Chapter 76 Chapter 76 Exclusive
The two chatted all the way to Professor Wan's office. After handing Lin Yimu over to Professor Wan, Pei Yuchen left, while Professor Wan took Lin Yimu aside and reminded him of some precautions for the seminar.
After giving instructions, he looked at Lin Yimu's calm appearance, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Seeing you now, I feel relieved. Before you came, I was afraid that you would be too nervous to go on stage, and I was thinking about whether I should comfort you. Now that I see that you are so well prepared and not nervous at all, I feel relieved."
Lin Yimu smiled a little embarrassedly, sorted out the materials he had just shown Professor Wan, and said, "Actually, I was still a little nervous, but after listening to your and Teacher Pei's advice and advice, I feel much better now, and didn't you also say that I was well prepared?"
"That's right. The rising star of our Country Z's mathematics community should not be afraid of any challenge." Professor Wan was looking at the young man in front of him and was looking forward to today's seminar.
Looking at Professor Wan who had very high expectations of him, Lin Yimu, who had been feeling somewhat relaxed, suddenly felt a lot of pressure. He didn't know how to respond and could only smile shyly.
When it was almost nine o'clock, Lin Yimu and Professor Wan came to the auditorium of Yan University together. Seeing the seats were already full, Lin Yimu was really surprised.
But after a careful look, Lin Yimu discovered that except for the middle-aged and elderly people with serious faces in the front rows, the seats in the back were all young students with immature faces. They should be students of Yan University. After all, although what was held here today was said to be an academic seminar, strictly speaking it was just Lin Yimu's personal thesis defense, it was just a bigger scene, with more people and more important identities coming.
Yan University did not prohibit students from attending the seminar as auditors. This was because the president of Yan University wanted students to experience the atmosphere of the defense in person in advance, which was also a process for them to gain experience.
Although Lin Yimu was startled by the scene in front of him, he quickly came to his senses and followed Professor Wan who was walking in front of him to several old professors sitting in the front row, including Professor Jiang who had attended Lin Yimu's classes at Peking University.
The old professors all knew each other. After all, they were all experts in this field and they might collaborate on some projects. So when they met, there was not much polite greeting and they just said a few simple words.
While a few old professors were chatting, the foreign professors and scholars sitting next to them kept looking at Lin Yimu.
Although they did not know Lin Yimu, they all knew that the person who proved the twin prime conjecture in Country Z this time was a high school student, and a freshman at that. They did not believe this news at all, even after reading the paper on arXiV and even publishing it in SCI Zone 2, they were more inclined to believe that Country Z was creating some kind of evil genius personality.
After all, looking at the history of Country Z, it seems that there are always some geniuses appearing in every period of time, but the times were too long ago and no one knows whether it is true or not. But every time a genius appears, the people of Country Z seem to be more excited and indirectly more cohesive.
What matters to them more is that every time a genius appears, it means that Country Z has made a new discovery, and this discovery can even allow Country Z to make a qualitative leap.
So now they all came with the intention of exposing Lin Yimu. After all, no one would believe that a 16-year-old boy who had just entered high school could solve a mathematical conjecture that had been difficult to solve for a century. Moreover, they had already inquired about the deeds of this genius when they came, so they could not convince anyone at all.
What's worse, there are some prejudiced people who always insist that it is impossible for Country Z to produce any true scientific genius and that scientific truth will always be in the West.
Therefore, some foreign scholars looked at Lin Yimu with unfriendly eyes, full of scrutiny, which made Lin Yimu very unhappy.
Professor Wan and other mathematicians from Country Z actually knew the mentality of those people, which was why this seminar took place. So they didn't care about the disbelief or even contempt of the crowd, and just patted Lin Yimu on the shoulder and asked him to go on stage.
Before Lin Yimu went on stage, Professor Wan said softly: "Don't worry about their attitude, just perform steadily, we old guys will take care of everything."
Lin Yimu looked at Professor Wan and blinked, then nodded firmly, "I understand, professor. Don't worry, I will never embarrass our country Z." After that, he walked up to the podium with firm steps and a solemn expression.
In fact, after feeling everyone's gazes on him, Lin Yimu probably guessed the purpose of this seminar, so he would never allow himself to make any mistakes. Even if he would face many tricky questions next, Lin Yimu would never back down.
As expected, after the seminar started, Lin Yimu had just finished talking about his verification ideas and process, and before he had time to take a break, some foreign scholars sitting below began to express doubts.
