Chapter 280 - 280 Elites From Everywhere Gathers!
280 Elites From Everywhere Gathers!
Jian Yang also received the invitation.
He was the most famous Chinese scientist among the younger generation. He was also quite a famous mathematical genius in today’s world, having been ranked among the top scientists.
When he saw the theme of the seminar, he suddenly smiled.
“Hodge’s conjecture? Interesting!”
Unlike the stereotype that scientists were interested in nothing but academics, Jian Yang had a wide range of interests.
As long as it could arouse his interest, he was willing to explore it with all his heart.
Especially in the field of mathematics, classic problems were quite challenging. Jian Yang had also studied them before.
Unfortunately, he did not get the results he wanted.
Along with the invitation letter was a photocopy of the thesis.
When Jian Yang saw the book-like thesis, he felt a little nostalgic. This was because he had always lived overseas and had not participated in the Oxford seminar for several years.
Even though he had never heard of Luo Feng’s name, since it was from Oxford, he would still read it seriously.
Jian Yang’s situation was similar to Professor Jing’s. He only knew a little about the thesis. Some could understand it, and some could not. In short, he did not find any obvious mistakes.
Curious, Jian Yang went online to search for Luo Feng’s name.
However, what popped up was related to business. The Chairman of a delivery company had the same name as Luo Feng. There were no records of Luo Feng writing this thesis.
Jian Yang had lived abroad for a long time, so he didn’t know about the development of the country. Naturally, he didn’t associate the two identities.
“Can an unknown scholar really prove a world problem?” Jian Yang could not help but doubt.
It was too rare even though such situations had happened before.
Just as Jian Yang was hesitating if he should make a special trip, his phone rang.
“Jian, you received an invitation from Oxford, right? Do you want to join us?” The person who called was Jian Yang’s classmate, who also thought that he was studying mathematics.
“I haven’t decided yet. Who else will be joining us?”
“I’m going with my teacher, Joshua.”
“The Professor is going?”
“Yeah, I heard from the teacher that Gray will be there too.”
“Let’s go together. I’ll look for you after I’m done packing!”
Jian Yang made a prompt decision.
These few names were enough to be ranked among the mathematicians who had contributed greatly to the current era! It was really a blessing to be able to communicate with them! It did not matter how the seminar turned out.
Gradually, word spread that Professor Joshua and Mr. Gray were attending. People with the same goals as Jian Yang flew to Oxford from all over the world.
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Oxford’s Auditorium.
Today was the day of the seminar.
The Dean of the Mathematics Faculty and Professor Vincent stood at the door to welcome the scholars from all over. At the same time, they also invited a few other famous professors from the Mathematics Faculty.
“I didn’t expect so many people to come. Fortunately, we chose the auditorium.” The Dean of the Mathematics Faculty sighed.
Professor Vincent nodded.
Originally, they only wanted to hold a small seminar because it was only a first-year student’s thesis after all. However, they were worried that the people who came were not good enough and might not understand the thesis fully, so they sent out a large number of invitations.
It was a widespread fishing focus.
The net caught big names unexpectedly. When he saw the application list, Professor Vincent quickly discussed the details of the seminar with the Dean of the Mathematics Faculty overnight.
It expanded from a simple seminar to a large-scale learning exchange.
“Professor Jian Yang, you’re here!”
While the two of them were talking, another professor greeted Jian Yang warmly.
Professor Vincent looked in the direction of the sound.
He and Jian Yang nodded at each other. They had exchanged a few words during the other seminars. However, Professor Vincent recognized Jian Yang’s ability.
The current Luo Feng was just like Jian Yang from more than ten years ago.
Jian Yang saw Professor Vincent at a glance and walked over. “Long time no see, Professor Vincent.”
“Yeah, I didn’t expect to see you here.”
“Hahaha, of course I have to attend at Oxford University’s invitation. Moreover, I heard that Professor Joshua and Mr. Gray are also here. It’s been a long time since I participated in such an exciting seminar.”
“Yeah, yeah …”
When Professor Vincent heard these two names, his liver trembled. In fact, he was also very puzzled. Why were these two attending too?
90% of the academics attending this seminar were there for Joshua and Gray.
At that time, when he sent out the invitation, it was more to show his respect. No one expected to be able to invite these two big shots here.
Just as the two of them were exchanging pleasantries.
A car stopped at the entrance of the auditorium. An old man with white hair alighted from the car, and someone immediately came forward to help him. The old man did not look to be in good health, but his eyes were bright and lively.
The Dean of the Mathematics Faculty saw this and quickly went up to him. “Professor Joshua!”
His face was filled with respect. Not only him, everyone present stopped in their tracks and looked at the legendary figure like they were on a pilgrimage.
This old man was the legendary Joshua, who had won the Fields Medal at the age of 28. What did this mean? There had never been a younger winner than him in the past 50 years.
Of course, this was only a small achievement in his glorious life. It was said that Professor Joshua had countless trophies and honor in his house, so he specially left two rooms empty to place the trophies.
He had won almost all the famous international awards. It could be said to be a grand slam in the mathematics world.
He was the founder of modern mathematics and promoted the development of topology. He mainly studied geometric algebra. Almost all the cutting-edge achievements in mathematics were related to this old man.
However, this old man had not appeared in public for nearly 20 years. Some time ago, she heard that he had been hospitalized and his health was not very good.
No one expected this old man to appear in a seminar for an unknown scholar.
The Dean of the Mathematics Faculty had already opened a path in advance to help the old man into the auditorium.
When the old man sat down, he was surrounded by scholars who wanted to greet him but were afraid of offending him. They stared eagerly at Joshua’s movements.
However, Jian Yang was different. His classmate had become Joshua’s disciple. Even though he rarely personally guided him, Joshua was still very proud of this student.
With this connection, he very generously walked up to Joshua. “Professor Joshua, sorry to disturb you. Can I ask you a question?”
“Of course.” The old man liked young people who were curious.
“You’re here because…”
“You want to ask what attracted me?” Joschel’s reaction was still sharp. He waved at the student beside him. “This is it.”
The student took out a photocopy of the thesis. The cover was a little wrinkled, and the edges were pulled out. The notes sandwiched in it stretched the thesis twice as thick.
It was obvious that it had been read many times.
Jian Yang’s eyes widened in surprise. He had a vague guess in his heart. It was so important that he didn’t dare to ask.