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Chapter 367 - 132 I Want to Thank Every Person in My Life Who Deserves Thanks!_2

Chapter 367: Chapter 132 I Want to Thank Every Person in My Life Who Deserves Thanks!_2

This thing doesn’t generate any traffic.

The reason is simple: mathematical research is far beyond the comprehension of this era. Even relatively simple probability theory and statistical physics in mathematics. For example, the 2022 Fields Medal winner Hugo Duminy.

The award was given for his research on probability models in statistical physics, particularly his profound understanding of spin systems and percolation models on two-dimensional and three-dimensional lattices.

A simple sentence contains many concepts that ordinary people have never encountered and cannot understand, like what is a two-dimensional and three-dimensional lattice? What is a spin system? What is a percolation model?

People are most interested in tangible, visible things when it comes to science.

For example, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, physical robots, space stations, astronauts landing on the moon, emigrating to Mars, or space carriers...

As for the mathematical algorithms and physical foundations behind these things, ordinary people aren’t really interested.

So media reporters tend to approach these types of scientific reports with a task-driven mentality; hoping for traffic is out of the question, and reporting is mainly to avoid appearing utterly indifferent to basic science.

Of course, there is an exception, especially in Huaxia.

That is when a compatriot is recognized by the world academic community and given extraordinary treatment.

For instance, many people, even those who previously didn’t know about the Nobel Prize, are aware that someone from Huaxia won a Nobel due to artemisinin. Mention artemisinin, and they’ll remember that person and her award.

This represents a completely different mindset between ordinary Huaxia people and ordinary Western people, probably based on collectivist education from an early age and a very simple yet long-repressed sense of national pride.

If you analyze the evolution of this mindset, it is likely that, since the awards are selected by other countries, if one of our own wins an award, it proves we are not inferior to them. Therefore, I am not inferior to them either...

Whether people admit it or not, it is the collectivist sense of honor buried in the bones of Huaxia people coming into play.

Especially when one person gains honor internationally, they bear more in the hearts of many Huaxia people passively. To some extent, their words and actions no longer just represent themselves; to a certain extent, they also represent the entire Huaxia nation.

As for Westerners, they might just think, huh? That person achieved some amazing accomplishments, oh, maybe he is great. We should congratulate him and applaud. But he is still just an individual. No matter how remarkable he is, he can only represent himself, and it has nothing to do with me, even if we’re neighbors in the same community.

Until this person provides some substantial help to us, if the community organizes a welcoming ceremony, it might even be seen as wasting taxpayers’ money.

This is the difference, and also the difference in traffic.

So this World Algebraic Geometry Conference was already silently on the radar of quite a few Huaxia media, who sent journalists intending to cover it.

The reason being, this conference featured a sixteen-year-old mathematical prodigy from Huaxia giving a thirty-minute presentation.

Of course, the level of attention wasn’t that high either.

Because these journalists had generally confirmed that Qiao Yu’s thirty-minute presentation was scheduled in a parallel session, not the main venue.

This means only interested mathematicians would attend since parallel session presentations typically happen simultaneously, with a dozen or even dozens of sessions at once.

Participating professors choose to attend presentations on subjects they are interested in and engage in discussions.

No matter how much the photos at the scene are enhanced, they wouldn’t be too shocking.

Even some low-attendance presentations might have only a handful of participants.

Even if many mathematicians attended Qiao Yu’s presentation, if they were all Asian faces, it would be hard to create a buzz. Huaxia people have a high threshold for this kind of thing now.

Especially if, in so-called world-class conferences, Qiao Yu’s presentation attracts only Asian-faced professors, people might not only lack pride, but even think those professors attended under some kind of pressure from arranged tasks.

Of course, the general public can’t be blamed for this.

Past absurdities have overly drained people’s confidence, making them more immune.

So even when tasked to report this conference, most Huaxia journalists were not that enthusiastic.

In fact, many of them didn’t even plan to attend on-site.

For news destined not to make waves, they could just casually quote others’ reports, capture some on-site pictures from online, remove watermarks to deal with it. Even directly using others’ pictures wouldn’t be much of a problem.

For news guaranteed not to go viral, whoever would bother suing over such a trivial matter.

But when the organizing committee suddenly decided to alter the conference schedule, elevating Qiao Yu’s presentation from originally a thirty-minute parallel session to a sixty-minute opening presentation, the situation immediately changed.

Before the conference even started, it decided to pull a big one?

A sixteen-year-old from Huaxia giving a sixty-minute opening presentation at the World Algebraic Geometry Conference?!

Headlined as the entire world’s mathematicians collectively listen to the voice of a sixteen-year-old mathematical genius from Huaxia?

Truly, a news story with no original buzz suddenly has the potential to become a hot topic. Especially since the name Qiao Yu, just a simple search on domestic networks would show, had previously been on trending topics multiple times.