Chapter 103: Solve the Puzzle!
This Olympiad has a total of three days, and Chen Menghan and Lin Fan can participate on the first day.
There are also some students from their school who need to compete on the second and third days.
Therefore, Lin Fan and Chen Menghan can continue to stay in the hotel for two more days, and then leave together after everyone has completed the competition.
Lin Fan and Chen Menghan were lying on the bed leisurely, completely unaware that one of Lin Fan's papers had caused an uproar.
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In a hidden room, a group of old men and middle-aged intellectuals were all gathered together.
Each of them looked shocked, and in the center of them all lay a roll and a few pages of scratch paper.
"Professor Wang, is this true or false? It's too nonsense, isn't it? The world's most difficult math problem was actually solved by a high school student! How is this possible?" an old man pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and then questioned.
"Believe it or not, the evidence is there, see for yourself. Professor Wang sneered, and then said.
"I still don't understand, how did you find this one with so many volumes. Another old man asked Professor Wang.
"You don't care how I found out, the main problem right now isn't this. Hearing the old man's words, Professor Wang blushed a little, and then said.
"Yes, now we need to hurry up and verify whether Lin Fan really cracked Goldbach's conjecture!" Professor Zhang rarely took it seriously.
Usually he's an old naughty boy, and he doesn't look like a professor at all.
This can only show that this time the incident is really shocking to him.
"Okay, then let's hurry up and push it down. Another respected old professor said.
The crowd nodded, and then began to push it down.
It can be said that in such a small room, 80% of the country's mathematicians gathered.
Masters in various fields are there, and they are all a group of intellectual elites who have a place in the whole world.
And today, they all gathered together because of a high school student's answer sheet.
It's a shocking thing!
But more shocking things are yet to come.
All the experts and professors are in place, each performing their own duties, and they are in their own best fields, according to Lin Fan's formula, began to carefully scrutinize and deduce.
They didn't sleep until the middle of the night, and they didn't even care about lunch, and they studied until the second half of the night, which was more than 20 hours.
As the sun reappeared, everyone in the room collapsed to the ground with a tired face.
"It's finally done, and it's really exhausting. However, our efforts have not been in vain! Professor Wang stretched his waist fiercely, and then said.
"Yes, I didn't expect that the big problem that plagued the world was really solved by a high school student. Professor Zhang also said with a smile on his face.
"Elder Wang, you have contributed a lot this time. This young man named Lin Fan is definitely the greatest living mathematician in this world. An old man with a white beard touched his beard with his hand and said.
"Lao Wang, you have made a great contribution this time. A woman in her 50s said.
"I didn't expect that a young man I casually followed would be so awesome, I guess all of us tied together can't catch up with half of the others. Professor Wang said with a smile.
"This math competition may go down in history, and it should be the most successful and awesome math competition ever held. An old man with a white beard said.
"Lao Wang, your previous idea was really right, if you didn't come up with the question this time, Goldbach guessed that if it was really cracked, I don't know how many years. A gray-haired old man gave Professor Wang a thumbs up.
"Hey, hey, I've won a prize. Professor Wang laughed profusely.
"Lao Wang, what reward do you think we should give to this young man? Lin Fan's contribution is really not small. Lao Zhang said with a smile.
"Hmm...... Why don't you give him an honorary award, how about the Most Outstanding Youth Award of the 21st Century?" Lao Wang thought for a moment, and then said.
"You're too perfunctory, aren't you? An old professor glanced at Lao Wang, and then said.
"It's not that I'm perfunctory, after all, Lin Fan is too young. Professor Wang said.
"Lao Wang, Lao Wang, you are old and confused, right? Why are you so pedantic like those old immortal guys! What is wrong with being young? His skills are better than all of us!" Lao Zhang glared at Professor Wang, and then said.
"I agree with Lao Zhang's words, being young does not mean that he has no strength, Lin Fan's ability is enough to enjoy the respect of all of us. An old expert said to Professor Wang.
"But he's really too young, is he going to be the first 18-year-old professor of mathematics in the Republic? Isn't that funny!" said Lao Wang, his eyes wide.
"What's wrong with that? Isn't Lin Fan still worthy of the position of professor? Don't forget, he is the one who cracked Goldbach's conjecture! Moreover, so many of our experts and professors have studied other people's answers here for a day and a night, and they can barely come up with a rough idea. I don't need to say more about his level. Professor Zhang and Professor Wang said-for-tat.
"And I also heard that Lin Fan was the first person to hand in the paper in the 3rd examination room, and he didn't write this paper for more than 30 minutes. An old professor interjected.
He had a relative's son who also participated in the Olympiad, and he heard the news from the student.
Lin Fan has long been remembered by most of the boys in the third examination room, and they will never forget the empty look when Lin Fan took Chen Menghan away.
"Lao Li, is what you said true or false? Lin Fan really only took 30 minutes to answer this paper.........?" asked an old professor.
"Well, that's true. Before Lao Li could answer, Professor Wang took the lead in speaking out.
"This ......... many professors, you look at me, I look at you, all look shocked."
"Even if I don't have the final question, it will take me at least two hours to make this paper. An old professor said.
"In other words, Lin Fan got all the math problems right within 30 minutes, and solved the Goldbach conject???ure by the way," Professor Zhang said incredulously.
"It seems that this should be true. Another professor said.
"Lao Wang, I take back what I just said, it's really too wronged to give Lin Fan a professor's position! He, a peerless genius, deserves to be treated higher!" Professor Zhang took a deep breath and said.
"I suggest that he be awarded the title of Master of Mathematics, and that we at Yenching University want to hire him as a professor in the Department of Mathematics. An old man said with a smile.
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