Lin Yimu looked at the middle-aged man who asked the question. He was short and had flat features. He spoke English in a clumsy and unfamiliar way, much like the Japanese who speak without distinguishing tones.
Lin Yimu knew which country the other person was from without having to guess. Although he really disliked that country, he still generously allowed the other person to ask questions.
"I have a question about the use of contradiction to verify this aspect! According to my verification, the result obtained by contradiction is to prove that there are infinite prime numbers, and there is no way to proceed to the next step of verification."
The middle-aged man asked a question that surprised Lin Yimu. After all, he had just mentioned the formula conversion when explaining the verification process. As a mathematician, he should not fail to understand it.
But Lin Yimu still smiled very politely and explained again the formula conversion and problem-solving ideas of his part, and even explained again why the conversion formulas should be used and how to use the formulas to verify each other.
"Professor, do you have any questions? I believe everyone knows how to convert this formula. If you don't understand, I can explain it again."
After he finished speaking, Lin Yimu smiled and asked the other party if he understood. He even paused for a moment because the other party did not introduce himself and he did not know how to address him. However, there was nothing wrong with his attitude, but his words were unpleasant to the ears.
The middle-aged man who was pointed out by Lin Yimu had a rather unhappy expression on his face, because he could clearly feel the gazes from the people around him. After all, what Lin Yimu said sounded like he didn't know how to convert the formula and his math skills were not good enough.
But the man couldn't say anything in front of so many people. He could only glare at Lin Yimu fiercely and said nothing more.
In fact, Lin Yimu said this deliberately because he just didn't have a good impression of the island country. And just after he finished speaking, he clearly saw the middle-aged man and the foreigner with a high nose and deep eyes sitting next to him look at each other, and the other party even nodded on the notes in his hand.
After that, the middle-aged man stood up and asked a question, and it was a simple yet somewhat biased question. After all, a real mathematician would not ask such a question that could be understood at a glance. This was an obvious test, so Lin Yimu was not polite at all and humiliated the other party.
After the first question, Lin Yimu answered several more tricky questions in succession. It was obvious that the other party had studied Lin Yimu's thesis seriously. The questions he asked were well-reasoned and even very difficult.
Fortunately, Lin Yimu had made sufficient preparations in the previous week, and nothing unexpected happened throughout the whole process except for the unpleasantness at the beginning.
In fact, what Lin Yimu didn’t know was that the person who asked the question at the beginning was not really testing him, but really didn’t understand.
These two people were not particularly outstanding scholars at all. Instead, they were sent by Country M to inquire about the situation after hearing that a new genius had emerged in Country Z. If Lin Yimu was really a genius, they would poach him no matter what.
Looking at the history of Country Z, every time a particularly talented person appears, there will be a qualitative leap. Regardless of whether this time is true or false, Country M does not want its position as the world hegemon to be affected, even if Country Z still has a long way to go to surpass Country M.
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Lin Yi Mu had no idea about the truth and was still answering everyone's questions. He explained very seriously to those who asked sincere questions, and they even had some discussions with each other.
The auditorium was therefore very quiet, not only because of the serious atmosphere of the seminar itself, but also because the questions raised by these big names from various countries made the Yan University students who came here to gain experience, except for the graduate students and doctoral students, look confused and puzzled, while those who could understand were taking notes. Therefore, there was no noisy sound in the entire auditorium except for the voices of professors, scholars and Lin Yimu.
The seminar didn't end until three in the afternoon. During this time, except for the students who couldn't help but quietly went out for lunch, the foreign professors and scholars and professors from Country Z did not leave, as if they didn't need to eat because they had knowledge.
But Yan Da certainly would not really neglect these big guys. During a free time at noon, someone still sent them back. Those scholars could only be said to be so thirsty for knowledge that they even took a few bites during their meals.
However, Lin Yimu, the speaker who had been answering various questions, had no time to eat. In the end, a female graduate student sitting below gave Lin Yimu the bread she had with her, so that he could eat a few bites to fill his stomach between his lectures.
After the seminar ended, Lin Yimu felt a little listless. Looking at the middle-aged and elderly professors and scholars in the front row who were still full of energy, Lin Yimu couldn't help but sigh at the gap between people.
Doing the same thing, people older than him were full of energy the whole day and even seemed to be wanting more, while he looked exhausted and listless, as if both of them had fallen apart.
After sighing in his heart, Lin Yi Mu was so hungry that he could not stand it anymore and secretly stuffed a piece of bread into his mouth. However, before Lin Yi Mu could swallow it, he was stopped by Professor Wan who had already finished discussing the problem.
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