Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

St. Petersburg suburb, on the banks of the Fontanka Canal.

An old man in a black trench coat sat on a bench by the road and glanced at his watch as if waiting for something.

At this time, two young men, about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing baseball caps, patted a basketball and walked past him. The elated looks seemed to be discussing something.

"Have you heard? The virtual reality system is in beta!"

"I heard it earlier, right in Jinling, shit! Why do you want to go?"

"Don't think about it, our little transparency without fans and topics has no chance. I don't believe they don't have the built-in qualification. Speaking of which you have seen the live broadcast of the God? He said in the live YouTube before If Xingkong ’s virtual reality technology is the same as in Sao, he will eat the keyboard. "

"Haha, what happened?"

"I don't know, but I heard someone say that after returning from Huaguo, he asked the cake shop to order a chocolate keyboard."

"Hahahaha!"

There was a pleasant atmosphere in the air, and the laughter of the two young men gradually drifted away.

Professor Faltins glanced at their backs, and his eyebrows raised a radian.

Jinling?

I did not expect to hear a familiar word in this exotic country.

Thinking of that man, Faltins's face could not help but a look of nostalgia.

As for virtual reality and YouTube, he ignored them.

From the time of smart phones, their old antiques have gradually begun to keep up with the age of young people, and then familiarize themselves with something more trendy than smart phones. I am afraid that even if he has the idea, he has no energy to do it.

At this moment, a middle-aged man with a beard and hair that didn't modify the edges, and was full of cheap shopping bags, walked to the bench and stopped, speaking in an unexpected tone.

"You are here."

Looking up at this one, Faltings said with a smile.

"Well, is there any problem?"

"No, I just feel weird. I didn't expect the famous Mr. Faltings to come in person ..."

A face emerged from the high black bread held in his arms, and Perelman took out a key from his pocket with his freed right hand and threw it into Faltings's hand. Chaos, I hope you don't mind. I'll take care of you after opening the door ... you see it too, I can't make it. "

"You're welcome," Faltings nodded. "May I help you share a little?"

Perelman shook his head and refused.

"No, I'm not going to ask an elderly person to help me pick things up."

The group walked into the neighbourhood, and soon came to an apartment building that looked cheap.

No one would have imagined that the big mathematician who was famous in the world lived in such a single apartment of 20 square meters, and the neighbor was either a Russian aunt living on a pension or an unemployed person at home.

But Perelman didn't say their position.

After giving up the Million Dollar Prize of the Millennium Puzzle, his life was once so tight that he needed to buy bread with his mother's pension. In fact, he himself had repeatedly struggled with questions about ideals and reality, so he chose to fade out mathematics. To study mathematics in the same way that people studied mathematics before the nineteenth century—

That is, lock yourself up.

In a sense, he and Lu Zhou are quite alike.

The only difference is probably that Lu Zhou will publicly release any staged results that are worth publishing, even if he is too lazy to submit a manuscript, and he has not published his own research results for a long time.

Putting the food in the kitchen, Perelman wiped his hands on his clothes before folding back into the crowded living room. When he was about to ask Professor Faltins if he needed a cup of tea or water, he noticed the paper on the table.

A look of apparent interest appeared on his face, and he stepped forward to pick it up and flipped through two pages.

"this is……"

"Research on the theory of tive," Professor Faltings took out a thermos cup from a wide windbreaker, which seemed to have been prepared, and poured himself a cup of hot water. "The author of the paper proposed a very Interesting idea to combine all the theory of cohomology into an abstract geometric object. "

Perelman commented succinctly: "Crazy thoughts."

Faltins: "Yes."

Perelman: "The Great Unified Theory?"

Faltins: "Yes."

"I didn't expect there are such interesting scholars in this world ... wait," after reading the abstract, Perelman felt more familiar with the text, and frowned, "This paper ... I always It feels a bit familiar. "

Faltins's serious face rarely smiled.

"It looks like you found it."

Perelman tentatively asked, "Lou Zhou?"

Faltins nodded and said for the third time.

"Yes."

After taking a sip of hot water, after a pause, he continued, "About three days ago, he submitted this thesis to" Mathematical Invention ". I don't know much about him and Secretary General Hall of the International Federation of Mathematicians What Professor Deng agreed on is probably the first time he has contributed to Mathematics Invention, but this is not the point. "

"The point is that he actually solved a weak form of Grothendieck's standard conjecture and solved the hierarchical structure of tive corresponding to the upper homology ring."

"Yes," Faltings nodded approvingly. "Sure enough, my idea is right. You can't verify this paper as a reviewer."

Looking at the paper in his hand, Perelman recovered his expressionless expression.

"You came to Russia to find me, definitely not for the purpose of identifying reviewers for" Mathematical Invention ". Besides, you have my e-mail, and such an e-mail will make it clear."

Faltings nodded: "Of course, I'm not bored enough to make a plane trip for such a trivial matter."

Putting down the dissertation for the time being, Perelman did not speak, but just looked at him quietly, waiting for him to continue.

Without going around, Professor Faltins said bluntly.

"Come to the University of Bonn."

Perelman's answer was equally straightforward, and even polite.

"I reject."

As if he hadn't heard what he said, Professor Faltins continued.

"Mathematics has reached a critical crossroads, and the Holy Grail that continues from the Archimedes era to today is right in front of our eyes ~ www.readwn.com ~ Numbers and geometry are about to merge into one in abstract form until today What we have achieved so far in the two fields of algebra and geometry is concatenated into a straight line. Maybe algebra and geometry will be unified tomorrow, and I am not surprised at all, but if luck is bad, maybe this problem will drag on to the next century It wo n’t work out, maybe it ’s not. ”

Perelman muttered, "Isn't Lu Zhou working on this subject? Just let him do it, so far I haven't seen his problem."

"It's not necessarily. The anomaly on the 750gev characteristic peak he found that summer seven years ago, he can't give a good explanation to physics to this day, and I heard an old friend say that most people think of it as A joke. "

Perelman: "Physics is physics, mathematics is mathematics."

"Yes, physics is physics," Professor Faltins said. "However, the point is not this, but the task of accomplishing this future, not his task.

"We can't put all our expectations on the future on our own. If there isn't our own thinking in this, our academic will never flourish."

Then, the old man looked at Perelman seriously and said in a sincere tone.

"The Burbaki School needs your help, and the entire mathematical community needs your strength."

"At my age, many things are already out of reach. I urge you to come out of here and contribute to your passion."

Looking down at the paper on the table, Perelman pondered for a long time.

"I'll think it over."

As he said, he picked up the paper from the table and shook it gently.

"At least, wait till I finish reading this paper."