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Chapter 68: Request to Faltings
"So, what I said to you at the beginning came true, right?"

A familiar voice entered his ears. He was startled and looked over. It was Faltings.

"teacher!"

Mochizuki Shinichi quickly stood up and bowed to the old man.

Regardless, he maintained respect for Faltings.

Whether it was the quality of respecting teachers or the help Faltings provided during his student years.

His most important achievement, the Mochizuki Theorem, was also achieved by applying the p-adic Hodge theory developed by Faltings.

"Let's go over there and talk."

Faltings pointed to the corner next to him.

"Yes!" Mochizuki Shin nodded.

……

Probably no one knows what Faltings talked about with Mochizuki Shinichi.

However, after returning to the public, Mochizuki Shinichi became cheerful again, as if he was still the same young man as before, without any change, and he had enough confidence in his mathematics.

Walking to the front of the stage, he bowed solemnly at a 90-degree angle.

"Red bean paste Smith Marseille."

"I have caused too much trouble to the mathematics community in the past eight years. Although it is my personality, I would like to apologize to all my friends now."

"Next, I will reflect seriously and try my best to bring more useful theories and knowledge to our mathematics in the second half of my life."

"My teacher, Professor Faltings, will supervise me."

Faltings beside him nodded with satisfaction.

The applause that had originally stopped in the conference hall started again.

This time, the applause was finally for this former master of far-Abelian geometry.

At the main table, Bart Bruun, a Belgian mathematician, stepped forward and said to Shinichi Mochizuki: "I forgive your attitude towards me in the past, but I also hope that you can follow what you said. Maybe you don't care too much about 'don't let the mathematics community down', but what I want to say is, don't let Faltings down again."

Once, Bruhn wanted to ask Mochizuki Shinichi about his thoughts on his paper, but was met with Mochizuki's cold attitude, which made him annoyed for a time and he thought that this was Mochizuki Shinichi's contempt for the mathematical community.

But now, he has accepted the apology.

Afterwards, more mathematicians from the mathematics community came forward and expressed their goodwill to Shinichi Mochizuki again.

Shinichi Mochizuki's past achievements are worthy of people treating him like this.

……

"It seems that he has come out of this incident. I hope he can produce more meaningful things in the future."

Schultz did not go over. Even though Mochizuki Shinichi apologized, it did not mean that Schultz would immediately recognize him unless Mochizuki Shinichi really got back on track afterwards.

Beside him, Xiao Yi didn't say anything.

As an underage "child", he should not make any comments on this great mathematician who can still be considered a senior.

At this time, Faltings also left the crowd and came to their side. "Thank you, kid."

He reached out and patted Xiao Yi on the shoulder.

"Ah?" Xiao Yi was puzzled. Thank you for what?
Of course, Faltings gave an explanation: "You discovered his mistake, so you helped him get out of it. As his teacher, I want to thank you."

"So, if you have any needs, you can ask me now, and I will try my best to agree to it."

Schultz, who was standing next to him, heard what Faltings said and quickly winked at Xiao Yi.

What Faltings meant was that he was willing to accept students!
This retired master of mathematics is now willing to make an exception for Xiao Yi and accept him as his student.

However, Xiao Yi did not understand Schultz's hint - in fact, he did not even see Schultz's eyes.

But after hearing what Faltings said, he suddenly thought of something that this big guy might be able to help him with.

Recently, after thinking about far Abelian geometry, although this mathematical theory belongs to the field of algebraic geometry, it can itself be applied to the mathematical theory of number theory, so it has produced some gratifying results in his research on another problem.

The twin prime conjecture.

This was something he had studied for a long time before, and although he had some unified ideas in his mind, these unified ideas still lacked a "leader".

Unified "ideas" without a leader cannot become a powerful weapon to ultimately overcome problems.

But now, he may have found the "leader" these ideas need.

It's just a little bit short.

However, the mathematical master in front of him, Faltings, as an expert in the field of arithmetic geometry who successfully combined algebraic geometry and number theory methods to solve the Model conjecture, obviously has a great probability of being able to provide him with some constructive suggestions.

Thinking of this, his eyes lit up and he immediately said, "Since Professor Faltings said so, then I will say it."

Faltings smiled and said, "Just tell me what you want to say."

Well... although he has retired, if he can receive such a talented student, he certainly won't want to refuse.

Even... a little happy.

Schultz almost nodded and smiled. If Xiao Yi became Faltings' student, wouldn't he be able to communicate with this talented young man in the future?
He never looks down on people younger than himself. After all, he was a genius who had achieved amazing results when he was young.

Then, they heard Xiao Yi say: "I have recently encountered a problem in academics, and I hope to get some ideas from you. I just wonder if it is convenient for you?"

Faltings' smile froze for a moment, and Schultz's expression immediately became stunned.

No, what kind of request is this?
For something like this kind of academic discussion, even if you just send an email to Faltings, as long as he thinks the question is valuable, he will probably be willing to reply directly to your email and answer it.

This is not even a request!
Having said that, Faltings looked at Xiao Yi with more and more satisfaction.

At this time, he was still able to think about academic issues. He now really began to feel that this young man had the potential to become a new generation of mathematics master.

He smiled and said, "Of course that's no problem. There should be two more days of academic exchanges in this conference. You can come to my office at any time during these few days to discuss your questions."

"Also, this is not really your request. After all, I welcome you to have academic discussions with me, so you can make other requests, um... like asking me to accept you as a student or something."

Faltings had almost made it clear, and Xiao Yi was certainly not stupid, so he immediately understood what the mathematical giant in front of him meant.

Wow, yesterday Mochizuki Shinichi asked if he wanted to be his student, and today Faltings also came to ask if he wanted to be his student.

A generation increases every day, right?
(End of this chapter)