Since the last International Congress of Mathematicians, CTV had secured the rights to broadcast the event live.
This time, Academician Lu had won another award at the IMU conference, and CTV naturally would not miss such an excellent publicity opportunity.
Though it was not the Fields Medal, it was still an award presented at the IMU conference. It was undoubtedly among the highest honors recognized by the entire Mathematics community.
How could such an exciting moment not be shared with the whole nation?
In the spirit that joy was better shared than kept to oneself, the editor responsible for the news copy had practically described the Gauss Mathematics Prize as a world-class award even more impressive than the Fields Medal.
To be fair, in terms of academic achievement, ten Fields Medals could not compare to Gauss. Besides, by tradition, the Gauss Mathematics Prize was always announced first.
If they insisted on explaining it that way...
It did not seem entirely wrong, either.
However, although CTV had indeed promoted it with that sort of bias, it unexpectedly did not cause much of a stir.
The reason was simple.
The viewers seemed to have long since become numb to the fact that Academician Lu had won yet another award...
Yet someone clearly had not realized that.
Or rather, he had overestimated the impact of this news on his father.
At lunchtime, as the news happened to show Professor Lu receiving his award, Ji Mo, who had been wondering how to tell his parents that he had applied to Jinling University, suddenly had an idea. Seizing the perfect opportunity, he revealed the secret he had kept hidden for nearly two months.
When Ji Zhong, who had been watching the news at the dining table, heard that his son had applied not to Yanshan