August 28th.

The capital of the United States, New York.

The award ceremony of the 16th Wiblen Prize was held in the Great Hall of the headquarters of the Mathematical Society of the United States.

More than 300 mathematicians attended the ceremony.

The big guys in digital geometry and topology came to the scene.

For example, Professor Fresnel, the prover of Poincaré's conjecture, and Professor Dexter, who has the title of "Emperor of Topology......

As candidates, Gu Lu and the other five nominated mathematicians sat in the second row of the auditorium.

Mr. Ode Lens, the president of the Mathematical Society of the United States, who is nearly seventy years old, walked tremblingly to the microphone on crutches.

From the staff member, he received a sealed letter with the list of winners of this year's Wiblen Prize.

In front of everyone's attention, President Odeh tore open the envelope and pulled out a piece of cardboard.

There are three people's names written on it.

"I am delighted to be able to present this sacred award once again. The Wiblen Prize has been around for nearly 50 years. The award was established to recognize mathematicians who have made significant contributions to the fields of geometry and topology. Honor the application of their research results. I try to let the world recognize the weight of Wiblen's award. President Oder spoke slowly in his small voice.

"Now, it is up to me to announce the winners of the sixteenth edition of Veblen, and they are ......"

President Oder's voice suddenly increased.

Everyone in the audience also pricked up their ears, looking forward to this tense moment.

"They are: Gu Lu, Noah Emmett, Kenneth Emmett, Let's congratulate these three mathematicians!"

Sure enough, as no one expected, Gu Lu won the Wiblen Award that year!

At the scene, the applause was thunderous!

Hearing his name, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Gu Lu's mouth.

Although it was expected by myself, it was indeed a joy to receive the Wiblen Award.

The Wiblen Prize may not be well-known in the outside world, but in the field of geometry and topology, it is second only to the Fields Medal, the highest award in mathematics.

Sometimes, with such an award in hand, it is enough to stay in a university and wait for death.

Next, I would like to invite the three award-winning mathematicians to the stage to receive the awards. ”

Under the envious gaze of a group of mathematicians, Gu Lu and the other two award-winning mathematicians got up and walked to the stage.

When Gu Lu, who was tall and young, stood on the podium, he instantly became the focus of everyone.

Having said that, everyone has long heard that a young mathematician named Gu Lu suddenly emerged some time ago and proved such a world-class problem as the BAB conjecture in one breath, and became the favorite to win the Wiblen Prize.

Now seeing Gu Lu's true appearance, the group of elderly mathematicians are all scratching their thinning hair speechlessly.

Gu Lu, even if he is young, the key is ...... He's so handsome!

Looking at Gu Lu who was radiant on the stage, he knew that he was an award-winning mathematician, but he didn't know that he thought it was a special guest star invited by the Mathematics Society!

President Oder hung three medals made of pure gold around the necks of the three men, and then handed each of them a red-skinned certificate.

At the age of 24, Gu Lu also became the youngest winner in the history of the Wiblen Award.

Of course, it is worth mentioning that Simon, as the last "youngest winner", did not attend the award ceremony of this year's Wiblen Prize.

As for the reason......

Simon's explanation to the outside world is that he is ill and it is inconvenient to attend the award ceremony of this year's Wiblen Awards.

But only a tiny fraction of people believe Simon's nonsense.

The crowd was clear.

Simon must have been reluctant to see his title of "the youngest winner in the history of the Wiblen Award" taken away by Gu Lu, a former opponent.

As the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind, Simon simply chose not to go.

In fact, everyone guessed well.

As early as a month ago, when Simon learned that this year's Wiblen Award ceremony would be held on August 28, Simon was planning to attend.

After all, Simon, the winner of the last Wiblen Prize, had no reason not to attend.

But in mid-August, the National Mathematical Society announced the list of nominees for this year's Wiblen Prize, and when Simon saw Gu Lu's name on the list, he was not good.

Simon's mind flashed through a lot of things for a while.

Eventually, after some weighing, Simon chose to say that he was sick.

Gu Lu stood on the stage holding the Veblen Trophy beautifully, and he had to raise his hand to congratulate him in the audience, that picture, Simon couldn't imagine.

If you don't go, you won't die!

Simon knew that the record that was broken by himself three years ago would definitely be broken by Gu Lu again this year.

However, out of sight and out of mind, Simon chose to escape.

…………

The scene of the Wiblen Prize ceremony.

Gu Lu swept around the scene, but did not see Simon's figure, and he was a little disappointed in his heart.

"Didn't you come?"

Gu Lu was secretly worried in his heart, but he still had that faint smile on his face.

After a group photo of the three Wiblen Prize winners and President Odeh, they delivered their acceptance speeches one after another.

Gu Lu also said some clichés such as thanking the school, thanking the teacher, and thanking the parents, and returned to his seat amid the applause of everyone.

After the awards, there was also a dinner party.

As the youngest winner in history, Gu Lu is naturally the focus of attention.

Many people came to talk to Gu Lu, some to talk about academic issues, and some simply to establish a relationship with Gu Lu.

Gu Lu has a promising future, in the field of algebraic geometry, he is a genius on the same level as Simon, Carl and others, they don't want to be friends with Gu Lu, they just want not to befriend Gu Lu.

Gu Lu also came and did not refuse.

He is only now in contact with the "high-end society" of the mathematical world in a real sense, and the academic atmosphere in the United States does not exist, and Gu Lu does not need to stand in line.

Befriending more mathematicians from major universities is only good for yourself, not harmful.

In the conversation with Gu Lu, everyone also found that Gu Lu was not as arrogant and unpopular as they imagined, but he was very humble, saying that he was very young, and he would need the guidance of his predecessors in the future.

During this period, many famous universities also extended olive branches to Gu Lu.

Just like when Simon became famous, he proposed all kinds of generous treatment and conditions, just hoping to pull Gu Lu to teach in their school.

After all, according to Gu Lu's current momentum, even if he can't win the Fields Medal in the future, he will become a mathematician who cannot be underestimated!

For a young and promising mathematician like Gu Lu, all the famous universities will only be too little, not too much.

It is not unclear that Gu Lu is currently teaching at Yenching University in China.

But, who said that the corners of Yenching University should not be dug up.

The Department of Mathematics of Yenching University is certainly the first in China!

But looking at the world, it is only ranked more than 20.

At the dinner, there were many world-class universities such as Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, and MIT.

Gu Lu's alma mater, Princeton University, is also inviting Gu Lu to join the ranks.