11 month 25 day.

There was heavy rain in the North Rhine-Western state, and there was some concern about whether the rivers of the Rhine would flow over the river bank.

Located at the corner of the right bank of the Rhine, a meager research institute, at this moment is suffering from such troubles.

The gray-black stone bricks were covered with mottled years, and a low sorrow was heard under the wind and rain baptism, like an old man who relied on the grape vines, breathing gently for the years without time. .

Of course, this bad weather is insignificant compared to things that really deserve it.

As the witness of the Göttingen school’s past glory, and the inheritance of the Bourbaki school, it has been thinking about this world for nearly two hundred years, and will continue to think without any accident.

However, this is probably the first time.

Because of a problem, it makes it trouble…

The door opened, and an old man walked in from the outside of the institute on a step full of water stains.

Shake off the drops of water on the raincoat and hand it over to the assistant who came here. The Faltins Professor, who had just arrived from home, smashed his hand and smashed his hand, and moved toward him. Go in the direction of the meeting room.

It has been more than a month since I returned to Europe from China.

In this more than a month, there have been many things happening in the mathematics world.

Beginning with thesis on the proof of the Beilinson-Bloch conjecture published in Future Mathematics, the study of motive in algebraic geometry, on the theory of cohomology, was directly pushed from the shallows near the coast to the deep waters.

A large number of research results have emerged in this field, and people are increasingly convinced that Grothendieck’s predictions for algebraic geometry are close at hand, and the high probability is correct.

If there are not too many accidents, perhaps most people will hope to see the day in their lifetime.

The day when algebra and geometry are united in a certain sense!

“long time no see, Faltins Professor.” Looking at Faltins coming in from outside the meeting room, a man who looked a little blessed with a smile on his face and enthusiastically extended his right hand to meet him. Go up.

“Speaking from the last time I saw the Blue Hall in Stockholm, you have been there for six years.”

“I trust you have been well since we last met, Sanak, you finally arrived,” holding his hand and shaking it gently, Faltins swept his belly like a rope tightened by a rope. The corner of my mouth couldn’t help but pull it. “It seems that your livelihood has been good in recent years.”

“Let’s make it,” Sanak haha ​​laughed. “Your humor is still unpleasant.”

Sanak Professor, the former editor of the annuals of mathematics, and the winner of the Wolf Mathematics Award in 2014, is the winner of this award-winning nature of life, probably not the best in academics, but it must be The world-renowned.

As for the former editor of the annual issue of mathematics, why is it here…

The reason is naturally the same as Pierre Deligne, who is sitting at the conference table in front of the brief remark. They are sitting here for the same purpose and for the same goal.

The atmosphere of this mathematical world has gathered almost the top school of the entire Bourbaki school.

Including his Sanak, including Alexander Grothendieck’s most proud student Pierre Deligne, including the first person known as the mathematics pope, Faltins, and the youngest scholar who was recognized by Faltins as the most promising to surpass him. Erz…

And until now, this meeting has been going on for three days.

“Since everyone is here, we are still directly entering today’s theme,” and walked to the table and shuddered down. Fartings looked at the rain outside the window and said slowly. “It’s going to be winter in a few more days. It’s too uncomfortable to sit down and sit together like this.”

“I agree with you,” I finally read the minutes of the meeting. Professor Pierre Deligne pushed the reading glasses on the bridge of the nose and said in a steady voice. “I can’t stand the European point. Every year, it will be rainy and rainy. My coat is not dry for a day.”

Faltins’ proposal was unanimously endorsed by more than a dozen participants.

The seminar, which was based on the grand unified theory, quickly opened.

The first speaker was Schultz, who reported his research on the morphism Hom (hX, hY) of the smooth projective cluster on k this month and determined that it is a non-Abelian category.

Once this idea was published, it immediately attracted the attention of all participants.

It is well known that the Abelian category is the basic framework of homology algebra. If the morphism of a smooth projective cluster on k is a non-Abelian category, it undoubtedly denies the way they once guessed the most likely solution to the great unity theory—that is, by The method of homology group and algebraic topology theory.

Although this result is somewhat frustrating, it can prove that one idea is not feasible, and it saves a lot of valuable time.

At least now they don’t have to assume the various possibilities of Hom(hX, hY) while discussing an uncertain proposition on an uncertain probability.

The meeting took a full two hours.

Basically, everyone has unreservedly put their own research results from the past month on the conference table for discussion until the end of the meeting.

Looking at the scribbled notes recorded on the notebook, Faltins was still nodded with satisfaction.

Compared with yesterday, today is barely a certain progress.

In addition to proving that the morphism of smooth projective clusters on k is a waste of time, the algebraic chain theory is used to prove that the class of smooth projective clusters on k is V(k). , verified one of Alexander Grothendieck’s speculations about standard conjecture.

If you put it in peacetime, this is an exciting result, enough to open at least one bottle of champagne.

It is not just a phased outcome of the Great Unification Theory.

This is also a phased outcome of the standardization of the proof.

However, now, not only does nobody mention champagne, no one even feels optimistic about it, but the sense of urgency in the heart is getting stronger and stronger.

Algebraic chain theory is not a particularly complicated method. Faltins believes that if they can think of it, that person must also want it.

He has not published a thesis for more than a month.

This either indicates that he is trapped in bottleneck, or that he is brewing something more amazing.

Faltins is more inclined to believe that the latter is more likely to be 1st year.

After a difficult period of more than a month, he now does not expect to solve this proposition by himself or the power of Schultz.

Maybe there is some selfishness in it, but it is definitely not for myself.

He now only hopes to gather the power of the entire Bourbaki school to overcome this difficulty, so that the glory of this school can continue, instead of being covered by the rays of light from a brighter beacon.

If that person really completed the grand unification theory…

Unlike GFB Riemann’s Conjecture, which makes thousands of propositions theorem, the grand unified theory will allow thousands of theorems to be concatenated in a straight line.

This achievement will even exceed the sum of all mathematics achievements of the 20 century.

And when he has completed this great cause, his achievements will undoubtedly reach the peak of history…

End of the meeting.

The participants got up and left.

Put away the notebook, just when the Faltins Professor was about to get up, suddenly noticed the smart machine on the table, the screen flashed, and a reminder of an unread email appeared.

The index finger clicked on the screen, and he picked up the phone and was preparing to take a look at who sent the mail.

But when the line of sight touched the mail, his whole person was stunned.

The text is short.

As short as six letters –

[Finish.]


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