I really just want to be a scholar

Compared with the first-tier cities in Xia, which often have tens of millions of people, Miami, the second largest city in Florida and the most populous city in Florida, has a permanent population of only about 61. This current situation will probably surprise many people who have visited this city, because they are deeply impressed by the bustling and bustling city that is full of people all year round.

In fact, it is not surprising that most of these pedestrians are tourists. As a popular tourist city, Miami attracts more than 11 million tourists every year. It is a typical tourist city with more tourists than locals.

Winter is originally the peak tourist season in Miami. However, this year due to the upcoming "Little Ice Age", the number of tourists in Miami has increased several times. The number of tourists in the past two weeks alone has exceeded the entire winter in previous years. Number of tourists.

Those who have the most profound experience of this hot scene are probably the mathematicians from all over the world who came to participate in the International Congress of Mathematicians held by IMU.

For example, Faltings, Deligne and Linden Strauss from Princeton. As soon as they got off the plane at Miami International Airport, they saw groups of tourists, most of whom were traveling with their families. Dragging several large suitcases, it looked like he was going to stay for two or three months.

It was even more exaggerated after they came out of the airport. The reception car they took was less than one kilometer away from the airport and was stuck on the road.

The IMU representative in charge of the reception was a young man named Yanol Calomon. He probably had just graduated from his Ph.D., and he still had residual acne on his face.

He sat in the passenger seat, glanced at the endless traffic queue in front of him, and turned back helplessly: "I'm sorry, the three distinguished guests, it is estimated that it will take three to four hours to arrive at the Miami Hotel today. It took almost as long yesterday.”

About three to four hours?

Faltings and others looked at each other in confusion. They had all been to Miami before and knew that the distance from the airport to the city center was only 40 to 50 kilometers. They did not expect that the traffic jam would be so severe.

Deligne asked: "Apart from the people who come to attend the Mathematicians' Conference, are they mainly tourists who come to escape the cold and survive the winter?"

"Yes, ever since Academician Qin Ke of Xia State issued the early warning of the 'Little Ice Age', people in many northern cities have become nervous. They are waiting for our meteorological center to confirm and issue a warning to prevent extreme low temperature disasters. After the announcement, the number of wealthy tourists coming to Miami began to surge. The hotel room rates have increased several times, but they are still full everywhere, even the hotels in the suburbs are fully booked." Carlomon shrugged his shoulders and said thankfully:

"Fortunately, our IMU booked the hotel and venue one month in advance, otherwise we would not have been able to book another room. There were several mathematicians who originally said they were not available, but later changed their minds and wanted to attend the conference. We also had to Without informing them, we can no longer arrange a single room, and they can only share the room vacated by our staff.”

Linden Strauss looked at the long flow of traffic outside the car window and sighed: "Miami is really going to be overcrowded this time..."

Carlomon echoed: "Who says it's not the case? I heard that the mayor of Miami privately praised Academician Qin Ke of Xia State. It seems that it is really thanks to Academician Qin that Miami's tourism industry this year has improved." Income has doubled.”

Lindenstrauss smiled and said: "At least IMU changed the venue of the meeting because of Qin Ke's warning message."

"More than that," Calomon lowered his voice again and said in a gossipy tone:

"As far as I know, in addition to the large number of wealthy tourists coming here from the north to escape the cold, there are also dozens of award-winning representatives from academic and scientific research institutions. They all said before that they would award awards to Academician Qin Ke and his wife. , including the World Food Prize Foundation, because Academician Qin Ke and his wife stated that they would only stay in Miami and would not go to other places in the United States. In order to award awards to this great couple of scientists, the awarding organizations had to Came from out of town. They arrived late, and most of them had not booked a hotel in the city center. They could only beg us to let IMU temporarily set aside a small lecture hall in the Miami Hotel to decorate it for them. The award ceremony..."

When talking about the latter part, Carlomon couldn't hide his envy: "When scientists are at the level where Academician Qin Ke and his wife are pursued by countless institutions for awards... it is really unheard of and unseen. The last time Academician Qin attended the Mathematicians Conference, I also I don’t work at IMU and I never had the chance to meet him in person. This time I finally have the chance. I wonder if it would be difficult to ask him for an autograph..."

