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On the car, Lin Feng noticed Xu Chuan's abnormality through the rearview mirror, so he casually asked, "What's wrong?" Senior Brother Chuan. ”

Xu Chuan retracted his gaze looking out of the window and said, "It's nothing, it's just an award." ”

"Oh, what award?"

Lin Feng didn't care, and then asked, with the achievements of this little junior brother, it is normal to win an award.

The mathematics, physics, and astronomical circles are basically queuing up for time to give him the award, but it is just that the speed of this little junior brother's achievements is too fast, and the speed of awarding awards cannot keep up with the speed of his scientific research.

Have you ever seen a scholar who has been able to contribute to the fields of mathematics, physics, and astronomy in a year's time?

Although these contributions are basically related to the Weyl-Berry conjecture, this speed can really blow people's jaws.

Xu Chuan grinned and said, "The Clafford Prize in Mathematics and the Clafford Prize in Astronomy." ”

Lin Feng, who was driving, heard the answer, nodded subconsciously, and congratulated: "Congratulations, Senior Brother Chuan, you actually won two awards at once.......... it! Wait, what did you just say? What two awards have you won? ”

Lin Feng, who reacted, subconsciously stepped on the brakes, the car suddenly stopped, and the three people in the car leaned forward, and then he came back to his senses, quickly controlled the car, and then parked it on the side of the road.

It's also thanks to whether this is on the highway in the United States, or on the way out of the city, and the traffic flow is not high.

If it is in China, this sudden brake will be down, and the rear car will probably come up directly.

After controlling the car, Lin Feng quickly parked it on the side of the road, then turned his head and swallowed his saliva, stared at Xu Chuan and asked repeatedly, "Senior brother, what did you just say?" What two awards have you won? ”

"The Cafford Prize in Mathematics and the Cafford Prize in Astronomy."

Xu Chuan repeated, greeted by Lin Feng's skeptical and disbelieving eyes, and even Nanali Kessler in the co-pilot cast a puzzled look.

"You said you won this year's Clafford Prize in Mathematics and Clafford Prize in Astronomy?" Lin Feng stared at Xu Chuan suspiciously.

Xu Chuan nodded steadily.

"You really didn't lie to me?"

"What's there to deceive about this, it's from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that just called me."

Xu Chuan smiled dumbly and shook his head, this news was indeed quite surprising, he couldn't believe it at first, it was normal for Senior Brother Lin Feng to have this kind of reaction.

"Xu, can the Cafford Prize be awarded to the same person at the same time?"

There was silence in the car for a moment, but it was Nanali Kessler who broke the silence.

"No way, the Cafford Award has never given two different awards to the same person in the same year, junior brother, you're afraid you received a scam call, right?"

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Lin Feng shook his head and reluctantly denied it.

The Cafford Prize is known as the Little Nobel Prize.

Judging by the number of winners, it is even more difficult to win the Cafford Prize than to win the Nobel Prize.

At least, in most years, two or three people from each discipline have won the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, and medicine.

And what about the Cafford Prize?

Although it also has five majors in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, biological sciences, earth sciences and polyarthritis, it only awards one subject per year.

And most of the time, only one person in a discipline wins the award.

Is it possible that you are now telling him that this year's prizes in mathematics and astronomy were awarded to one person at the same time?

Completely impossible, well! There has never been anything like this in history. So Lin Feng would rather believe that this is a scam call.

Xu Chuan shrugged his shoulders and said, "Then what does this liar want me to do?" ”

Hearing this, Lin Feng was stunned.

Yes, if it's a scam call, then what is this scammer trying to do?

After thinking about it, Lin Feng tilted his head and asked, "Tricked you into going abroad to receive the award, and then kidnapped you?" ”

"Poof~"

Xu Chuan couldn't help but laugh and said, "Senior Brother Lin, this is the Craford Award, after I receive the call here, it will be officially announced in Sweden in two days." ”

"If it's a scam call, I'll wait two days to break it, and I don't want me to claim the prize now."

"Oh yes."

