"Hello, Mr. Junxin, I am glad that you can come to our column to accept our interview this time." Speaking is the famous name of the Canadian television station stationed in Toronto to report the scientific column of the International Union of Crystallography, Madeleine, who is also the number one person in the Canadian press with her serious but humorous style and profound scientific knowledge, even in the world. He has interviewed no fewer than 300 scientists. Among them are Nobel Prize winners, Fields Medal winners and a series of other scientists.

With the suggestion of Ms. Hodgkin and the agreement of Professors Watney, Kluge and Peruz, among others, the decision that Junxin would be the rapporteur on the last day of the conference had been agreed within the Committee. Although Junxin is a little too young, he has a near-perfect performance report meeting and the other opponents are unable to raise their opinions.

Junxin seems to be aware of this, so when he was invited to participate in a talk show by a Canadian TV program, Junxin agreed without hesitation, the purpose is to increase a little popularity and influence, after all, compared with the older generation of mathematicians, it is this popularity and influence that he lacks.

"Hello, thank you to Canadian Television for giving me a chance to interview, to be honest, this is my first time on a talk show." Jun Xin said humbly.

"Okay, let's get started." Madeleine sorted out the information in her hand and began to ask the first question, "Actually, of all the questions, I am most interested in the question of your age, please forgive me for being rude, there is not a single person in the world today who can achieve something like yours at your age, so I would like to know how you did this?" ”

"Someone asked me about this question, but it was really difficult to answer, so I didn't answer it at the time." Junxin thought for a moment and said, "But maybe we can answer this question now." ”

"Do you have any how?" Madeleine asked curiously.

"There is no way, it's just a matter of words." Junxin smiled and said, "Mr. Edison said that success is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent sweat. This may be perfectly true when applied to the general public, but it is a slightly different statement in the scientific community. ”

"Is there any difference?"

"The difference is that 1 percent inspiration is far more important than 99 percent perspiration." Jun Xin replied, "In the scientific community, or people who are interested in doing scientific research, most of them are people who have great talent or great interest in a certain field, and they have never lacked a thirst for knowledge. In other words, they never lacked sweat for that ninety-nine percent. However, the great discoveries of scientific research are always determined by that one percent of inspiration. There is luck and strength in this, but it is not absolute. ”

"Maybe my success is just because I was inspired and researched accordingly." Junxin shook his head and concluded.

"Okay, that's a bit vague, so let's leave it at that." Obviously, Madeleine was not convinced by Junxin's empty talk, but she did not continue to ask, but continued to ask from a different angle, "As far as I know, when you first entered the university last year, you proved the world-wide problem of the Modell conjecture, and when I interviewed Professor Yau Chengtong last year, Professor Qiu spoke highly of your achievements, I would like to ask, how did you solve this global problem?" ”

"Every kid has a dream when they're young, and that's to prove that they're the best in the world, and I'm no exception." Junxin lay back and continued, "When I was very young, I was exposed to mathematics, which is funny, when I first saw Fermat's theorem, I said that it was a problem that had plagued the mathematical community for more than 300 years, but at that time I thought it was a problem to prove the Pythagorean theorem, so I made a lot of jokes. ”

"But jokes are jokes, and I also know about Fermat's theorem, so I want to be the best one, and I take Fermat's theorem as my goal. It's not that I'm bragging, I do have a high talent in mathematics, so I started to study mathematics systematically very early, especially in number theory. Naturally, I noticed the Modell conjecture, the Shavaralvich conjecture and the Tett conjecture, and I had been thinking about these three questions for a long time, until I was in the entrance exam last year, when an additional question caught my attention, which gave me the most important inspiration, so everything was logical, and the Modell conjecture was solved by me. ”

"You mean to say that you have been thinking about these three conjectures for a long time? Oh my God, how old were you? ”

"Does age matter?" Junxin asked rhetorically.

"But knowledge always needs to be accumulated, doesn't it?" Madeleine asked excitedly.

"You're right!" Jun Xin first agreed, "But that's what ordinary people think, and for some people, time is really not that important." In ancient China, there was a twelve-year-old Gan Luo who paid homage to the prime minister, which was equivalent to the prime minister of Canada. There is also Zhou Yu who commands the army at the age of thirteen, which is equivalent to the current Minister of Defense, you say, is time and age very important for them? ”

"Of course, back to the topic of our scientific research!" Without waiting for Madeleine's answer, Junxin continued, "Many people in the scientific community pay attention to the question of age and seniority, and think that the elderly are always better than the young. A young hairy boy and an old scientist are both doing research, but people will always think that the achievements of the old scientists are much higher than the young scientists. ”

"Normally that's not wrong, but this perception is a constraint for some geniuses. You may think it's incredible that I solved the Modell conjecture at the age of seventeen, but there are many more incredible things in mathematics, and Galois founded group theory at the age of eighteen, and in terms of its influence, it is not less than my achievement in the Moder conjecture, so why should I camp at my age and seniority? I don't think it makes much sense. ”

"Well, let's pause the topic for now, I can conclude from your words that you think you're a genius, right?" Madeleine didn't care about Junxin's tirade, but grasped the key point in Junxin's words and asked rhetorically.

"You're not wrong to say that! I think I do deserve the title of genius, so geniuses are privileged, and they shouldn't be bound by the rules of the world. Jun Xin replied categorically, not showing the humility peculiar to Orientals.

"Because you're a genius, you should be a special case in the scientific community, right?" Madeleine asked, her eyes lit up.

"I'm really a special case, but I think there are more of these special cases in the scientific community." Jun Xincai would not continue to say Madeleine's words, which would offend a large number of veteran scientists, so he explained, "The exception becomes the rule, and science will develop more rapidly." ”