Teams from universities, research institutes and other academic institutions follow the project, and if there is a project, there is a project team.

Shen Qi was officially the leader of the "RT Third Expression Project", and Professor Muller took a back seat.

The main front-line forces of the team are: Shen Qi, Mary, Ou Ye, and Jonas.

The members of the technical support expert group are: Faltings, Linden Strauss, Müller, and Gong Changwei.

In the decomposition task of the third expression of RT, Mary has recently made remarkable research results, and her contribution surpasses Ou Ye to rank second, second only to Shen Qi.

In fact, Mary is currently the most noble, she is a full fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton.

Shen Qi is a lecturer reserve at Princeton, and he has not yet officially taken up his post.

Jonas received a doctorate degree from the Department of Mathematics of the University of Hong Kong, and he followed Shen Qibian as a research assistant.

Ouye is a graduate student at Columbia University, with the least qualifications and the lowest degree.

"Qi, you can see that you love your girlfriend very much, and you give her the hardest task of decomposition. Mary told Shen Qi that she had met Ou Ye once, and Ou Ye had been to Princeton once.

"Mary, thank you and Jonas for your recent contributions. Shen Qi smiled and said, "I love my girlfriend, and I love you too." ”

"The first half of the sentence is sincere, and as for the second half of the sentence, polite words. Mary handed Shen Qi a document bag, which was very bulging: "The task you gave me has been completed, what else do you need me to do?"

Shen Qi opened the file bag and took out the information to check: "The signature is Mary-Schmidt? Mary, have you changed your name again?"

"Marie-Schmidt is my original name, and I'm back to where I started, a new beginning. "Mary's full name a few months ago was Marie Schmidt, where Schultz was her husband's surname and Schmidt was her original surname.

Shen Qi asked, "Mary, I didn't mean to inquire about your privacy, I just cared about the current situation of my team members, so you went through the formal divorce procedures?"

"I signed it, but he didn't. "Mary's face was like frost, a little hateful, a little disheartened.

Now that the words have been spoken, Shen Qi has nothing to scruple about: "You are still husband and wife in law, Mary, I want to say that your husband in law, Professor Pete Schultz, may be the strongest competitor of our team." In the odds offered by Professor Faltins, Pete Schultz is fifth, higher than me in sixth. ”

"Then beat Pete Schultz. Mary said resolutely that she longed to overcome her de jure husband.

Shen Qi shuddered, this German woman is really powerful, and she even wants to kill her husband.

What did Mary Schmidt, the goddess of revenge, and her husband, Pete Schultz, do to her to make her so ruthless? She is helping a Chinese to negotiate a mathematical solution to defeat her German husband.

Shen Qi's team and Schultz's team do not conflict in the field of subdivision research.

Shen Qi has been playing number theory recently, and Schultz has been playing algebraic geometry.

But in the competition for the Philippine Award, there must be fierce competition between 22-year-old Shen Qi and 32-year-old Schultz.

Most of the European media and math counterparts, and even Asian media and peers outside of China, are almost overwhelmingly optimistic about Scholz.

Shen Qi has a high level of support in China and North America, and his vote base is concentrated in the Chinese capital economic circle and the northeastern United States.

"Algebraic geometry brings together the world's brightest minds, and Pete Schultz is one of them. —From a review of the British journal Nature.

"If even the mathematician who proved the Riemann conjecture can't win the Fields Medal, then what's the point of this award? Shen Qi, he deserves the Fields Medal. —a review from the American magazine Science.

The day of the Philippine Prize draw is getting closer and closer, and all parties are building momentum.

At the end of July, alarming news came from Europe.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh awarded the Pete Schultskis Prize for his outstanding contribution to the field of mathematics.

This is the 12th mathematics prize won by the 32-year-old Schultz.

In addition to the Fields Medal, as well as the Wolf Prize and the Abel Prize awarded to the old man, Schultz brushed almost all the awards he could have won at his age.

At the symposium in Edinburgh, Schultz presented a report entitled "Cohomology (p,p) forms on p-dimensional algebra".

The math community was excited.

Schultz got his hands on the "Hodge conjecture", the most difficult problem in algebraic geometry, and achieved preliminary results!

The Hodge conjecture is also considered to be the most difficult and perverted of the seven mathematical millennial puzzles.

In an interview with the BBC, Schultz said: "In three years, I will prove the Hodge conjecture once and for all. You ask me about this year's Fields Medal? I don't have to rely on the Hodge conjecture this year, yes, no. ”

"The German mathematician Schultz has made a major breakthrough in the study of the Hodge conjecture!"

"You don't need to rely on the Hodge conjecture to win the Fields Medal!"

"With his master's thesis, Schultz can win the Fields Medal!"

News of Schultz was overwhelming overnight.

There is a legend about Schultz that when he was in graduate school, he wrote a paper and showed it to his mentor, the famous mathematician Rapoport, for review.

Professor Rapoporte was shocked at the time, and after reading Pete Schultz's thesis, he immediately decided: "Pete, you don't have to go on to graduate school, you don't have to do a PhD, you will get a PhD right away." ”

In this version of the legend, Schultz did not go through the stage of a doctoral student, and after completing his master's program, he went straight to a doctorate in mathematics.

In this master's thesis, Pete Schultz created a completely new mathematical framework called the "perfectoid-spaces theory".

"perfectoid-spaces" translated into Chinese can be understood as "quasi-perfect space theory", and Schultz's theory has been hailed as one of the most promising frameworks for algebraic geometry in the coming decades.

Therefore, Schultz's voice is very high, and it is widely believed that Schultz can win the Philippine Prize with a master's thesis.

And just now, Schultz unleashed an even bigger ultimate, and he launched an attack on Hodge's conjecture.

Princeton, USA.

Shen Qi's team was extremely nervous, and they worked overnight on Schultz's latest report, "Cohomology (p,p) Forms on P-Dimensional Algebra."

In fact, there are only three people on the team who are proficient in algebraic geometry: Shen Qi, Muller, and Faltins.

Mary, Jonas, Ouye, Gong Changwei, and Lyndon Strauss all specialized in number theory.

"Schultz, having found one inference that can partially characterize algebraic cohomology classes on nonsingular projective complex algebraic clusters, and five more convincing inferences, he really hopes to prove Hodge's conjecture once and for all in three years. ”

After Shen Qi studied Schultz's latest report, he couldn't help but sigh: "What's wrong with the mathematics world, it's very popular this year to tackle the millennial problem, right?"