While Shen Qi was recuperating in bed, Professor Muller came to visit, Jonas came to visit, and even Mary came.

"Hopefully you'll get better as soon as possible, physically, and mentally. Professor Müller said.

"You have to learn to enjoy life, Shen Qi, there are other interesting things in life besides math. Jonas said.

"All in all, health trumps everything. Mary said.

"Thank you, thank you all for your blessings and concern. I'll be fine. ”

In the past few days of recuperation, Shen Qi has figured it out and insisted on going his own way.

Unless you have the strength to be invincible in the world, that is, the level set by the system, "I am so lonely and invincible" and "I am also invincible in the inhuman realm".

It turns out that forcibly cracking the Riemann conjecture with a math level of 10 only ends up in a passive situation on all sides, and also forces himself out of internal injuries.

The Riemann conjecture also proved to be worthy of one of the millennial puzzles.

So easy to prove is not called the millennial problem.

"It's better to be down-to-earth, do some research on basic topics, and send a few ordinary papers to find a feeling. Some things are useless to force, just let it be. ”

Shen Qi gradually adjusted his mentality, went to class, took a walk, and took a New Jersey driver's license by the way.

Bought a second-hand Chevrolet, Shen Qi drove out for a walk when he had nothing to do, and the farthest one drove to Connecticut and bought a few souvenirs.

During this time, Shen Qi was also reflecting and summarizing, why did he make himself so miserable?

After the age of 17, he had a smooth journey and achieved many successes, and the aura of Xueba shone above his head, and at the age of 21, he published papers in four major journals and won the Chern Mathematics Award.

In the past four years, Shen Qi has received a lot of honors and praises, and is known as a rising star of Chinese mathematics.

When a young person acquires something in just a few years that no one else can get in a lifetime, there will be a change in mentality.

Shen Qi is trying to adjust his mentality, trying to find his original intention.

What is the original intention?

Be a quiet and calm student, and respect the objective laws of mathematics.

It seems that Shen Qi has calmed down, and even if his highly-anticipated paper "Orbifold Basic Groups to Characterize Xin Orbifold Group Embryos" was beaten back by Acta Mathematica Sinica, he was not too mad.

If the paper is not well written, then it has to be repaired.

If you have a problem, you have to change it.

"I'm not a flawless person, and I have shortcomings, Professor Mueller, please help me look at these two papers. Shen Qi, who calmed down, found Mueller with two papers.

One is a study on the elementary domain of a high-dimensional Fuchsian group, and the other is a study on non-zero elements that converge to a stable homotopy group.

Both papers are related to group theory, which is a basic research, which is not extremely profound, but also has certain research value.

Originally, Shen Qi wanted to make a topic, and he wrote two papers, discussing his views on group theory from two different perspectives.

"It seems that your self-regulation ability is good, there is nothing wrong with these two papers, just deal with the details a little, here, and here, give the construction method of the basic domain for strict parabolic elements and strict hyperbolic elements, which needs to be refined. Professor Müller made a pertinent observation.

"Okay, revise it now. Shen Qi humbly accepted opinions and suggestions.

"I have to say, Shen Qi, you are a mathematical genius, and the speed at which you write your papers is amazing, even in the recovery stage. Professor Müller said.

Shen Qi said: "Professor Mueller, I think it is more reasonable for me to accumulate enough academic experience before attacking some world-class conjectures. ”

"Who's to say it isn't, I told you that!" Professor Müller laughed.

"Thank you, Professor Müller, I have decided to choose you as my supervisor for my PhD. ”

After revising the manuscript, Shen Qi submitted two group theory papers to the Pacific Journal of Mathematics and the American Mathematical Transactions.

Both are mathematics journals in the United States, and their influence is far behind the four major international mathematics journals, but they are among the top 10 journals in the United States.

Life is calm again, Shen Qi used to think about getting a master's degree in mathematics from Princeton in two semesters, but now he is not so deliberate, let it be, why should he be so anxious?

When a person is very stubborn in doing something, he often can't get up to speed.

When he really settles down, then the sea and the sky will be wide.

Shen Qi is undergoing a spiritual transformation, which has nothing to do with whether it can be opened or not, but only with the string in people's hearts.

Towards the end of his second semester as a graduate student, Shen Qi received the good news that he had won the Ford Prize.

This award is presented by the American Mathematical Association, and the award is given to scholars who have published high-level papers in the past year, and a selection fee of 20,000 US dollars is required.

Shen Qi had already paid the money a few months ago, and he had funded Professor Mueller's research to apply for the Ford Prize.

In order to save money, the American Mathematical Association does not organize ceremonial events such as award ceremonies, and the names of the six Ford Prize winners are published in the American Mathematical Monthly, a journal sponsored by the American Mathematical Association.

The Ford Award certificate was mailed to the Princeton Department of Mathematics, and Shen Qi was admiring the beautiful certificate.

"The Ford Award certificate is still pretty good. Shen Qi kept the Ford Award certificate and put it together with the certificate of the Chern's Mathematics Award.

The $20,000 is not paid for by yourself anyway, and the Ford Award is an award by its size, but it is not an award that can be won by paying money from unknown people.

Shen Qi has a Princeton background and has won Chinese mathematics awards, the key is that he has dry goods, and his paper on the proof of Walsh's conjecture was published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

The host won the Ford Prize issued by the American Mathematical Association, and the basic reward was 350,000 points, multiplied by 2.0 in mathematics, and the final reward was 700,000 points. The balance 1018810 points for the top student, please confirm with the host. ”

"This ...... The basic reward of the Ford Award for spending money has reached 350,000 points, which is 50,000 points more than the basic reward of the Chern's Mathematics Award. ”

Shen Qi felt that this was a little unreasonable, but he still accepted this fact.

In any case, the Ford Prize is an international award, and it is given to mathematical researchers of any nationality.

The Chern Prize in Mathematics is a domestic award awarded to mathematical researchers of Chinese nationality.

With 1,200,000 points, you can upgrade math level 10 to level 11 master.

After winning a Ford Award, plus the more than 300,000 points he had saved before, Shen Qi found that he was about to upgrade again.

"Professor Muller, is there any international award like the Ford Prize that requires a selection fee?" After winning the award, Shen Qi invited Professor Muller to dinner to express his gratitude.

"No, there is only one in the world, and in the last 20 years, the American Mathematical Association has gone crazy for money to set such a rule. Before 1995, the Ford Award did not need to pay money to participate, and each winner could also receive a monetary prize of about 10,000 to 20,000 US dollars. ”