"Andrew Wiles, I actually heard of this great name, the big guy in the contemporary mathematics world." Shen Qi said, and his eyes never looked away from Wiles on the rostrum.

Zhou Yuan looked at it for granted: "Nonsense, the winner of the Philippine Award proves the super difficult problem Fermat's theorem. Who hasn't heard of Wiles who are engaged in mathematics?"

"But we didn't know that this old man was Wiles!" The two of them spoke in unison.

"A person of such a big one needs to go to the supermarket to buy salad sauce in person?" Shen Qi expressed his doubts. His father never goes to the supermarket. He just needs to ask his subordinates to do whatever he wants to buy.

"Hey, Shen Qi, Zhou Yu'an, what are you muttering? Are you very familiar with Professor Wiles?" asked the deputy leader.

Shen Qi shook his head: "I'm not familiar with it, but I know that Professor Wiles is a master of mathematics and has a very profound skill. Perhaps he is the number one expert in the local area."

"You still have to say this? Be quiet and listen to Professor Wiles' reading of the competition rules. It is very rare for the organizing committee to invite him to be the leader of the judges." The deputy leader re-plugged the earplugs, which were connected to the synchronous translation equipment.

"I never expected that there were weak chickens in the same city who could not do subtraction within 10, and there were also great people who were masters of mathematics. The difference in strength was too great, and it was simply the difference between fighting the five scumbags and the God of War." Shen Qi put on his earplugs and listened to Wiles' reading of the competition rules.

"...The rules of the competition have been read out, children, the last sentence I want to say is, wherever there is number, there is beauty. We are engaged in a beautiful job that deserves our lifelong service." Wiles' last sentence is quoted from the Greek mathematician Procross, who quoted this article at the 1998 Philippine Awards ceremony and quoted it again today.

The auditorium roared applause, and everyone paid the highest respect to Wiles, the British, foreigners, Europeans, Americans, Asians, players from all over the country, coaching teams, and security guards who maintained order.

People seem to have forgotten that Wiles is not the protagonist of this IMO, he is just a judge, just a routine reading of the competition rules.

But is this important?

Shen Qi was deeply shocked. It turns out that learning is the best in exchange for supreme glory and respect from the world. This kind of glory and respect are not distinguished from nationality, regardless of skin color and race.

"I really hope that one day, I can achieve great achievements like Professor Wiles. What is the glorious family and glorious ancestors? This is the glorious family and glorious ancestors to unify the world."

Shen Qi felt that this time he went abroad, he gained a lot. Some scenes were not immersive and could not feel the vibration that touched the soul.

Professor Wiles gave more than 600 young contestants from 102 countries a bowl of fierce chicken soup. Young talents from Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Australia and Australia were ready to fight, and the battle was about to break out.

On the morning of July 26, the first day of this IMO competition kicked off, and the competition venue was London South Bank University.

Professor Wiles, the leader of the judges, has made clear the competition rules and schedules very clear. There are six questions in total, three questions today and three questions tomorrow, each question is 7 points, and the full score is 42 points.

The competition time on each competition day is 4.5 hours. You can carry any stationery and drawing tools. All electronic devices are not allowed to be brought into the competition.

Because the competition time is long, each contestant can bring his own food and drinks to the venue, and can carry no more than three reference materials.

Yes, this is an open-book exam, you can also read books by eating, drinking and drinking.

It looks so relaxing, similar to summer camp.

But is this really the case?

Obviously not.

The foods brought by Shen Qi were muffins and bear biscuits, the drinks were mineral water and Red Bull bought in local supermarkets. The three reference materials were "Introduction to Analytical Art", "The Art of Imagination", and "Study on Analytical Geometry and Differential Geometry".

When Shen Qi got the first day's competition test paper, he found that the three reference books were basically useless, and the most useful ones were Bear Cookies and Red Bull.

The three questions on the first day's test paper have been translated into Chinese. Shen Qi must first solve the first question because this is a threshold question.

There is a line of cold Chinese characters printed on the paper: "The first question is, the threshold question. I will get 7 points for this question correctly, if I answer the wrong answer or not, I will get -7 points for the answer."

The threshold question of the first question is really crazy. If you answer correctly, you will get a maximum of 7 points. If you answer wrongly or not write it in a blank space, do you think you can get a 0 point? It doesn’t exist.

If you see clearly, you will get -7 points if you answer the threshold question incorrectly or not.

That is to say, the bottom line of this IMO test paper is not 0 points, but -7 points.

If there is any mistake, it will be a life-threatening death.

I came to Great Britain and brought a negative score home. I asked you if you were embarrassed?

The zero duck eggs were simmered, and I waited for a long time and finally waited until today.

Shen Qi didn't dare to be careless. He reviewed the topic of the threshold question for the third time:

"There are three smart students at Oxford Mathematics Professor, Tom, Jerry and Thomas."

"One day, the professor wanted to test who is the smartest among the three students."

"The professor put a note on each of the three students' foreheads, and the numbers were written on it."

"Tom, Jerry and Thomas can see the numbers on the foreheads of the other two students, but they can't see the numbers on their foreheads."

"The professor said that the numbers on the note on each of you are positive integers. So Tom, I ask you, what are the numbers on your forehead?"

"Tom said, I'm sorry, professor, I don't know."

"The professor asked Jerry again, hey, Jerry, what about you, do you know what your number is?"

"Jerry said, I'm sorry, professor, I don't know."

"The professor continued to ask Thomas, dear Thomas, you are the only one left, what is your answer?"

"Thomas answered immediately, Professor, my number is 144."

"The professor nodded, congratulations to Thomas, your answer is correct."

"If you understand the above story, please ask Tom and Jerry's forehead are (), ().

The above is the entire content of the threshold question of the first question. If you answer correctly, you will get 7 points, and if you answer wrongly or not, you will get -7 points.

Shen Qi knew that in the face of this life-threatening threshold, the real variable function and Steelches integral, the Kelly turning matrix and Weirstras quadratic type, the super ellipse integral and Abel's theorem... all the profound mathematical formulas, theorems, and inferences are all invalid.

This is a pure logical deduction question, which is set as a threshold question by the leaders of 102 countries.

No reference book you bring will work, the most useful one should be the junior high school mathematics textbook.

The mathematical knowledge that must be possessed is the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations within 500, and simple solutions to equations of one-time.

There are only two words left: brain power.

International rules seem different from Chinese rules. Shen Qi doesn't have to think about it. Their Chinese team leader must have voted against this threshold logic question, but the minority obeys the majority and votes against it is useless.

What Chinese students are strong in model problem-solving, while the international community attaches more importance to the logical thinking ability of young people.

Shen Qi fell into deep thought and came to the international arena to find that it was not a profound theory to fight all over the world, but a nine-nine multiplication table and the simplest equation of first time.

After he had some ideas, he followed the clues to deduce three necessary conditions and listed a system of equations.

Next, whether to score 7 points or -7 points is purely brain-burning.
Chapter completed!