Rejecting the invitation of a senior vice president of Google was just a small incident for Xiao Yi.
Compared to being able to freely research any problem he is interested in, joining a company will only make him feel restricted.
So even if Google offers the best terms, he will not agree to join.
The same goes for other companies.
However, to others this seems incredible.
At the age of seventeen, before graduating from college, you can get a basic salary of half a million US dollars. How can you refuse this?
When Raghavan invited Xiao Yi, in addition to the four of them, many other people were present, including some reporters.
Regarding Raghavan's invitation, they all saw it with their own eyes.
When they heard the conditions given by Raghavan, they all wished they had agreed to it on the spot for Xiao Yi, but now...
As a result, Xiao Yi became popular that day, and it became popular all over the world.
All major media have released news, whether it is from the United States, United Kingdom, France, etc.
"Genius or Fool?" 17-year-old boy refuses Google's $500,000 annual salary offer"
"The Pride of a Pure Mathematician?" Or is it the stupidity of pure mathematicians? Xiao Yi gave up an annual salary of US$500,000 just to study pure mathematics"
"Shocked!" At the age of 17, he refused an offer from Google with an annual salary of US$500,000 because..."
Various eye-catching news headlines have triggered discussions among netizens around the world.
For example, on Twitter, this news even made it to the top ten of the trending list. You must know that for the United States, a country where the hot list is often filled with various entertainment or sports news, it is very rare for this news to be included.
And it's not just the trend list in the United States. This news is also on the top of the Japanese version of the Twitter list.
As a country that attaches great importance to basic mathematics, Japan's name Xiao Yi can be said to have spread throughout the Japanese mathematics community.
Of course, the main reason is that last year, Xiao Yi pointed out Shinichi Mochizuki's mistake in proving the abc conjecture, and it became popular in Japan.
Although, on the surface, they still fight for Shinichi Mochizuki, but among young people, Xiao Yi's actions undoubtedly aroused their passion.
Well, it's probably the kind of passionate spirit that defeats the superior.
All in all, Xiao Yi is once again popular around the world this time.
Of course, let alone domestic.
On the Zhihu hot search list, the first one is [What do you think about Xiao Yi rejecting Google's $500,000 offer and saying that he would rather study pure mathematics?].
The most upvoted answer is this.
[As other respondents said, there are many people who refuse Google's invitation, and Google is indeed nothing, but you have ignored how good the conditions offered by Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's senior vice president of knowledge and information, who invited Scholar Xiao.
I have here a record from a real live recording to show you specifically what the conditions are.
1. A basic salary of US$500,000 per year, and Xiao Yi will receive additional rewards for any achievements made, no matter which field the achievement is in, such as pure mathematics. And this annual salary is only temporary. Xiao Yi will have an annual salary of one million US dollars after graduation.
2. Pay to go to school. That's right, Xiao Yi can still get this salary even if he is in school, and all the expenses for his schooling are free of charge, all provided by Google (Raghavan did not say anything about providing Scholar Xiao with admission letters from any university. He probably knows that with Scholar Xiao's ability, why can't he get an admission letter from any school?)
3. Immigration channels. If Google wants to handle immigration procedures for a person, it shouldn't be too simple. They can just get a green card and everything. I guess some people are jealous of it. I don't know how much they have to pay for it. Scholar Xiao doesn't like it at all.
4...
All in all, there are a total of eight conditions above, and Raghavan also said at the end that the conditions he gave were only what he could give. As a technical executive, he actually couldn't give the best conditions in terms of finance or personnel. If their CEO were to come, he might start with an annual salary of one million.
Therefore, don't compare with other people who rejected Google. These conditions, even for Google, are the treatment of top talents with many years of work experience. This is an area that other people cannot reach. I would like to call it a forbidden area.
Well, by the way, let me answer a question asked by others, which is why Google suddenly invited Scholar Xiao.
A simple explanation is that during this period, Scholar Xiao came up with a mathematical method called Xiao's Polynomial Expansion, and then he made a little effort in the computer field and did a big thing——
He directly laid the foundation for the encryption system pattern in the field of information security for a long time to come!
In the past thirty years, an algorithm called RSA encryption has been the main encryption method for information security. However, as our computer performance gets better and better, the security of this encryption method becomes less and less, so in the future it may be replaced by another ECC encryption The algorithm was gradually replaced, but Scholar Xiao used the Xiao's Polynomial Expansion method to directly update the RSA encryption system to a version. Now this version can be named "Xiao's System".
