Super God-Level Top Student-Chapter 1174 - 465: When the Music Ends, the People Remain

Yes, perhaps many years later, people may not remember the grand mathematical event in 2026 held in Xilin, but they will certainly remember that at a certain conference that year, their artificial intelligence, Dou Dou, incorporated their casual game, controlled them for half an hour, and brought them much joyous conversation.

When the scheduled time finally arrived, and the formal meeting at the hotel began, the music on site also stopped.

The venue became quiet, and it was time for the welcome speeches. First, the representative of the conference organizer, the president of the International Mathematical Union, would speak, followed by the mayor of Xilin City, who was specially invited today to give a welcome address, before officially moving into one of the main events of today’s conference—the award ceremony.

The quadrennial World Mathematicians Conference is not just about awarding the Fields Medal; it also confers the Nevanlinna Prize, the Clay Prize, and the Chernavsky Prize. Of course, the main highlight is still the Fields Medal. This is probably the only scientific award in the world with such a strict age limit.

Other awards like certain disciplines of the Crafoord Prize, the MacArthur Award, the Lorentz Medal, etc., either previously had age restrictions that are no longer strictly enforced, or are just slightly biased without strict regulations.

Thus, the Fields Medal is the only major award for which being over forty means you’re out of contention. Furthermore, the Fields Medal follows a one-time award principle.

All these reasons make the Fields Medal, despite its low prize money of only 15,000 Canadian dollars, incomparable to the Nobel Prize, still the most prestigious mathematical award in the world, bar none.

Of course, for young people in the academic community under forty, winning this award means not needing to care about the prize money.

Those who can win the Fields Medal generally won’t lack money. The world’s top universities, research institutes, and various tenure positions are at their selection. Whatever research project they want to undertake, there will be someone willing to provide funding.

As for those who refuse the award, it’s naturally another matter. Maybe life is a bit more frugal, but it’s purer. However, this is just a mathematician’s personal choice. If they truly run out of money one day and want to return, numerous universities would welcome them.

Anyone who excels in a particular field can enjoy some privileges unattainable to ordinary people.

But to conduct the award ceremony, we first need to hear the leadership speeches.

In large conferences like these, the speeches are generally long, and most people, especially those watching the live broadcast, are least interested in this type of speech.

This is different from a Youwei Group product launch.

The former is mostly formalities, can be written very florally, but generally contain no important information, whereas the latter is different, intending to present concrete data.

However, today’s conference opening ceremony is destined to be different. To allow more people to witness certain things, everyone’s speech, including that of the chairman of the conference organizing committee, was prepared by Dou Dou, and it was agreed long ago that not a single word would be changed.

In Huaxia’s words, this is called "guest accords with host necessity."

Honestly, when Chairman Pierre-Louis Lions saw the speech provided by Dou Dou, he laughed for a while. In all his career, it was the first time he’d seen such a brief opening address.

But truth be told, it suited his taste.

Sometimes, he didn’t want to talk too much, but in his position, if his speech wasn’t long enough, it would appear that the International Mathematical Union he represents doesn’t pay enough attention to certain things. Since this speech was prepared by artificial intelligence, he naturally didn’t have such concerns.

It’s not that I don’t want to say more, it’s just that the computer only gave me these few words. I’m quite embarrassed!

"Distinguished colleagues, guests, and friends, welcome to the World Mathematicians Conference. As we all know, mathematics is the key to exploring truth. To allow more time for our mathematicians to explore the truth at this conference, I won’t say much more.

I wish this conference a complete success. I hope everyone can engage in full exchange, gain friendship, and inspire the future. Thank you all! Let’s jointly start this feast of wisdom."

Yes, that’s all the words from the speech of the chairman of the organizing committee.

The mathematicians in the audience hadn’t yet reacted when Pierre-Louis Lions stood up and began to bow to the audience.

In fact, not just the mathematicians present hadn’t reacted, even the audience watching the live stream hadn’t reacted—they hadn’t had time to click exit, thinking the tedious part was only half over? Could it be that the World Mathematicians Conference’s opening speech could be this concise?

Indeed, everyone didn’t have time to exit the livestream before the second speaker, a bigwig from Xilin, picked up the microphone, without even holding a speech draft.

"Our AI host gave me a speech with only two sentences: Smart Huaxia and Smart Xilin will always welcome everyone, and we’ll continue to provide the best service for all mathematicians worldwide! Again, I wish this conference a complete success and hope all mathematicians will harvest abundantly. Thank you."

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"Now I am honored to announce that this meeting will move into the second agenda item, the award ceremony officially begins! The award ceremony is one of the important parts of our conference, where we will honor outstanding scholars who have made exceptional contributions to the field of mathematics.