From all-round academic master to chief scientist

Conducting literature review is a big project, after all, it also requires testing your own retrieval ability.

Search ability is a relatively important ability. The Internet is huge, and the amount of information in the world reaches tens of trillions of gigabytes. Almost any information you want to find can be searched on the Internet, but problems arise. How to retrieve this information is a test of ability.

Of course, for Lin Xiao, he is also a programmer, so he has almost the same basic search skills. As for search ability, not to mention, the amount of knowledge alone is enough for him to easily search for himself. wanted information.

Although there are currently many studies on Lin's conjecture, there are still relatively few papers that can be found. After all, there is still a little precipitation.

So this also means that there is very little help that Lin Xiao can use. From now on, he will still have to rely on himself more.

Just like that, it was four o'clock in the afternoon on the third day of the New Year's Day holiday.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Because he was just reading the paper, Lin Xiao did not enter a state of immersion. After hearing the knock on the door, he felt a little confused, then stood up, came to the door, and opened the door.

"Brother Lin Xiao!"

I saw Zheng Ronger standing outside, looking at Lin Xiao with a smile. In addition, there was a man and woman standing behind her, both in their forties, probably a couple.

"Rong'er."

Seeing Zheng Ronger, Lin Xiao smiled, and then looked at the couple. Between their eyebrows, they looked a bit like Zheng Ronger.

These are probably Zheng Ronger's parents?

Lin Xiao began to guess.

"Hello, Professor Lin."

At this time, the man smiled and stretched out his hand to Lin Xiao and said: "Introduce yourself, Zheng Cheng, this is my wife Xu Yan, Rong'er is our daughter, I have always heard that Professor Lin gives Rong'er math tutoring , and sometimes help take care of her, we made a special trip back to express our gratitude to you."

The woman next to him also smiled at Lin Xiao and nodded.

Lin Xiao then laughed: "I guessed it, haha, there's nothing to thank you for. I also treat Ronger as my sister. Tutoring and other things are just trivial matters."

Then he opened the door and said, "Please come in."

"Excuse me." Zheng Cheng nodded and walked in.

But Zheng Ronger next to her didn't care so much. Lin Xiao was the first familiar with Lin Xiao's house, so she was probably the second familiar, so she ran directly in and put on her clothes with ease. After all, she often came to Lin Xiao's place, so Lin Xiao simply bought her a pair of slippers.

Then she ran into the house and shouted: "Mimi! Mimi, where are you?"

Seeing Zheng Ronger acting like this in other people's homes, parents Zheng Cheng and Xu Yan naturally felt a little embarrassed, so Xu Yan said, "Rong'er, don't run around."

Hearing her mother's words, Zheng Ronger paused, pouted, and looked at her mother.

Lin Xiao couldn't help but laugh, waved her hands and said, "It's okay, Ronger, let's go play."

"Why is this so embarrassing?" Xu Yan couldn't help but apologize.

"Haha, Ronger has been here many times, it's okay, we are all familiar." Lin Xiao smiled and waved her hand, "It's your first time here, so it's normal for you to be unfamiliar."

Hearing what Lin Xiao said, Xu Yan also laughed. As long as the host was not angry, they were also happy that their daughter could be so familiar with Lin Xiao.

After all, Lin Xiao's reputation and status in their country are not covered by anything. Being able to have a good relationship with Lin Xiao is what many people in the domestic academic community hope for.

So Xu Yan didn't say anything more, and just told her daughter not to be too naughty, not to run around and jump around, just like what ordinary parents often tell their children when they are visiting.

With her parents' permission, Zheng Ronger cheered again, and then ran into Lin Xiao's bedroom to tease Mimi.

Seeing this scene, Father Zheng and Mother Zheng, who were already sitting on the sofa, couldn't help but shake their heads.

"This girl is already in college, but she still acts like a child."

Lin Xiao brought two cups of tea, handed them to the parents, and said with a smile: "Children have a good attitude. When I first met Rong'er, she was only in the first year of high school. She was more like a girl then than she is now. Little girl."

Then he also sat on the sofa and said with a smile: "This also shows that you protect her very well."

"Protected well?" Zheng Cheng shook his head helplessly: "Her grandparents should have protected her well. Xu Yan and I rarely come back. In the past, we mostly picked her up."

"Well...are you doing research at the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of Zhejiang University?" Lin Xiao suddenly asked.

"Yes." Zheng Cheng nodded and said with a smile: "Xu Yan and I both graduated with Ph.D. degrees in physics from Modan University. We got married after graduation and have been doing research there since then. However, my registered permanent residence is in Beijing. Thinking that the educational resources here in Shangjing are good, I asked Rong'er to follow her grandfather."

"It's pretty good to go from being a classmate to getting married." Lin Xiao smiled, and then asked, "Don't you plan to go back to Beijing?"

"I've been planning it." Zheng Cheng shook his head and said, "Both of us are studying condensed matter. If we were to study other things, we probably wouldn't be familiar with them. We're probably not as good as those current Ph.D. graduates, so we probably have to spend the rest of our lives. Study this thing.”

