Chapter Ninety-Nine: Award Ceremony
The next day, Pang Xuelin met many guests who came to attend the award ceremony in the hotel.
Needless to say, Tao Zhexuan, Deligne, Faltins, Yau Chengtong, Andrew Wiles, Pang Xuelin even met the previous Fields Medal winners, such as Akshai Venkatesh, Peter Schultz, Martin Hale, Mariam Mirzahani and others.
The Chinese Mathematical Society also sent a representative team headed by President Zhang Deye to participate.
Among these people, some Pang Xuelin had already seen them in the last BSD conjecture report meeting, but some had only heard of their names and not seen them.
The fact that the Clay Institute was able to invite all of these people over one by one shows that it has put a lot of effort into it.
In addition, the award ceremony was attended by many political leaders, celebrities, and business tycoons from all over the world.
The Chinese ambassador to France will also attend.
Of course, these people will only show up at the awards ceremony cocktail party in the evening.
Other times, it was a time for the mathematicians to interact with each other.
In the afternoon, Pang Xuelin went to visit his mentor Tao Zhexuan, and found that Tao Zhexuan was chatting with Deligne, Yau Chengtong and others in the room, so Pang Xuelin also joined in.
The three generations of mathematicians, old, middle-aged and young, chatted about interesting things in the mathematical world and the topics they were researching, and they had a great time.
Later, I don't know what happened, more and more mathematicians came to hear the news, and the hotel simply arranged a hall and held a tea party for the bigwigs.
It wasn't until about five o'clock that the men dispersed.
Pang Xuelin returned to the presidential suite where he lived, took a shower, changed into a more solemn suit, and prepared to attend the grand reception held in the hotel banquet hall at half past six.
When Pang Xuelin walked out of the bedroom, he saw Qi Xin also coming out of his room.
In order to attend today's dinner, she specially changed into a champagne-colored sleeveless lace bandeau evening dress, with a long ponytail coiled high, revealing a swan-like slender and white neck, with a sapphire pendant necklace on it, with a noble and elegant temperament, coupled with her almost flawless face, even Pang Xuelin couldn't help but breathe a little faster at first glance.
Qi Xin came to Pang Xuelin, turned around slightly, and smiled: "Does my dress look good?" ”
"Beautiful! It's beautiful! ”
Pang Xuelin calmed his heartbeat and said.
Qi Xin spit out his tongue, and said a little embarrassed: "I rented this set of clothes from the staff of the hotel, and a single piece costs more than 50,000 euros, and this sapphire necklace is even more exaggerated, worth more than 100,000 euros. ”
Pang Xuelin couldn't help but laugh and said, "It should be worth two houses!" ”
Qi Xin was slightly stunned, and wondered: "Why?" ”
Pang Xuelin said seriously: "You yourself are worth a set, and your clothes are worth a set!" ”
"Okay, I'm worth as much as a piece of clothing?"
"Haven't you heard a word? Brothers are like siblings, and women are like garments......"
"Pang Xuelin, it turns out that you see me like this, you stop, don't run!"
Qi Xin's willow eyebrows were upside down, and he stepped forward to settle accounts with Pang Xuelin.
The two of them went downstairs in a fight, and when they were about to reach the banquet hall, they retracted their descriptions, Pang Xuelin bent his arms, and Qi Xin naturally stepped forward and grabbed Pang Xuelin's arms.
When the two appeared in the banquet hall like a pair of beautiful people, the eyes of many people at the scene suddenly focused on Pang Xuelin.
Pang Yongnian and his wife, who had already entered the venue with the invitation letter that Pang Xuelin got from the organizer in advance, took the lead to greet them, Mei Yuqing looked Qi Xin up and down and said, "Xiao Xin, you are so beautiful tonight!" ”
"Auntie, how can you say so exaggerated!"
Qi Xin lowered his head a little shyly.
Mei Yuqing said: "This is not an exaggeration at all, there are also many people with female companions to attend today, you see how many can have a temperament like yours." ”
"Mom, okay, don't praise people! It made everyone blush. ”
Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Senior sister, you accompany my parents here, and I'll go and chat with you for a while." ”
"Oh, good!"
Pang Xuelin said hello to his parents, then picked up a glass of champagne directly from the hand of the waiter passing by, and stepped forward to chat with the big guy he knew.
He didn't forget what he promised Liu Tingbo, although there was no way to get these bigwigs to Jiangda, but there were a lot of depressed calves under these bigwigs, and with their own feelings and prestige, they could always ask for a few.
As the time for the awards ceremony approached, more and more people began to enter the ballroom.
Pang Xuelin shuttled through the crowd, from time to time someone came forward to clink glasses with him, Pang Xuelin did not refuse, although most of the people he didn't know, but he still greeted these people friendly.
Pang Xuelin can't do anything about this, who called him a well-deserved protagonist tonight!
Seeing that the attendees of the award ceremony were almost there, the host of the conference soon walked up to the stage and said into the microphone: "Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the BSD Conjecture Proving Award Ceremony of the Seven Problems of the Millennium organized by the Clay Institute, September 20 this year is a great day for the global mathematical community. Professor Pang Xuelin's proof of the BSD conjecture has been officially recognized by the international mathematical community. After Professor Pang Xuelin published the relevant paper, the Clay Institute quickly set up an expert group to demonstrate the paper, and the results of the argumentation proved that Professor Pang Xuelin was correct! ”
"For this reason, we have chosen to hold a grand award ceremony in Paris to award Professor Pang Xuelin with a BSD conjecture proof prize and a prize of 1.5 million US dollars! Next, we have invited Professor Pang to the stage to accept the award and deliver an acceptance speech! ”
Soon, there was a thunderous applause in the banquet hall, the crowd automatically moved out of the way, and everyone's eyes were focused on Pang Xuelin.
There is admiration, respect, envy, and respect......
There are many complicated looks, and so on.
Pang Xuelin walked up the stage along the aisle and received a crystal trophy made of BSD from the director of the Clay Institute to thank him.
Subsequently, Pang Xuelin came to the podium and officially delivered his acceptance speech.
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and it is an honour to meet you all on this wonderful evening."
"Perhaps you have the impression that mathematicians should be a group of people who are raunchy geniuses, wearing two pairs of socks of different colors, discussing esoteric theories in terms that no one understands; Or a serious and old-fashioned old professor in a college classroom, who uses a unique hypnotic tone to talk about calculus, linear algebra, complex variable functions, probability theory, integral transformations, etc. The high degree of abstraction and specialization of modern mathematics makes it impossible for most people to get a close understanding of the work of mathematicians...... Today, I will talk to you about the lives of our mathematicians in more popular language! ”
"In my opinion, mathematics is everywhere, not only hidden in all corners of life, but also in the depths of our minds. Mathematics has led to tremendous advances, changing the way people perceive, think, and solve problems, and has disrupted every aspect of society. ”
"In fact, terms like Boltzmann's equations, Landau damping, Fourier transforms, and Newton's iterations are very simple fundamentals that may seem intimidating to the average reader."
"These principles have profoundly changed human civilization and the world."
"In today's society, the study of mathematics is a highly social work, and you can find inspiration in discussions, chance encounters, and a series of serendipities, and as far as I know, even the famous otaku mathematician Mr. Perelman, who has always maintained the most basic contact with the mathematical community through the Internet......"
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