I really just want to be a scholar

In fact, this award ceremony was indeed very grand.

Ms. Sima Noah, Chairman of the Wolf Foundation, and important guests including Mr. Peter Higgs and Mr. Roger Penrose also visited the capital of Xia Kingdom in person, and the famous Pierre ·Deligne, Philip Griffith, Andrew Wiles, Robert Langlands (the proposer of the Langlands Program), Faltings, Elon Lindenstrauss and other mathematical circles The veteran scholars also appeared at the Xia Kingdom branch venue.

If it were not for the heavy rain disaster that had just ended in the northern hemisphere and many flights had not been fully restored, the number of mathematicians coming to Xia Guo to participate in this awards ceremony was reduced by more than half. It is estimated that there would be even more mathematicians attending the Xia Guo branch.

But the presence of these big guys was enough to attract more attention to the sub-venue than the main venue.

The awards process at the Beijing branch venue was consistent with that in Jerusalem, and was broadcast to all parts of the world via webcam.

At the awarding ceremony of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Ms. Seema Noah, the chairman of the Board, faced the camera and said loudly: "Hardy once said that mathematics is the simplest and most mundane of all arts and sciences. And Russell also He once said that mathematics is the prototype of the beauty of this world. In modern mathematics, the more technology develops, the more significant the significance of mathematics becomes. It is no exaggeration to say that mathematics is the key to the treasure house of modern science. A science can only succeed when it succeeds. Only when mathematics is fully applied can it truly reach perfection.”

“Today, we are here to award the Wolf Prize in Mathematics to three mathematicians who have had a profound impact on the development of mathematics. They are very different in age, but they are all huge in terms of their contributions to mathematics, especially in the application of mathematics. To promote scientific development."

"At the Xia Guo branch venue, we will award this year's Wolf Prize in Mathematics to two young mathematicians from Xia Guo."

"This is the youngest winner of our Wolf Prize in Mathematics since its establishment. In fact, we should have awarded this prize to them last year, but some people's concerns delayed the decision for a year, and in the past year Here, these two young laureates once again achieved incredible results. They overcame the millennium problem of 'Yang-Mills' existence and mass gap' and passed the quadratic expansion of the Yang-Mills equation. , which has greatly improved the basic theory of particle physics! The saying 'mathematics is the engine of scientific progress' is vividly demonstrated in them!"

"This also prompted all our colleagues at the Wolf Foundation to believe that we must break all worries and rules and award the 'Wolf Mathematics Prize', which symbolizes the unparalleled honor in the international mathematics community, to these two 24-year-olds. young mathematician!"

"Next, the winners, Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingjun, will come on stage to receive their awards, and Mr. Stephen Smail and Mr. Robert Langlands will be invited to present awards to the two young winners respectively!"

Stephen Smail is one of the greatest mathematicians in the contemporary world. He is the winner of the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Wolf Medal in 2007. He is 93 years old this year.

This old man became famous for proving the Poincaré conjecture of more than five dimensions in differential topology, and founded the modern differential dynamical system theory. He has done research in many fields such as dynamical systems, differential topology, computational complexity, and mathematical economics. He made important contributions and proposed the famous Smale Horseshoe - a structurally stable discrete power system similar to a horse's hoof.

In recognition of his contribution, the international scientific community even named an asteroid discovered in 1982 "Stephen Smail's Star".

The 90-year-old mathematics master Robert Langlands is equally famous in the international mathematics community.He has won famous awards such as the Cole Prize in Number Theory, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Steele Prize, the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences (the same prize that Qin Kening Qingjun declined earlier), and the Abel Prize. His most famous achievement is Based on the research results of mathematicians in previous centuries, a comprehensive mathematical system that connects prime numbers and symmetry was created - the Langlands Program!

The Langlands Program is known as the most feasible "grand unified theory" in mathematics. It has had a huge impact on the development of mathematics in the past few decades. Many mathematicians have obtained Ph.D. degrees because of studying this Langlands Program. Ertz Prize, including Wu Baozhu, a Vietnamese mathematician from Vietnam.

Since the death of the centenarian mathematician Mr. Calabi, who was hailed as "one of the most influential in the 20th century" a few days ago, looking around the world, there are only two highly respected and world-famous old mathematicians who have Qualified to award awards to Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun.

