Edward Witten's father was a physicist who studied the theory of relativity.

Inheriting his father's business, Edward Witten had an unthinkable physical intuition that he proposed esoteric theories of physics that even he himself could not articulate.

Edward Witten explained his theory of superstrings in mathematical language, for which he was awarded the Fields Medal.

The award was presented by the International Mathematical Union on the basis that Mr. Edward Witten had made a unified mathematical treatment of superstring theory, and his outstanding achievements and contributions were outstanding.

Edward Witten claims to not understand mathematics, but he probably doesn't know all mathematics, only a little bit.

In the little bit of mathematics that Edward Witten knew, he was better than most full-time mathematicians in the world, such as low-dimensional topology.

Low-dimensional topology studies four-dimensional and lower-dimensional manifolds, and because of the intervention of algebraic topology, low-dimensional topology and algebraic geometry are closely related.

In this algebraic geometry class, Professor Witten explains his understanding of low-dimensional topology and diverges in conjunction with string theory.

There are many students in the classroom who are confused, but few who understand, and no one can interrupt Witten's lecture, they can't understand it, and they don't know where to intervene.

Witten is used to not being understood by the world, let alone these students, and even few of his peers really understand him.

In recent years, Witten has not taken any graduate students or doctoral students because his previous students have disappointed him.

With the ability to spy on the mysteries of the universe and the truth of the microcosm, Witten cannot find a successor.

"The micro can be something like this. Witten had a strip of chewing gum in his hand, and he peeled off the wrapping paper and stretched the gum and stretched it out again.

"It can be something like this. Witten compresses the gum and compresses it until it is kneaded into a small ball.

Witten uses a piece of chewing gum to demonstrate the changes in the microcosm, and simultaneously explains: "When we enter the four-dimensional space, the three-dimensional space we observe is completely different from the three-dimensional space we observe in the three-dimensional space. If the three-dimensional monomorph is a tetrahedron, then the four-dimensional monomorph is a generalized tetrahedron with five vertices......"

"But no one has ever entered the four-dimensional space, and the higher dimensional space. Finally, Professor Witten's lecture was interrupted by a student, and this student was Shen Qi.

Witten walked up to Shen Qi and said, "So only you understand what I'm talking about?"

Shen Qi happened to have chewing gum in his pocket, he peeled off a piece of chewing gum wrapper, stretched, compressed, and kneaded the gum into small pills, imitating Witten's tone and said: "Micro can be like this, it can also be like this, but the truth is actually ......"

Shen Qi stuffed the gum into his mouth and chewed it: "That's right." ”

"Should I call you Einstein or Schrödinger?" laughed Professor Witten.

"Shen Qi, my name is Shen Qi. ”

"Shen Qi, he has successfully demonstrated topology in the 21st century!" Witten suddenly became excited, and his tone became subdued.

Turning back to normalcy, Witten added: "Before that, I was talking about 20th century topology, and the theories of the 20th century were outdated, but no one questioned me, except Shen Qi. ”

The other students looked at each other, but did not grasp the true meaning of 21st century topology from the two chewing gums of the 21st century.

After class, Witten let Shen Qi stay in the classroom and asked with great interest, "Have you studied string theory?"

"No, Professor Witten, I don't actually know physics. Shen Qi shook his head.

String theory holds that all subatomic particles are not small dots, but strings that resemble rubber bands.

The significance of string theory is to describe the entire universe in a unified model, of course, this theory is difficult to be verified by specific experiments, at least at this stage.

"Although I have a bachelor's degree in physics, at Princeton, it's nothing at all. Shen Qi said ashamedly, "I tried to explain Professor Witten's problem mathematically, an algebraic subcluster with positive integers in a projective algebra manifold, and the vector space generated by its basic class changes from time to time. ”

"That's a good explanation, that's how I explained it back then, and I unexpectedly won the Fields Medal. You know, Shen Qi, I never positioned myself as a mathematician, but it turns out that there are very few mathematicians in the world who are understanding. Witten is a bit regretful that he positioned himself as a physicist but won the Fields Medal unexpectedly, but the Nobel Prize in Physics was never won by Witten.

"Huh. Shen Qi laughed dryly, Witten meant that other physicists in the world have a limited level, and the Nobel Prize in Physics review experts hired by the Royal Swedish Academy of Disciplines cannot understand Witten's physical theory, or they can't verify it if they understand it, and some people even say that string theory is pseudoscience.

Only those mathematicians who are engaged in pure theoretical research can understand the true skills of Witten.

Witten was quite popular ten or twenty years ago, but in recent years, he has aged a lot, and he is a little depressed and cold in the academic world

"You are a gifted student. Witten ended the brief exchange with Shen Qi, and Shen Qi left a deep impression on him.

After saying goodbye to Witten, Shen Qi suddenly realized an amazing idea: "Orbifold!"

Orbifold is seen in the field of mathematics as a manifold with a singularity.

Orbifold covers a wide range of branches, including topology, algebraic geometry, and string theory, where Witten excelled.

In topology, the orbifold singularity is often regarded as an orbifold structure on a topological manifold, and a differential manifold can be regarded as a smooth structure with a topological manifold.

The proof of the Riemann conjecture is put on hold for the time being, and there is no clue anyway.

Shen Qi immediately went to the Flintstone Library, and after consulting some materials, he decided to do a relatively unpopular research topic.

For symplectic manifolds, only a few scholars in the world have proved that two symplectic manifolds are equivalent if and only if their basic groups are isomorphic.

Research results on how to use orbifold basic groups to characterize the embryos of the orbifold group are almost nowhere to be found.

"If you do an unpopular subject and have fun, you might even win an award. Shen Qi's desire to win awards has become stronger and stronger, and he has often been stimulated recently.

Not long ago, Shen Qi was stimulated by Mary's husband, who swiped 11 math awards in just a few years, like a devil.

Just now, Shen Qi was stimulated by Witten, and Witten reluctantly won a Fields Medal as soon as he studied physics.

Hoping to prove Riemann's conjecture to win the Fields Medal may not be until what year.

There are many competitors on hot topics, and the competition is fierce.

As long as an unpopular project can produce results, there is a great hope of winning the award.

However, the biggest obstacle to studying unpopular topics is that there are too few useful references to find a few good citations.

"So, I can only rely on my brain to make up for it. Shen Qi wrote a written report and prepared to apply to Professor Muller for the project.

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