As soon as the weekend ended, Lu Zhou's office was bustling with noise and excitement.
Assistant Zhao said that Professor Lu had something important to announce, so all of the students in the research project group got up early, ate their breakfast, and rushed to the office.
"Let me introduce our new member." Lu Zhou patted the shoulder of the weirdo next to him and looked around the office. He cleared his throat and said, "This is Professor Perelman, a mathematician from St. Petersburg. He'll be here until the end of the year … I should be able to complete the Grand Unified Theory before the end of the year."
The office went silent for a few seconds.
Then, a pen fell to the ground, making a soft clattering sound.
It was as if someone had thrown a piece of sodium into water; the quiet office instantly exploded.
"F * ck! Perelman? The … The guy who solved the Poincaré conjecture? "
"No way … Didn't he quit the mathematics world?"
Perelman!
The Perelman who never went out. Whether it was a Russian tycoon or the Secretary-General of the International Mathematical Union, no one dared to go out to him!
If it weren't for Lu Zhou's confident expression, everyone, including Han Mengqi, would have thought that the professor was joking.
Because Perelman didn't understand Chinese, he didn't know what they were talking about. He thought they were welcoming him, so he nodded and said "thank you" in broken Chinese.
Chen Yang, who had recovered from the shock, looked at Perelman in surprise. His usually expressionless face was gradually dyed with excitement, and he said excitedly, "Perelman, you're right.
"… I read your thesis!"
Perelman didn't know how to answer this question. He hesitated for a bit and nodded.
"Yeah."
…
Lu Zhou had heard about Perelman's antisocial personality. He was a little worried that Perelman wouldn't be able to integrate into his research group. However, he didn't expect Perelman to get into the zone so quickly.
What surprised Lu Zhou the most was that Chen Yang was the closest to Perelman.
Both of them were the type of people who didn't talk much. Their conversations were mostly about mathematics and work. But it seemed that it was this straightforward way of communication that unexpectedly avoided obstacles in communication.
In the next phase of research, Lu Zhou asked Perelman to participate in Chen Yang's research project, which was to study the direct sum decomposition in motive theory, which was to associate H (v) with irreducible motive.
This research project was only half-completed, and due to some reasons, the progress was relatively slow.
However, according to Chen Yang, because of Professor Perelman's participation, the progress of the entire research project was like a rocket.
In less than a week, the two came up with a groundbreaking method. They completed the last step of the whole problem and established a close enough relationship between H (v) and irreducible motive.
This thesis was co-signed by the two, and at Perelman's request, it was published on arXiv at the same time as it was submitted to the Future Mathematics sub-journal.
The day after this thesis was published on arXiv, the entire mathematics community was shocked by this unprecedented event.
Perelman, who publicly announced his retirement from mathematics many years ago, actually remembered his arXiv account?!
Also, the name of the research institute was from Professor Lu's Jin Ling University …
It was like the sun was rising from the west!
…
Germany, University of Bonn.
In an elegant coffee shop.
Faltings looked at the freshly printed thesis in his hand. He shook his head and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
He didn't expect this to be Perelman's answer after reading the thesis.
His heart was both gratified and helpless. At the same time, there were some complex emotions that he couldn't even describe.
Schulz noticed the expression on the old man's face. He took a sip of coffee and had an emotional expression on his face.
He sighed and said, "I didn't expect him to go to Jin Ling University."
He and Professor Faltings went to St. Petersburg to visit Lu Zhou. They tried to invite Lu Zhou to the University of Bonn to complete the Grand Unified Theory of Algebra and Geometry, opening a new era for the Bourbaki school of mathematics.
However, they didn't expect their efforts to be useless. In the end, Perelman chose Lu Zhou.
Faltings looked out the window and went silent for a long time. He suddenly said, "What do you think of this thesis?"
After thinking for a while, Schultz said, "Very good … So good that it's surprising. I can't accurately describe the importance of their work in the field of motive theory and standard conjectures, but I think any scholar in this field can say with certainty that they took a big step towards the Grand Unified Theory. "
After hearing Schulz's words, Professor Faltings nodded.
What Schulz said was exactly what he felt.
Especially in motive theory and the Langlands program, their research group was far ahead of the rest of the world when it came to studying the abstract meaning of numbers and shapes and establishing a connection between the two.
This was an inappropriate example. It was as if most scholars in this field were still drilling wood to make fire, but they had already mastered the technique of making flint.
This was a difference in the way of thinking. For scholars in the field of algebraic geometry, they could directly feel this difference from the thesis.
Professor Faltings didn't speak. Schulz sighed and spoke.
"For a long time, I've been studying perfect spaces, and this is the theory I've been exploring. The P-adic numbers and the Diamond theory are all for this purpose."
Complete spaces provided a new way to look at a class of geometric objects deeply rooted in the Langlands program such as the "Shimura cluster". Back then, Schulz used this outstanding mathematical achievement to win the 2018 Fields Prize.
Now, this mathematical method had even evolved into a new branch of mathematics, which was complete geometry. At the same time, this discipline had always been widely regarded as the most promising research direction to unify algebra and geometry.
"You could say that." Faltings nodded. However, he noticed Schulz's expression and suddenly frowned. He said, "I feel like you have something to say, just say it."
When Schultz heard this, he smiled embarrassedly.
"You know, the Grand Unified Theory of Algebra and Geometry is what I've been doing for a long time. It's also my lifelong pursuit. I feel like my theory seems to have found a place to realize its value. "
He coughed and said, "Basically, I want to go there for a year."
"… Anyway, I want to go there for a year of exchange."
Faltings: "…"
Professor Faltings didn't speak for a long time, so Schultz scratched his head awkwardly.
Professor Faltings didn't speak for a long time. Schulz scratched the back of his head awkwardly.
Faltings: "…"
…
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