Chapter 420: Chapter 142: On Generalized Modal Number Theory Axiomatic Systems in Multiple Transcendental Spaces_2
"Academician Yuan? Another academician? I remember Qiao Yu’s mentor is also an academician."
"Academician Yuan Zhengxin, you should search on Baidu! A very remarkable mathematician, he’s Qiao Yu’s mentor’s mentor, a Fields Medal recipient? You know the Fields Medal, right?"
"Is this because of Qiao Yu?"
"It’s definitely not just because of Qiao Yu. Academician Yuan arranged an exam for Aunt Qiao, and she passed. Actually, Qiao Yu also helped me get a chance, but unfortunately, I didn’t pass.
But Academician Yuan also told me that as long as I maintain my current grades, getting into Yanbei or Huaqing for the college entrance exam shouldn’t be difficult..."
During dinner, listening to Xia Keke talk about all this, it completely shocked the two of them.
Previously, they’d always felt sorry for the mother and son downstairs; one went to Yanbei, the other was about to go to Huaqing, achievements neither of them could ever hope to reach.
If it’s easy to understand that Qiao Yu was suddenly discovered, since he’s still a studying prodigy, you often see such things in the news.
But the fact that Qiao Xi is over 30 and not a student really sounds like something out of a movie.
It gives an unreal feeling, to say the least.
The crucial point is that both of them have been their neighbors since childhood, people who lived around them.
So much so that even when going to bed at night, the two of them were still discussing it.
"Is Qiao Xi also a math prodigy? Who would’ve known?"
"Nonsense. How could we have known? Did you think Qiao Yu was a prodigy before?"
"True, but isn’t this a good thing? Qiao Xi likes Keke a lot, so once she takes the college entrance exam and goes to Beijing, she’ll have someone to depend on."
"Yeah, during the parent-teacher meeting, the teacher said Keke really has a shot at getting into Yanbei or Huaqing, haha..."
"Alright, stop giggling and go to sleep."
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Once the Old Xia Family knew about this, it basically meant the whole neighborhood knew.
The most obvious manifestation was that more and more people would greet her when she went out...
Undoubtedly, the neighbors’ opinion of the Qiao Family reached its peak, but for Qiao Xi, this was undoubtedly something very troubling.
In fact, it’s not just the Railway Community that’s affected.
Qiao Xi’s alma mater, Star City No.1 High School, was also bewildered. It was baffling that a student who graduated over ten years ago was suddenly admitted to Huaqing?
And it was said she was personally chosen by Mr. Yuan...
Of course, for Star City No.1 High School, the news was more than just that.
After all, Qiao Yu has become a legend in the Star City education system, and the current school leaders never expected that Qiao Yu’s mother had attended their school sixteen years ago.
And Qiao Xi’s situation was relatively special.
After high school graduation, she never worked, and her educational archives were stored at the school for a period before being transferred to the local talent management center.
So, the situation troubling Qiao Xi also simplified things quite a bit.
After all, if it were someone else, the school would probably just let them go to the talent center to retrieve their files.
But when Qiao Xi consulted on how to handle this, the school specifically assigned two teachers responsible for educational records to contact the talent center and help locate Qiao Xi’s records.
Additionally, with the cooperation from the education department and Huaqing sending teachers to assist with handling various matters, the whole process went quite smoothly.
According to Zhang Tiejun, to facilitate this matter, Elder Yuan rarely made direct calls to the ministry, reportedly pleading with the leaders to make an exception for the development of Huaxia mathematics.
In conclusion, this August was unprecedentedly fulfilling for Qiao Xi, making her realize Star City wasn’t a place she could stay...
After all, she truly couldn’t adapt to a lifestyle where she would be watched whenever she went out, or invited by people almost daily.
Even the principal of No.1 High School tentatively asked if she would welcome an interview...
Qiao Yu accepting interviews was amusing to Qiao Xi, but if asked to take an interview herself... Qiao Xi felt she’d definitely mess everything up.
Thus, after completing the necessary procedures in Star City, Qiao Xi contacted Elder Yuan and then chose to go directly to Huaqing before September.
After confirming the trip with Elder Yuan, Qiao Xi invited Old Xia’s family to a fine restaurant in Star City for a meal, and the next day, she boarded the high-speed train to Beijing.
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While Qiao Xi was busy handling academic records, Qiao Yu was not idle in Beijing.
In fact, during this period, Qiao Yu was quite exhilarated, or rather, constantly in a state of excitement.
Qiao Xi could actually come to Huaqing to study, which was without a doubt the greatest surprise in this phase of Qiao Yu’s life, bar none.
So naturally, he was full of energy.
The proposal for solving the Twin Prime Conjecture had already been submitted to Director Tian.
However, during this period, Qiao Yu did not ponder over this issue but instead crammed the relevant number theory knowledge and content of the Langlands Program.
Although Qiao Yu indeed thinks highly of himself, he harbors some reverence for such global challenges.
As Tian Yanzhen said, if these problems were really that simple, countless mathematicians wouldn’t have spent their lifetimes gaining nothing from them.
Take the Riemann Conjecture, for example; although it is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, Riemann proposed it back in 1859.
Now, a century and a half later, after so many years, who knows how many studies and papers are based on its premise.