The unparalleled talent of the country started from Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 265: Something Happened to Liu Xiaoli

November 1, 1984, Tokyo, Japan.

At Nintendo's headquarters, a group of executives sat together with grief-stricken expressions, as if their parents had died.

A report was placed in front of them.

But the content of the report made them want to die.

The report is about the detailed data of their competitor Dolphin Games in September and the first half of October, including the revenue data and profit forecast of products such as game cartridges, pet egg game consoles, and two old handheld game consoles.

In late September, Dolphin Games made public a leak by a researcher, and successfully gained the sympathy of the majority of game fans by playing the victim.

This resulted in Dolphin Games' revenue figures for September increasing by 12.8 percent compared to August.

This data is even more painful than killing Nintendo.

Originally, Dolphin Games was invincible in the global gaming industry because of its two flagship products, the handheld game console and the pet egg, and had almost no rivals.

Now, the researcher's leak has directly caused Dolphin Games' revenue to soar so much, which is simply unbelievable.

It is totally inconsistent with the laws of economic operation.

idiot!

On the other hand, Dolphin Games launched its latest handheld game console on October 1st, which is also the product whose core technology was leaked.

As soon as this product was launched on the market, it immediately took the entire market by storm.

It's not just because this product is thinner and lighter, has a larger and clearer screen, and has greater memory capacity, but also because it's actually cheaper.

The price of the first handheld game console when it was launched was US$399 per unit.

That was the price nearly three years ago. Now that the third game console is on the market, the price is not $399, but $249.

A full fifty dollars was missing.

Such an attractive price has driven many game fans crazy.

On the other hand, and the most important point, it has five built-in games, including Tank Battle, Chinese Blocks and other games, which are all very classic games.

For many game fans, even at this point in time, they have been playing these games for more than two years, but they still don’t feel very satisfied.

I never get tired of playing it.

So cool!
The latest handheld game console has a very strong playability because its memory capacity has been greatly increased, and the game quality and content have also been greatly improved.

That's why game fans are so crazy.

Increasing the quantity without increasing the price, this is the reason why marketing is so crazy, no doubt about it.

After learning about Dolphin Games' impressive performance, Nintendo's top executives were of course unhappy.

Almost immediately, they unanimously agreed to have the manager who had mentioned industrial espionage resign.

Someone has to take the blame, right?

In fact, even if its competitors made a lot of money, Nintendo would not be so "depressed", but the problem is that under the siege of many products from Dolphin Games, Nintendo has suffered huge losses in the past two months.

Revenue fell by 22 percent, which is quite pitiful.

You know, two years ago, Nintendo's annual revenue exceeded 200 million US dollars.

Last year, Nintendo launched the Famicom, a home game console that was extremely popular in its original time and space, with sales exceeding one million units in Japan in just one year.

But in this time and space, because of the handheld game consoles and pet eggs, the money in the pockets of game fans was plundered, so no one had much money.

In addition, game cartridges such as "Super Mario Bros.", "Baseball," and "F1 Racing" were also sold in advance by Dolphin Games, making it impossible for them to gain an upper hand in the game cartridge market.

To give you a simple statistic, the sales volume of a "Super Mario" game cartridge produced by Dolphin Games has exceeded four million in Japan and more than eight million in the United States.

What's more, there are game cartridges such as "Chinese Cube", "Tank War", "F1 Racing", etc., which are all very excellent game software.

Although Nintendo is very powerful in the home game console market, Dolphin Games is still more powerful in terms of game software.

Last year, Nintendo's revenue increased slightly due to the Famicom, reaching US$220 million.

But looking at this year, revenue is bound to fall.

The global gaming market is pretty crazy, even crazier than in the 1970s.

You should know that in 1982, the net assets of Atari, the American gaming giant, reached 20 billion US dollars. From this, we can see how huge the American gaming market is.

It's a pity that Atari was also a bit of a jerk. They spent 20 million US dollars just to buy the copyright of ET alien's game.

That was not all, but the company behind ET the aliens actually asked Atari to create the adapted game from scratch and put it on the shelves before Christmas of that year: but Christmas was only five weeks away.

