Chapter 116: Submit the paper early?
"Nice to meet you again, Gu." Hanyu Nohara took the initiative to greet her.
Hearing Gu Suyi's name, the other young men beside him looked at her, but their eyes were not so friendly.
Obviously, the name Gu Suyi must have spread in Country R. They had feuds with Country R twice. From their perspective, they naturally had no good feelings towards this Chinese girl.
Su Yi didn't care what they thought of him, he just greeted Hanyu Nohara out of politeness.
"I've also heard about the Holtz Prize in Mathematics. Congratulations!" Hanyu Nohara was considered the most rational young man among these people. He stared at Su Yi and said seriously, "But I will try my best to beat you in this year's IMO!"
"Let's wait and see." Su Yi smiled slightly.
In fact, there are quite a few people who know Su Yi, and they all know her because of the press conference that released another proof of the Poincare conjecture. As the main speaker, Su Yi spoke fluent English and narrated the proof process in an orderly manner, which made many people who paid attention to the press conference remember this very sweet Chinese girl.
"That's her, the Chinese girl who appeared at the press conference for the other proof of the Poincare conjecture. I feel like she's this year's formidable opponent."
In the crowd, someone was discussing in a low voice with his companion next to him.
"She is so cute!" someone exclaimed.
"There are very few girls on the Chinese team, so she must be very strong."
China's mathematics community has always been known around the world for its terrifying strength. Since the first IMO, China has won almost half of the championships. However, its strength has declined in recent years, and it has not won the IMO championship for five years.
For this reason, many other countries began to look down on China's mathematics team.
"China hasn't won a championship in several years. This year, a strong opponent emerged who can prove the Poincare conjecture. We can't take it lightly."
"She can only win an individual gold medal at best. It's hard to say about the others. She might not even get a team silver medal this year."
"I hope so..."
The whispers in the crowd reached Su Yi's ears. In addition to English, she now also took a Spanish course. The words she heard that slandered China's mathematical strength were spoken in Spanish.
She looked towards him.
The other person was wearing a shirt with the national emblem of GU printed on it. As far as she knew, GU had never made it into the top five in the IMO finals in previous years.
The few young men who were whispering about Huaihua, China, were startled when they suddenly met the girl's gaze.
"Can she understand what we say?"
"Could it be a coincidence?"
Su Yi smiled generously and greeted them in standard Spanish.
“…”
And then nothing happened.
The embarrassment of being caught in the act appeared on every teenager's face.
The next day, IMO officially began.
Because CMOs model themselves after IMOs, they are familiar with the process.
IMO has three questions every day, and the difficulty of the questions increases. The first question is also the easiest.
m, n are positive integers that satisfy the following condition: m/n=1-1/2+1/3-1/4+……-1/1318+1/1319. Prove that m is divisible by 1979.
The first question was not difficult for Su Yi. She picked up the pen and started writing without much thought. Her writing went smoothly and she answered the first question completely in no time.
And only twenty minutes had passed at this time.
Su Yi thought that the second question would be more difficult, but she found that the difficulty of this question was similar to the first question, except that the calculation steps were much more complicated.
The second question is about functions: The function f is defined on the set of positive integers: f(1) = 1; f(3) = 3; and for every positive integer n, f(2n) = f(n), f(4n+1) = 2f(2n+1)-f(n). Determine...
Function happens to be Su Yi's strong point.
Moreover, she had done similar questions before in the meditation space. They were all adapted by AI intelligent tutors based on previous IMO test questions. At that time, Su Yi made a calculation error on this question due to a mistake, so she was deeply impressed.
This year's IMO question was slightly more complicated than the ones she had done before, but it was only complicated in the calculation steps, so Su Yihua took much longer to solve this question, almost forty minutes.
Less than an hour and a half had passed, but Su Yi had already finished the third question.
However, the difficulty of the third question increases sharply, even several times that of the first two questions, and even involves physics, thinking about the calculation of four or even higher dimensions from our hypothetical two-dimensional perspective.
Su Yi thought for about twenty minutes, completely simulating the process of solving the problem in his mind, and then began to write.
An hour later, she finished answering this question.
The examination room they took part in was very large, similar to a tiered classroom, but it only accommodated sixty candidates, of which there were twenty invigilators, one for every two or three rows, not counting the teachers patrolling the exam. There was also a surveillance camera in front, behind, left and right, with 360-degree coverage to prevent any cheating.
Therefore, when there was still half time left before the end of the exam, Su Yi had already finished answering all the questions.
Because of this, her behavior attracted the attention of many teachers.
"Teacher, I would like to apply to submit the paper early."
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