Demon School

After experiencing the life of Princeton and the report meeting of Beijing Normal University, Lu Qiujian has now seen these world's top scientists clearly calm down a lot; he walked around the crowd with a glass of wine freely, and they were all Interested fields are chatting wildly.

Of course, this evening can only be a shallow exchange of views, and the next day is the time for formal exchanges; in the coffee room of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lu Qiujian, La Foge, Wu Baozhu and others are interested in the Langlands program Scholars are casually wandering around, drinking tea or coffee while communicating.

There is a blackboard in the center of the coffee room. If anyone has an idea, they can stand in front of the blackboard and say their ideas. The blackboard is used to show their brief derivation process and important formulas.

The atmosphere of communication was easy and fierce. Lu Qiujian, Lafouge and Wu Baozhu all stepped forward to show their latest research progress to everyone, and they both benefited a lot.

This exchange has lasted for three days, each time the theme is different, from the beginning of the Langlands program to the middle theory, and finally to the latest progress in quantum physics.

The spark of thought collided fiercely in a small coffee room that was crowded with too many people. The only people who could enter this coffee room were top figures in their fields, except for Searle and Arrow In addition, most people are not old; they are energetic and sharp-minded, and they rarely meet people who can keep up with their own speed of thinking, even if there are institutions of higher learning or higher education in Paris, eleven universities and other institutions Old friend.

Since they are old friends, they are relatively familiar with each other's thinking patterns. Far from Lu Qiujian can bring them so much freshness, the most commendable thing is that Lu Qiujian's research field seems to be more extensive, no matter what topic he talks about. Can put forward novel ideas.

Lv Qiujian is like a catfish that has penetrated into the sardine school, constantly bringing them fresh stimulation, making them passionate, and the sparks of inspiration in their minds constantly flashing.

This feeling reminded physicists such as Arosh to think of the Copenhagen School of Bohr and Heisenberg, Bonn, Pauli, and others, while mathematicians such as Laverge thought of the Princeton afternoon advocated by Levchez. Tea time; although the times, places, and people participating in the discussion are different, the unified and harmonious spirit of free discussion contained therein is consistent.

So that when Lu Qiujian was about to leave, they were reluctant. As if the pilot had no leaves, the fast-acting otaku was deleted, listless and lost.

La Foge drove Lv Qiujian back to the hotel and took a rest overnight to adjust his status. To recover from the excitement of the past few days, Lu Qiujian embarked on a journey to find Grothendieck.

Commissioned the hotel to rent a car for him, and Lu Qiujian began to head south of France; for nearly ten years, Grothendieck has been hiding in a small village in the Pyrenees.

Lv Qiujian first came to the city of Foix, about 800 kilometers from Paris, after a day's posture. This city is the capital of Ariège. It belongs to the Pyrenees region of southern France, and it is not far from the straight line of the small village of Grothendieck.

But since it is a mountainous area, the road will of course not be easy to walk; fortunately, Lu Qiujian is ready to do a solid job. After entering the area where the vehicle cannot drive, he put the car on the town and walked on his own with a backpack.

"I really don't know how Deligne came over at an age!" This journey can only rely on walking. Lu Qiujian not only admired Deligne's physical condition.

After a few more hours of walking, I finally arrived at the small mountain village of Grothendieck at sunset; Grothendieck now lives in an old house without electricity. The paper with complicated formulas, I am afraid that no one will realize that this is the residence of the greatest mathematician in the second half of the twentieth century.

"You take a rest first, I'll get you some food!" Grothendieck brought Lu Qiujian to the fireplace. Then he walked towards the kitchen in a lurch.

"Let me go! I can go to the kitchen and see if I can cook some Chinese dishes for you!" Lu Qiujian, who has the heart to let him cook for himself, quickly grabbed the kitchen.

The special seasoning of Hua Guo cuisine must be wood, and the kitchen utensils are not very good, but it is no problem to make some simple dishes; Lu Qiujian smiled dumbly while cutting potato shreds, I did not expect to give it to others for the first time. The object of cooking is not an adorable girl but an old man!

After eating, people took chairs and came to the yard to bask in the moon, drink coffee and chat. They first talked to Grothendieck about the changes in the mathematics in the past six months. Although the problem caused a lot of noise in the mathematics community, its influence is slowly declining over time; the number of manuscripts received by each issue of the new journal is not much, plus the reasons for strict quality, the first few issues The number of pages is very small.

"These things take time to settle ~ www.readwn.com ~ There is no way to change those stubborn guys in a short time!" If the mathematician who has been doing research related to the problems raised by Lv Qiujian before, it is better to say, if it is While doing research in other fields, it is not easy to change the direction of the research.

"Yes, so I will trouble you again!" Of course Lu Qiujian knew this. That's why he made a special trip to the Pyrenees to find Grothendieck; at the last meeting, if it wasn't for him, it would have changed even less in the mathematical world! He didn't have time to wait for changes in the mathematics world, and continued to use Grothendieck's influence became his best choice.

Grotendick shook his head, "I am not interested in specific mathematics research now! Unless I want to see which direction the mathematics will develop in the future, I will not go to Beijing."

"I don't dare to bother you to do research. I just hope to borrow your huge influence in mathematics!" Lv Qiujian certainly will not demand Grothendieck who has been in seclusion for more than ten years to come back.

"Oh? What do you need me to do?" Grothendieck looked at the moon in the distance and asked in a distant voice.

"In my opinion, any change needs to be promoted by people, and a heavy paper is needed to change the direction of the mathematics." Lu Qiujian has already thought about the solution. "If you want to get the paper, you need someone to This new journal is of interest! So I hope you can be named as the honorary editor of the journal! "

Lv Qiujian explained his intentions and wanted to borrow Grothendieck's reputation to expand the influence of the magazine. To be continued.