So the game that was rushed out like this is simply terrible.

The good news at the time was that the game cartridge sold 1.5 million copies, but the good news was that almost all players complained about its poor completion and quality issues.

Also because of quality issues, Atari secretly buried the remaining millions of ET game cartridges (they produced a total of five million game cartridges) in a landfill in New Mexico overnight.

This incident not only had a very serious impact on the US market, but also caused a cliff-like decline in the US game market.

If Dolphin Games had not stood up in this time and space and had not also deeply cultivated the software market, handheld game console market, etc., otherwise, it would have certainly been dragged into a deep pit by Atari.

Nowadays, whether it is the Japanese game market or the American game market, Dolphin Games is very crazy, far surpassing the previous Atari.

But this kind of madness has little to do with Nintendo.

Moreover, even a company like Sega, which specializes in agency, can thrive by being affiliated with Dolphin Games.

On the contrary, Nintendo, which specializes in the research and development and production of home game consoles, is living a rather frustrating life.

This is really going against the will of Heaven!

Nintendo's management team stayed in the conference room and brainstormed for more than three hours.

They proposed many solutions, but none of them seemed to have much effect.

Among them, Hiroshi Yamauchi proposed to place an order with the chip factory of Harbin Institute of Technology because the unit price of the chip factory of Harbin Institute of Technology is lower.

If it is other Japanese factories, such as Mitsubishi Electric and Ricoh, although Nintendo's president Hiroshi Yamauchi has personally visited these two companies and has a good cooperative relationship with both companies, the prices are not very high.

But according to the prices Nintendo paid in previous years in cooperation with Ricoh and Mitsubishi Electric, it is indeed much more expensive than the Harbin Institute of Technology chip factory.

Everyone knows the reason, that is, the labor cost at Harbin Institute of Technology is low, while the labor cost at Mitsubishi Electric and Ricoh is higher.

Under such circumstances, it must be said that the suggestion of reducing costs and increasing efficiency is a very good one.

However, Yamauchi Hiroshi encountered opposition from many management members when he wanted to cooperate with Harbin Institute of Technology's chip factory.

"Baga, we're almost unable to stand, are you still considering these problems?"

Pedantic!

Hiroshi Yamauchi was very furious, so he angrily scolded all the management members, and then asked those who opposed him: So what good ideas do you have?

In business competition, it is normal to take the right path, and sinister conspiracy is totally unacceptable.

Unless we pray that Dolphin Games will end up like Atari did the year before and bury itself in its own grave.

To be honest, Atari was just greedy. If they had not agreed to the adaptation request of the company behind ET the aliens, they could have completed this product in a relatively longer research and development period.

Then there will be no subsequent series of events.

However, if God wants to destroy a person, he must first make him crazy.

So Atari's failure was almost inevitable.

Dolphin Games' current operations are very good, even excellent.

But because of this, Nintendo can't just wait for the other party to go bankrupt, right?
Maybe Dolphin Games hasn't gone bankrupt yet, but Nintendo can't hold on any longer.

In their previous report, data from Nielsen Business Research showed that the home game console market appeared to be expanding, but in fact it did not grow much.

On the contrary, in the Japanese market, the home game console market is shrinking due to the two products, the Pet Egg game console and the handheld game console.

Before the launch of pet eggs and handheld game consoles, the home game console market was very strong. For example, the annual output value of the US game industry even exceeded 3.2 billion US dollars.

However, after the launch of the Pet Egg and the handheld game console, even though the crisis in the game market caused by the Atari company's burial incident offset it, it is an indisputable fact that the home game console market is not as good as before.

Under such circumstances, if Nintendo does not find a way to save itself, it is very likely that it will be gradually swallowed up by the market.

Due to the rapid development of pet egg game consoles and handheld game consoles, their market share is increasing year by year.

It is extremely difficult for competitors to enter these two markets.

In a market competition situation where either you advance or you retreat, if Nintendo does not change, it is very likely to be eliminated by the market.

