ICTP International Center for Theoretical Physics, located in Trieste, Italy.
Trieste is one of the wealthiest regions in Italy and a very prosperous port city in Europe.
When Li Mu was riding on the plane and overlooking the city from above, he could also feel the atmosphere of this port city.
Soon, the plane landed at Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport, and then he and Andrew Wiles got off the plane.
The ICTP conference will be held at the Trieste Conference Center, so the hotel they stayed at was the Joyce Hotel near the conference center.
I arrived at the Joyce Hotel by car. Just after I got off the car, a car also arrived, and then an old man got out of the car.
After the old man got out of the car, he greeted Li Mu and the others: "Hey, Li Mu, Andrew!"
The two of them turned around and looked surprised.
"Professor Qiu!"
This old man is Qiu Chengtong.
Qiu Chengtong walked towards them with a smile: "It's a coincidence that we can meet here."
Andrew smiled and asked: "Are you also here to attend the meeting the day after tomorrow?"
"Of course, aren't all the people who come here come here to attend this conference?" Qiu Chengtong said, "Of course the most important thing is that I am here to accompany my students."
He turned around and waved to a young man who had just got off the car behind him: "Xu Ziyang, come here."
The young man was about to get his luggage from the trunk. After hearing the instructor's greeting, he quickly came over and said, "Professor, what's the matter?"
"Let me introduce you to Andrew Wiles, the prover of Fermat's last theorem."
Xu Ziyang was immediately surprised and turned to look at Andrew Wiles. This famous name is known to everyone in the mathematics world. He immediately shouted respectfully: "Professor Wiles, I am very happy. See you!”
Andrew Wiles smiled and nodded at him: "Hello, I have heard of your name. The paper you published in the "Annals of Mathematics" before, I remember it was about the minimal hypersurface in closed manifolds. ? Very good, keep up the good work.”
"Thank you Professor Wiles!"
Xu Ziyang nodded repeatedly, and then he noticed another young man next to him out of the corner of his eye. After thinking about it, he probably was also a student of Wiles.
Eh... seems to be Chinese too?
Wait...why does it look familiar?
He couldn't help but take another look, and then his eyes widened and he exclaimed: "Damn it, Faun!"
Qiu Chengtong, who was next to him, also smiled at this time: "This is Li Mu. Didn't you say he is your idol? Now you have met the real person."
Xu Ziyang was already very excited and went up to shake hands with Li Mu.
"Faun, I finally see you!"
Then there are all kinds of words of admiration, which are like a manifestation of success in chasing stars.
In the end, he even asked Li Mu to sign his name on the notebook.
Li Mu couldn't laugh or cry for a moment.
Just like that, after a while of greetings, they entered the hotel together.
"Are you saying that your student is likely to win this year's Ramanujan Award, so that's why you came here?"
On the way to the hotel room, Wiles asked Qiu Chengtong.
Qiu Chengtong nodded: "Yes, of course it is not just this part of the reason. I can also be regarded as a theoretical physicist, so it is normal to attend such a meeting."
As he spoke, he shook his head regretfully: "It's a pity that the Dirac Medal has nothing to do with me."
Wiles nodded and said, "That's true."
The ICTP Dirac Medal has a rule, that is, it will not be awarded to Fields Medal, Nobel Prize, or Wolf Prize winners.
When Qiu Chengtong started to get involved in theoretical physics, it was already after he won the Fields Medal and the Wolf Medal, so he naturally had no chance.
Otherwise, Qiu Chengtong's achievements in theoretical physics would have been enough to win this award.
"However, the most uncontroversial person to receive the Dirac Medal this year is probably Li Mu."
Qiu Chengtong turned to look at Li Mu next to him, smiled and patted his shoulder: "The dimensional force you discovered is like a nuclear bomb to the entire theoretical physics community. I think I can probably advance it." congratulation."
Li Mu waved his hand: "This matter is not yet certain."
Qiu Chengtong smiled: "If I don't award it to you, then there is something wrong with ICTP."
"There is also the Ramanujan Award. You are also on the list of candidates. Xiao Xu, you have a very strong opponent."
Xu Ziyang waved his hands repeatedly and said: "I don't dare to compete with the Shepherd. The Shepherd is much more qualified than me."
Qiu Chengtong pointed at him with a smile, but didn't say anything in the end. After all, Li Mu was more qualified to receive this award than anyone else.
This does not mean that Xu Ziyang has no future, but rather that he is self-aware.
In this way, while chatting, they each reached the hotel floor and ended their discussion.
The next time is to wait for the official start of the meeting on August 8.
However, on the night of August 6, the two papers Li Mu submitted to arxiv were officially announced.
Normally, papers submitted on arxiv generally have to be reviewed by the website, which is similar to a plagiarism check. Although the preprint website is not an official journal, it also has requirements for duplication rate, at least on the website. During the review process, there should be no obvious plagiarism, and such review usually takes more than one day.
Of course, this kind of review is only for ordinary authors, but it is different for people like Li Mu. As well-known scholars in the academic world, when they publish papers on preprint websites like arxiv, they can get it passed quickly.
Therefore, the paper Li Mu submitted at noon was approved a few hours later.
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Oxford University, Merton College.
In Lucas Richter's office.
Although the sky had darkened, Richter still did not leave the office and was still studying Goldbach's conjecture.
