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Chapter 59 Schultz's Invitation Letter
"Professor, are you sure?"

Peter Schultz said incredulously.

At the age of 17, you can write such a paper?
Recalling when he was 17 years old...

To be honest, at that time he had just started middle school and was even held back a grade.

Of course, he failed a grade not because his grades were bad, but because his grades were too good.

Because he had an excellent talent for mathematics and was able to win a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad, he repeated a grade to participate in the Olympiad. He won a silver medal in his first year and gold medals in the next three years.

Then, at the age of 20, he entered university.

It seems that he started much later than others, but it did not affect the fact that he only spent two and a half years to complete all the studies from undergraduate to master's degree, and then graduated with a doctorate at the age of 24. His graduation thesis directly made him the winner of the Fields Medal seven years later.

His experience can obviously be described as dazzling genius.

But at this moment, he couldn't help but be surprised by what Faltings said. After all, being able to publish an article in IHES at the age of seventeen was indeed much better than he was back then.

"Of course it's true. This incident has become big news in China. I also learned about this from my friends in China."

Faltings said with a smile: "How is it? Do you feel the challenge?"

Schultz came back to his senses, accepted the fact, and shook his head helplessly, "Professor, please stop joking. I hope that there will be more geniuses in mathematics. If more and more geniuses come to challenge me, it means that the future development of our mathematics community will become better and better."

“If they surpass me, it will be even more cause for celebration.”

Faltings laughed out loud: "Boy, you really taught me a lesson."

"But you are correct."

The 66-year-old mathematician sighed: "I don't know what results I can produce in the last period of time in the future. I may never produce anything that can satisfy me. So I can only hope that you young mathematicians can achieve more outstanding results, so that when I meet Grothendieck, I can talk to him about things that he would be interested in."

"Hmm... maybe this guy changed his personality after he died, and started studying mathematics again, and gave math lessons to God?"

The three people laughed.

Faltings and Grothendieck had a good relationship and exchanged letters many times, even though Grothendieck was nearly thirty years older than Faltings.

Unfortunately, Grothendieck, the Emperor of Mathematics, began to gradually withdraw from the mathematics community after 1970. Of course, this does not change the fact that the vast majority of mathematicians still admire this master of mathematics who brought glory to the mathematics community.

To some extent, many mathematicians in the mathematics community can be considered his "fans".

"Will you tell him about your student Mochizuki Shinichi?" Schultz teased. Faltings frowned, "Let's not talk about that guy. He was indeed a very smart student before, but it's a pity that he became stupid because of studying the ABC conjecture. Otherwise, I would like to see him win the Fields Medal."

Yes, Shinichi Mochizuki was Faltings’ student. At first, this young Japanese guy gave Faltings a good impression, so much so that he, who was always strict and meticulous, evaluated Shinichi Mochizuki as a very smart mathematician.

But unfortunately, as Faltings thought, his student was fooled by the abc conjecture. After reading Mochizuki Shinichi's paper, he made the following comment: "I tried to read part of it, and then at some stage, I gave up. I didn't understand what he was doing and he didn't express his ideas clearly at all."

However, although he did not want to talk about Mochizuki Shinichi, he finally said: "I hope you can convince him thoroughly in the next meeting that he has better options instead of wasting his talent on the abc conjecture. He should have brought more value to the mathematics community."

As a teacher, he still doesn't want to see his students waste their talents.

"We will."

Hearing Faltings' request, Schultz and Sticks both nodded solemnly.

"I also hope that he can start studying far Abelian geometry again and bring more value to the mathematics community," Schultz said.

In any case, Mochizuki Shinichi is indeed an extremely outstanding mathematician. Otherwise, after he and Stix went to Kyoto two years ago and had five heated discussions with Mochizuki Shinichi, they would not have reached a result where no one could convince the other.

It would obviously be a good thing if the mathematical world could welcome back such a talented mathematician.

"Well, we are going to hold this academic conference in two weeks, that is, on September 9th. Next, we will start preparing to send invitations to mathematicians."

Schultz said: "In addition, I will personally send an invitation letter to the student named Xiao Yi."

……

Hello, Xiao Yi:

My name is Peter Schultz. Since I don’t know if you know me, I will introduce myself to you first. I am a somewhat outstanding mathematician. I was lucky enough to win the Fields Medal in 2018 and serve as the director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Germany.

I was the reviewer of your paper "Non-singularity Analysis and Absolute Distant Abel Conjecture" which you submitted to "Publications mathématiques de l'IHS" some time ago. When I first read your paper, I was deeply surprised. Your mathematical thinking is the most unique I have ever seen. It seems that there is a feeling that it is not influenced by the inherent experience of the mathematical community. Such thinking has also brought me very profound inspiration.

At the same time, whether it is etale cohomology or the method of far Abelian geometry that you used in your paper, it fully proves that you have your own understanding in this regard, so there is no doubt that you are a very unique mathematician.

In addition, I heard that you are only 17 years old this year. This is very shocking news. I never thought that someone could write such a profound mathematical paper at the age of 17. This makes me very eager to communicate with you.

And this opportunity is approaching. The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics will hold a mathematics academic conference on September 9. I sincerely invite you to come. The invitation letter has been sent out. I have added money and I believe it will be delivered to you soon. All your expenses will be fully reimbursed by the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. I look forward to meeting you then.

:)

(End of this chapter)