"Or we can continue to use industrial espionage."

As the vice president, Ashikaga Taiji put forward his own ideas: "At the same time, I think we should bribe people from within Dolphin Games to prevent their products from experiencing technical problems, such as freezing."

"Also, we can check the relevant contracts to see if there is any space we can take advantage of."

"Finally, I think Nintendo should also increase its investment in the research and development of technological products. There's an old Chinese saying that goes, 'A big reward always brings out the brave.'"

Many people expressed that Ashikaga Taiji's suggestions were very pertinent.

Because if Dolphin Games doesn't go bankrupt, Nintendo will have no chance of becoming a giant in the gaming industry.

Although gaming products are not like cultural products such as movies, where the top products will have a siphon effect on other products ranked second, third, etc., it is undeniable that Dolphin Games' products do pose a huge competition to Nintendo's products.

"In addition, we also need to be on guard. Dolphin Games is very likely to enter the home console market. Although this part of the market is already somewhat sluggish, no one knows whether they will enter this market to improve their competitiveness."

Monopoly is something that is inevitable for every company after it develops to a certain level, or in other words, it is the ultimate goal of the enterprise.

There are trusts in the United States. In the past, there were oil trusts, financial trusts, etc. In the past ten years, the famous IBM was investigated by the US federal government for antitrust violations.

Dolphin Games' revenue this year is likely to exceed 10 billion US dollars.

At this point, perhaps the company will go a step further and directly monopolize the entire market.

Even if there is no monopoly on the market, occupying 70% of the market or even higher would be very difficult for Nintendo and other competitors.

It would be fine if Dolphin Games could achieve a monopoly, but if not, then we can only wait or use other means.

In a word, if Nintendo does not remove the obstacle of Dolphin Games, then there is no way it can survive well, let alone become a global gaming giant.

"Okay, you've used your brain a bit. Good. Let's delve deeper into your suggestions."

Yamauchi Hiroshi smiled and nodded.

This was the first time he laughed today, because Ashikaga Taiji's suggestions just now were indeed quite good.

The other executives in the meeting room also breathed a sigh of relief and then busied themselves expanding on Ashikaga Taiji's suggestions.

More than two hours passed before all the strategies were finally expanded and perfected.

The first is to buy out Dolphin Games Company. This will cost some money, but it must not be wasted.

The second is to investigate some business contracts to see if it is possible to exploit contract loopholes to destroy Dolphin Games.

The third is to increase innovation and research and development of technological products to see if it is possible to generate revenue for Nintendo from other aspects.

Fourth, in terms of reducing costs and increasing efficiency, there are two points. One is to contact the Harbin Institute of Technology Chip Company to discuss cooperation, and the price must be low. The other is to go to China to conduct investigations to see if it is possible to move some factories to the mainland.

The reason for relocating the factory to China is that Yamauchi Hiroshi and others are very clear that the reason why Dolphin Games is so powerful in the world is because their costs are indeed low enough.

It is an indisputable fact that the raw materials of the products are cheap, the labor costs are low, and the prices are low.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States transferred part of its manufacturing industry to Japan. Now companies like Nintendo have been defeated in the market competition, so they must find a way to solve all these troubles, and reducing costs and increasing efficiency is a very good way.

Although there is no alternative, it must be done.

The meeting lasted nearly six hours. Despite the length, it was a very good meeting, as at least it allowed Nintendo to find a solution.

Coincidentally, Toshiba has also been in a difficult situation recently.

In fact, they didn't pay much attention to Huashun Company anymore, but the company's performance still reached their ears.

No matter how uncomfortable they feel, they can only stay still for the time being, because they can't move even if they want to.

On the other side, Motorola headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA.

"That's great! The South American market is indeed very promising. Perhaps the Southeast Asian and Indian markets will also bring us great surprises."

At this time, all the executives of Motorola were very happy.

Because they saw the revenue performance in South America, and to be honest, it was amazing.

In the past October, revenue data soared again, and they were almost making back their losses in the North American and European markets.

In the South American market, the price of Motorola 8000X is not US$1995, but US$.

