Ultimate Scholar

ICTP International Center for Theoretical Physics, located in Trieste, Italy.

Trieste is one of the wealthiest regions in Italy and a very prosperous port city in Europe.

When Li Mu was on a plane and overlooking the city from above, he could also feel the atmosphere of this port city.

Soon, the plane landed at Friuli-Venice Giulia Airport, and then he got off the plane with Andrew Wiles.

The ICTP meeting will be held at the Trieste Convention Center, so the hotel they stayed at is the Joyce Hotel near the conference center.

I arrived at the Joyce Hotel by car. Just after getting off the car, a car just arrived here, and then an old man got out of the car.

After the old man got out of the car, he greeted Li Mu and the others: "Hey, Li Mu, Andrew!"

The two of them looked back for a moment, and they were all surprised.

"Professor Qiu!"

This old man is Qiu Chengtong.

Qiu Chengtong walked towards them with a smile: "It's really a coincidence that we can meet here."

Andrew smiled and asked, "Are you also here to attend the meeting the day after tomorrow?"

"Of course, aren't the people who come here just to attend this meeting?" Qiu Chengtong said, "Of course the most important thing is that I come here to accompany my students."

He turned around and waved to a young man who just got out of the car behind him: "Xu Ziyang, come here."

The young man was about to pick up his luggage from the trunk, and when he heard the tutor's greeting, he quickly walked over, "Professor, what's the matter?"

"Let me introduce you. This is Andrew Wiles, the prover of Fermat's last theorem."

Xu Ziyang was surprised immediately, and turned his head to look at Andrew Wiles, whose name is known to everyone in the mathematics world. He immediately shouted respectfully: "Professor Wiles, I am very happy See you!"

Andrew Wiles smiled and nodded at him: "Hi, I've heard of Ni's name, the paper you published in the "Annual Journal of Mathematics" before, I remember it was about the smallest hypersurface in a closed manifold, right? ? Very good, keep working hard."

"Thank you Professor Wiles!"

Xu Ziyang nodded repeatedly, and then he noticed another young man next to him from the corner of his eye. After thinking about it, he probably was also a student of Wiles.

Hey...seem to be Chinese too?

Wait...why does it look familiar?

He couldn't help taking another look, and then he widened his eyes and exclaimed, "Damn it, Mu Shen!"

Qiu Chengtong next to him also smiled at this time: "This is Li Mu. Didn't you say that he is your idol? Now you can see a real person."

Xu Ziyang was already very excited, he went up and shook hands with Li Mu.

"God Mu, I finally see you!"

Then there are all kinds of words of worship, just like a successful performance of star chasing.

In the end, Li Mu even asked Li Mu to sign his name on the notebook.

Li Mu couldn't laugh or cry for a moment.

In this way, after a while of pleasantries, they entered the hotel together.

"You mean, your students are likely to win this year's Ramanujan Award, that's why they came here?"

On the way to the hotel room, Wiles asked Qiu Chengtong.

Qiu Chengtong nodded: "Yes, of course it's not only this part of the reason, I can also be regarded as a theoretical physicist, and it's normal to come to such a meeting."

As he spoke, he shook his head regretfully: "It's just a pity, the Dirac Medal has nothing to do with me."

Wiles nodded and said, "That's true."

The ICTP Dirac Medal has a rule, that is, it is not awarded to winners of Fields Medal, Nobel Prize, and Wolf Prize.

When Qiu Chengtong started to get involved in theoretical physics, it was already after he won the Fields Medal and the Wolf Medal, so he naturally had no chance.

Otherwise, Qiu Chengtong's achievements in theoretical physics would have been enough to win this award. \b

"However, Li Mu is probably the most uncontroversial person who can receive the Dirac Medal this year."

Qiu Chengtong turned his head to look at Li Mu next to him, and patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "The dimensional force you discovered is like a nuclear bomb to the entire theoretical physics community. congratulation."

Li Mu waved his hand: "This matter is still uncertain."

Qiu Chengtong smiled: "If it is not awarded to you, then there is something wrong with ICTP."

"There is also the Ramanujan Award. You are also on the list of candidates. Xiao Xu, you have a very strong opponent."

Xu Ziyang waved his hands again and again and said, "I don't dare to compete with God Mu, God Mu is much more qualified than me."

Qiu Chengtong pointed at him with a smile, but didn't say anything in the end. After all, it is true that Li Mu is more qualified to receive this award than anyone else.

This is not to say that Xu Ziyang is worthless, but to boast that he has self-knowledge.

In this way, while they were chatting, they also went to the hotel floor, and the discussion ended.

The next time is to wait for the official start of the meeting on August 8.

However, on the evening of August 6, the two papers submitted by Li Mu to arxiv were also officially released.

Normally, the papers submitted on arxiv are generally reviewed by the website, which is probably similar to a plagiarism check. Although the preprint website is not an official journal, it also has requirements for the repetition rate, at least on the website During the review process, there should be no obvious plagiarism, and such a review usually takes more than a day.

Of course, this kind of review is aimed at ordinary authors, but Li Mu is different. As a scholar with a reputation in the academic world, when they publish papers on preprint websites such as arxiv, they can pass quickly.

Therefore, the thesis submitted by Li Mu at noon was approved after a few hours.

...

Oxford University, Merton College.

In Lucas Richter's office.

