At the end of the month, a big event happened.
The emperor of mathematics, the father of modern algebraic geometry, Alexander Grothendieck, passed away.
Apparently, last month, this old man was diagnosed by the doctor to be able to take care of his funeral. It was a miracle that he was able to survive until now.
His favorite student, Deligne, attended his funeral. After everything was over, Deligne announced the sad news to his family and friends on the lawn outside of Saint-Lizier Church, as well as everyone in the mathematics community.
"… There are many geniuses and Fields Award winners in the field of algebraic geometry in the 20th century, but there is only one God, and that is Mr. Grothendieck."
This sentence was reported and reprinted by major newspapers and media outlets. After several twists and turns, it finally appeared in Lu Zhou's circle of friends.
However, other than that, it did not cause much reaction in the media.
After all, he had left the mathematics world for many years.
If it were not for the fact that Lu Zhou was in the mathematics department, he would not even know about this big event.
There were many schools of algebraic geometry, but all of them originated from the old man.
So far, there were still many ideas in his works that were not fully understood. However, it had produced many major results, such as Deligné's proof of the Weil's conjecture, the birth of K-theory, Wiles' proof of the Taniyama – Shimura conjecture, and even Fermat's last theorem …
Unfortunately, when the old man learned that his research results were used for military purposes, he angrily resigned from his job at the French Institute for Advanced Study and completely withdrew from the mathematics world. He stubbornly took back the copyright of all of his works and never published them again.
Although domestic algebraic geometry researchers had translated some of his works in French, due to copyright reasons, it was only privately circulated.
Lu Zhou once asked Professor Tang if he could borrow a translated version.
Unfortunately, Professor Tang's field of research was not in this area. Although he had read the original manuscript, it was more than ten years ago. Therefore, Lu Zhou had to give up.
The twentieth week of the third semester.
The last major physics exam ended, announcing the beginning of the winter vacation.
On New Year's Day, the first mathematics class held an internal class party.
However, it was a pity that even if a group of men were to form an alliance, there was really nothing to play with. He simply borrowed a classroom, sang a few songs, performed a few magic tricks, and handed out souvenirs. That was all.
Because Instructor Zhang and his PhD supervisor were out on a project, the class of 2013 didn't even have a year-end class meeting before they announced the beginning of the winter vacation.
At this point, the second-year mathematics department exams were all over. The students in dorm 201 did not ask each other about their scores. They all embarked on their journey home. But this time, without Liu Rui's company, only Lu Zhou was left in the dorm room.
He still had to attend an academic conference in early February. If there were no accidents, he would have to rush home before Chinese New Year.
"It's so quiet …"
Facing the empty dorm room, Lu Zhou, who was curled up in the blanket, let out a long sigh.
The atmosphere was cold.
It was cold, too.
How could an empty dormitory feel so lonely and cold?
Sigh, it's time to find a girlfriend.
Getting up from the bed, Lu Zhou turned on the computer and found that Xiao Ai had upgraded again.
This was a pleasant surprise for him.
This stupid artificial intelligence was getting more and more difficult to upgrade. In the beginning, it only took three days for the progress bar to increase. Now, it took him almost a month to increase the progress bar. He didn't know how long it would take for the last progress bar to increase.
After receiving 100 science and technology experience points, Lu Zhou looked at the last progress bar and sighed. He typed a line of words in the dialog box and pressed enter.
Lu Zhou: [Xiao Ai.]
Xiao Ai: [?]
Lu Zhou: [How long do you have to wait for the last progress bar to increase? As your master, I'm deeply worried about your IQ. How about you make an exception and fill up the progress bar?]
The built-in fan began to spin.
It was quite warm to the touch.
Unsurprisingly, a picture popped up.
Xiao Ai: [(Revealing poverty.jpg)]
Lu Zhou: "…"
F * ck, does this stupid artificial intelligence not understand human language?
Lu Zhou's eyebrows twitched. He continued to type: [Didn't we agree not to send pictures?]
The built-in fan spun for a while, but there was no picture this time.
Xiao Ai: [Taobao link: IBM-X3950-X … server, discount price: 2.37 million yuan (pitiful.jpg)]
Lu Zhou: "…"
Lu Zhou: [… Then continue to send pictures.]
MMP！
I didn't learn anything else, but I learned to shop at Taobao.
This stupid artificial retard was probably incurable.
Lu Zhou sighed. After completing his "daily mission" of teaching Xiao Ai to speak, he closed the dialog box and continued to edit his speech.
Last time, after Instructor Zhang told him about the Annual Person Award, Dean Qin also told him about it and told him to take it seriously.
For the sake of the more than ten thousand yuan scholarship, he put in 120% of his effort and repeatedly revised his speech.
Finally, it was January 5th.
The 2014 Jin Ling University Annual Person Award Ceremony was held in the new campus auditorium!
The purpose of this award ceremony was to recognize outstanding students in academic research, innovation, entrepreneurship, campus culture, and social practice. At the same time, this award ceremony would be held at the same time as Jin Ling University's 2014 Annual Dongliang Special Scholarship. It would be broadcasted live by Jin Ling TV and Jiangsu TV.
The significance of these two awards was similar to Shuimu University's annual special award. The scholarship amount was not high, only fifteen thousand yuan. It was not even as much as an SCI thesis award.
However, the significance behind these awards was far more than a fifteen thousand yuan prize or an SCI thesis award.
After all, Jin Ling University was one of the top ten universities in the country.
To be able to stand out from such a strong school and become a role model for tens of thousands of students, they were the best of the best.
There were only ten spots for the Annual Person Award.
Even so, there was only one quota for each courtyard. However, compared to the Annual Person Award, there were slightly more spots for the "Dongliang" Special Scholarship. There were eighteen spots for this year's undergraduate students, but there were still not many spots for each department.
Normally, second-year students did not have a chance to be awarded. In the past, the lowest standard for the Annual Person Award was third-year students. Outstanding third-year students generally had to give way to fourth-year students. Even if they were really outstanding, they would first receive a special award this year and then be awarded the Annual Person Award next year.
However, Lu Zhou, who was about to walk on stage, was undoubtedly an exception.
Not only was his name personally nominated by the dean of the mathematics department, but he was also unanimously approved by the school leaders.
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