With such a unit price, they actually sold 15,800 units in South America in a single month.

With a monthly revenue of more than 63 million US dollars, and considering the revenue in August and September, not only did it recover all the costs, but it also made a small profit.

The reason why the market is so hungry is because of the Xiaolingtong mobile phone.

Currently, the Xiaolingtong mobile phone is only available in the United States, some European countries and Japan, and is not available in other places.

It’s not that Xiaolingtong mobile phones are unwilling to be put on the market, but that base station equipment needs to be supplied to the European and American markets first. After all, this is the real big market.

As for markets such as South America, Southeast Asia, India, and the Middle East, they seem to be very profitable, but in fact they are all money-losing projects.

Especially the Indian market, haha, this market is so chaotic.

After discussion, Motorola also decided to enter the Indian market, Garden City market, Middle East market, etc.

Anyway, PHS mobile phone companies will definitely not make such a big push into these markets, after all, they don't have that many base station equipment.

Wang Duoyu arrived at the entrance of the Department of Mathematics teaching building at Harbin Institute of Technology.

Just now, Yuan Zuliang received an extremely urgent emergency call from the security staff, saying that they had discovered a fire in the office.

Wang Duoyu's office occupies an entire floor, and it is impossible for outsiders to enter because they cannot enter from either the inside or the outside.

Since he couldn’t get in, how did Wang Duoyu’s office catch fire?
No one has figured out who caused the fire or what caused it.

However, the security staff notified Wang Duoyu immediately and contacted people to start extinguishing the fire.

By the time Wang Duoyu and his team arrived, the fire had already been put out.

Liu Deben, Lu Gongliang, Han Jue and others were all alarmed. They saw that there was still smoke coming out of the office. Even though the windows were open, the smoke did not dissipate quickly.

"How's the fish? Is the loss big?"

Wang Duoyu shook his head. He had just arrived and how could he know the situation?

After a while, the security staff had basically confirmed that the fire had been put out, and all places where smoke might have been emitted had been extinguished.

At this time, the smoke in the house had dissipated a lot.

Wang Duoyu, wearing a mask, walked into the office and saw that the rows of bookshelves inside had been burnt black. He was suddenly shocked.

This is really heartbreaking.

Fortunately, the two papers he stored on the bookshelf and the manuscript in the safe in his desk were intact. On the other hand, the other bookshelves were either completely burned or had some blackened shelves left.

In short, from now on, it seems that this was arson, not an accident.

After inspection, it was found that many parts of the supercomputer in the office were damaged, and the loss was estimated to be not small.

When Wang Duoyu heard the news, he was actually very relieved.

"By the way, Professor Wang, we noticed there seems to be a gap in this supercomputer. I wonder if it's the hard drive?"

Seeing the direction the security staff pointed, Wang Duoyu looked over and nodded silently.

There is indeed a hard drive missing in the gap, but fortunately, it is just an HS series hard drive. Although it is a two-GB hard drive, it is just a series of hard drives used to store application software.

I think the thief was in time, so he just stole a hard drive and then got away.

Of course, it is unrealistic for the other party to move all the hard drives of the supercomputer.

Simply because supercomputers have quite a few hard drives.

"Investigate, thoroughly investigate, and find out who is behind this."

Lu Gongliang said viciously on the side, and Liu Deben and others also looked very ugly.

They are all school leaders and are able to enter Wang Duoyu's office.

Ordinary people are not qualified to come in, even if there is a fire in Wang Duoyu's office.

In fact, Wang Duoyu couldn't figure it out. His office was not very mysterious, and there were no secrets at all. Was it necessary to run to his office to set fire and steal the hard drive?

Although he had his doubts, after this incident, the security forces of Harbin Institute of Technology must be strengthened.

The researcher leak incident happened just a few months ago, and now something like this has happened again. Haha, I'm afraid Harbin Institute of Technology has become a sieve. Those people can come and go as they please.

Moreover, this time they came to Wang Duoyu's office, and the most crucial thing was that it was around seven o'clock in the evening, which was really unbelievable.

