"Hey! Have you heard? There seem to be big moves in the Chinese mathematics field recently!"
"What moves?"
"I heard from a new international student, that the Ministry of Science and Technology seems to have issued a reward of 100 million research funding for the ABC conjecture…"
"What, how much?! A hundred million!? Zimbabwe dollars?"
"Of course it's yuan… Apparently, the people who research number theory are going crazy! Various public institutions are even more amazed. They are offering high salaries to anyone who researches number theory. There seem to be quite a few Chinese mathematicians at Princeton who recently got an offer and returned to China, right? Apparently, that is related to this rumor."
"ABC conjecture… A hundred million… Crazy, it's crazy."
Princeton cafe.
As one of the most famous news distribution centers in mathematics, there were always weird rumors about mathematics that could be found here.
