Reborn Tech Scholar

Chapter 346

The news that Perelman joined Shuimu University is absolutely sensational.

After all, Perelman is the top mathematician in the world. Except for Qin Yuanqing, no mathematician dares to pat his chest and say that his strength exceeds Perelman, and the honor he has won exceeds Perelman.

Even though Perelman is a maverick and does not give the Clay Institute face, but the Cray Institute has already made a name for itself. Perelman is welcome to withdraw the 100 million US dollars anytime and anywhere. Only Perelman Provide an exact account and the $100 bonus will arrive immediately.

Speaking of which, the Clay Institute has had a lot of luck in the past ten years. Although it has become famous by promulgating the seven major mathematical problems and offering a reward of 100 million US dollars for each mathematical problem, it has not met Pei in a few years. Perelman, a weirdo, won't even ask for a bonus, even the Clay Institute is famous, so there is no need for Perelman to come to the scene to receive it in person, or to attend any award ceremony.

Furthermore, Qin Yuanqing's solution to the Yang-Mills theory is also a millennium problem. As a result, if someone else has a bonus of 100 million US dollars, he would have already rushed to the field bonus, and then boasted about the Clay Institute at the award ceremony. In this way, although the Clay Institute paid a prize of 100 million US dollars, it could also gain a lot of fame.

But Qin Yuanqing is a super rich man, earning much more than 100 million US dollars a day, he is not willing to go to the Cray Research Institute to receive bonuses, and then the top person in charge of the Cray Research Institute runs around. Going to Shuimu University and handing Qin Yuanqing a check of 100 million US dollars in person, it can be said that he is not that tall at all.

In the past, the 100 million prize money of the Clay Institute can be said to be the highest prize money in mathematics research. Whether it is the Fields Medal, the Ramanujan Prize, or the Wolf Mathematics Prize, it is less than the Cray Institute's prize money. Big cut.

But now, it didn't work, and it happened twice, which made the Clay Institute's reputation in the mathematics world drop a lot.

As a result, the effect soon appeared. For a while, Shuimu University received many applications for visiting scholars and exchange students, including Fields Medal and Nobel Prize winners. The number of Mizuki exchange students.

President Chen is also much busier than before. When international scholars come, the first thing to do is not to take the scholars to visit Tsinghua Campus, but to take the scholars to the Shahe Campus, visit the Shahe Campus, and see that the buildings have been built. villas, as well as advanced research institutes, various laboratories, beautiful forest parks and lakes.

Don't say that no matter how beautiful the campus is, it is useless. This kind of statement is very one-sided. You must know that building a school well is itself a manifestation of the strength of a school.

Just like the beauties on Douyin, as long as they are beautiful enough, they can attract a large number of fans immediately. The first sense of these fans is beauty, not an interesting soul.

The same is true for colleges and universities. When others come to a university, they will not firstly know how long the university has a long history or how many famous scholars it has produced, but to see how well the university is built.The second is to get in touch with and understand its cultural heritage.

The Shahe Campus of Shuimu University is undoubtedly the world's first-class hardware facilities, with six world-class laboratories and 23 world-class laboratories. It has its own supercomputing center, modern library, and modern classrooms. There are villas with exquisite shapes. This undoubtedly reflects the hard power of Shuimu University.

As a result, all the praises were received, and the information about Mizuki spread rapidly in the world. The proud sons of many countries have considered studying in Mizuki, and some famous scholars are also considering whether to teach in Mizuki.

And after Qin Yuanqing successfully fooled Perelman, he turned his idea to Wei Teng. If Wei Teng is drawn to Mizuki, then Mizuki's mathematics department will not only become stronger, but also physics, especially string theory, will become a world leader. First class.

The reason why Princeton University is able to take the lead in string theory is because Witten is at Princeton University. As a master of string theory, he is undoubtedly the most authoritative in string theory in the world.

Compared with Perelman, Witten is much easier, because mathematicians and physicists in the whole world know that Witten's wish is to make new breakthroughs in string theory, so as to win the Nobel Prize in Physics Award, prove yourself.

For Witten, although he became the first scholar to win the Fields Medal as a physicist, he has always believed that his major is a physicist, and a mathematician is a hobby.Therefore, Witten wants to win the Nobel Prize in Physics more than the Fields Medal.

If there is a weakness, it is easy to solve it.