Wang Duoyu and his colleagues stayed in the office for more than half an hour, and after confirming the extent of the losses, they reorganized the situation.

The supercomputer needs to be re-debugged and confirmed to see how much hardware has been lost, as this is the other party's main focus.

The same goes for the books on the bookshelf. Many of them were burned, so they need to be purchased again.

"Just buy the journals and books from last month. I have a purchase order, and I remember that I don't need to buy most of the other books."

Hearing Wang Duoyu's words, Su Zhenghuai, who was recording, was stunned for a moment. Han Jue spoke first and asked:
"Duoyu, there are so many books that you need to read. You must buy them. It won't cost much anyway."

These books are indeed not very valuable now, but they must have been very valuable in the past, because Harbin Institute of Technology was very poor and people would spend every penny as if it were two.

But now it is not necessary. Purchasing these books and periodicals will cost at most tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of US dollars.

This amount of money is, of course, just a drop in the bucket.

Wang Duoyu shook his head and said:

"No need, I've read all those books and journals, I don't need to read them again."

Liu Deben couldn't help but said in surprise:
"Duoyu, have you memorized the contents of those books?"

Lu Gongliang and others were immediately shocked. How could it be possible?

They came to Wang Duoyu's office from time to time. There were more than five rows of bookshelves in it, with at least two or three thousand books, and these were not novels or the like.

Instead, they are highly professional journals and books. Ordinary people cannot finish reading these books in a week or two. These are not novels that you can remember the general plot after reading them once.

It would be really impressive if you can remember these professional journals and books.

Everyone knows that Wang Duoyu has a very good memory, and it is normal for him to remember everything he sees.

But I have memorized all of these more than 2,000 books in my head. Oh, it's simply inhuman!

Wang Duoyu just smiled and said, "Don't waste money. Those books are gone anyway. They are not important books."

He didn't say that he had read those books and remembered their contents.

He will be high-profile when it is necessary, but there is no need to be Versailles at these times.

Besides, as he said, those books are really of no use to him anymore.

At this moment, Yan Daowen appeared at the door.

He also received the notice and rushed over immediately.

To be honest, when Yan Daowen heard the news that Wang Duoyu's office was maliciously set on fire, he could hardly believe his ears.

how can that be possible?
But in fact, it is true.

"Leader Yan, it's great that you're here. I need to trouble you with this matter."

Seeing Yan Daowen coming, Wang Duoyu immediately diverted everyone's attention.

Yan Daowen nodded solemnly, indicating that he would pay close attention to this matter.

In the next period of time, the security level both inside and outside the Harbin Institute of Technology will be increased, and a battalion-level unit will be sent to assist the security department.

At the same time, he will also apply to the higher authorities to see if the safety of the Harbin Institute of Technology campus can be improved in other aspects.

The matter was left to Yan Daowen and his team, and Wang Duoyu and his team went back first.

After arriving home, Liu Xiaoli and the others went over to his office with concern and took a look.

"It's nothing serious, just a small fire. It's nothing serious, you don't need to worry."

After explaining to Liu Xiaoli and the others, Wang Duoyu quickly changed the subject.

The next day, detailed loss statistics came out quickly. The supercomputer was indeed damaged and many parts needed to be replaced. The other party knew very well which parts were the most expensive.

Therefore, the other party is targeting processors, Internet lines, etc.

Extremely destructive.

As a result, although the number of parts that need to be replaced in the entire supercomputer seems to be small, in fact, 80% of the cost of replacing the supercomputer is enough.

This is equivalent to 20% of the value remaining undamaged.

The price of a supercomputer, based on the Nebula supercomputer currently on sale, is US$5.99 million.

However, its cost does not exceed 2 million RMB, simply because more than 210 units of this supercomputer have been sold so far.

The more supercomputers are sold, the lower their cost.

Even if we calculate based on a cost of 2 million RMB, then 80% would be 1.6 million RMB, which is also a huge amount of money.

Apart from this supercomputer which suffered the greatest loss, the others only amounted to about 100,000 yuan, so there is nothing much to mention.