Lin Feng responded in a daze, then reacted, and asked excitedly: "In other words, you really broke the historical record this time and won both the Cafford Mathematics Prize and the Cafford Astronomy Prize?" ”

"If the caller is okay, it should be." Xu Chuan thought about it and replied: "Whether it's true or not, you should know in two days." ”

"After all, traditionally, the Cafford Prize, like the Nobel Prize, is to notify the winners by phone a week before they are announced."

"Yes, then wait a few more days."

Lin Feng nodded, restarted the car and headed towards Princeton.

The news of winning both the Clafford Prize in Mathematics and the Clafford Prize in Astronomy is so amazing that anyone will be skeptical until there is a real official announcement. Including Xu Chuan, who has already received the call.

......

After returning to Princeton from Geneva, Xu Chuan put down his luggage and went to Professor Deligne's office to visit his supervisor as soon as possible.

After all, he only went back in about a month, but he turned out to be good, and he spent almost four months there.

However, Drinne did not care about this at all, on the contrary, he was very interested in how Xu Chuan applied mathematics to physics and calculated the energy level channel of the coupling phenomenon between Higgs and the third-generation heavy quark Yukawa.

He's been working on this all this time.

This may be related to the fact that Xu Chuan showed the old professor the calculation data of the proton radius mystery some time ago.

There are also some techniques for the integration of mathematics and physics, and Witten taught some physics knowledge to this old professor, which may have stimulated some of his interest in mathematics and physics.

Mathematics is a very special subject, and everything is basically inseparable from mathematics.

However, cutting-edge mathematics is too far away from ordinary science, and it is basically in a state of enclosure and self-play.

Xu Chuan brought some new ideas to Professor Deligne with the ideas and skills of integrating mathematics and physics. It also made him sigh a little that he was old.

After all, he is in his seventies, and he is no longer the young man who can study for days and nights for a certain mathematical problem, and he does not have that energy.

With his current age and experience, it is difficult for him to learn a new subject and then integrate it with mathematics.

However, he taught Xu Chuan some of the thoughts he was thinking about, hoping that he could expand on this road instead of himself.

Thankfully, he accepted a good student, who was still young and capable enough to try to expand.

I can go down this road instead of him, and see if the end is an unknown ocean or an impregnable wall.

.......

After gaining some new knowledge from Professor Deligne, Xu Chuan returned to campus with great concentration.

After two days of adjusting to the jet lag at Princeton, he was able to regain the feeling he had when he was studying on campus. Started attending classes every day and studied mathematics with Professor Deligne.

In the blink of an eye, a week has passed.

In the afternoon of this day, while Xu Chuan was studying mathematics with the tutor in Professor Deligne's office, a phone call came to his mobile phone.

After giving his mentor an apologetic look, Xu Chuan answered the phone.

As soon as it was connected, there was a 'noisy' sound from the opposite side.

", Senior Brother Chuan, have you read the news report? You've literally won both the Clafford Prize in Mathematics and the Clafford Prize in Astronomy! It's so β, breaking the historical record, the first person in history!! ”

Machine gun-like words quickly burst out of the mobile phone, and the deafening sound made Xu Chuan couldn't help but put the mobile phone a little more away from his ears, but he also knew that today the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the Cafford Prize.

It wasn't an imposter phone call that called him before, he really won both the Clafford Prize in Mathematics and the Prize in Astronomy.

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After exchanging a few words with Senior Brother Lin, Xu Chuan quickly hung up the phone and opened the official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with his mobile phone, and sure enough, the list of this year's Cafford Awards was officially announced.

In the blank form, the winner of the two award-winning disciplines has his name written on it.

【xu·~】

Seeing this familiar name, Xu Chuan's heart settled down.

After all, this is the Clafford Prize, the world's first of its kind, the Mathematics Prize and Astronomy will be awarded to the same person in the same year, which is a historic first.

Not to mention that Senior Brother Lin Feng was so surprised and suspicious at first, it was that he himself was full of doubts at the beginning.

But now, the doubts in my heart dissipated, and only joy remained.