At Princeton University, Witten may not be able to win the Nobel Prize in Physics until he dies, because no one can help him.

But Qin Yuanqing is different. If there is anything in this world that can help Witten win the Nobel Prize in Physics, it is Qin Yuanqing.

Physics is about to reach its full level. Although Qin Yuanqing didn't study string theory specifically, he still has a lot of understanding of string theory.Speaking of string theory, we have to talk about its history.

Before string theory, theoretical physics considered the fundamental units of nature to be point-like particles like electrons, photons, neutrinos, and quarks.In this particle theory, it is believed that all matter is composed of "point" particles occupying only one degree of space. It is also a widely accepted physical model and has successfully explained and predicted quite a few physical phenomena and problems.At present, the knowledge received in high school can basically be regarded as particle theory, and it is relatively simple. For example, neutrinos and quarks are just mentioned in high school physics.

But the "particle model" on which particle theory is based suffers from unexplainable problems.For example, the gravitational force increases to infinity close to the particle.

So theoretical physicists want to study whether there is some kind of smaller basic unit.The rudimentary form of string theory turned out to be discovered by Venecino in 1968.He was originally looking for a mathematical formula that could describe the strong force in the nucleus, and then found the 200-year-old Euler's formula in an old mathematical book, which could successfully describe the strong force he was looking for. force.However, the further understanding of the formula as a short elastic 'line segment' that can be twisted and shaken like a rubber band was discovered by Leonard Suzkan shortly afterwards, which later issued "string theory", and Leo Nat Suzkan is also known as one of the founders of string theory.

In the physics world, it is generally accepted that string theory was first proposed by Yoichiro Nambu, a Japanese-American physicist at the University of Chicago, in 1970 as a self-contained set of theoretical basis.

And this involves an interesting fact in the physics world. Nanyang Yoichiro's 1970 paper, which was the foundation of string theory, was actually first presented to the public in 1995 when he published a collection of papers.

Later, the physics community confirmed what happened to Professor Nanfang. He finished his landmark paper on string theory in the spring of 1970, and then invited several big physics figures in the United States at that time to review his paper together in a secret cabin.

The bigwigs were shocked by Nambu Yoichiro's explosive theory, and they all admired him. The 50-year-old Nambu Yoichiro's reputation has grown and is remembered by many bigwigs.

Then Nambu Yoichiro went to San Francisco to give a special report meeting. When he came to the lecture hall, Professor Nambu Yoichiro opened his briefcase and suddenly found out, shit, where is my thesis?

There was no PPT at that time, because Microsoft had not yet been established, and Yoichiro Nambu originally planned to read it according to the paper, but the paper was lost.

So Professor Nambu Yoichiro reported his research results on string theory based on his memory.

Although only a few people have read Nambu Yoichiro's papers, all of them are physics experts and are very influential and authoritative.In addition, Nambu Yoichiro's string theory ideas at the time were original, and he relied on his good eloquence. Even if he did not find a paper, Nambu Yoichiro was widely regarded as the founder of string theory at that time.

The strange things in the physics world have emerged, and the little Nanfang has become the old Nannan. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008, but the reason for the award was not string theory, but the spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism of subatomic physics.

With the continuous improvement and development of string theory, a relatively complete theoretical system has been formed. A basic point of string theory is that the basic unit of nature is not point-like particles such as electrons, photons, neutrinos, and quarks, but very small particles. Small linear "strings", including "open strings" with endpoints and looped "closed strings" or closed strings.Different vibrations and movements of strings produce various elementary particles, and energy and matter can be transformed, so string theory does not prove that matter does not exist.The scales of strings in string theory are very small, and the fundamental principles governing their properties predict the existence of several larger scales of membrane-like objects, referred to simply as "branes."

In string theory, the fundamental objects are not elementary particles occupying a single point in space, but one-dimensional strings.These strings can have endpoints, or they can join themselves into a closed loop.Like strings on a violin, string theory supports certain modes of oscillation, or resonant frequencies, whose wavelengths are precisely matched.

Of course, Schwartz, a physics teacher at Caltech, and his French students, this pair of mentors and apprentices perfected the theory of Raymond, a researcher at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States, and promoted the birth of superstring theory, and they are also regarded as The creator of superstring theory.

However, what really played a huge role in promoting superstring theory and string theory was Edward Witten's strong entry into the field of superstring theory research. He became the first physicist in the world to win the Fields Medal.

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