When Zimmer returned to the International Mathematics Center of Yan University, the sunset had already fallen on the edge of the sky, and it looked like it was about to get dark.

Just as he was about to pack up his things and go back to the dormitory, his good buddy Meng Fei, that is, the little fat man, reached out and patted him on the shoulder.

"Brother Ji, why did you suddenly disappear? I've been looking for you for a long time but haven't found you, and we're done with dinner. ”

Zimmer shook his head.

"It's okay, I'll go out and eat casually in a while, and when I come back, I see that there is quite a lot of food on the road."

As he spoke, he grabbed his backpack and was about to leave, but he was pulled by the little fat man behind him.

"Wait, wait, you haven't said what you're going to do."

Pulled to a halt, Zimmer was slightly stunned, and then said.

"Oh, you ask about this, I'm going to chase Academician Lu."

"Academician Chasing Lu? Caught up and then what? ”

"Then I want to worship him as a teacher! Learn math with him! ”

With his personality of doing whatever he wants, Meng Fei asked with a headache.

“…… And then he agreed? ”

Zimmer shook his head honestly.

"Nope."

"I'll just say it," Meng Fei shook his head and said, "But people are academicians, and they build planes and rockets, and they attend top conferences, so how can they have time to guide you as a high school student?" ”

Zimmer nodded and continued, "...... But. ”

Hearing this, Meng Fei, who was talking, was slightly stunned and stopped asking.

"But what?"

His eyes gradually became filled with excitement, and the young man in the cap clenched his fists and said with a fighting spirit: "But he promised me that if I can win the gold medal in the IMO competition, he will accept me as his apprentice." ”

Gold medal in the IMO competition.

Sounds challenging.

However, it is not impossible for him!

After all, he was the only one who made the last big question in the final of the IMO national examination!

Hearing these words, Meng Fei was not as enthusiastic as him, but looked at him like a fool.

Being looked at like this by his good buddy, Zimmer glanced at him dissatisfiedly and said.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Doubting your big brother's strength? ”

"No," shaking his head silently, Meng Fei coughed lightly and said, "I said Brother Ji, if you get the gold medal, don't send Yan Da Shuimu to a Jinling University...... Why don't you shoot your dad and cut you? ”

No matter how awesome Academician Lu is, the brand of Jinling University is still a little weaker than that of Shuimuyan University. Even the little fat man has understood that in recent years, with the establishment of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, the scientific research achievements of Jinda have not been inferior to Shuimu Yanda, but the recognition of the academic community and the recognition of society are fundamentally two different things.

went to Shuimu Yan University, in the eyes of the neighbors of Shili Eighth Street, it was a champion, and went to Jinling University, although it is also worth being happy, but it is just a double first-class......

However, after hearing the little fat man's words, Zimmer's face did not show any wavering or hesitation, and he shook his head and said.

"Don't be afraid, what's there to be afraid of? I've already decided! Academician Lu will definitely not lie to me, when I get the gold medal, I will convince my father! If he doesn't agree, I'll cut it off and tell him."

"Then you're going to your dad off to death! Okay, I won't persuade you anymore......" Meng Fei shook his head and patted his good buddy on the shoulder, "Anyway, brother will accompany you, I'll go wherever you go."

Looking at the little fat man, Zimmer said movingly.

"Good brother!"

"Ahem, but I said it in advance, if I win the gold medal...... Then forget it, you're not afraid of your dad cutting you, I'm still quite afraid of my dad. ”

Looking at the embarrassed little fat man, Zimmer sighed.

"Don't worry, brother, I don't have anything to worry about."

Meng Fei: "...... It always feels like you're hacking me, but I don't have proof. ”

After a haha, Zimmer smiled and patted his buddy's shoulder.

"Delusions, delusions, all illusions, go, eat in the cafeteria."

"I just ate it...... Forget it, I'll go with you. ”

……

At this moment, Lu Zhou didn't know what kind of seed he had planted in the heart of a certain teenager.