Mr. Stephen Smail had difficulty moving, but he insisted on being helped up from his wheelchair by his assistant.

He wanted to stand up and give awards to these two young Xia Guo mathematicians, just to prevent them from bowing their heads.

The old gentleman put the two medals on the necks of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun respectively with his hands covered with age spots and trembling slightly, and said solemnly:

"Congratulations to you, young winners. Although you are very young, I insist that with your achievements and great contributions in mathematics, you no longer need to bow to any mathematician, including me. In it. It is my honor to present the award to you in my lifetime. I believe that the world of mathematics will become more exciting in the next few decades because of you and your wife!"

Mr. Robert Langlands handed the award certificates into their hands and said with a smile:
"I also congratulate you. I am an old friend of Edward Witten. I heard that he, Tao Zhexuan, and you two are working together on a new theoretical attempt of 'mathematical unification'. This is what I have heard in the past ten years. The best news is that my Langlands program is based on prime numbers as a bridge to combine concepts from geometry, algebra and analysis. However, after decades of searching, I have not found the final answer. I deeply regret it. , I hope that your brand-new theory centered on geometry can come out soon, and let me see the answer to the 'unification of mathematics' before I am buried. If there is anyone in the world who can do this, there is no doubt that it must be you. "

The speeches of Stephen Smale and Robert Langlands were carried through the loudspeakers to every corner of the venue, causing a great sensation.

It is simply unique that these two international mathematicians, the only remaining great masters of mathematics among the older generation, can receive such high praise!

Because of the comments of these two old mathematicians, the attention in the branch venue instantly surpassed that of the main venue. All the mathematicians who were paying attention to the award ceremony were amazed, and George. Mr. Lustig could only smile helplessly.

A similar scene occurred again when Mr. Peter Higgs and Mr. Roger Penrose presented medals and certificates to Qin Ke, Ning Qingjun, and Edward Witten respectively.

Mr. Peter Higgs said: "Many people call the 'Higgs boson' the 'God particle', but as an atheist, I don't like this statement. The answer to the question of the origin of the universe should not be' God', but should be the 'existence' confirmed by more complete physical theories. I have repeated your paper "String Theory Framework Unifying Strong Interaction Force, Weak Interaction Force and Electromagnetic Force with New Quantum Gauge Field Theory" I have read it several times and this is the best paper I have ever seen on the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and I hope you can find the real answer."

The speeches of several important guests were undoubtedly "nuclear bomb level" and completely stole the attention of the branch venue. The number of online viewers in the branch venue in the online live broadcast room exceeded 5 million, while the number of online viewers in the main venue was less than 0.5 million. [-] million passengers, a tenfold difference.

The affirmation of the seniors has also made Qin Kening Qingjun and Edward Witten's reputation instantly reach the pinnacle of the international scientific community. Many people even @Norwegian Academy of Natural Sciences and Letters joked: "What are the plans for the Abel Prize?" Is it time to award it to two mathematicians from the Xia Dynasty? You have to take it easy, it’s up to you to attract them to continue investing in mathematics." At the press conference after the award ceremony, reporters even more Qin Ke, Ning Qingyun, and Edward Witten gathered around, and even Tao Zhexuan, who was sitting in the audience, was invited to the stage.

It is no secret that these four groups use mathematics to solve physics problems. In particular, they are solving the problem of detoxification of radioactive elements by establishing a new theoretical framework of "mathematical unification", which has already spread to the international mathematics community. world and the world of physics.

It's just that these four mathematicians have kept a very low profile in the past six months. Apart from occasionally mentioning the content of their research when chatting with close friends, they have not publicly released any relevant news, nor have they accepted interviews from the media.

Now that there is a rare opportunity, how could a group of reporters miss such a big topic?

In the end, Qin Ke was elected to answer these related questions.

Reporter from "The Times Science and Technology Pioneer": "Excuse me, Academician Qin, can you briefly explain your thinking? Is it a secondary improvement of Langlands' program, or do you want to establish a new unified framework for mathematics?"

