The Fields Medal is in hand, the Nobel Prize is also in hand, and during his years in Princeton, Lu Zhou feels that he has made a complete merit and made the trip worthwhile.

To be honest, although he decided to return to China, he was actually quite reluctant to be here.

Whether it's the cottage he's put a lot of effort into decorating, or the fireplace in his living room, or the office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, or Carnegie Lake not far away.

Whether it's the research environment here, or the scholars here......

When you have a chance, you can come back here again.

Well, it's decided, the house is still not for sale.

Early in the morning, Lu Zhou came to the office, and as soon as he pushed the door open, he was sprayed by the ribbon of the salute.

"Congratulations, Professor! The youngest Nobel laureate in history, "wearing a peaked bowler hat on his head, Hardy leaned in with an empty salute as a microphone and leaned in with a hippie smile, "How do you feel now?" ”

was stunned by his students, and after coming back to his senses, Lu Zhou immediately smiled.

"My thoughts are...... It may take a person to sweep the floor. ”

"Oh, please don't be so realistic, my dear professor." Hardy made a helpless expression, "I'll clean up in a while, but now we should do more, isn't it celebrating?" I proposed, we could have a party, and I would be in charge of the barbecue. ”

Lu Zhou: "...... I'll think about it. ”

Standing next to her, Vera's face flushed, and she looked at Lu Zhou with the same excitement.

"Congratulations, Professor."

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded to Vera: "Thank you." ”

Ordinary congratulations were enough for him, and he didn't need his students to do anything for him.

Also congratulating Lu Zhou, Qin Yue continued to ask: "Professor, when is the award ceremony for the Nobel Prize?" ”

Lu Zhou: "December 10th, there are still two months. ”

Hardy immediately asked, "Professor, can you take us with you when you go to receive the award?" ”

When Hardy asked this, the eyes of the entire office looked at him.

Even Wei Wen, who has been immersed in studying Chinese, also used his afterglow to pay attention to this side.

There aren't many opportunities to attend the Nobel Dinner, especially for mathematicians.

If it weren't for the research in economics, it could even be said that there was no opportunity at all......

Of course, their mentors are an exception.

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "No problem, let's go together if you want to, but I have one condition." ”

Jericho raised his hand and asked, "What conditions?" ”

Lu Zhou continued in a relaxed tone: "Those who want to go with me must complete the topic selection of their graduation thesis before the end of the month. You've been studying with me for a long time, and it's time to start thinking about graduation. ”

"Dissertation topic?" Hardy looked confused, "But Professor, we only got our master's degree this year......

"Then try to get a doctorate next year," Lu Zhou smiled, "With your level, it must be enough, and my requirements for you are very simple, I don't need you to work under me for a long time, I just need to write a thesis that satisfies me." ”

Hardy:......

Qin Yue: ......

Jericho:......

How easy is this?!

……

Even in Princeton, winning the Nobel Prize is an honorable thing.

In its history, Princeton has produced a total of 25 Nobel laureates, most of them in physics. Regardless of the discipline, the Nobel Prize honors are awarded, and the winner's photo has a chance to be inducted into the Princeton Hall of Fame for future scholars to admire.

However, Lu Zhou's photo is already inside, and it is displayed with the 12 Fields Medal winners in Princeton's history, so it is naturally impossible to hang it next to it again.

In short, to celebrate the occasion, the Institute for Advanced Study threw a party for him.

Originally, the celebration party Lu Zhou was going to be held in his own home, but he didn't expect the Institute for Advanced Study to take care of it for him, and it was directly arranged in the No. 1 lecture hall.

The lecture hall, which was designed to be connected to the cafeteria and café, proved to be unexpectedly suitable for both a serious math report and a special celebration.

At the party, Professor Feverman held a bottle of champagne and smiled and clinked glasses with Lu Zhou.

"Congratulations, you became the first scholar to win both the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize, both of which are the youngest to be awarded to the Scholars...... I think the Guinness Book of Records can open up a new subcategory for you. ”

Taking a sip of champagne in the goblet, Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly: "This is too exaggerated, it is impossible for Guinness to establish a sub-category because of just two records." ”

"It's not just a 'two records', especially since you're only 25 years old. I'm sure many PhDs in the Department of History will be interested in writing their dissertations on your topic," Professor Feverman said in a joking tone.

Although the application rate of his papers is quite high in the statistical information of major databases, it is the first time that Lu Zhou has heard of such a sassy operation when it is written into the paper as a research topic.

In other words, is there really a chance to graduate with this kind of graduation thesis?

Lu Zhou was skeptical.

It was not only Professor Feverman who congratulated him, but also his mentor, Professor Deligne.

The old gentleman clinked glasses with him, and after sending his congratulations, he paused for a moment to continue.

"Although I think mathematics should be pure, you must have your own thoughts on mathematics. In any case, I must congratulate you on the fact that at this age that you should be ordinary, you have achieved enough to be remembered by the world. ”

Lu Zhou said solemnly: "Thank you." ”

"There's nothing to thank me for, the knowledge I taught you doesn't seem to have come in handy until now." After a pause, Professor Deligne, who has always been very serious, also smiled and quipped, "We always thought that Edward Witten would be the first person to win both the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize, but we didn't expect you to be the first." ”

Professor Witten, who happened to come here, heard this sentence from his old friend, smiled indifferently and said, "This is impossible, unless I can live until he becomes an old man, Theory M will never be proven in experiments." ”

Not to mention proof, it is difficult to find a single trace of evidence on superstring theory in experiments, let alone M-theory, which unifies the five superstring theories and the supergravitational theory of 11-dimensional space.

At present, experimental physics is still in the stage of testing the Standard Model and exploring new physics at the boundaries of the Standard Model, and it is still far from the mystery of the one-dimensional world.

However, there are some things that are not the same problem that will be solved this century.

As long as physics continues to develop, there will always be someone who will be able to see that day for him.

Just as a century later, people are still carefully verifying Einstein's theory of relativity and discovering the existence of gravitational waves. Whether it is proved or falsified, in the not-so-distant future, people will always give an affirmative answer to these remaining questions......