Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 446: Go and receive the award
The restaurant owner was just getting a drink for Chen Zhou.
Seeing the smile on Chen Zhou's face, he immediately asked curiously, "What happy thing happened?"
Chen Zhou shook his phone at the restaurant owner and explained with a smile: "I received an email saying that I won a prize."
"Oh, you won a prize? That's good news. Come, let me treat you to a drink to celebrate !" The restaurant owner handed the drink to Chen Zhou with a smile.
Chen Zhou said "thank you" and took the drink.
He didn't expect that the first person to share the news of his winning was the restaurant owner.
"What award did you win?" asked the restaurant owner curiously.
"The Cole Prize in Number Theory." Chen Zhou added with a smile, "But it's not the second time. This is my first time winning a mathematics award."
The email Chen Zhou received was from none other than the award committee of the Cole Number Theory Prize.
The restaurant owner immediately asked in confusion: "Haven't you proved so many mathematical conjectures? How come you have only proved the first one?"
Chen Zhou shrugged: "I don't know either. Maybe there will be more later. After all, there is only one and then there is another."
The restaurant owner nodded and said, "That's right. I'll wait for your good news. Next time you win a prize, I'll treat you to a drink!"
Chen Zhou smiled and said, "Boss, I saw you came here with a drink. Wasn't this originally meant to be a treat for me?"
The restaurant owner laughed and said, "Your meal is ready. I'll bring it to you."
Chen Zhou said no more. He waited for his rice to be served and started eating.
By the way, I took a screenshot of the content of the email and sent it to Yang Yiyi.
This is the most important person to share.
The content of the email informed Chen Zhou that he had won the 2017 Cole Prize in Number Theory, and invited him to go to the headquarters of the American Mathematical Society on November 20 this year to receive the award.
So, when Chen Zhou sent the screenshot to Yang Yiyi, he also asked her if she had time to accompany him to receive the award.
Although it is already one o'clock in the afternoon, there are still relatively few people eating in this restaurant.
Maybe like Chen Zhou, they all think that the food in this restaurant is more to their taste.
Therefore, the conversation between Chen Zhou and the restaurant owner was heard clearly by the people around them.
Chen Zhou finished his meal listening to the discussions of people around him.
"Brother, did I hear you right?"
"You mean the Cole Prize in Number Theory?"
"You heard that, too?"
"Of course not!"
"So, that Chinese student really won the Cole Prize in Number Theory, the highest award in number theory that is awarded only every three years?"
"From what he said, it seems so. But I heard that the hot candidates for this year's Number Theory Prize are Henry Damon and James Maynard, right?"
"Oh, I've also heard of these two names. They're said to be super popular candidates. But this Chinese guy?"
"Hey, brothers, that man is called Chen Zhou, haven't you heard of him?"
After a brief silence, the two men suddenly exclaimed, "Chen Zhou? The Chen Zhou who made history here?"
"Yes, if nothing unexpected happens, it's him! So, have you forgotten that he is also a popular candidate?"
"Oh my god, I actually forgot about this big guy? But he is too young, right?"
"Brother, he is just a graduate student..."
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Both of them were speechless.
Although Chen Zhou is also one of the favorites for this year's Cole Number Theory Prize.
But compared with the math giants well-known to Americans, Chen Zhou's fame is still a little weaker.
To the point that these students have forgotten his name.
In addition, since Chen Zhou came to MIT, he has spent very little time outside.
As for going to the classroom to attend classes, I never did so even once.
This results in not many people at MIT being familiar with Chen Zhou's face.
And now, he was not even recognized, and these people thought he was bragging.
However, as someone pointed out Chen Zhou's identity, the discussions and looks of the people around him changed.
Chen Zhou also keenly noticed this change and immediately increased the speed at which he ate his rice.
He had already discovered that at this rate, it might be difficult to walk.
So, take advantage of this opportunity before these people surround me and ask me questions.
I have to finish eating quickly so I can get away.
Just as Chen Zhou quietly left, everyone in the store looked towards his seat.
It turns out that the news that Chen Zhou won the Cole Number Theory Prize has appeared on the mobile phone news software.
I have to say that the timeliness of news in the Internet age is really beyond reproach.
Not long after Chen Zhou received the email, the news had already spread on the Internet.
Facing the gazes of some people who knew him along the way, Chen Zhou finally returned to the dormitory.
At this time, Yang Yiyi's message also came.
"Happy, November 20th is still a long way off, and I'm not sure if I have time. I'll try to adjust my work and make that day available so I can go with you to receive the award, okay?"
Chen Zhou felt warm in his heart when he saw the message from Yang Yiyi.
Then he quickly typed back: "It's okay. If you don't have time, then wait for me to bring the medal back and give you a hug."
Yang Yiyi is also in a critical period now, and Chen Zhou doesn't want to waste her time because of such a trivial matter.
Although this is my first time winning an award, I really hope that Yang Yiyi can accompany me to receive the award.
However, Chen Zhou is still very rational.
If I can't accompany you this time, I'll be there next time.
And who knows, there might be a next time?
Chen Zhou felt that as long as he could control the pace of solving mathematical conjectures, winning awards would definitely come.
Of course, the premise is to keep up with the previous pace.
Yang Yiyi didn't reply immediately, so Chen Zhou threw his phone aside and sat down at the desk again.
If we want to keep up with the previous pace, then this guess is the first big problem that lies ahead.
"On the Koch conjecture, if we proceed from the function that Vinogradov considered..."
"By estimating that integral over the major and minor arcs..."
"We get the following result: for any A＞0, r(N)=1/2Б(N)N^2＋O(N^2(logN)^(-A)..."
"Where B(N)=..."
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"After obtaining the main equation of the interpolated flow in the colloid, in order to suppress the contribution of high-order dimensional condensation and reduce the influence of excited states and continuous states, it is necessary to apply a mathematical method called Bohr transform..."
"Define the Bohr operator..."
"The parameter τ here is called the Bohr parameter. If we apply the Bohr transformation on both sides of the main equation, we can get..."
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Before going to the American Mathematical Society to receive the award, Chen Zhou was occasionally disturbed.
But he always followed his own plan and learning pace to conduct research on the rubber ball experiment topic.
And, keep looking for Ge Guess's solution.
As the time to receive the award approached, Chen Zhou bought a plane ticket to the headquarters of the American Mathematical Society.
He is going to receive the first award in his life.
