Even though he was drunk at noon, thanks to his strong metabolism, Lu Zhou was able to make it to the banquet in the evening.
As one of the main characters of this conference, if he was absent, then the banquet would be meaningless …
The banquet lasted from six o 'clock to eight o' clock in the evening. Later, Fefferman suggested that a few Princeton professors use the Brazilian chocolate beans as chips to set up two tables of bridge cards.
Lu Zhou also joined in because it sounded interesting. Even though he almost lost all his chips because he wasn't familiar with the rules, once he familiarized himself with the rules, he began to "go on a killing spree" mode.
Lu Zhou had to admit that playing cards with mathematicians was a very interesting thing.
At the card table, Lu Zhou heard from Fefferman that other than himself, everyone else was a member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Bridge Club.
Lu Zhou, who had lived at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study for a long time, didn't even know that there was such an interesting club near him.
Professor Fefferman shuffled the cards and said, "If you're interested in bridge, you can join our club. Unless there's a special arrangement, you can always set up a card table in the Institute for Advanced Study activity room from 2 to 3 pm."
Lu Zhou: "But I'm already a consultant for the drone club."
"It's okay, you can join as many clubs as you want." Professor Fefferman, who was very popular in Princeton, smiled and said, "If I remember correctly, I'm an honorary member of more than 20 clubs."
When Lu Zhou heard Professor Fefferman say this, he felt like he missed out on a lot of interesting things …
They played until 12 o 'clock. When Lu Zhou's pocket was filled with chocolate beans, he suddenly remembered that he had a 45-minute report tomorrow morning. Therefore, he left the card table.
He went back to his room to rest for the night.
The next morning, with two dark circles under his eyes, Lu Zhou came out of his room yawning after washing up.
Taking the elevator downstairs, on the corridor to the restaurant, he happened to meet Molina, who was also walking to the restaurant, so Lu Zhou casually greeted her.
"Morning."
"Morning." Molina raised her eyebrows when she saw the eye bags on Lu Zhou's face. She said in a teasing tone, "Did you stay up late last night?"
"No, I'm just a little tired …" Lu Zhou couldn't help but yawn and said casually.
At this moment, Vera, who had just finished her breakfast, came out of the dining room and happened to bump into the two of them.
Looking at Lu Zhou, the little girl smiled and greeted him politely.
"Good morning, Professor."
"Morning." Lu Zhou smiled and said in an encouraging tone, "Good luck!"
"Yeah!" Vera nodded enthusiastically, but in the end, she couldn't help but yawn.
Although she went back to her room early last night, when she thought about how she was about to go on the international stage of the International Congress of Mathematicians, she was so nervous that she couldn't sleep.
She stayed up until three o 'clock in the morning before she fell asleep.
Now, she only felt dizzy, as if she could fall asleep standing up.
Molina looked at Vera, who was yawning, and looked at Lu Zhou with a strange expression.
"Be honest, what did you do last night?"
When Lu Zhou heard this inexplicable question, he said, "What do you mean?"
Molina opened her mouth and was about to say something, but she suddenly shook her head and said, "Forget it, I didn't see anything, pretend I didn't ask anything."
Lu Zhou: "…??"
Looking at her conflicted expression, it seemed that she had spent a lot of effort to make a choice between justice and friendship. He felt that she had misunderstood something …
…
Vera's report was at ten o 'clock in the morning, and it was in the field of analytic number theory.
There were still two hours before that. Lu Zhou obviously didn't want to waste time, so he began to wander around the conference venue.
As he wandered around, he unknowingly walked into the field of algebraic geometry.
When he walked into the lecture hall, he saw his acquaintance, Professor Peter Schultz, giving a one-hour report on the stage.
Lu Zhou was interested in the title on the whiteboard. He found a seat in the back of the venue and sat down. He then began to listen with interest.
Simply put, the content of Schulz's report was based on his "quasi-perfect space theory", which solved some of the Galois representation problems in the Langlands program. Many of the problems were closely related to the BSD conjecture.
