Since the beginning of the twentieth century, winning the Nobel Prize has been regarded as a symbol of the establishment of a scientist's status as an academic leader.

The Nobel Prize is divided into Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Physiology, Literature and Peace. Nobel himself was a top scientist and successful businessman, and the Nobel Prize, which was established after his death, is one of the highest honors in the scientific community. But this award has also been complained about one thing.

It's that the Nobel Prize doesn't have a mathematics prize. Legend has it that Nobel was robbed of his lover by a mathematician. People who do math are arguably the smartest people in the world.

Nobel did not set up a mathematics prize because of his hatred of mathematicians. It doesn't matter, the mathematicians themselves set up a global congress called the Congress of Mathematicians.

This conference is similar to the martial arts conference of the Huaxia Kingdom in later generations, and every four years apart, mathematicians from all over the world gather together, and the world's smartest brains stage a sword and sword debate.

At the end of 1924 in North America, Toronto, Canada, it was freezing and snowy, and people were not killed by freezing. There are about 1,000 mathematicians from all over the world, gathered here to hold a martial arts conference.

Mathematicians meet old friends, meet new ones, and learn martial arts. The biggest headache for the organizers of this conference is to arrange seats for mathematicians.

Because mathematicians pay the most attention to the ranking of martial arts, they can't be worse than one. Mathematicians usually evaluate a person, and the most common saying is that Zhang San is ahead of Li Si, and Wang Wu is a little worse than Zhao Liu.

At the conference of mathematicians, first of all, there were seven or eight bigwigs from the Southern Emperor and the Northern Beggars, the East Evil and the West Poison, who wanted to compete for the first position in martial arts. The leaders of the other factions should also discuss who will be in the top 10 and who will be in the top 30.

It's rare for this ranking to even be tied, it's basically one next to the other. Professors from the world's top universities can generally rank 100 to 500 at this conference. The ordinary ones can only be lined up to a few hundred thousand.

Let's take an example that everyone understands, Hua Luogeng, the most famous Hua Luogeng in China, can only rank about 100 at this conference. His student Chen Jingrun can probably rank about 300.

The mathematicians' seat is exactly how to identify, that is, to take their own papers, dozens of pages of proof problems. Take it to a big guy and show it.

The big guy can set a precise position for him at a glance, you are in front of Zhang San, or you go to sit behind Wang Liu.

Never doubt the accuracy of this identification. This kind of crushing of the IQ of a top scientist is almost like asking a high school student to correct the homework of a second-year elementary school student. What is the probability that high school students will make mistakes?

The top bigwigs look at the hundreds of people behind them, just like high school students look at children in the first and second grades of elementary school.

Then the people in the thousands. Looking at the papers of the top 100 martial arts masters, what does it look like? They generally take the master's paper in their hands, from a few pages of proof to dozens of pages or hundreds of pages of proof. They study a page or two a day, get to the middle section, get stuck, come back and work again. If you thoroughly study and understand a paper, then you will be empowered, and the realm of the whole person will suddenly soar.

To put it mildly, it is like an ordinary person to get a martial arts cheats. Or the secret book of cultivating immortals is almost the same, depending on this person's qualifications, it will take a few days, months, years, or a lifetime of energy.

There's a joke about someone who is a math professor at a certain university, and he complains to others that my colleague so-and-so never talks to me.

This is really because of the relationship between the martial arts and rivers that have not yet entered mathematics, and they still don't understand the basic rules of the mathematics world, you think. People are among the top 100 characters in the martial arts, can they talk casually to you as a copycat minion?

Just like the head of the Huashan faction, who is too lazy to talk to the new members of the Iron Fist Gang, there is a gap in martial arts IQ. It's just too big.

It's really not a polite or impolite relationship, the IQ gap between us is bigger than the gap between humans and monkeys.

In the winter of Toronto, the weather is cold, the mathematicians are dressed like Siberian bears, and more than 1,000 people come to the mathematicians' conference, and they are all real martial arts people.

First, a few bigwigs competed for the first place in martial arts. Then more than a dozen bigwigs competed for the top ten in the rivers and lakes, and the disciples and grandchildren in the back were also neatly arranged.

There were also a few hilarious news events at this conference, so let's just say two.

The first is that a big guy who has retired to the rivers and lakes for more than 20 years is back, this big guy was amazing and brilliant when he was young, and he could probably rank in the top 20 at the martial arts conference, and then he was 30 years old, and suddenly got stuck in the bottleneck, and his martial arts could not be advanced, so he simply retired to the rivers and lakes and went to work as a sewer repairman in a city in the United States.

After working as a sewer repairer for more than 20 years, suddenly one day, a flash of inspiration occurred. Locked himself in a small dark room, and wrote a fifteen-page proof paper in one go.

This is the epiphany, the breakthrough, the ascension.

The big guy took this epiphany and came to the martial arts conference, with the breath of the return of the king, and the heroes who had already sat in a good position at the mathematical martial arts conference appraised his paper, and someone consciously took a step back and gave him a top ten position.

The second thing, which is more novel, is that a female chivalrous guest participates in the martial arts conference, in a famous martial arts ranking of the Huaxia clan, in the ranking of one hundred and eight generals in Shuibo Liangshan, women only account for three.

In the ranking of mathematicians' martial arts conferences, the proportion of women is about the same, about one to three percent.

The reason is that studying mathematics is a job that requires a high degree of mental concentration, and it is difficult for a woman's family to adapt to this kind of high-intensity cultivation because of physical and family reasons.

At this martial arts conference in Toronto, the woman who came to participate in it had also circulated some fame in the newspaper before, and she had come up with some good quality certification papers. But because the heroine and his mentor are a couple and husband and wife. Everyone ignored it, thinking that the title of the heroine was written by her mentor.

Later, in order to explore the mystery of mathematics, the tutor invented a special cultivation method, that is, the abstinence method, thinking that the woman had hindered his martial arts progress, divorced and broke up with the woman, and went to retreat and practice alone.

After the heroine broke up with her mentor and husband, she devoted all her energy to the vast sea of mathematics, and finally picked a brilliant pearl. This time, I came to the martial arts conference with a fifty-page proof paper.

Everyone evaluates it, and does not engage in gender discrimination, people have indeed achieved great martial arts. So very reluctantly, he gave the woman a tenth-place position. (To be continued.) )