Princeton University.

Edward Witten put down his physics bulletin and looked at the famous Flint Library not far away.

"Edward, guess what I heard?" Pierre Deligne, dressed in a thick woollen suit, said as he walked.

"What? Could it be that your teacher is out of the mountains?" Edward Witten joked rarely. (Pierre de Ligne's teacher was the famous Pope of mathematics, Alexander Grothendieck)

"How is that possible?" Pierre de Ligne reluctantly said that his teacher had been living in seclusion in the barren mountains of the Gallic Republic for decades, and that he had announced his retirement from mathematics decades ago.

"What's that?"

"Huang Mingzhe is attacking the Hodge conjecture."

"Huang Mingzhe? Hodge's conjecture?" Edward Witten muttered these two terms softly.

"I listened to Qiu."

"Expected." Edward Witten had no surprises.

"Oh? You already knew?"

"The emergence of Huang's chaotic topology allows us to get closer to the truth of Hodge's conjecture, but it is not an easy thing to do." Edward Witten replied blandly.

"By the way, I heard that Faltins recommended Huang Mingzhe to the Norwegian Academy of Natural Sciences and Letters." Pierre Deligne said suddenly.

"Oh?" Edward Witten raised an eyebrow: "Where's the mound?"

Of course he agreed.

"What about you, Pierre?"

"......" Pierre Deligne was silent for a while: "He is too young, he won the Abel Prize so early, I don't know if it is good or bad, after all, the Fields Medal curse." ”

The so-called Fields Medal curse is that many, many Fields Medal winners, after winning the award, the results of the phenomenon decrease.

In fact, this phenomenon has something to do with the age limit of the Fields Medal, which can only be won by mathematicians under the age of 40, which leads to which Fields Medal winners have to think about the future.

It seems that this thing is very absurd, in fact, this is the difference between the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize, generally Nobel Prize winners are fifty or sixty years old, and they can almost retire; The Fields Medal winners are only in their twenties and thirties, and they must consider their future arrangements.

Edward Witten swept a few snowflakes from his clothes and said calmly: "There is no problem with his contribution to topology, even if the Fields Medal is awarded to him, and age should not be the criterion for judging academic level." ”

"Then I'll write to Norway."

"Add me a share!"

“OK。”

……

The Norwegian Academy of Natural Sciences and Letters is the final review body for the Abel Prize, and as an international award, they refer to many factors.

"What do you think? Edward Witten, Viscount Pierre de Ligne, Yau and Gerd Faltins have all recommended Huang Mingzhe as this year's Abel Prize winner. ”

"He's too young."

"But Huang's chaotic topology is indeed a great advance in the field of mathematics after the millennium."

"It's better to wait a few more years! At least wait for the Seoul International Mathematical Congress in 14 years to pass and then think about it. ”

The five academicians of the Norwegian Academy of Natural Sciences and Letters discussed for most of the day, but still did not make a decision.

Although Huang Mingzhe has many recommendations, the Abel Prize is the final decision made by the Norwegian Academy of Natural Sciences and Letters, unlike the Fields Medal, which is decided by the International Mathematical Federation.

However, they still have time to take their time, after all, the Abel Prize is announced in September every year.

……

January 10, 2012.

The weather in Lingnan has just gotten colder, and the down jacket that is rare to take out in a year has finally come in handy.

Huang Mingzhe is still the rhythm of three points and one line, the school library, the Institute of Truth Mathematics of the Department of Mathematics, and the villa.

Putting down the material science books in his hand, he stood up and stretched.

There are many people in the library who secretly look at it, especially many girls, who are discussing it in a whisper.

As a young and golden, talented and ambitious single, Huang Mingzhe is undoubtedly the target of many girls, but unfortunately Chen Wenna, a childhood sweetheart, has always been inseparable from Huang Mingzhe.

They are destined to be hopeless, and Huang Mingzhe does not want to be Dumas, truth is his pursuit, and he does not want to waste time on women.

Recently, Huang Mingzhe has a full schedule, reading books related to materials science in the library in the morning, working at the Institute of Truth and Mathematics in the afternoon, and reading some miscellaneous books or handling some company affairs in the evening.

Materials science is very large and complex.

It is generally divided into: polymer materials - inorganic non-metals (including ceramic materials, semiconductor materials, etc.); Metallic materials, generally divided into ferrometal metal (ferrous metals) and non-ferrous metal metals (non-ferrous metals); Composites (constructed from two or more materials in an appropriate combination.)

Usually various material products will use one material as the matrix and the other material as the reinforcement.

In fact, this is just a rough division, and there are many small categories in careful division, such as graphene materials, nanomaterials, and the like, which are very hot now.

Huang Mingzhe's choice of materials science is actually for a purpose.

Materials are the foundation of engineering science, and no matter how exquisite the theory is, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice without materials.

Just like the curvature engine he proposed, it is impossible to build without materials and energy.

The development of modern science is precisely because materials science cannot keep up, and the theories of many things have long been thoroughly studied by scientists, but it is difficult to apply.

Materials can affect a lot of things, and if the material is strong enough, a lot of ideas can be done.

After Huang Mingzhe integrated mathematics with chemistry, materials science, physics, and computer programming, two new branches of science were born through the collision of sparks of inspiration: [computational materials science] and [molecular control].

Computational materials science is an emerging discipline in the world, and this discipline requires a very high level of integration of mathematics, chemistry, physics, materials science, and computer programming.

It is necessary to find out the rules in order to efficiently develop new materials, and Huang Mingzhe's inspiration spark generated computational materials, among which there are many laws, which are not found in the world at present.

These laws allow him to quickly synthesize the new materials he needs from tens of thousands of materials, and his computational materials science currently has a total of three law models.

If a paper is published, it is estimated that it can trigger a revolution in materials science.

However, Huang Mingzhe is not so stupid, theoretical physics and theoretical mathematics have nothing to do with papers, and he will not publish papers with the knowledge of applied science.

Science has no borders, but scientists have a motherland, and those who advocate that science has no borders either have their heads in water or their butts are crooked.

Maybe one day when human civilization is unified, he can consider publishing a paper, otherwise he will honestly bury this knowledge in his heart.

In terms of molecular cybernetics, this is a discipline that has never appeared in the world, and it is mainly a discipline that studies molecular control.

Some specific molecules, stimulated by certain conditions, can be controlled, what can this effect do?

It is mainly used in molecular robots, molecular smelting, high-purity material extraction and other fields.

But now in his molecular cybernetics, there are only two small molecule materials that can be used for specific work.

Knowledge, he needs more knowledge, only by accumulating more knowledge, the spark of inspiration can collide with more new knowledge.