Fortunately, Wang Duoyu did not place any decorations such as tiger skins in his office, nor any other expensive decorations, otherwise the loss would be even greater.

After confirming that these were the only losses, Wang Duoyu didn't say anything. After signing, he quickly calmed down and threw himself into his work.

Because of the office fire incident, there were many more soldiers in military uniforms on the campus of Harbin Institute of Technology.

Even under the cover of night, they would patrol the school roads.

Others have warm corridors to walk on, but these soldiers patrol the roads outside.

In the blink of an eye, it was afternoon. Fang Lihe and Li Rui came to his office in person, followed by Liu Deben and Lu Gongliang.

"Leader, why are you here?"

Seeing Fang Li and them appear, Wang Duoyu stood up in surprise and greeted them.

"We heard your office was burned down. Although we know you weren't in the office at the time, we were still very worried, so we came here."

Fang Lihe just smiled and his expression immediately became serious.

Even he came to Harbin Institute of Technology in person. To be honest, this incident really pissed off the leader.

In fact, logically speaking, although Wang Duoyu is very famous, he is engaged in pure mathematical theoretical research after all. Why did they target him?

We may not understand this very well. There may be some things that we think we are keeping very confidential, but we don’t know that we cannot hide them from others at all.

"I came here today specifically to deal with this matter. Lao Li will stay at Harbin Institute of Technology."

Hearing Fang Lihe's words, Wang Duoyu nodded silently.

Security still needs to be upgraded, and the specific details of how to do it will be handled by professionals like them. Wang Duoyu naturally would not speak casually.

Fang Li just sat with them for a while and then left.

But Liu Deben and Lu Gongliang did not leave.

"Duoyu, Motorola is doing very well in South America. They reportedly sold a lot of Motorola 8000Xs in October, and their September sales figures were also over units."

"And according to Professor Shang's news, Motorola is about to enter the Indian market, the Garden City market, and so on. What do you think about our PHS phones?"

Wang Duoyu pondered for a moment and said:
"We can proactively enter the garden city of Singapore, but as for the Indian market, we can spread the word. However, we won't enter this market directly, but let the agents come to us."

Everyone who knows the situation in the Indian market knows it.

Although companies like CEFC now make money and spend it in the United States and want to take it home once they leave, they can at least earn back some oil, food, technology and other materials.

However, on the Indian side, haha, they suddenly launched a surprise attack.

It’s like on the last day of October, India’s Indira Gandhi was killed.

In short, this place is very weird. People who are not strong enough should not try it easily.

Liu Deben and the others didn't quite understand, but Wang Duoyu didn't explain. In short, there was nothing to argue about in the Indian market. This place was too dirty and there was no need to go there.

In that case, let’s happily decide.

Singapore is a small place, which is very suitable for PHS mobile phones because it does not require much base station equipment, but can quickly occupy the entire market.

But the locals in Singapore may pay more attention to this, so you still need to pay more attention when entering their local communications market.

"Well, is that so?" Lu Gongliang nodded, then asked worriedly:
"Duoyu, it's already November, and there are less than two months left in the year. You probably don't have any project plans for the next six months, right?"

Wang Duoyu couldn't help but laugh in surprise when he heard this.

It can be seen that Lu Gongliang seems a little scared.

The main reason was that he had submitted the Dawn supercomputer project and the large optical telescope project in succession over the past month. These two projects were money-eating beasts, and had blocked more than 95% of Harbin Institute of Technology's funds.

"It shouldn't happen anymore, principal, you don't have to worry."

"Haha, I'm not worried. As long as you don't continue to make trouble, I'm not worried at all."

Seeing his fake smile, Wang Duoyu smiled even more happily.

The next day, Shing-Tung Yau, John Milnor and others also came.

It’s not that they heard the news too late, but that they themselves don’t pay much attention to the outside world, especially when they are immersed in research topics, they really don’t pay attention to what is happening outside.

Although Shing-Tung Yau is the director of the Department of Mathematics at Harbin Institute of Technology, he spends more than half of his time every month at the Ice City Institute for Advanced Study.