Faltings and the others couldn't help but smile when they heard the chatter of this staff member who was still talking like a student and was not yet calm and experienced enough in his work.

In fact, various "stories" about Qin Ke are also spread like crazy at Princeton University, known as the "Holy Land of Mathematics". Not only do many students regard Qin Ke as their spiritual idol, they post his photos in their dormitories, and even some Young professors all admire it highly.

No one else mentioned it, but Kelvin Thomson, a representative of the Mesozoic generation of mathematics professors, went to Xia Kingdom, intending to stay for three to five years, just to follow Qin Ke's footsteps and see more and more beautiful mathematical scenery from him .

——Qin Ke is definitely the first mathematician from Xia State to be treated like an academic superstar at Princeton University.

Even the rejection and supercilious looks faced by Xia Guo's international students at Princeton University have basically disappeared. Local students in the United States treat them with special regard and affection.

It is no exaggeration to say that Qin Ke alone has changed the entire world's impression of Xia Guo's mathematics community. Together with his best partner Ning Qingyun, who has also achieved dazzling results in mathematics, and Chen Licheng , Zhang Xiangdong and other young mathematicians who have begun to emerge in the international mathematics community, people say that the mathematics community in Xia has begun to usher in a golden period of blooming flowers.

Carlomon turned back and glanced at the expressions of the three mathematics professors. Seeing that they did not seem to be disgusted by his thoughts, he took the opportunity to say: "By the way, I heard that the three of you are very familiar with Academician Qin and his wife, and they are very familiar with each other. Let's work together to study 'new geometry'? In the 'acknowledgments' section at the end of his new geometry paper, Academician Qin highly praised all of you, saying that without your help, 'new geometry' would have achieved The level of perfection now is huge.”

Deligne shook his head and smiled: "The birth of 'New Geometry' was mainly due to Qin Ke and his partners. We just happened to come up with some ideas and it didn't have much effect. It can even be said that our I have benefited a lot from this cooperation.”

As a student of Grothendieck, how could he see his mentor's "algebraic geometry" being updated and upgraded to "new geometry" and becoming the most popular and promising emerging discipline in today's mathematics world? Not excited or happy? This also increased his closeness and implicit respect for Qin Ke, a young genius mathematician whom he already admired very much.

Carlomon was extremely interested in topics related to Qin Ke and immediately added: "To be honest, in order to better understand Academician Qin, I have been studying Chinese for the past two years. I found a period when Academician Qin was still in high school. In the video, he said that he reads books very quickly and can finish a thick book in half an hour to an hour. Is that true? This is amazing."

The best-tempered Linden Strausch smiled and replied: "It's true, I've seen it with my own eyes. It only takes him an hour to read a mathematical monograph of more than 500 pages, and he can completely understand the entire monograph." He absorbed the mathematical thinking inside and integrated it into his own mathematical system and used it for his own use. With such top talent and hard work, it would not be too incredible for Qin Ke to achieve what he has achieved today. "

Deligne added: "I think what is most commendable about Qin Ke is his unconstrained creative thinking, extremely agile reaction speed, and profound mathematical knowledge, especially his creative thinking, which is enough to establish a sect. , creating a new era of mathematics..."

Listening to the people next to him chatting about Qin Ke, Faltings never spoke. This is his character. He disdains chatting with unfamiliar people. People like Carlomon are still a little naive and have just stepped out of campus. It is naturally difficult for students to get into his eyes.

But listening to these conversations, Faltings unknowingly remembered the scene when he met Qin Ke at the Tiger Bar. At that time, Qin Ke proved in one breath that there are infinite Mersenne prime numbers and that there are infinite prime numbers in the Fibonacci sequence, two world-class unsolved problems, which made Faltings look at this young man from Xia Kingdom with admiration.

But no matter how high he thought of this young boy at that time, he would never have imagined that in just six years, this boy from Xia Kingdom would reach the top of the world in mathematics and lead the trend of an era.

Considering that Qin Ke is only 25 years old now, it is estimated that the mathematical world will become more exciting under his light in the next few decades.

But Faltings soon sighed: "What a pity..."

His words attracted the attention of the other three people, and Deligne asked curiously: "Gelder, what are you regretting?"

