Yes, perhaps many years later, people may not rember the grand mathematical event in 2026 held in Xilin, but they will certainly rember that at a certain conference that year, their artificial intelligence, Dou Dou, incorporated their casual ga, controlled them for half an hour, and brought them much joyous conversation.
When the scheduled ti finally arrived, and the formal eting at the hotel began, the music on site also stopped.
The venue beca quiet, and it was ti for the welco 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 welco 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 dal; it also confers the Nevanlinna Prize, the Clay Prize, and the Chernavsky Prize. Of course, the main highlight is still the Fields dal. 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 dal, etc., either previously had age restrictions that are no longer strictly enforced, or are just slightly biased without strict regulations.
Thus, the Fields dal is the only major award for which being over forty ans you’re out of contention. Furthermore, the Fields dal follows a one-ti award principle.
All these reasons make the Fields dal, 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 ans not needing to care about the prize money.
Those who can win the Fields dal 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 soone 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, nurous universities would welco them.
Anyone who excels in a particular field can enjoy so 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 forr 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 ti he’d seen such a brief opening address.
But truth be told, it suited his taste.
Sotis, 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 these few words. I’m quite embarrassed!
"Distinguished colleagues, guests, and friends, welco to the World Mathematicians Conference. As we all know, mathematics is the key to exploring truth. To allow more ti 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 ti 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 ti 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 a speech with only two sentences: Smart Huaxia and Smart Xilin will always welco 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 eting 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.
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