"Perhaps, this is not the case between teachers and students. The teacher-student relationship is formed by chance, but if you want to get along better, it also requires the joint efforts of both parties." Wiles said with a smile.
"Whether it is teacher-student relationship or family relationship, coupled with love, what is required is a two-way dedication. This kind of relationship is the most sincere and stronger."
When he mentioned the teacher-student relationship, he was reminded of his teacher.
And that Parker 51 fountain pen.
After all, that precious pen was given to him by his teacher back then.
Simon Donaldson nodded slightly, acknowledging Wiles' words.
A good mentor is very crucial to the career of scholars like them, and a letter of recommendation can give them a huge boost in getting started.
Otherwise, he would be like Zhang Yitang, who spent half his life in desolation and finally became famous in his twilight years.
His experience is basically known to everyone in the mathematics community.
After a moment, Simon Donaldson suddenly smiled and asked: "Like you and Richard Taylor?"
"Yes." Wiles nodded.
Richard Thaler was the student who assisted him in completing the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
In the original proof, although Richard Thaler did not bring decisive help to the final proof, he was a great encouragement to Wiles.
Because he failed to prove Fermat's Last Theorem for the first time, others pointed out the fatal mistake, which caused him to fall into a struggle for nearly a year. In the end, when he was about to give up, this student The help and encouragement brought to him allowed him to persist and complete the proof.
So this also makes him attach great importance to the relationship between teachers and students.
But at this time, Simon Donaldson smiled evilly: "But now it seems that your expectations for Li Mu are greater than the friendship between you and Taylor."
Wiles was stunned and immediately retorted: "Don't talk nonsense, I look forward to Li Mu because of his talent, but Taylor is still one of my most valued students."
"Really? Then I have to go talk to Taylor."
"Don't mess around. I'll treat you to a meal next time."
Simon Donaldson burst into laughter immediately.
"Okay, it's settled."
Wiles glared at him angrily: "You lied to me about another meal."
But at this moment, his cell phone suddenly rang.
He glanced at the caller.
"Huh? Why did that old guy Deligne call?"
Wiles also served at Princeton University for more than ten years, and also served as the Eugene Higgins Professor at Princeton University. This is an honorary teaching position, which represents his ability compared with ordinary professors. Be more prominent.
Of course, it was precisely because of this experience that he was very familiar with Deligne's professors at Princeton University.
After the call was connected, Deligne's voice rang.
"Wiles, you guy, last time you relied on a pen to make Li Mu your student. Now, as a compensation for us, shouldn't you help us find a way to let Li Mu give the English version of his certificate?" Publish it?"
Wiles pulled the phone away to avoid disturbing his ears. After Deligne finished speaking, he replied: "I know you are anxious, but please don't be anxious first."
"Li Mu has not published it now. It must be his consideration. We all have to be patient. Having said that, you might as well learn Chinese together like me. This language is very interesting."
"What? Are you crazy? I'm going to learn Chinese just to read a paper?" Deligne said angrily: "You should have felt how difficult it is to learn Chinese. I would rather spend a few months. I would rather learn Latin than spend a year studying Chinese. "
Wiles smiled and said: "It is always a good thing to learn more. What if Li Mu publishes important results at their Chinese mathematics conference in the future?"
Hearing Wiles' words, Deligne was stunned for a moment, and then said thoughtfully: "It seems to make sense."
"right?"
"Okay, what you said this time makes sense. It just so happens that I don't have much to do recently, so I can learn from it." Deligne said: "But one thing I must say is that you can't let the whole Everyone in the mathematics community will learn Chinese unless you make China a superpower, not to mention that at present, so many of us in the mathematics community have been waiting for the proof of the twin prime conjecture for a long time."
Wiles: "Well... you're right, okay, I'll contact Li Mu later."
"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you. We in the mathematical community are all looking forward to Li Mu's response." Deligne said: "In addition, let me tell you some news. The Cole Prize for Number Theory will be awarded this year. Li Mu's answer to twin prime numbers As long as the proof of the conjecture is confirmed, coupled with the previous hail conjecture, this award must go to him."
Wiles was stunned: "Yes, you reminded me."
The Cole Prize in Number Theory is awarded once every three years to mathematicians who have made significant contributions to number theory. He received this prize after he proved Fermat's Last Theorem.
If you miss it, you have to wait another three years.
Of course, Li Mu has proved the Hailstorm Conjecture, which is definitely enough in terms of qualifications, and he can even win it 99% of the time, but no one would mind turning this probability into 100%.
Then Deligne said no more and hung up the phone.
Wiles also immediately found Li Mu's contact information.
…
As for what Li Mu is doing at this time?
After proving the twin prime conjecture, he was surrounded by a group of domestic mathematicians for a long time and had a discussion with Zhang Yitang.
Then he originally wanted to take some time to meet his sister, but obviously, it was impossible for him to have time of his own at this time.
He was surrounded by a swarm of media. These media were originally here to report on this academic summit. How could they have imagined that they would encounter such big news, and of course they could not let Li Mu go.
Fortunately, the Chinese Mathematical Society quickly sent people to help him out, otherwise he would have been drowned by these media.
However, just after leaving the wolf's den, he entered the tiger's mouth again.
The Chinese Mathematical Society obviously would not let go of him, a benchmark in the domestic mathematics community, and invited him to give his thoughts on this report.
After all, it was the host's invitation, so he had no choice but to agree.
In this way, he could only tell Li Ruyu to stop waiting and wait until he had finished the two days of work.
Li Ruyu was not surprised at all, and Xin Xin became anxious again because she remembered her approved paper, so they returned to the laboratory together.
In this way, in the next period of time, Li Mu seemed to become the busiest person in the entire Chinese mathematics community.
The entire Chinese mathematics community seemed to have become festive, celebrating the achievements of this Chinese mathematics genius.
However, no one noticed that since the end of Li Mu's report, there was a person in a corner of the auditorium who had been looking at the blackboards with dull eyes.
If Li Mu were here, he would definitely be able to recognize this person, the Fan Pairen who he met in the car that day and claimed to be just one step away from proving the twin prime number conjecture.
When he heard Li Mu announce that he had proved the twin prime conjecture, Fan Pairen had been in a daze and couldn't believe it.
All the efforts he had spent studying twin prime numbers for nearly twenty years were in vain?
(End of chapter)