In fact, this is better for him.

I spend half of my time at the Institute for Advanced Study and half at the Department of Mathematics at Harbin Institute of Technology.

He can consult and exchange ideas with both sides, which is the perfect situation for him.

After all, he was only the head of the department in name only, and most of the chores were actually handled by the deputy director Wu Congqin.

Wang Duoyu has been in seclusion recently, so Qiu Chengtong has not stayed in the mathematics department building, which is why he only got the news today.

After briefly explaining the matter to Qiu Chengtong and others, Wang Duoyu thought they would leave first.

But it turned out not to be the case. They stayed anyway, hoping to talk more with Wang Duoyu.

It’s a pity that Wang Duoyu seems to be following up on the relevant topics of the Langlands Program recently, but the direction has deviated.

First of all, we must understand that the core issues of the Langlands program include the analogy between function fields and number fields, and the correspondence between automorphic forms and Galois representations, such as the connection between the zeta function of the Shimura variety and the automorphic L function mentioned earlier.

Its core idea is to weave seemingly unrelated fields such as number theory, algebraic geometry, and group representation theory into an organic whole through tools such as 'automorphic forms' and 'Galvan representations'.

The entire Langlands Program includes many important conjectures and problems, such as the reciprocity conjecture, the functor conjecture, the fundamental lemma, etc. Among them, the Fermat conjecture, the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, the fundamental lemma, etc. have been proved by Wang Duoyu.

Wang Duoyu’s current research direction is Shimura clusters, which are related to complex dynamic systems.

Therefore, judging from the current situation, if he continues to have in-depth discussions with Shing-Tung Yau and others, it probably won't be of much help.

For example, John Milnor focused on the functor conjecture, which actually describes the profound connection between the automorphic representations of different algebraic groups.

And the functor conjecture implies many famous conjectures, such as: Artin conjecture, Ramanujan conjecture, Sato-Tate conjecture, etc.

An important special case of it is the Langlands reciprocity law, or the Langlands correspondence. The L-function defined by the automorphic representation of a simplified algebraic group over the global field is called an automorphic L-function.

Of course, to put it more simply, the functor conjecture is actually the essence of Artin's reciprocity law and class field theory.

However, Wang Duoyu is not researching in this direction.

From this we can see that the Langlands Program is a very grand topic, which is why it is called the Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics.

After digging deeper, you will find that before the Langlands Program was proposed, many mathematicians had already made many contributions to it or put forward many mathematical conjectures.

For example, the famous Fermat conjecture.

John Milnor was ambitious, but he was already 53 years old, although there were many mathematicians who could still make great scientific contributions at this age.

But based on John Milnor's words, Wang Duoyu guessed that there was a high probability that he would not be able to achieve great things in the functor conjecture.

But Wang Duoyu would definitely not talk about this to the other party so directly and discourage the other party's enthusiasm.

It was three hours later that I finished talking with John Milnor, Charles Fefferman, Shing-Tung Yau and others.

During this conversation, Charles Fefferman and the others were not in a good mood.

During the previous chats, they were able to get a lot of ideas or inspiration from Wang Duoyu, but this time, for some reason, they didn’t gain much.

It seemed as if Wang Duoyu had run out of ideas and could not give them any more insights.

If Wang Duoyu knew what they were thinking, he would probably be speechless.

He is just "acting". After all, he has completed the proof of Fermat's conjecture, geometric Langlands conjecture, fundamental lemma and other proofs at the Langlands Program level. It can be said that he has greatly promoted the development of the Langlands Program.

However, Robert Langlands, John Milnor, Charles Fefferman and others thought that he had "run out of ideas".

It really left him speechless!

With so many scientific research results, he will certainly change the direction of his research in this area.

You can't just follow John Milnor's example and focus on the most difficult parts to deduce, right?

For example, the Riemann hypothesis?

Haha, if he had a little confidence, he wouldn't give up temporarily.

Not long after seeing them off, Wang Duoyu received a call.
(End of this chapter)