look at the background, but only the level and contribution. The head of the expert group said.

"Of course, I believe in the professional vision and academic impartiality of the expert group, this Shen Qi is a bit interesting, so young, only 21 years old. The president carefully checked Shen Qi's information, and after seeing Shen Qi's photo, he suddenly realized: "It turned out to be this kid! CMO and IMO double gold medal first, I remember him, CMO is our organization, and the Olympiad national team is also led by us." Shen Qi, Shen Qi, you actually ran to Princeton. ”

The leader of the expert group said: "According to the selection rules of the Chern Mathematics Prize, there is only an upper age limit for candidates, and there is no lower limit, and 21 years old is indeed very young to participate in the award, and the Chern Mathematics Prize has been held for more than ten years, and the youngest winner in history was only 28 years old when he won the award. However, Shen Qi has excelled in the last two years, and he recently published a paper in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society that proved the Walsh conjecture, which is his most powerful competitive weapon. ”

In addition, within two years of studying at Yan University, Shen Qi unbelievably published ten mathematics papers in a row, most of which were SCI and national core journal papers, and he made certain achievements and useful contributions in many fields such as number theory, mathematical physics, integral equations, and divergent series. The leader of the expert group made an objective evaluation that his undergraduates, graduate students, and doctoral students all studied at Dalian Institute of Technology, and had nothing to do with the Yan University School and the Fudan School.

The chairman carefully reviewed all the details of the four candidates, and then instructed: "Then, experts, let's start voting by secret ballot, and each person will elect a maximum of three candidates and tick the names of the candidates. The two candidates with the most votes will receive this year's Chern Prize in Mathematics. ”