After leaving the campus of Yan University, Lu Zhou called the assistant in his office before getting in the car, and asked Zhao Huan to help buy a ticket to Jinling for the "corner" he had just dug up, and then said goodbye to him.

It was an unexpected gain to go to Yanda this time to dig up such a talent, but he came to Beijing this time, not to dig the corner of the Yanda International Mathematics Center, but to have more important things to do.

While sitting in the car, Lu Zhou continued to make a phone call to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, and asked the personnel department there to arrange Chen Yang's entry and put this matter aside for the time being.

After returning to the hotel, Lu Zhou got the outline of the meeting from the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee and briefly looked at the matters that he needed to attend.

As a chief designer, there are not many links that require him to appear, except for the speech at the opening ceremony, which is to play a mascot-like role at the banquet.

As for other troublesome matters, as well as negotiations with diplomats from other countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China will send someone to take care of it, and these have been carefully prepared for two months.

It can be said that when Lu Zhou was on annual leave, there was a group of people who did not rest for a day.

Glancing at the meeting and throwing it aside, Lu Zhou then took out his notebook and sorted out the things written on the blackboard this afternoon.

Although Hodge's conjecture is not his research field, he has seen a lot of shining points worth learning from Chen Yang's calculation steps.

For example, the method he used to define the topological invariants that can describe the basic features of complex manifolds in the upper cohomology class gave Lu Zhou a new idea in the application of the cohomology method on étale.

This new idea may not be very ingenious, but it is novel enough to surprise Lu Zhou, this thing turned out to be something he came up with himself behind closed doors.

But perhaps it is precisely because of five years of undistracted study that I can have such a penetrating understanding of algebraic geometry.

Thinking about it this way, all he lacked was some learning of mathematical tools, experience, skills, and so on.

And this is also the most real reason that made Lu Zhou dig people's minds.

The pen in his hand turned slightly, staring at the lines of calculations on the note, Lu Zhou thought and read softly.

“…… It would be easier to bridge the complex manifold and topology generalized by the Riemann surface and seek answers in higher dimensions than at lower latitudes...... This guy is a genius. ”

It may sound strange that the problem is easier in a high-dimensional situation than in a low-dimensional situation, but it is not without precedent. The most famous is probably Professor Smale in the sixties of the last century, who came up with a genius idea - the Poincaré conjecture in a high-dimensional situation is easier than a three-dimensional situation.

And this big guy also followed this genius line of thought, and finally completed the proof of the Poincaré conjecture for five-dimensional and above space, and won the next Fields Medal.

“…… It turns out that the ultra-elliptic curve analysis method can still be played like this, but I didn't realize that my research results are so awesome. ”

"Looks like I've found a treasure."

The more he went deeper and pondered these calculations, the more Lu Zhou's eyes lit up.

Although there was no reason for this feeling, he always felt that he was a big step closer to the end of the maze of Riemann's conjecture.

And it's the kind that can be clearly seen.

"I don't know if Vera's paper is out."

The idea of publishing a paper in his heart overflowed uncontrollably, Lu Zhou turned on the computer, searched the literature database, and browsed whether his students had published papers recently.

After all, the things that Vera sent him were unpublished results in the email, and it was not good to use them directly, and there was no way to mark them with citations.

Scholars with a more conscientious conscience will wait until the other party's paper is published before publishing their own.

Of course, although there are not many scholars as disciplined as Lu Zhou.

However, to Lu Zhou's regret, after searching the database, he did not find Vera's paper.

Either you're not ready or you're still in the peer review process.

"Haven't you been published yet?"

Thinking about it, Lu Zhou closed the literature database and opened the software that Xiao Ai helped him tailor to edit the paper.

The paper still has to be published, but it's a pity that it can't be published in a journal.

"Then ...... Let's hang up a preprint first. ”