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Chapter 288 The person who digs the wall

The familiar figure obviously also spotted Chen Zhou.

Walking to Chen Zhou with a smile on his face.

Chen Zhou greeted politely: "Professor Zhang, what a coincidence. Are you coming to the street stall too?"

Zhang Shouwu looked around, and these people really seemed to be setting up a street stall.

With a soft smile, he said, "Chen Zhou, you are finally here."

Hearing this, Chen Zhou jokingly said, "Professor Zhang, it hasn't been long since we separated?"

"You kid, you know what I'm talking about." Zhang Shouwu said with a smile.

Chen Zhou followed with a smile, and then said, "Let's talk while walking?"

Zhang Shouwu thought for a while, and the first report today was also about number theory, so he nodded and said, "Okay, let's go."

There are not many people in the auditorium.

Chen Zhou and Zhang Shouwu found a seat behind the middle and waited for the start of the report meeting.

"Chen Zhou." Zhang Shouwu seemed hesitant to speak.

Chen Zhou couldn't help smiling: "Professor Zhang, we are so familiar, so just tell me what you have."

"You really don't think about coming to Princeton?" Zhang Shouwu extended an invitation to Chen Zhou again.

Although Chen Zhou rejected the two previous invitations in the Qiu competition.

But Zhang Shouwu really hoped that Chen Zhou could come to Princeton and continue to study mathematics.

Princeton is without a doubt the mathematical center of the current world.

Princeton also has one of the best math departments in the world.

In a sense, Princeton also has a mathematical heritage.

Because the establishment of Princeton's world mathematics center was inherited from the Göttingen School.

As we all know, the Göttingen School is a long-term dominant school in the development of mathematical science in the world.

The Göttingen school is also a school of real talents.

If it weren't for the war, it might be the center of world mathematics now, still in Europe.

Gauss, the prince of mathematics, started the era of the Göttingen School of Mathematics, and he brought modern mathematics to a new level.

Later, Riemann, Dirichlet and Jacobi inherited Gauss' work and made contributions in the fields of algebra, geometry, number theory and analysis.

Klein and Hilbert brought the German Göttingen School of Mathematics into its heyday, and the University of Göttingen thus became an international center for mathematical research and education.

People like von Neumann, Weyl, and Artin all came from the Göttingen School.

Including Einstein, also at the University of Göttingen.

However, as the war progressed, talent shifted.

If you make a partial list of mathematicians and physicists who took refuge in the United States from Germany, including Austria, Hungary and other countries, you can see the transfer of talents.

Following Weyl and von Neumann as professors at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in the United States, Courant taught at New York University and founded the world-famous Institute of Applied Mathematics.

The mathematics of the United States is in the leading position in the world, and Princeton has replaced Göttingen as the center of world mathematics until today.

Faltings, Deligne, and Langlands, who helped Chen Zhou review the manuscript this time, are all professors from Princeton.

"Maybe I'm better at...tossing?" Chen Zhou said while thinking, "I like more challenges, not just in mathematics!"

Zhang Shouwu was stunned, he didn't expect Chen Zhou to say such a reason.

But this... Couldn't Princeton give you a challenge?
"But Princeton's other disciplines are not weaker than MIT. I know you also minored in physics, and I can tell you with certainty that Princeton's physics department is definitely better than MIT!" Zhang Shouwu's tone was a little excited.

Chen Zhou's talent in number theory is definitely worth his further study in Princeton!
He didn't want Chen Zhou to give up this talent.

Moreover, even if you want to do physics at the same time, Princeton should be your first choice?

No other reason, just one reason.

This is the school where Einstein worked, just ask if you are enough?
Chen Zhou is a little dizzy. The purpose of this professor today is to... poach the wall?

But this is MIT?

Moreover, Chen Zhou felt that for him, the difference between MIT and Princeton was not very big.

If it is purely about honor, MIT has produced 97 Nobel Prize winners, 8 Fields Medal winners, and 26 Turing Award winners.

Princeton has produced 68 Nobel Prize winners, 15 Fields Medal winners, and 14 Turing Award winners.

If you look at it this way, MIT is strong in science?Princeton is good at math?
Of course, this is just a comparison of the number of awards.

Just like every Nobel Prize winner, his contribution cannot be compared with just one award.

Nor should MIT and Princeton be compared solely on the basis of honor.

"That..." Chen Zhou looked at the reporter who was about to start on the stage, and said to Zhang Shouwu, "Professor Zhang, let me think about it."

Zhang Shouwu glanced at Chen Zhou, and sighed softly: "Okay, then you should think about it carefully, I still sincerely hope that you can come to Princeton!"

"Yeah." Chen Zhou nodded and turned his gaze to the podium.

This is a young mathematician about 40 years old. The main content of his report this time is about the L-function problem in the field of number theory.

Generally, for a mathematical object X, a complex number sequence {λx(n)}n=1→∞ can be defined.

Just like L(s, X)=n=1→∞∑λx(n)/n^s, Rs1.

And the Dirichlet series with the Euler product can be called the L-function of X.

According to Professor Langlands' report at the International Congress of Mathematicians, there are three main parts to study an L-function.

are the analytic continuation, the distribution of zero points, and the value of special points, respectively.

There's too much speculation involved here.

Like Artin's conjecture, Riemann's conjecture, BSD conjecture and so on.

The presenter's research is to study the distribution of the imaginary part of the zero point under the assumption of Riemann's conjecture.

It's not Chen Zhou's favorite style, but it doesn't prevent him from listening.

Stones from other hills, can learn.

After Chen Zhou finished the first half of his freshman year, he didn't attend any class.

This report meeting gave him some feeling of listening to a lecture.

However, Chen Zhou was surprised that the report meeting had already started, why did so many people come?
Are current academic conferences so open?
The feeling that everyone doesn't pay attention?

Seeing that Chen Zhou was listening seriously, Zhang Shouwu couldn't help sighing again, he should leave this matter to his teacher, Professor Faltings.

Zhang Shouwu's attention was also shifted to the reporter on the stage.

The young professor on the stage thought that there would be many big shots.

It turned out that the seats under the stage were not even full.

He was not much depressed, but relieved.

In this case, the QA link is simple.

Obviously, his tone gradually relaxed, and his speech speed also accelerated a lot.

Just as Chen Zhou and the others were listening seriously, a person approached them quietly.

(End of this chapter)