Seeing Xu Chuan, the old man standing in the C position walked over with a smile and stretched out his right hand.

"Xu Chuan, congratulations."

Xu Chuan shook hands politely, and the media photographer who was selected to put it in clicked for a while, and kept the picture.

On the side, Rong Zhizhuan, the dean of the Academy, explained with a smile: "This is Mayor Jiang of our Jinling. ”

Xu Chuan suddenly greeted respectfully: "Hello Mayor Jiang." ”

Jiang Lao smiled kindly and said, "Don't be so polite, classmate Xu Chuan, I heard that you caught a cold two days ago for the purpose of studying scientific problems, are you feeling better now?" ”

"It's all right now, and you're always worried."

Xu Chuan was a little embarrassed, but he didn't expect him to have a cold and alarm the mayor.

"That's good, that's good, scientific research is important, but the body of a scientific researcher is more important, you must always pay attention to your body, the future is for you young people, the development of the country also depends on you, you must pay attention to physical health."

Jiang Lao patted Xu Chuan's shoulder, and continued: "In addition, on behalf of our Jinling City, I would like to say thank you for your contribution." ”

Xu Chuan said modestly: "I just proved a math problem." ”

"Haha, student Xu is humble, this is a problem that has plagued the mathematics community for nearly 40 years, you have earned a dazzling honor for NTU and Jinling in the world."

Jiang Lao praised two sentences with a smile, and then said: "Adhering to education-oriented, composing a song of rejuvenating the country with talents, and rejuvenating the country through science and education are not only the strategic principles of our country, but also the focus of our education work in Jinling City. ”

"Considering the situation of Xu's family, our city urgently held a meeting to customize a material reward, after all, no matter how hard you are, you can't be a student, and no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in scientific research."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan's eyes lit up, and he said, "It's hard to trouble Mayor Jiang and the leaders." ”

Although he is not so short of money at present, who would not like to have money to take, and listening to this meaning, the reward this time is estimated to be no less.

Jiang Lao laughed and said, "What is this, the real hard work and trouble are the front-line scientific researchers, we just did what we should do." ”

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and the leaders from the city bragged to each other, under the witness of CCTV, Jiang Lao personally handed over a huge sample of 500,000 KT checks to Xu Chuan, and after taking a photo, the leaders of the city left, leaving him alone to be interviewed by CCTV.

After all, they are all busy people, and everyone doesn't have so much time to waste, so it is enough to show up in front of the media to show that the country and Jinling City attach importance to scientific research talents, and expand the influence of Jinling.

As for interviews, although Xu Chuan doesn't like this kind of thing very much, he is no stranger to it, after all, he has experienced a lot in his previous life.

And Yang Ma's face still has to be given, although it is not a boss, but it is also Yang Ma.

Of course, there is also the dean of the School of Mathematics of NTU who stayed for an interview, although the focus is not on him, but this is a good opportunity to expand the influence of NTU and the School of Mathematics of NTU.

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It took more than two hours, and after being interviewed by Yang Ma, Xu Chuan walked out of the teaching building with Rong Zhizhuan, the dean of the School of Mathematics.

The reporters and media outside had dispersed, Rong Zhizhuan looked at the sunset hanging in the sky, and said with a smile: "Classmate Xu Chuan, how about going to have dinner together?" I'm in for a treat. ”

It was during the meal that someone had a treat, Xu Chuan naturally would not refuse, and the two came to the second canteen of the faculty and staff side by side.

"You're famous this time, do you have any plans for the future? Why don't you just come to the academy and concentrate on learning. Rong Zhizhuan asked with a smile.

"I think it's good now."

Xu Chuan smiled and politely rejected the dean's kindness, physics is his root, which will not change in two lifetimes.

Hearing this, Rong Zhizhuan shook his head and said, "You kid has ambitions and ambitions, you don't want to give up in mathematics and physics, are you ready to be the next Witten?" ”

At the same time, Professor Witten is the only one who can achieve the top in physics and mathematics.

Speaking of Witten, Xu Chuan also laughed.

As his teacher in Princeton in his last life, he knew nothing better.

He was named the sixth most influential person after World War II by the American "Life" weekly, and the one with the highest H-index among contemporary physicists, with profound physical intuition and superb mathematical ability.

Proof of the positive energy theorem of general relativity, supersymmetry and Morse theory, topological quantum field theory, superstring compaction, mirror symmetry, supersymmetric gauge field theory, conjecture on the existence of M theory...... And so on these are his contributions to physics and mathematics.

Any one of them is the result of an ordinary mathematician or physicist who may not be able to do it in a lifetime.

He has received various awards such as the MacArthur Foundation, the Fields Medal, the Einstein Prize, the Newton Medal, the Lorentz Prize, the Poincaré Prize, the Cafford Prize in Mathematics, and the National Medal of Science.

It can be said that among the top awards in physics, he is only short of the Nobel Prize in Physics, which is probably the most regrettable thing.

Compared with the geniuses in the novel, Edward Witten is the real character.

Because during college, his major was history in the liberal arts, which had nothing to do with physics and mathematics.

After graduating from his bachelor's degree, he joined a think tank running for president, and he spent about a year running for the Democratic Party.

Then he felt that politics was too boring and too fake, so after getting tired of the fake political life, he ran to the University of Wisconsin to study economics.

This time it was shorter, and after only half a year of study, he couldn't stand the simple boredom of economics, after which he applied to Princeton University for a degree in applied mathematics.

After a brief stint in applied mathematics, he transferred to the physics department at Princeton. He completed his master's and doctoral dissertations in theoretical physics at Princeton.

But whether it was a transfer, dropping out, changing majors, or campaigning, these detours did not slow him down.

At the age of 28, he became a full professor at Princeton University, and two years later he won one of the first so-called genius grants awarded by the MacArthur Foundation.

In 1990, at the age of 38, he won the Fields Medal and is the only "non-math professional" to have won the Fields Medal to date.

This 'twisty' or 'brilliant' life constitutes his immortal legend, and he is also known as 'the best liberal arts student in history'.

He learned a lot from Witten, both in mathematics and physics.

As for the second Witten, he is not the second Witten, but the first Xu Chuan.

In his previous life, his achievements have already surpassed his teachers, and he will only go further in this life.

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