"We are planning to transfer to the State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity and have been looking for opportunities. The competition is quite fierce. We only recruit one or two people every year, and all papers must be from at least one area."

"Then keep working hard." Lin Xiao smiled.

At this time, Zheng Ronger walked out with Mimi in her arms and sat on the sofa next to Lin Xiao. Watching her parents talking to Lin Xiao, she always felt a little weird.

My parents seemed to respect Brother Lin Xiao very much.

Although she knew that Lin Xiao was very powerful, in her eyes, her parents' authority was irreplaceable.

At this time, she saw that her parents had such an attitude towards her brother Lin Xiao, which caused some of her past understandings to change.

The three people who were talking didn't care about Zheng Ronger.

Zheng Cheng sighed with emotion: "Professor Lin, you are so awesome. Now you have become the chief designer of a national key project."

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "It's all the same, there's pressure."

"Well, I heard that you are going to use a crystal lens to diffract X-rays? Isn't this a bit difficult?"

"Well, we are working on this thing now." Lin Xiao sighed: "Now I have encountered a problem. You know Lin's conjecture, right?"

Before Zheng Cheng and Xu Yan could speak, Zheng Ronger raised her hand and said, "I know, I know!"

"Brother Lin Xiao, that's the guess you made at the beginning, right? What does it seem to be called?"

Zheng Ronger wrinkled her face and thought for a long time before saying, "Does it mean that all functions can be converted into layers?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Yes."

Xu Yan was surprised and said: "Professor Lin, are you going to prove Lin's conjecture?"

"Yeah." Lin Xiao said with a smile: "As long as I complete this proof, it will be helpful to my current research. In addition, this year's International Congress of Mathematicians in Russia invited me to give a report. If I complete the proof, I can also get it. Go do it at the International Congress of Mathematicians.”

Hearing what Lin Xiao said, Zheng Cheng was even more surprised: "The International Congress of Mathematicians invited you to give a report?"

"Yes." Lin Xiao smiled and said, "One hour report."

Zheng Cheng couldn't help but extend his thumb and said with emotion: "Awesome."

"Is Mr. Zheng also interested in the International Congress of Mathematicians?"

Zheng Cheng smiled and said: "I'm interested, but I can only pay attention to it. You can't let me go and participate."

"However, I recently read a magazine written by a mathematics professor at MIT. He seemed to point out that there is a little connection between your Lin's conjecture and Hodge's conjecture. If you want To prove your conjecture, you may also be able to learn something from past research on the Hodge conjecture.”

"Hodge's conjecture?"

Lin Xiao was stunned.

Hodge's conjecture is one of the seven millennium problems.

As for its content, it is actually very simple: on non-singular complex projective algebraic varieties, any Hodge class is a rational linear combination of algebraic closed chain classes.

To put it in more detail, let X be a non-singular complex projective manifold, then each Hodge class on X is a linear combination of the rational coefficients of the cohomology class of the complex subvariable of X.

Big and expanded, simple and simple, it’s like this and that, and then that’s it.

Of course, in terms of form, Lin's conjecture and Hodge's conjecture are very similar. They both draw an equal sign between two concepts. At the same time, they are also problems in algebraic geometry, but the gap in the middle is a bit big. , Lin Xiao had never thought about the connection between the two before.

However, now someone has found the relationship between these two problems?

Lin Xiao immediately said: "What is that magazine?"

"I'll send it back to you."

"Okay, thank you."

"You're welcome." Zheng Cheng smiled.

However, at this moment, Xu Yan next to her suddenly said: "Professor Lin, if you have completed the proof of Lin's conjecture, can you inform us in advance?"

Lin Xiao was stunned, but Zheng Cheng asked first: "What did you think of?"

Xu Yan said: "kagome superconductor, anisotropic s-wave pairing."

After Zheng Cheng thought for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Yes!"

Then he said to Lin Xiao: "Professor Lin, this matter will trouble you."

"This is a topic we have studied. We had some problems when performing quantum topological calculations. Later we found that if your Lin's conjecture can be proved, that problem will be solved. If that topic is completed, we I will be sure to publish an article in Nature or Science! It will be very helpful for us to transfer to the Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter!"

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Of course it's no problem."

The couple was immediately overjoyed and thanked them profusely.

Zheng Ronger who was standing next to her was even more surprised when she saw this scene. Although she still couldn't understand what they were talking about, it didn't stop her from knowing that Brother Lin Xiao could help her parents.

Next, Lin Xiao and Zheng's father and mother continued to chat, and Zheng Ronger continued to watch next to her. At the same time, Lin Xiao's figure seemed to become taller and taller in her eyes.

Time passed gradually.

When it was time to eat in the afternoon, Father Zheng and Mother Zheng left with Zheng Ronger.

Lin Xiaoze immediately opened the magazine that Zheng Cheng sent him.

Lin Xiao's eyes couldn't help but light up when he saw the demonstration on the relationship between Lin's conjecture and Hodge's conjecture.

Although there is no equivalence between the two, at this time, he can use previous research on Hodge's conjecture to help him study Lin's conjecture.

The research results on the Hodge Conjecture have been accumulated for decades.

"Let's do it!"

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