For specific details, you can look at the question that ranked second on the hot search list. I won't go into details here. Anyway, Scholar Xiao took action and caused an earthquake in the computer industry.
In addition to solving the security problem of RSA encryption, Scholar Xiao also came up with a protocol. Although it was created with Terence Tao, James·Maynard, and another Leonard Kleinrock, Scholar Xiao was responsible for the mathematical principles of the main part of the protocol.
As for this protocol, it's not a big deal. Basically, all cross-blockchain transaction protocols around the world will adopt their protocol in the future.
Unless it is the kind of trading platform that does not want to ensure the security of cross-chain transactions, this kind of trading platform is all about understanding it, and it will be enough to avoid lightning in the future.
In short, it was these two things that made Google decide to invite Scholar Xiao to join. After all, these all illustrate Scholar Xiao's ability.
In addition, they also received a bonus of 10 million US dollars for the agreement they completed. Even if the score is average, Scholar Xiao can get 2.5 million US dollars as a guarantee. Maybe Terence Tao and they meet Scholar Xiao has the greatest credit, so he will give half of it to Scholar Xiao. So, I think Scholar Xiao really doesn't like Google's salary. If he wants to make money, he can just start some projects like this and it will be done. There is plenty of money to be made.
The above is what I want to answer, so don't say that rejecting Google is a normal thing. I don't think many people can refuse such a good offer.
I think Scholar Xiao is the kind of real "seeker" who just wants to pursue his own "Tao" without any restrictions!]
This answer has more than 10,000 likes and thousands of comments below.
[You are absolutely right. I am engaged in computers, and I happen to be in the field of information security. I have read the paper published by Scholar Xiao in the past two days. I can only say that I worship it. The mathematical methods used in it are simply terrible. If you are good at mathematics, you can do whatever you want.]
[Tsinghua University is a graduate student in computer science. I happened to listen to a class taught by Professor Yao in the past two days, which was also related to information security. He happened to talk about this achievement of Scholar Xiao. He said that his achievement basically benefited the entire information security field. In the future, the whole world will probably save a lot of money on information security, and the protocol they came up with can be summed up in two words - awesome.]
[Let me go, there is actually a big boss from Yao class? I remember that Professor Yao started by studying multi-party secure computing, right? The Millionaires' Problem he originally proposed was the beginning of multi-party security calculations. How did he evaluate this agreement?]
[I am not from Yao class. Yao class is for undergraduates. It has nothing to do with us. It's just that Professor Yao occasionally gives some classes so that we graduate students can listen.
As for the specific evaluation of Professor Yao, it is almost like this. "The protocol developed by Xiao Yi can be regarded as providing us with a new idea for the future development of multi-party secure computing, that is, achieving innovation in mathematical methods, such as For example, if we come up with a mathematical method similar to Xiao's expansion, we can achieve multi-party secure computing... Well, the entire computer field will probably enter a stage of technological explosion. After all, mathematical methods are the basis of our computer technology.
Of course! When I say this, I am not recommending that you follow Xiao Yi's example and develop some new mathematical methods. After all, there is an old saying that goes according to your ability. "
Well, that's pretty much what Professor Yao said.]
[Okay, okay, God, what a new idea. Is this an idea that humans can adopt? Just Scholar Xiao will do.]
[ If Scholar Xiao didn't have a weapon spirit in his body, I would eat a ton of it!]
[What the hell? 10 million U. S. dollars, real or fake, then Scholar Xiao can't just make a lot of money? Awesome!]
[...]
As the influence grew, more and more people began to join in the evaluation, and more and more people realized that Xiao Yi's rejection of Google's invitation was nothing. The real focus was on the achievements Xiao Yi had made, which made Google willing to spend so much money to invite Xiao Yi to join.
More computer professionals are beginning to speak out and tell people how important these two achievements of Xiao Yi are.
In this way, time passed quickly.
San Jose, this time Joint Mathematics Meeting, finally came to an end amidst the excitement.
at the closing ceremony.
"Next, we will enter the most solemn part of this Joint Mathematics Meeting, which is our awards ceremony!"
In the heart of the conference, Hales Carr stood in front of the podium, facing everyone present, and announced, "The first award to be awarded, Cole Algebra Prize!"
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