"It's nothing, I just feel a little sorry to think that Qin Ke will not focus on mathematics in the next few years, but will focus on studying extreme climate disasters. Not only Qin Ke, but also the most eye-catching people such as Ning Qingyun and Tao Zhexuan Mesozoic mathematicians and outstanding mathematicians in the past two hundred years have also devoted their energy to this topic. Without these people, the mathematics world will probably be lonely for a few years. My "Annals of Mathematics" will have to worry about high-quality manuscripts. ”

Indeed, meteorological centers in various countries are now looking for people like crazy, especially mathematicians. Qin Ke's "Global Extreme Climate Big Data Advanced Analysis Team" has recruited 187 Mesozoic people recognized by their mathematics masters. Excellent mathematician.

It is foreseeable that in the future, most elites in the mathematics community will focus on responding to extreme climate disasters.

Deligne nodded in approval: "Yes, I hope that new young mathematicians will emerge in the next few years..."

Linden Strauss said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "To be honest, if I weren't not good at mathematical analysis, I'd probably like to join Qin Ke's big data analysis team and think about being able to handle global-scale big data. , such an opportunity is extremely rare.”

Carlomon asked a question: "Well... I have always been curious, why does Academician Qin pay so much attention to the direction of extreme climate disasters? I admit that extreme weather disasters have become more and more frequent in recent years, and there will be another year this year. 'Little Ice Age', but in human history, this should be considered a normal climate change, right? There have been at least four 'Little Ice Ages' in history..."

The young man's words caused the three mathematics masters to fall into silence.

In fact, they had already discovered that Qin Ke paid more attention to extreme climate disasters than others. If you take a closer look at his research direction, you can see that he started to deal with extreme climate disasters like today a few years ago. Take a look at the desert sweet potato technology, seawater desalination technology, and the world-famous big data prediction model for extreme climate disasters that he researched. Almost all of them are related to extreme climate disaster response.

Could it be that Qin Ke had seen a crisis early that others could not see?

Behind this "Little Ice Age" is not just occasional global climate change, but there are deeper factors that may even endanger the planet itself?

Otherwise, it is hard to imagine why Qin Ke would spend so much time and energy to deal with this extreme climate disaster, and for this purpose he also gathered the power of meteorological centers and mathematical talents around the world...

Faltins rolled down the glass window slightly, and the biting cold wind came in through the gap, making everyone in the car feel that the "Little Ice Age" was approaching.

Yes, today is obviously October 10th, and there is still one or two days before the "Little Ice Age" predicted by Qin Ke will fully invade the northern hemisphere. However, the city of Miami, where the average temperature in winter has exceeded 30 degrees Celsius, seems to have felt this strangeness in advance. Due to the unusual chill, the average temperature has dropped to just over 20 degrees Celsius in the past few days.

Deligne murmured: "Maybe we can see snow in Miami this year..."

"Yes." Linden Strausch responded softly, and then said: "Qin Ke and the others should be arriving soon, right? Then we can have a good chat with him..."

Due to the temporary change of venue, this year's International Congress of Mathematicians was postponed by three days compared to previous years. The conference period is from November 11 to November 4, a total of 11 days.

Moreover, before the conference, IMU also set aside November 11rd to conduct a public review meeting to "prove the Hodge conjecture". Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun will definitely arrive before November 3nd - although such an argument is not possible In most people's eyes, it is a bit "taking off your pants to fart is unnecessary", and it is purely to maintain the impression that IMU is "serious and cautious" about world-class mathematical problems.

"Well, let's have a good chat with him then." Faltings's expression also became solemn.

At this moment, he just hoped that his worst guess was wrong.

……

What Carlomon did not notice or mention was that it was not just the IMU that held the conference in Miami, but also the Meteorological Center of the United States. They also planned to hold a national extreme climate disaster response conference here, and Qin Kehe Ning Qingyun is the most important invited guest.

——In order to prevent the two Xia scientists from making an extra trip, the American Meteorological Center also set the meeting location in Miami as a show of sincerity in making friends with Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun.

They realized the seriousness of climate change earlier than mathematicians such as Faltings.

To solve this problem, we are absolutely inseparable from Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, a pair of Xia scientists who are unparalleled in extreme climatology.

It can be said that the small city of Miami is gathering academic and scientific research elites from all over the world... (End of this chapter)