After staring at the list of winners on his phone for a long time, Xu Chuan raised his head and breathed a long sigh of relief, calming his heart that was beating faster, but there was still a smile on his face that couldn't be hidden.

In his office, Professor Deligne gave him a slightly puzzled look.

With this disciple's calm personality, it is really rare to be so happy.

Noticing his mentor's gaze, Xu Chuan grinned and shared his joy: "Mentor, I won this year's Clafford Prize in Mathematics and Astronomy. ”

Hearing this, Deligne was stunned for a moment, and asked with some hesitation: "The Cafford Prize for Mathematics and Astronomy?" ”

"Well, at the same time." Xu Chuan nodded vigorously.

"It's really surprising that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences would make such a bold decision."

Deligne was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses from the news.

"I was almost forty-five years old when I won the Craford Award, and even Tao Zhexuan was thirty-six years old, and you directly brushed the record forward for nearly twenty years."

After sighing, Professor Deligne looked at Xu Chuan with a smile and congratulated, "Congratulations, you have created a historical record." ”

"Not before, and it is estimated that no one will be able to break your record in the future."

The Clafford Prize, who is less than 19 years old, is still awarded both the Clafford Prize in Mathematics and the Astronomy Prize, and the hope of being beaten is even more difficult. This world record may not be broken for at least 100 years.

And from now on, the 18-year Fields Medal is destined to have his share.

Then it will be another time to make history.

Looking at the student in front of him, Deligne sighed with emotion.

Even if mathematics is gradually getting younger, and young mathematicians like Tao Zhexuan and Schultz have supported a new sky, there is no such exaggeration as the student in front of him.

If the Weyl-Berry conjecture had been proved alone, the Fields Medal jury might have considered whether to postpone it for another four years.

However, Xu Chuan not only proved the Weyl-Berry conjecture, but also extended it to the astrophysics community, and established a series of mathematical methods based on the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem. The importance has increased a lot.

After all, although mathematics is known as the foundation of science, it is ultimately just a tool.

As a tool, how to play a role in mathematics, or other disciplines, is the greatest value that a tool can embody.

The selection principle of the Fields Medal also attaches great importance to this.

So it can be said that the Fields Medal in 18 years, Schultz and Xu Chuan have been booked in advance.

The former created the theory of perfect space in the p-class class, and used this theory to make a major breakthrough in the famous Langlands program in mathematics.

The latter proved the world-class problem of the Weyl-Berry conjecture, and relied on the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem to establish a series of mathematical methods for calculating the parameter information of celestial bodies, which influenced the entire astronomical community in one fell swoop.

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Thousands of miles away, Huaguo.

When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Craford Award, the first reaction was neither Yang Ma nor major news media, but Xu Chuan's alma mater, NTU.

After receiving this news, NTU immediately put up banners at the gate and on campus.

[Congratulations to Xu Chuan, a 16th grade doctoral student of our school, for winning this year's Cafford Prize in Mathematics and Cafford Prize in Astronomy!] 】

The huge banner was not only hung at the entrance of the school, but also in front of the teaching building where Xu Chuan used to take classes, for fear that the students of NTU would not see it.

The leaders of NTU were excited, excited, and the face of the principal Liu Gaojun was full of smiles, Xu Chuan was personally recruited by him.

The Cafford Prize, little Nobel, has never been won by any Chinese person.

This time, not only did I get it, but I also got two of them.

If Xu Chuan wasn't still studying at Princeton, the leaders of NTU would be eager to pull him to the stage now, hold two report meetings, and invite Mizuki, Peking University, and Riyue University to come and have a look.

The Department of Mathematics at NTU can also produce top talents!

With the action of NTU, the media also reacted quickly, and the press release was rushed out on the same day, and the queue was urgently put on the online media.

And the news that night also took two or three minutes to broadcast the news temporarily, and made some brief introductions to Xu Chuan.

Of course, it's not that they don't want to be more formal, but the incident happened suddenly, and the winner is not in China, so he hasn't done an interview with him yet, so he just chose to broadcast it temporarily.

However, the station's reporters and related personnel in the United States have already purchased tickets to Princeton.

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