amaotonovel Chapter 224 Darkness Comes
Chapter 224 Darkness Comes
Amid boos from tens of thousands of people, the Chinese team made their way onto the stage.
Next up was the United States team.
Compared to the treatment the Chinese national team received, the treatment the Americans received was completely different.
The crowd roared and the Stars and Stripes fluttered, with many blondes blowing kisses to the camera.
Such drastically different treatment naturally made the Chinese audience watching off-camera grit their teeth in anger.
Perhaps to avoid any negative impact, the director on the Chinese side quickly switched the camera to the live broadcast room.
A host began introducing the five players on the US team.
To the surprise of many viewers, the American team surprised everyone this time by doing something completely different.
There were no other skin colors in the group, only fair-skinned people.
There was even a junior from Princeton in the group!
"Ha! This team is definitely handpicked by Trump! Absolutely MAGA!"
"With the math skills of those white Americans, we're guaranteed to win!"
"If an undergraduate student can represent American university mathematics, then America really has no one left!"
"Nine Chapters and Five Kings will surely win! Kill these Americans!"
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Laughter erupted in dormitory 402 as the barrage of comments kept scrolling through the live stream.
"They're guaranteed to win this time! The US team is all white, how can they possibly win?"
Chen Hao pointed at the screen and laughed.
Lu Han and his team also had smiles on their faces, as if they had already foreseen victory.
As is well known, in the past, whenever Americans participated in math competitions, the teams were almost entirely composed of Asians, with not a single white person to be seen.
There's no way around it; the so-called "happy education" has led to the collapse of basic education in the United States long ago.
However, Lin Chen frowned and looked at the screen, at the junior student named Adams.
"I don't think we should be too happy yet...we might lose."
"what?"
The three of them turned their heads and looked at Lin Chen in surprise.
"Boss, why do you think that?"
Lin Chen sighed: "Maybe I'm overthinking it... but look at the Americans..."
He pointed to the screen that had switched back to the competition venue.
After the Americans took the stage, the competition did not start immediately. Instead, the YMCA melody, which has almost become the national anthem of MAGA, was played.
Accompanied by the melody, the blond-haired president actually stepped onto the stage and began his final pre-competition speech.
"Don't you find it strange? The Americans made this competition so big, even Trump was there. If they weren't confident, would they have assembled an all-white team? And sent a junior college student to represent the country?"
Upon hearing Lin Chen's words, Lu Han and the other two exchanged glances, a bad feeling rising in their hearts.
Yup!
The Americans went too far this time.
Don't they consider the possibility of losing the game at all?
"I declare that the game begins!"
At this moment, the competition officially began with the president's personal announcement.
The crowd immediately erupted in cheers!
The overwhelming momentum was quite frightening, to the point that the five players from the Dragon Kingdom team turned pale!
Before they took the stage, the two countries had already drawn lots to determine their order of play, with the United States going first.
The order in which the five players from each country would appear was also announced well in advance.
A contestant from the US team, wearing thick beer bottle-shaped glasses, was the first to step forward and walk towards a high-tech electronic display in the center of the stage.
This electronic version was also specially made by the Americans for this competition.
All content written in the electronic version will be simultaneously transferred to the computer.
After being recognized by a computer, the original handwritten content was converted into standard letters and displayed on the on-site screen and the live television broadcast.
"The first athlete sent by the United States team is from MIT..."
Off-screen, the host is introducing the information about the American contestants and the rules of the competition.
According to the rules of this competition.
Each member of the two teams will present the opposing team with a problem to solve.
If the opponent cannot crack the code, the challenge fails.
To put it more vividly, it's actually the same as the optimization algorithm problem that Liu Zhengjie gave to the students in Lin Chen's applied mathematics class that day.
The only difference was that Liu Zhengjie himself didn't know how to answer his question at the time.
In this competition, every contestant's problem must have a solution or a partial solution.
"My question is very simple. I would like to ask the opposing player whether there are other solutions to the J equation and the supercritical Hermit-Yang-Mills equation?"
This contestant, who perfectly fits the stereotype of an American geek (an American term for a bookworm), wrote and talked about his questions at the same time.
Meanwhile, in the live broadcast room in China, there were translators providing simultaneous interpretation at any time.
However, in fact, before the translator could finish translating his words, many viewers in front of the television who had some knowledge of mathematics had already seen the problem with his words.
