In 2008, Nobel Laureate winner Martin Chalfe said that if you are lucky enough to make a little achievement, people will do a terrible thing for you.

They will start to say to you, "Hey, you may get the Nobel Prize." Then from the first week of October, you will start to lose sleep and be extremely sensitive to any ringtone, even if it is a phone call from a neighbor. It will also make you suspicious...

Until the day you actually received a call from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In addition to the Swedish-style surprises, the main reason for this is to ensure that the winners do not show off in advance and undermine the expectation of all human beings or researchers in the whole society.

The call to notify the winner will usually be called in a few minutes before the draw. Therefore, the Nobel Prize-winning phone can be said to be one of the most anticipated calls in the world, and in just a few minutes, you can experience a batter-like excitement.

Lu Zhou, who received the call, also experienced a bungeeful stimulation in the heart in just one minute.

As for why he did not expect the Nobel Prize, he will experience the bungee stimulation in just one minute...

Because unfortunately, it is obviously impossible to find Nobel...

But Crawford.

Ok, in fact, the Crawford Award is not bad.

It can even be said that it is very strong.

The award was established in 1980 by the industrialist Holger Crawford and his wife Anna Greta Crawford, and was selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, although the gold in the mathematics sector was slightly less than the three prizes. But in the larger collection of natural sciences, it has the reputation of the Little Nobel Prize.

As for why?

Because the original intention of this award is to fill the blank of the Nobel Prize, both the process and the specifications of the award ceremony are based on the Nobel Prize.

The awards are awarded in the fields of astronomy, mathematics, earth sciences and life sciences that the Nobel Prize fails to cover. The awarding mechanism is selected once a year and rotates between astronomy and mathematics, earth sciences and biological sciences.

This year, it is the turn of astronomy and mathematics that will be awarded to the most recent contributors in the field.

At the same time, the bonus is $500,000.

Like the Nobel Prize, the Crawford Award, also selected and awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, usually tells the winners a few minutes before the draw, so that the boat that is eating with Witten is being used by this sudden phone call. Unprepared.

In fact, the reason why Lu Zhou won the award was not because of Goldbach’s conjecture, but because of his series of studies on the prime number field. However, the paper that landed a few days ago has refreshed his list of achievements.

And it is still such an achievement that cannot be ignored.

Thus, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences added the achievement of Goldbach-Lu Theorem to the official profile published by the official website.

The $500,000 that was suddenly jumped from the sky and the medals were a little dizzy. Lu Zhoulian couldn’t remember how he returned from the cafeteria.

He only remembered Witten laughing and patted him on the shoulder, congratulated him, and then waited for him to come back, he was already sitting in his office and turned on the computer.

After landing on the official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lu Zhou refreshed several times and finally saw the list of Crawford Awards published on the official website.

And his name is listed here.

The other two winners were Professor Roy Kerr of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Professor Roger Branford of Stanford University. The two men made a significant contribution to the study of "angular momentum black holes and their effects" and shared the astronomy award...

As for the mathematics award, naturally he is the only one.

Seeing this, Lu Zhou was relieved. It was confirmed that the phone just received was not a new type of fraud or a late April Fool's Day joke, and a hanging stone in his heart was finally on the ground.

Then, Lu Zhou immediately turned off the website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and opened another webpage.

Now that he has confirmed the news of the award, there is only one thing he is curious about now.

This $500,000 bonus.

How much does it cost to change to rmb?

......

Two hours after receiving the call, Lu Zhou’s mailbox received an email from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Although I don't know how they know their email account, they think that they can get even a private phone number. It seems that it is not difficult to have an email account.

After all, whether it is on the professor's profile page of Princeton University's official website, or in the personal information of arxiv, he hangs his own email account.

In the e-mail of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in addition to an invitation to an electronic file, the above content is mainly a written retelling of what has been said in the previous telephone.

For example, the time of the award ceremony and the banquet after the award ceremony.

For example, as part of the Crawford Awards celebrations, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences also held a three-day academic exchange meeting and invited him to make a special report on the winners at the exchange meeting.

As for the reporting time, it is naturally an hour.

Just when Lu Zhou turned off the mail and took out the ppt that Princeton used in the report, and prepared to change it and then use it, suddenly another call came over.

This time the phone was not a stranger, but the old Tang.

As soon as the phone was connected, the familiar voice was passed from the opposite side.

"You guessed Goldbach's guess?!"

Upon hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou squatted and replied subconsciously.

"Well, what happened?"

The phone was silent for a while, and I sighed softly.

"...nothing, just a little surprised." paused for a moment, Lao Tang smiled and continued, "Today, the mathematics department was originally in the conference, it will be halfway through, and suddenly one was sent in. We are still discussing This year's enrollment plan, the results of the second half of the meeting, all turned into you."

Although the tone is nothing but an understatement, but in the heart of Lao Tang, it is a lot of emotion.

When Lu Zhou asked him about the distribution of Mason's prime numbers in the dining hall, he suggested that Lu Zhou not to consider these things and concentrate on the development of functional analysis and applied mathematics.

The fate is so wonderful.

In just a few short years, he has grown to the point where he is now.

For this student, Tang Zhiwei is very pleased and also feels proud from him.

When I heard the old Tang’s statement, Lu Zhou couldn’t help but laugh and cry.

"This... I am embarrassed."

He originally thought that his paper would kill a few papers that had not yet been written, and did not expect to have mixed up the alma mater's meeting.

Lao Tang smiled and did not continue on this topic, but continued.

"You have completed your doctoral degree now. Although the school is not in a hurry, you will come back soon, but there is still a diploma and a degree certificate waiting for you. President Xu and Director Lu are reminding me, let me ask you. I Just ask them, when are you going to come back and complete this Ph.D.?"

When Jinlin University and Princeton University signed a joint training program for Lu Zhou, Lu Zhou completed his Ph.D. in Princeton and returned to China to make a report, so he can get a Ph.D. from Jinling University.

There was actually a teaching post, but it seems to be a little slower now.

The school is absolutely supportive of Lu Zhou’s intention to stay in Princeton as a professor.

After all, talent is not rmb, and there is no value added in the pocket. Only the leaders born in politics are fond of doing this kind of thing.

In fact, many principals born in scientific research have a lot of minds. How to invest in the talents of domestic universities, the ability to build blood for cutting-edge researchers, and the world-class strong schools like Princeton are certainly incomparable.

Whether it is an academic environment or a hardware device, this gap cannot be changed overnight. Just like solving a major mathematical problem, everything takes several generations of effort.

Encouraging talents to learn scientific research and nutrients on a higher level platform is also a talent training policy of all major universities.

The accompanying policies are the introduction of overseas talents, such as the Thousand Talents Program.

And this is the so-called "send first, then come back."

If you don’t come back when you are young, you can stay there and train a few foreign students for the motherland.

For the simplest example, if Jinda’s scholars can be taught at Princeton, then Jinda will have at least one more Princeton student at regular intervals, and this quota is almost absent in previous years.

At the same time, even if the quota is too big for gold, it will not disappear. Under the same ability, Chinese professors are more inclined to recruit Chinese students. This is almost the norm.

However, Kim Dae's release is superfluous. There are many things that Lu Zhou needs to learn. He also needs the qualifications of overseas research experience. At the same time, Princeton's various resources can also help them complete their system tasks.

When the time is almost up, he will naturally go back.

After all, he is an old man.

Lu Zhou thought about it and replied: "I have to go to Stockholm first, but it won't take long. I will be back in early June."

"Stockholm?" Old Tang squatted, wondering, "What are you doing in Sweden?"

Lu Zhou was too embarrassed to smile.

"Get the award."