Although for him, studying Goldbach's conjecture is just a matter of interest and not something that must be done.
But just like Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory says, when all a person's basic needs are no longer lacking, that is, after physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, and esteem needs are all met, self-realization occurs. It became the last need.
So for Richter, proving Goldbach's conjecture was a kind of self-realization for him.
But it is a bit difficult to achieve this step.
"Is it really impossible to do this in the field of number theory?"
Li Heter crumpled the scrap paper into a ball and threw it into the trash can next to him, and sighed.
After such a long period of research, there was still no progress, which also made him a little annoyed.
It had been almost three months since he ended his cooperation with Li Mu, which reminded him of what Li Mu had said to him.
"Start from the perspective of algebraic geometry..."
After reciting something silently, Li Hete began to feel shaken.
Maybe he should give up his persistence?
"I just don't know where Li Mu's research has gone, and how far he is from success."
"Forget it, let's go see how other people's research is progressing first."
After patting his head, he decided to expand his thinking, so he turned on the computer and logged into arxiv skillfully.
Suddenly he noticed that the website notified that the author he was following had published a paper.
After taking a look, he said, "Huh? It's actually Li Mufa's paper?"
For so long, the academic community has basically formed a common understanding, that is, Li Mu usually does not publish papers casually, but once published, it will inevitably have a very significant impact on the academic community.
Either it’s groundbreaking or it’s disruptive.
So what will Li Mu publish this time?
Could it be...
With expectation and a little hesitation, Li Hutt went in.
Then he froze.
Li Muxin published two papers, and the title of one of them made him find it hard to believe.
"K-Modular Forms of Sieve Method and Circle Method and Goldbach's Conjecture".
"Goldbach Conjecture!"
"Did he really do it...?!"
He practically wiped his eyes and read the title again.
At this time, the content of the first half finally attracted his attention.
"Wait! The K-module form of the sieve method and the circle method! This seems to be the method he said at the beginning. Did he succeed?"
"There is another paper, "Self-consistent properties of elliptic curves in K-mode"? Elliptic curves?"
Li Heter was suddenly shocked.
At this point he realized that this paper was the key.
He quickly downloaded both papers, and then looked at the paper on elliptic curves first.
The two papers total more than 150 pages, and this paper is the longest, with more than 100 pages, nearly twice as long as the other paper.
Then, the summary part shocked him.
"Using the elliptic curve under the L-function, it can be perfectly combined in the K-module form?! I bought it!"
Just from the abstract, he could see the importance of the paper.
Even though his study of algebraic geometry was not as profound as that of number theory, he was equally clear about the purpose of the Langlands Program.
The results revealed in this summary are obviously extremely important to the Langlands Program!
He looked down with shocked thoughts.
In this way, he became more and more surprised, and at the same time, his whole body was completely absorbed in this paper.
Forgot the passage of time.
…
the next morning.
When the office door opened, Isa Grosvenor walked in.
Seeing that there seemed to be no one in the office, she smiled and said, "It seems that I am the first one to arrive today."
But when she got closer, she suddenly discovered that there was a person lying on the professor's desk. When she took a closer look, wow, wasn't that the professor? !
She was immediately startled and thought something had happened. She quickly ran over and shouted: "Professor! Professor, wake up!"
As she got closer, she heard Li Hete snoring, and she felt relieved.
Otherwise, she would have thought that an accident had occurred.
I took another look and saw that the monitor was still on. What was displayed on it was a paper that was more than 100 pages long, and it was currently staying at more than 70 pages.
"Professor, you were reading papers here last night. Did you fall asleep?"
She couldn't help but guess this.
At this moment, Li Hete's body suddenly moved, probably because Isa had shouted several times just now and was about to wake up.
Seeing this, Isha shouted a few more words, and Li Heter quickly sat up.
He rubbed his eyes, and finally picked up the glasses from the table next to him. After putting them on, he looked at Isa: "Well, it's...Isa? What time is it now? It must be very late, right? You Didn’t you go back long ago?”
Isa couldn't laugh or cry: "Professor, it's already the next day, eight o'clock in the morning on August 7th! You slept in the office last night."
Li Heter was stunned immediately.
Has it already been one night?
He didn't realize it at all!
"Were you reading some paper last night? I actually let you read it for so long."
At this time, Isa pointed at the content on the monitor again and asked curiously.
"Thesis?" Li Heter reacted immediately and immediately looked at the monitor again: "Yes! Thesis! I haven't finished reading it yet!"
He watched it late into the night yesterday, but fell asleep while watching it. Now when he looked at the monitor, he saw that he had only seen more than 70 pages!
No, he has to finish reading it today!
Seeing the professor like this, Isa became even more curious and asked again: "What is this paper? Aren't you going to take a good rest?"
"We can't rest. This paper is too important." Richter shook his head, recalling the more than seventy pages he had read, and then said in amazement: "This paper is absolutely very important to the world of mathematics." meaning!”
"Li Mu, it's still the same Li Mu."
Isa was stunned: "You mean this paper was written by Li Mu?"
"Yes."
Li Het nodded, then smiled bitterly and said: "Probably, he has really solved Goldbach's conjecture. His original direction was correct."
"What?!"
Isa's eyes widened immediately. Li Mu, has he solved Goldbach's conjecture? !
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(End of chapter)