"Holy crap! That foreigner is wicked!"
"How could such a problem arise? Is this something a college student should be able to solve?"
"In response to the person upstairs, that's absolutely true! The last person to solve this problem was a university student from our Dragon Country!"
"They've clearly set this question to annoy us!"
Just as some people in the comments said, the question posed by the Americans was really meant to embarrass China.
The first person to propose a modified solution to the J equation and the supercritical Hermit-Yang-Mills equation was Professor Chen, the current professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Long University of Science and Technology.
He solved the problem at the age of 26 and became famous overnight!
Now, Americans are using problems that Chinese people have already solved to create new problems; they clearly have ulterior motives!
They're actually using a problem that the Chinese have already solved to test them again.
Isn't this a clear attempt to slap them in the face?
Aside from those with ill intentions, many people were taken aback.
Before the competition began, many people, especially those from China, thought it would be no different from the International Mathematical Olympiad or the National College Mathematical Olympiad.
At most, the competitions in the past had the organizing committee setting the questions, but this competition had the students setting the questions.
Unexpectedly, the very first question exceeded everyone's expectations.
Solution methods for the J equation and the modified supercritical Hermit-Yang-Mills equation?
Is this something a college student could answer?
The first contestant from China was Jiang Ronghao, a graduate student from the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua and Peking Universities.
To be the first contestant to appear, one must naturally have some skills.
Before this, he was highly anticipated by many people.
In high school, he was admitted to Tsinghua and Peking Universities with the highest total score.
I published a paper in an SCI journal during my senior year of college.
Upon graduating with his bachelor's degree, he was directly admitted to Tsinghua and Peking Universities through a special recommendation program and became a student of a renowned professor.
In just two years, he has already been listed as an author on several SCI-indexed papers.
Therefore, he ranked second among the five contestants in this competition, which is jokingly referred to as the Nine Chapters and Five Champions.
Even so, seeing the problem before him, Jiang Ronghao was almost in tears.
New solutions to the J equation and the modified supercritical Hermit-Yang-Mills equation?
Even his advisor might not be able to answer this question!
As expected, after racking his brains for a long time, Jiang Ronghao didn't even manage to try to solve the problem before admitting defeat.
In the Dragon Kingdom's live broadcast room, when Jiang Ronghao admitted defeat, the scene fell silent.
Even the live stream chat has seen a significant decrease in the number of comments.
After a long pause, the host finally said, "There is still hope. Although Jiang Ronghao has conceded defeat, his opponent must also provide his own answer, otherwise Jiang Ronghao will not have truly lost!"
"That's right! There's still hope!"
"This person must have come up with some ridiculous question. This problem was a century-old problem back then! How could there possibly be a new solution?"
"Yes, yes, yes! The Americans are just bluffing!"
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However, to the disappointment of countless netizens, the American contestant quickly wrote his solution on the blackboard.
"Gissus!"
"Good heavens!"
As the American player wrote the final stroke on the electronic version.
Several internationally renowned mathematicians serving as judges at the scene stood up.
Their expressions told the audience that this contestant had actually provided a new solution to the J equation and the supercritical Hermit-Yang-Mills equation!
Even a university mathematics professor who was a special guest in the live broadcast room in China exclaimed in amazement:
"I can't believe this American athlete actually did it!"
"His reasoning process is truly amazing!"
"Some viewers may not understand, but I can feel the beauty of mathematics from his formula! In this game, I'm afraid we are in grave danger."
As expected, after his opponent took the initiative, it was Jiang Ronghao's turn to present his own topic.
His topic was a problem related to algebra.
However, compared to the other party's question, the question Jiang Ronghao gave was at best a math competition question.
In terms of difficulty, depth, and significance, it is completely incomparable to the other party.
The American player on the other side only watched for five minutes before starting to write his answer on the electronic version.
Before he could even finish answering the question, Jiang Ronghao raised his sign to concede defeat.
There's absolutely no need to waste any more time.
Jiang Ronghao understood from the first few formulas the other party had listed that the other party had completely grasped the solution to the problem.
"I declare the United States the winner of the first round!"
"USA!"
"USA!"
"USA!"
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As the cheers of Americans echoed on screen, darkness quietly enveloped the hearts of every Chinese viewer.