Lu Zhou had a basic understanding of his "PS theory", so he didn't feel like it was too difficult to understand compared to other scholars.
After listening to Schulz's report, Lu Zhou went to the field of partial differential equations, but he didn't see any interesting content.
Apparently, someone had applied for a research report on the nature of the solution of the three-dimensional Navier – Stokes equation, but Lu Zhou had already killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. The paper that was qualified to be published at the International Congress of Mathematicians was unfortunately aborted …
Soon, it was ten o 'clock.
The number theory lecture hall was packed with people.
Lu Zhou found a seat in the back and quietly waited for the report to begin.
Vera's palms were sweaty as she nervously walked to the front of the stage.
When the people in the venue saw this speaker, they were surprised at his age. However, considering that mathematics itself was a young discipline, the scholars in the venue didn't overreact.
Vera took a deep breath and thought about her professor's encouragement. She patted her face and tried to calm herself down.
"Come on … Vera Pulyuy, you can do it!"
Encouraging herself in a low voice, Vera's eyes were replaced with a firm look.
Soon after, the report on the Collatz conjecture began.
Although she was a little rusty at first, she soon grasped the knack of it, and her performance became more and more fluent.
Lu Zhou had to admit that she was a very good learner, whether it was mathematics or public speaking.
Her only flaw was her timidity.
Lu Zhou sat in the audience and looked at Vera. He nodded with approval.
No wonder she was his student. She had a bit of his demeanor.
Half an hour passed by and the report gradually came to an end. However, Vera didn't dare to relax.
Because the Q&A session was the core of the entire report.
The first question was asked by Professor Helfgott from École Normale Supérieure. He was an analytic number theory master who once proved the weak conjecture of Goldbach's conjecture. He was also one of the six reviewers for Lu Zhou's Goldbach's conjecture thesis.
Perhaps he didn't want to give the presenter too much pressure, Helfgott spoke in a calm voice. He looked at the thesis in his hand and spoke briefly.
"I noticed a very interesting statement on page 9, line 7. Φ (g) is an open subset of the complex plane f. Every maximal connected subregion of Φ (g) is a branch of Φ (g) … How did you come up with this statement? "
Vera didn't dare to relax. She quickly flipped to page 9 of the thesis and spoke clearly.
"Φ (g) is the set of normal points z0 that transcend the entire function g (z). And on page 7, line 15, inference 1.4, I proved that the function column {gk (z)} ∞/k = 1 has a subcolumn that converges locally to the analytic function S (z) in a neighborhood of point z0 … "
After listening to Vera's statement, Helfgott nodded with approval.
"Thank you."
After Helfgott's question was over, the Q&A session continued.
After all, this was the International Congress of Mathematicians. The scholars sitting here listening to the report had high standards, so the questions they asked were usually quite professional.
Of course, not all the questions were that professional.
A PhD student from the University of Montreal stood up and spoke.
"On page 11, line 13, any integral function h (z) such that g (z) = z/2 + (1? cosπz)(z+1/2)/2+1/π(1/2? Cos π z) sin π z + h (z) sin2π z satisfies: N? How did Φ (g) come up with this inference? "
Many people in the lecture hall laughed when they heard this question.
Vera paused for a second and sighed as she said, "For this part, please refer to the thesis. Professor Letterman has already given a complete proof, so I won't repeat it here …"
The person who asked this obviously didn't read the thesis carefully.
The person realized that he asked a stupid question, so he blushed and sat back down.
Overall, this report went quite smoothly.
After the report ended, Vera excitedly ran to Lu Zhou.
"Professor! I did it … I did it! "
She clenched her fists tightly, and her face was filled with excitement.
Lu Zhou looked at the excited little girl and was sincerely happy that she was able to overcome the weakness in her heart.
As a professor, there was nothing more fulfilling than watching the sapling that he had cultivated grow into a towering tree.
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