The Scholar's Grind
Chapter 79

I Planned to Discuss Some New Things

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Xiao Yi's report attracted the attention of a large number of students majoring in mathematics in Shangjing colleges and universities.

Not only the 2020 students in Joint Examination Group, but also students from other grades have also received the news.

These students have heard the name Xiao Yi before, so they all want to see Xiao Yi with their own eyes and know how big the gap is between themselves and this mathematical genius, so they all want to sign up.

Faced with such a hot situation, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was also a little caught off guard. 

When did a mathematics report attract so many students?

This report is not a meeting, so there are no benefits such as coffee breaks for them to eat and drink. In addition, what Xiao Yi is going to talk about will definitely involve Far Abelian Geometry. Only a few people can understand it. It is good to have dozens of students. The remaining seats are for other domestic mathematics scholars. The conference hall can accommodate more than 300 people, which is theoretically just right.

As a result, according to the current situation, this already large conference hall may not be enough.

There is no other way, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science can only move the location of this report to the largest lecture hall in their hospital, which can accommodate more than 600 people. At the same time, they will activate the online reservation mode, leaving 300 seats for scholars, and the remaining 300 or so seats will be all given to students from universities.

Even so, in just one day, all these seats were reserved by college students from Shangjing, including undergraduates and graduate students.

The leaders of the mathematics schools of major universities and Mathematics Research Institute couldn't help but sigh. Young people are young people, but they are still too young. They have never experienced the pain of not being able to understand the report meeting at all.

Looking at the proportion of registered students, undergraduates are the largest, graduate students are quite few, there are still more than 50 master's students, and there are less than 10 doctoral students. Basically, the doctoral students who are willing to participate are really researching in this direction, except for a few one or two who are really here to join in the fun.

After all, most graduate students have participated in mathematics seminars.

Of course, these leaders are actually very happy to see so many students participating. They hope that after watching this report, they will regard Xiao Yi as their role model, study mathematics seriously in the future, and add luster to Chinese mathematics.

Just like that, the day came to September 25th.

There is still one day until the official start of the report.

Mathematics Research Institute Star Hotel at the entrance, outside room 818.

"He's been locked in his room for nine days?"

Dean Mathematics Research Institute, Xi Lan frowned and asked, "Didn't you notice it a few days ago?"

"It's not like he was locked up for 9 days. When I called him to eat a few days ago, he would still come out to eat, but three days ago, he couldn't scream anymore. He always ordered takeout for meals, and then today... he couldn't yell at all." Hu Guangde said.

Today, Xi Lan came over to talk to Xiao Yi about tomorrow's report meeting. Who would have thought that when they came to knock on the door, Xiao Yi didn't come out to open the door. They called and the call was answered, but no one answered.

Thinking of this, they all had worried expressions on their faces.

"It's also my problem." Hu Guangde sighed, "I thought he was preparing for the report these days, so I didn't think much about it."

Xi Lan shook his head. "Forget it, let's not scare ourselves. Maybe others just didn't hear."

Hu Guangde nodded, this should be the most likely.

At this time, the hotel attendant also arrived with the spare room card.

As soon as the door opened, the two academicians rushed directly into the room, looking for Xiao Yi.

Soon, both of them breathed a sigh of relief, and then started laughing and crying.

I saw Xiao Yi sleeping on the table at this time.

He was sleeping soundly, no wonder they knocked hard on the door just now, but there was no sound.

"This kid... it seems like he worked very hard to prepare this report."

Xi Lan's eyes turned to the desk where Xiao Yi was lying on his stomach.

I saw that the desktop was filled with various scratch papers, and the papers were also filled with mathematical derivation processes.

The laptop in front of me has not been closed, but the screen is black and it has entered a sleep state.

The two academicians seemed to be able to imagine such a scene in their minds: at three or four o'clock in the morning, Xiao Yi was still seriously preparing for the upcoming report meeting. Until a certain moment, he couldn't stand it any longer, so he collapsed on the table and slept until nine o'clock now.

This also reminded them of how when they were young, they would sometimes stay up until midnight due to academic research. When they woke up the next day, they found that they had fallen asleep on the table.

For a time, the two old men looked at Xiao Yi and became more and more friendly.

Hu Guangde stepped forward and patted Xiao Yi on the shoulder. "Xiao Yi, wake up. If you want to sleep, go to bed."

Finally, Xiao Yi woke up.

Opening his sleepy eyes, he was a little dazed when he saw the two academicians in front of him.

This is...

Just fell asleep on the table? 

However, he quickly recovered his energy. After all, he is a young man, and because his sleep quality is good enough, even if he only sleeps for 4 hours, he can actually cope with a full day. However, because he needs to keep thinking during the day, he only ensures that he sleeps for 7 hours every day.

"Academician Hu, and Academician Xi, why are you here?" he asked.

The two academicians suddenly laughed.

After some explanation, Xiao Yi looked embarrassed and apologized. "I'm sorry for making you worry. I was doing research last night and lost track of time. When I finally fell asleep, I slept on the table."

"It's okay. I hope you're fine." Xi Lan smiled and patted Xiao Yi on the shoulder, "There aren't many young people like you anymore. It's very rare to do research until midnight. Of course, no matter what, your health is still the most important thing."

"That's what you said." Xiao Yi nodded.

"Also, I came to you to ask if you have almost prepared tomorrow's report, right?"

"This... I'm ready." Xiao Yi thought for a moment, and then asked, "But I want to ask, how long can I speak at most tomorrow?"

"At most?" Hearing this question, Xi Lan was startled. "The report will start at 2:30 in the afternoon, and you will be fine until 5:30."

"Even if you can't finish speaking, you can continue speaking the next day. It won't be a hindrance."

"But what are you going to talk about? Is it going to take a long time?"

Academician Xi was a little confused. Of course, Hu Guangde next to him also felt a little puzzled.

Didn't I say before that half an hour to forty-five minutes is enough?

Xiao Yi turned back, glanced at the scratch papers on the desk, and replied, "Well, in addition to what happened at the seminar that day, I also plan to talk about some new things."

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