Qin Ke thought for a while and then replied cautiously: "The Langlands program proposed by Mr. Langlands is based on the 'L-function' composed of analytical continuation, the distribution of zero points and the values ​​of special points. It connects the three major disciplines of number theory, algebraic geometry and group representation theory, and puts forward a series of conjectures that accurately predict the possible connections between some seemingly unrelated fields in mathematics. I think this is the most important step in modern mathematics. The great exploration of grand unification is of great significance to modern mathematics."

"However, the goal of our project is not to unify mathematics, but to use mathematical theories to solve the original physical theories that cannot be verified and explained through high-energy experimental methods. Because the core mathematical theoretical tool of M theory is geometry, and algebra is a tool needed for geometry. . We want to use the 'string' in M ​​theory to study the theoretical basis for controlling the 'decay random events' of radioactive elements. The starting point of choice is naturally 'geometry', which makes it impossible for us to directly use the Langlands program to complete our research work.”

"For this reason, we decided to re-establish a new mathematical theoretical framework that is more suitable for solving our subject problems. It uses geometry as the backbone and connects algebra, number theory, probability theory, mathematical analysis, and topology as branches and leaves to achieve a certain This formal 'unification' forms a theoretical framework and supports our in-depth analysis of M theory."

Although Qin Ke described the theory as simply as possible, the reporters were still confused.

Another reporter asked: "How is the progress of your research? Is it going well?"

"This is a road that no one has tried to walk before, and it is difficult to walk. But thanks to the vigorous development of mathematics in the past hundred years, we have found many classic theories to support it, and we spent more than nine months on it. Exploration and innovation, the current completion rate of this basic theoretical framework is about 70%, and we still need to work hard to apply it to solve practical problems. But we are running out of time. After all, Lao Tao, that is, Professor Tao Zhexuan only teaches The University of California has taken half a year's leave. If we don't want his leave to be extended, our team will have to make up the remaining 8% by the end of August at the latest and use it to solve the problem of detoxification of radioactive elements. This is a big challenge. .”

There was another commotion.Until August?Wouldn't it take only one year to complete a new unified basic framework for mathematics similar to the "Langlands Program"?

A third reporter asked: "Academician Qin, I heard that you have been spending your main energy on the research of extreme climate disasters. Will this affect the progress of your research on this topic?"

"No, in the research of extreme climate disasters, whether it is the scientific research team in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of Qingmu University or the scientific research team of the European Meteorological Center, they are the world's first-class scientific research teams. They have given me and Qingjun a lot. With help. On this issue about the harmlessness of radioactive elements, Edward and Lao Tao also played an indispensable and important role."

The entire press conference lasted about an hour. Not only Qin Ke, but also Ning Qingyun, Edward Witten, and Tao Zhexuan were all interviewed in various ways. The questions were also all kinds of strange. Many of them were related to the extreme climate in recent years. Disaster related.Fortunately, everyone is used to being interviewed, so they can handle it easily.

After the interview ended, media outlets around the world soon released a series of news.

"The youngest winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics and Physics is born!" 》

"Winning three Wolf Prizes in a row, the two youngest academicians of Xia Guo stand at the top of the international scientific community! 》

"New hope for the unification of mathematics is born!" 》

"The road to the unification of mathematics in the luxury group has begun!" 》

"It will be announced before the end of August this year. Will there be major breakthroughs in the research on the unification of mathematics, M theory, and radioactive elements?" 》

"Extreme climate disasters will continue to occur in the second half of the year. The latest views of Academician Qin Ning are public. High temperatures and droughts in summer and severe cold and snow disasters in winter cannot be ignored!" 》

Many media also @Japan, calling on them to postpone the discharge of nuclear wastewater because "the optimal solution to the nuclear wastewater problem may be available in August."

……

The night after the award ceremony, Qingmu University naturally hosted a banquet for various guests and mathematicians, and Qin Ke and others were also busy socializing.

It was not until the third day that most of the famous mathematicians and physicists such as Robert Langlands and Peter Higgs had boarded the return flight. Only then did Qin Ke make time to bring his most familiar old friends, such as Faltin Si, Lindenstrauss, Deligne, Andrew Wiles and others were invited to the garden villa, and a family banquet was prepared to entertain them. (End of chapter)