In the hotel suite, Xun Wen and Kelly, a reporter from Time Magazine, were sitting by the bright floor-to-ceiling window.
"Hello, Mr. Xun." Kelly smiled.”
"Hello," Xun Wen replied.
"Mr. Xun, I'm curious. How did you solve the Riemann hypothesis at the age of 20?”
" Unrelenting hard work and persistence," Xun Wen said with a smile." And finally, a little inspiration.”
"Can you describe in detail what made you have an idea?”
" It's something that you've seen before. It's the truth or a real existence. It's there staring at you. The truth is watching you all the time, you don't have to look for it, it's shining on paper.”
"Is this how you usually get inspiration?”
"There's a very interesting theory. The most fascinating part of mathematics was when an idea appeared in your mind. This moment usually happens when you are asleep, because then you are the least restrained, and ideas fall from the sky.”
"It rises in the sky, you see it, marvel at its color, it is there. Then, at a certain stage, when you try to capture it, put it in a stable framework, or try to turn it from illusion into reality, it disappears.”
" However, it will be replaced by a structure that only captured certain parts. This is an incomprehensible explanation, and I call it inspiration.”
Kelly: " I know that many mathematicians dream about mathematics. Do you always dream about mathematics?”
"Yes, such dreams sometimes happen during the day and sometimes at night. Or you could call them phantoms or intuition.”
"but it is essentially an idea-no words, no images, no formulas, no explanations. It is the harbinger of all these concrete forms, the harbinger of Platonism, the most primitive inspiration.”
"Once again, when you try to catch it, it disappears. Thus, when you wake up every morning, some vague remnants linger in your mind, like the apparition of some thought. You tried to remember what it was, but you could only remember a part of it. That was all you could do.”
Kelly: "Is imagination part of it?"”
"Of course, time travel is easy in your imagination-you don't even need to buy a ticket. People looked back, imagined themselves part of the Big Bang, and asked what had happened before that.”
Kelly: What guides the imagination? Is it beautiful?"
" It's not a kind of beauty that you can recognize. It's a more abstract kind of beauty, or mathematics. Of course, I prefer to call it the language of God!”Xun Wen smiled.
"Do you have any new research directions after proving Riemann's hypothesis?”
Xun Wen thought for a while and said," I plan to study materials science and computer science while researching the abc conjecture.”
"This is crazy!" Kelly was surprised." Are you sure you can accept so much information at the same time?”
" Of course." Xun Wen smiled and pointed at his head." I will never forget anything that I have seen once."”
"My God, you actually have a photographic memory!”Kelly said in surprise," No wonder you are so knowledgeable in all branches of mathematics.”
" In fact, there are many people in the world who have photographic memories," Xun Wen said with a smile." It's just that most of them have become memory masters, and I chose to become a scholar.”
"If I had to choose, I would also be willing to become a scholar.”Kelly said enviously.
Xun Wen smiled and shrugged.
" What do you think about mathematics and physics?" Kelly asked." I know that there are a group of scholars who are researching similar theses in mathematics and physics. For example, the famous Professor Adia has been doing research in this area since his later years.”
"I can only say that mathematics, physics, and philosophy are all unified in some form.”
"Perhaps I will try to study the Grand Unification Theory in the future.”
……
After the interview, the editor-in-chief of Science, Dr. Jeremy Berg, called Xun Wen, hoping that Xun Wen could publish the proof of Riemann's hypothesis in Science. Xun Wen agreed after thinking about it. After all, Science was a top journal in the world. It was in line with its academic value to publish Riemann's hypothesis in it.
Then, Xun Wen attended the report in Rio de Janero for a few days. However, after Xun Wen's " nuclear bomb " bombing, no one was interested in the report for the next few days. Therefore, the International Congress of Mathematicians ended in a hasty manner.
The first thing Xun Wen did when he returned to the country was to plan to distribute his new book. It was worth mentioning that this time, Yunzhou publishing house had also contacted foreign publishing house agents. They wanted to use Xun Wen's fame in the world of fishing boats to start the simultaneous sale of Life in the country and abroad.
It turned out that Xun Wen's sales arrangement was correct. Because of his popularity, when people heard that the legendary " genius mathematician " and " future pope of mathematics " had published a new book, they couldn't help but buy one.
Hence, Xun Wen's new book sold a total of 150,000 copies on the first day!
It broke the record for the first day sales of a new book in the country! It made countless writers cry out," The wolf is here!"
However, Xun Wen didn't really care about this. If it weren't for the system reward, he wouldn't even care about the sales of his new book.
Moreover, he had more important things to do at the moment, and that was to receive the award!
A few months ago, Professor Qiu and the other seniors recommended him, and Xun Wen was nominated as an " Outstanding Scholar." Now that the final results were out, the word " nominated " was removed!
Not only that, but the award ceremony also coincided with the Shiing-Shen Chern Prize. Although Xun Wen suspected that this was a last-minute decision made by the judging panel after they found out that he had proved Riemann's hypothesis, he wouldn't reject the award. After all, it was an honor.
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