Although the sky had already darkened, Richter still did not leave the office, and was still studying Goldbach's conjecture.

Although for him, studying Goldbach's conjecture is just a matter of interest, not something that must be done.

But just like what Maslow said in the Hierarchy of Needs theory, when all the basic needs of a person are no longer lacking, that is, after the physiological needs, safety needs, social needs and respect needs are all met, self-realization become the last requirement.

So for Richter, proving Goldbach's conjecture is a kind of self-realization for him.

But it is a bit difficult to do this step.

"Is it really impossible to do it in the field of number theory?"

After crumpling the draft paper and throwing it into the trash can beside him, Richter sighed.

After so long of research, there has been no progress, which also makes him feel a little bored.

It has been almost three months since the cooperation with Li Mu ended, which reminded him of what Li Mu said to him back then.

"From the point of view of algebraic geometry..."

After reading a sentence silently, Richter's heart began to shake.

Maybe he should give up his insistence?

"I just don't know where Li Mu's research has gone, and how far he is from success."

"Forget it, let's go and see how other people's research is progressing."

Patting his head, he planned to expand his thinking, so he turned on the computer and logged onto arxiv skillfully.

Suddenly he noticed that the website notified the author he followed had published a paper.

After taking a look, "Huh? It's Li Mufa's thesis?"

For so long, the academic circle has basically formed a common understanding, that is, Li Mu usually does not publish papers casually, but once published, it will inevitably have a very significant impact on the academic circle.

Either groundbreaking or disruptive.

So what will Li Mu announce this time?

Could it be...

With anticipation and a little hesitation, Li Hutt went in.

Then he froze.

Li Muxin published two papers, and the title of one of the papers made him feel unbelievable.

"K-module forms of sieve and circle methods and Goldbach's conjecture".

"Goldbach Conjecture!"

"Did he really do it...?!"

He practically wiped his eyes, then read the headline again.

At this time, the first half of the content finally attracted his attention.

"Wait! The K-module form of the sieve method and the circle method! This seems to be the method he said at the beginning, and he succeeded?"

"There is another paper, "Self-Consistent Properties of Elliptic Curves Under K-Module"? Elliptic Curves?"

Richter was shocked in his heart.

At this point he realized that this paper was the key.

He quickly downloaded both papers, and first looked at the paper on elliptic curves.

The two papers add up to more than 150 pages, and this paper is the longest, with more than 100 pages, which is nearly twice that of the other paper.

And then, the summary part shocked him.

"Use the elliptic curve under the L-function, so that it can be perfectly combined in the K-mode form?! Even buy Karma!"

Just from this abstract, he can see the importance of this paper.

Even though his research on algebraic geometry is not as deep as that of number theory, he is equally clear about the purpose of the Langlands program.

And the results revealed in this summary are obviously extremely important to the Langlands program!

He watched it in shock.

In this way, he became more and more surprised, and at the same time, his whole body was completely immersed in this paper.

Forget about the passing of time.

...

the next morning.

When the office door opened, Isa Grosvenor walked in.

Seeing that there seemed to be no one in the office, she smiled, "Looks like I'm the first to arrive today."

But when she got closer, she suddenly found that there was a person lying on the professor's desk, and when she took a closer look, wow, isn't that the professor? !

She was shocked immediately, thinking that something had happened, she hurried over and shouted, "Professor! Professor, wake up!"

After getting closer, she heard Richter's snoring, and she was relieved.

Otherwise, she would have thought it was an accident.

After another glance, the monitor was still on, and what was displayed on it was a paper with a length of more than 100 pages, but at this time it was staying at more than 70 pages.

"Professor, you have been reading papers here last night, did you fall asleep?"

She couldn't help guessing like this.

And at this moment, Richter's body suddenly moved, probably because Isa yelled a few times just now, and was about to wake up.

Seeing this, Isa yelled a few more words, and Richter quickly sat up.

He rubbed his eyes, and finally picked up the glasses from the table next to him. After putting them on, he looked at Isa: "Well, it's... Isa? What time is it now? It should be late, right? You Didn't you go back early?"

Isa couldn't laugh or cry: "Professor, it's the second day now, eight o'clock in the morning on August 7! You slept in the office last night."

Richter was stunned for a moment.

Has it already passed the night?

He didn't realize it at all!

"Did you read some papers last night? It took you so long to read."

At this time, Yisha pointed to the content on the monitor again and asked curiously.

"Paper?" Richter immediately reacted, and immediately looked at the monitor again: "Yes! The paper! I haven't finished reading it yet!"

He read it late at night yesterday, but fell asleep while watching it. Now when he looked at the monitor, he only saw more than 70 pages!

No, he has to read it today!

Seeing the professor like this, Isa became even more curious, and asked again: "What is this paper? Don't you plan to take a good rest?"

"Can't rest, this paper is too important." Richter shook his head, recalling the more than 70 pages he had read, and then said in amazement: "This paper is definitely of great importance to the mathematics community." meaning!"

"Li Mu, it's still the same Li Mu."

Yisha was taken aback for a moment: "You mean that this paper was written by Li Mu?"

"Yes."

Li Hutt nodded, and then smiled wryly: "Probably, he has really solved Goldbach's conjecture, and his original direction was correct."

"What?!"

Yisha's eyes widened immediately, Li Mu, have you solved Goldbach's conjecture? !

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