Because he couldn't make up his mind, Lu Zhou told his mentor, Professor Deligne, about the invitation letter from the Max Planck Society. After listening to Lu Zhou's statement, the pen in the old man's hand stopped and looked up at Lu Zhou.

"Are you going to go to the Max Plank?"

"I'm considering," Lu Zhou thought for a moment and said, "Actually, I'd rather hold this report in Princeton." ”

Germany is simply too far away.

He had just returned from a business trip at Columbia University, and for a while he didn't want to travel far again.

After thinking about it, Deligne unexpectedly didn't agree with him: "Headmaster Isgrub must be happy to hear you say this, and will definitely be willing to go to great lengths to help you, but I don't recommend you to do it." ”

Lu Zhou: "Why? ”

"It's like a monastery, good for practice, but not for preaching. There's a wider world beyond the Institute for Advanced Study," Putting down the pen in his hand, Dligne looked at his former student and continued, "My advice is that when you're younger, you should get out and walk more. No matter what you're researching, communicating more with scholars in the same field is far more helpful than persecuting yourself behind closed doors. ”

In Deligne's eyes, Lu Zhou's way of studying the problem is indeed no different from "persecuting himself".

Lu Zhou made a helpless expression and shrugged his shoulders: "Okay, I will seriously consider your suggestion." ”

"I hope you will. Also, when you get there, remember to say hello to that old fellow at Faltins for me. Speaking of the name of his old friend, a rare smile appeared on Deligne's serious face, "It's been more than twenty years since I left Princeton, and I don't know if his arrogant disease has been cured." ”

Recalling the last time he had a relationship with the old gentleman in Stockholm, Lu Zhou's expression suddenly became a little subtle.

Although I don't know what Professor Faltings was like when he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton twenty years ago.

But I guess it didn't get cured......

After leaving Professor Deligne's office, Lu Zhou returned to his office.

Sitting in front of the computer, he thought for a while, edited an email, and replied to the invitation of the Max Planck Institute for Condensed Matter Physics at the address left on the letter.

Eventually, he decided to take a trip to Germany.

Since the Max Planck Institute had promised in the invitation letter that it would cover all the expenses of his visit to Germany, it would be a good idea to go out for a walk at public expense.

However, in this case, it is necessary to prepare the PPT for the report meeting as soon as possible......

After a long day of work, it was finally time for dinner.

Lu Zhou stretched, saved the unfinished PPT, and sat up from the office chair.

He had some special things to do after returning in the evening, and he planned to finish his work for the day earlier, and told Vera to let her not bring a bacon sandwich for him for a while, and went to the dining area on the first floor alone.

Coincidentally, just as Lu Zhou was about to start eating, he met Edward Witten, who had just finished taking the meal.

"Didn't you go to the Ivy League club for dinner?" Sitting down across from Lu Zhou with a plate, the talkative Jewish professor said in a casual tone, "During your exchange visit to Columbia University, there was a new chef there. ”

"Every time I plan to go, I end up choosing to sit here because I'm too lazy to go that far," Lu Zhou said casually as he stirred the meat sauce on the macaroni with a fork.

"Haha, so am I. In fact, after getting used to it, I found that the food at the Institute for Advanced Study is also quite delicious. Edward Witten smiled, "If it weren't for the fact that they had swapped my membership for life, I would have withdrawn." ”

"Lifetime membership? Do I have to pay membership dues? It was the first time he had heard about this, Lu Zhou looked at Witten unexpectedly and asked.

"Of course not, but you're almost there, no club will let a Fields Medal or Nobel Prize winner pay dues, it's a historical tradition of the Ivy League," after a pause, Witten suddenly remembered something, and continued to ask, "Speaking of which, did you receive an invitation from the IMU?" ”

IMU is the abbreviation of the International Union of Mathematicians, and the invitation letter that Witten refers to is naturally an invitation to report on the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Nodding, Lu Zhou replied, "Yes, they invited me to do a sixty-minute briefing. ”

Edward Witten was not surprised that Lu Zhou was invited.

As the strongest candidate for the Fields Medal, it would be strange if he did not receive an invitation.

"Sixty minutes is not a short time, have you thought about what you will do at the presentation?"

Lu Zhou: "If nothing else, it's Kakutani's conjecture." ”

"No accidents? What do you mean by no surprises? Edward Witten glanced at Lu Zhou with some confusion and continued to ask with interest, "What if something happens?" ”

Lu Zhou smiled and answered the question in a relaxed tone.

"Naturally, it's also Kadotani's conjecture."

The difference is just who does the work.

After taking off the crown jewel of Goldbach's conjecture, among the many propositions of additive number theory, there are no more propositions that can arouse Lu Zhou's interest.

The theory of group construction has been perfected in proving Goldbach's conjecture, and Lu Zhou would rather see someone use his theoretical tools to create new theories or prove new theorems on the basis of his limited time solving isolated problems.

It is precisely for this reason that at the beginning of the application for the Kakutani conjecture, Lu Zhou decided to give this topic to his students to complete, and he only provided guidance and suggestions on methods and directions.

Of course, if his students can't finish it, he'll eventually consider taking it himself.

However, Lu Zhou is still quite optimistic about the ability of his students.

Vera, in particular, was the most talented scholar under the age of 25 he had ever met.

Although lacking in creativity, it is surprisingly strong in analytical skills and logical thinking. As long as she is taught many things once, she can not only remember them quickly, but also quickly apply them to solve practical problems.

I believe that with the right guidance, she may not be able to become a scholar of Schultz's level.

At least in terms of talent, she won the IMO gold medal even a year before Schultz......

……

After dinner, Lu Zhou did not go home immediately after leaving the Institute for Advanced Study, but jogged along Carnegie Lake.

As a researcher, only by having a healthy body can you better explode your liver in research.

Since becoming a professor, Lu Zhou has realized this more and more deeply.

Sweating, he returned home and took a shower, Lu Zhou lay on the bed refreshed, closed his eyes and silently recited "system", sinking his consciousness into the system space.

The last time he completed the quest, he only received the quest reward, and the new quest has not yet been touched.

Now that the theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure has been completed, Lu Zhou, who has finished his work at hand, has enough time.

It's also time to see what kind of multiple-choice questions the system will make him do this time.

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(Something happened yesterday...... I won't make salted fish tomorrow! ）

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