During the Spring Festival holiday, Shen Qi's named NMG paper was published in "Physics Today", and the points of the top students accumulated to 55474088 points.

Later, on a short business trip, Shen Qi went to Israel to receive the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.

Ou Ye finally made a comeback, and she returned to work at the Yan University Mathematics Academy.

The first formal meeting of the Mathematics Unification Project Team was held in the School of Mathematics, which is an inter-departmental cooperation project.

The team leader is Shen Qi, in order to show respect for the Academy, Shen Qi appointed Ou Ye as the executive deputy leader, and Li Zhenqiang as the deputy team leader.

Ou Ye's best friend and apprentice Xiaolian listened and made minutes of the meeting.

"Familiar, but let's go through the formal process. Shen Qi said that the partners of this project are his wife and classmates in the dormitory next door to the undergraduate.

"Professor Shen, please. Ou Ye is very cooperative with Professor Shen's work.

Li Zhenqiang snickered, you two are interesting, the husband sings and the wife follows, the husband instructs the wife outside, who instructs who at home?

"First of all, we need to determine what exactly it wants to do in the project of the unification of mathematics, and what are the target outputs?" Shen Qi communicated with everyone in a discussion tone.

Li Zhenqiang said: "My understanding is that the unification of mathematics will give deep and fundamental connections between different fields of mathematics, for example, number theory and harmonic analysis are far apart, but under the new program, they will be connected. ”

"A hodgepodge of super fault tolerance. Ou Ye talked about her thoughts.

"Zhenqiang said it very professionally, and Ouye's analogy is very vivid. Shen Qi nodded and said, "My understanding is that the final product of the Mathematics Unification Project should be a product similar to the 'Xinhua Dictionary'. In the standard set by the Xinhua dictionary, whether it is a word with one drawing or thirty strokes, and what kind of sound it sounds, readers can quickly find the target word according to this standard. ”

"Notice that I'm talking about similarity, not identical. In the 'mathematical dictionary' we envision, in addition to the quick lookup function, there will also be a new paradigm structure. ”

"For example, the current number theory may be the 'character system' of the cursive prefix, the harmonic analysis is the 'character system' of the three-point water, the algebraic geometry is the 'character system' of the Bao Gaitou, and the topology is the 'character system' next to the anti-dog...... There are dozens of 'word families', and there are also dozens of large branches of mathematics. ”

"Under the new paradigm and new program, we set one 'mathematical dictionary' in a unified manner, and no more than two 'character lines', which is our target product and product core design idea. Shen Qi had already drawn a big framework in his heart, and he didn't officially start the unification of mathematics until today, because he thought that the time was basically ripe and he could do it.

"It's an epic battle. Li Zhenqiang said.

"Let's look back, what was the order of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the six kingdoms? What is his core design idea? The design idea is that those who are close will be the first to destroy the powerful countries. The same is true of our mathematical unity, where we first connect the more closely related branches, such as number theory and algebraic geometry. ”

"At the same time, we gnaw the hard bones first, such as harmonic analysis, topology, and complex functions. After all this work is done, we should be able to invent a new 'character system', and the rest of the work is to put it into the new template. What Shen Qi means is that Ou Ye does number theory and Li Zhenqiang does algebraic geometry, and the two first establish a connection between number theory and algebraic geometry. The rest of the work will be done by Shen Qi.

The work of Ou Ye + Li Zhenqiang is actually an in-depth study of the Langlands program.

Shen Qi hopes that the two can find new inspiration and breakthroughs from the Langlands Program.

Shen Qi's own work is a completely new field, which is highly innovative, and there is no ready-made information to learn from.

The only reference is the SL system created by Shen Qi when he cracked Hodge's conjecture.

After the meeting, Xiao Lian found Shen Qi alone.

Xiaolian is a graduate student of the School of Mathematics, majoring in number theory.

She also does some regular math projects, and in the math integration project, she can't even undertake the work of starting professionally. Xiaolian followed Ou Ye, made a meeting summary, copied some materials, and returned to run errands between the Academy of Mathematics and the Shen Qi Mathematical Research Center, she could only do this kind of work.

Xiao Lian asked, "Professor Shen, tell me, does Yan Jun dislike me?"

Yan Jun was introduced to Xiaolian by Shen Qi, and Shen Qi was the matchmaker: "No, aren't you two in love? I remember on New Year's Day, did you two go out on a trip together and live in the same room?"

Xiao Lian nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Shen Qi: "You both live in the same room, isn't this in full swing?"

"But he ...... Treat me coldly......" Xiao Lian bit his lip, looking so depressed.

"Oh, that's right. Shen Qi probably understood.

The girl who learns mathematics is relatively simple, and Xiaolian has something to say. Shen Qi asked, "Xiaolian, how do you feel about Yan Jun? He was introduced to you by me, is he your dish?"

"He's a chemical dog, his character is okay, but his addiction to cigarettes is too heavy. ”

"Then I know, I'll help you find out. Shen Qi left the building of the Academy of Sciences and came to the laboratory of the Institute of Chemistry.

Lao Yan and Cheng Haonan are both from the chemical institute, and they are purifying the C01B sample.

The purification work can also be done in the center, because the C01B sample was entrusted to the chemical institute to help optimize, and Lao Yan and Cheng Haonan carried out the final purification in the chemical institute.

Shen Qi changed into a lab coat and entered the laboratory, without speaking, he quietly watched Lao Yan and Cheng Haonan do the purification.

Purification is the purification of chemicals, which is a fundamental skill that every chemistry student must master.

Designing the synthesis route, Shen Qi has his advantage, after all, chemistry has been upgraded to level 12.

In terms of experimental operations, Lao Yan and Cheng Haonan are quite proficient, especially Cheng Haonan, who has worked in an organic outsourcing company for five years, and his daily work is to do experiments.

There are several types of scientists, and Nobel is a businessman-type scientist who formulates strategies and leaves the work to laboratory dogs.

Albert Einstein was a purely academic scientist who provided inspiration and handed over the work to his subordinates.

Heisenberg was comparable to Einstein in his ability to think, he did not need subordinates, and one of his close friends was Bohr.

Shen Qi's positioning is still academic, and now he has begun to do applications, and he needs a right-hand man.

After the C01B sample was dissolved in benzene, Lao Yan and Cheng Haonan were diluted with the same volume of hexane, and then purified by column chromatography, and the main band was eluted with acetone/EtOH (3:1).

This is a basic operation, and it is not difficult for the two skilled chemical dogs.

"Good work. Shen Qi recognized the experimental operation ability of the two chemical assistants, and he said to Lao Yan: "The experiment needs to be done, and the interaction with the girl also needs to be enthusiastic." ”