It was on the afternoon of the Chen Province Award for Mathematics.

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics.

Sitting in the office, wearing presbyopic glasses, he looked carefully at the Mathematics Yearbook on the table, pinching the pen in his hand and counting it on paper from time to time.

To learn is to live and learn.

Especially in mathematics research, almost every month new results are produced, such as the top magazine such as "Mathematics Yearbook", the old gentleman never misses, whenever a new edition is published, it must be read first.

At this point, an unexpected guest visited his office.

As soon as he entered the door, he shouted with a smile.

“Always. What are you doing? ”

He raised his head to South China and saw Wang Qiping walking into the office. He took off his old glasses and smiled.

“Yo, Rare. ”

He looked at the students at the desk next to him: "Li, go pour Professor Wang a cup of tea. ”

“Okay. ”

The student named Li put down his pen and skillfully brought in an electric kettle, respectfully pouring a cup of tea for the two old professors.

It's not the first time I've come here to rub tea. Wang Qiping is naturally not welcome. After accepting the cup, he sat next to the coffee table set by the office wall and leaned comfortably against the couch.

Turning over the periodicals, he said to South China with a chatty tone.

“What are you doing here?" ”

“It's not like I'm awarded a prize. I'm going to make some noise. Why don't you blow some air conditioning here?” Wang Qiping laughed and continued, "But although I didn't go, I heard that the meeting was a little interesting. At the opening ceremony in the morning, Qiu Chengtong was invited, and the Chen Province Mathematics Award was awarded to the young man in his twenties. Originally, the Chen Award belonged to Yang Zhiguang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ma Chang 'an of Zhendan University. It appears that the man with the last name Ma was kicked out. ”

The amount of information is a bit large, which is surprising.

But it's not who won the prize that surprised the old gentleman, but...

“Wang Shicheng, the old man, bowed his head to Qiu Chengtong?” He moved his gaze away from the journal and looked to his old friend in South China. The tone of his speech was full of surprises.

Because of a professor named Tian, Mr. Qiu and Yan Da's mathematics department were unhappy, which can be said to be a well-known thing in the mathematics world.

In 01, Yan Da packaged Professor Tian, who was a professor at Massachusetts Polytechnic University, as a full-time professor at Beidai University to select domestic academics. Qiu Chengtong, however, was very disgraced and criticized in the newspaper - “A Ph.D. student I used to bring is mathematically second-class and highly paid in the country”. Later, in '05, he blamed his academic counterfeiting and listed seven papers that had been copied.

The matter boiled down in the country at the time, but ended in a low profile.

However, Mr. Qiu and Yan University sent Liang Zi, but never solved it. Qiu Chengtong Mathematics Science Center eventually settled in Shuiwood University, not the mathematics department crowned Yan Da across the country, which is precisely why.

Of course, although the country's academia is mountainous, not everyone belongs to a certain faction, and not everyone is passionate about power after all.

Especially those elderly professors, who have become famous, where the name is academic capital, their own doctrine has become international, some things are not too deeply obsessed, can not be compared at all. After all, a lot of things are faint for them.

For example, Professor Wang Qiping belongs to a person who does not value fame very much, and to an old professor who is truly passionate about education.

And that's why, although he teaches at Yan University, he has always had a good relationship with Qiu Chengtong, and often comes to the Chinese Academy of Sciences to string doors. And he often goes to the South China Academicians, and he belongs to the kind of old scholars who stay away from the academic circle and quietly do academic work.

Wang Ping sipped the tea and said with a smile: “No, you can't bow your head. If Ma Chang 'an's old fool won the Chen Province Mathematics Award, he would have to embarrass himself across the Pacific Ocean. ”

“And that?” I frowned at South China.

“Otherwise? Why do you think Old Qiu came back? When he came back, he did nothing else. He brought a message to Dean Wang Shicheng, saying that the Federal Mathematics Institute was studying and awarding the Cole Mathematics Award to an ark that had made a report in Princeton. ”

The expression suddenly appeared and said with a smile to South China: “This problem is really a bit serious, no wonder Master Wang swallowed this breath. ”

The winner didn't win the prize, the one who shouldn't win the prize won the prize, that's all right. But if you don't get the prize, you run across the Pacific to get the prize, and people flip the two winners out, the problem may be a little big.

If someone in the heart finds out, the media will have to do an article on the gossip of the mathematical world and conspiracy theory again.

And a young man in his 20s, you can't expect him to have that "ideological awareness”, eat a loss, and push away the Cole Prize for Wang Shi's face as a couple of old academics, can you?

But a normal person wouldn't be so stupid.

After all, the weight of that thing weighs too much more than Chen Province's mathematics award.

“Then this meeting seems a little interesting. It would be a shame if the old man Wang Shicheng took the initiative to shake hands with Qiu Chengtong.” Smiled to the academician.

Wang Qiping smiled and said, "It's quite interesting, I'm going to go around there tomorrow. I heard that the kid had a 30-minute debriefing, and it seemed like he was studying Polynyak's assumptions, and he came up with some sort of clustering method, and I got a look at the paper that he contributed to the meeting, which was quite interesting. It's a shame the kid won't listen to his report. ”

“The kid was really good, I could tell when I gave him my answer.” Smiling to South China, “unfortunately, I didn't dig the foot of the wall and was cut off by the old man Lu Jianshen, or I would have taken him to the prize this time. ”

“Don't talk about it, I'll be angry when I say it,” Shot the thigh, Wang Qiping is angry and unequal, "you said the guy named Lou, a physicist, ran across the border to dig people on our side of the math world, what is this called? ”

“Oh, you can say that in front of Old Lou, in front of me. What's the point?” He smiled at South China.

Wang Qiping laughed dry, “Well... forget it, that old thing can't be a joke, I'm afraid he will have a heart attack. ”

He shook his head with a smile and turned a page in his hand.

However, at this moment, he suddenly stood still and the whole person stopped moving.

The paper in front of him was swept through quickly from beginning to end, and his expression grew more serious. He turned to the last page, and his gaze swept to the last line of words, where he must have stopped for a long time.

He paused for a while and suddenly spoke to South China.

“What time did you say the report would…? Where is it?”

Wang Qiping, who was drinking tea, did not notice the change in the expression of his old friend.

"At 3: 00 pm, Master Kyung, what's wrong? You too?”

“I have to go...” Sigh to South China, put the "Mathematics Yearbook" on the table, with praise in the tone, softly moaning, “see for yourself. ”