At the end of the month, something big happened.

The emperor of mathematics and the father of modern algebraic geometry, Alexander Grothendieck, died.

It is said that this old gentleman was diagnosed by a doctor last month to be able to take care of the aftermath, and it is a miracle that he has been able to survive until now.

His protégé Deligne attended his funeral and announced the sad news in front of his family and friends on the lawn outside the church of Saint-Lizier, as well as to all those who were interested in mathematics.

“…… Algebraic geometry of the 20th century has seen many geniuses and Fields Medals, but there is only one God, and that is Mr. Grothendieck. ”

This sentence was reported and reprinted by major newspapers and media, and after several twists and turns, it finally appeared in Lu Zhou's circle of friends.

Other than that, though, it didn't make much of a splash in the media.

After all, he has been out of mathematics for many years.

If it weren't for the fact that Lu Zhou was from the Department of Mathematics, he wouldn't even know about this big event.

There are many schools of algebraic geometry, but all of them can be traced back to the old gentleman.

To date, there are still many ideas in his writings that are not fully understood, but many important results have been produced, such as the Wey conjecture proved by Deligne, the birth of Theory K, Wiles's proof of Taniyama Shimura's conjecture, and even Fermat's theorem......

It's just a pity that when the old gentleman learned that his research results were being used for military purposes, he angrily resigned from his job at the French Institute for Advanced Studies, completely withdrew from the field of mathematics, and stubbornly withdrew the copyright of all his works and no longer published them.

Although some of his French works have been translated by domestic algebraic geometry researchers, they have only been circulated privately in a small area due to copyright and other reasons.

Lu Zhou once approached Professor Tang and asked if there was a translated version available for borrowing.

But it's a pity that the field of Lao Tang's research is not in this area, although he has come into contact with the original manuscript, but that was more than ten years ago, so Lu Zhou had to give up.

Twentieth week of the third semester.

The last big exam is over, announcing the beginning of the winter vacation.

On New Year's Day, the first class held an internal party within the class.

It's just a pity that even if a group of big men are organized, there is really nothing to play. I simply borrowed a classroom, sang a few songs, did a few magic tricks, handed out souvenirs, and it was in a hurry.

Because Director Zhang and his own Ph.D. went to run the project, this time the 2013 level should be a class, and even the class meeting of the year-end summary was not held, so the start of the winter vacation was hurriedly announced.

At this point, the sophomore exams of the School of Mathematics have all ended, and the friends in the 201 dormitory have tacitly not asked each other about their scores, and have embarked on the journey home. And this time, without Liu Rui as a companion, Lu Zhou was the only one left in the bedroom.

At the beginning of February, he still had to attend an academic conference, and if nothing else, he had to go home in time for the New Year.

"It's so lonely......"

Facing the empty bedroom, Lu Zhouchang, who was huddled in the quilt, let out a long sigh.

The atmosphere is cold.

The weather is also cold.

An empty bedroom, how can it be empty and lonely?

Hey, it's time to find a girlfriend.

Getting up from the bed, Lu Zhou turned on the computer and found that Xiao Ai had been upgraded again.

This was a little surprise for him.

The more this broken artificial intelligence is upgraded, the more difficult it becomes, and the progress bar has risen in the first three days, and now a progress bar has worn him for almost a month, and I don't know how long I have to wait for this last progress bar.

After receiving a hundred branches of science and technology experience and informatics experience, Lu Zhou looked at the last progress bar and sighed, typed a line in the dialog box, and pressed enter.

Lu Zhou: [Xiao Ai.] 】

Xiao Ai: [?] 】

Lu Zhou: [When do you have to climb the last progress bar?] As your master, I am deeply concerned about the rate at which your IQ is improving. Why don't you be accommodating and fill this progress bar? 】

The built-in fan whimpered.

It's quite warm to the touch.

Unsurprisingly, a picture popped up.

Xiao Ai: [(Revealing poverty .jpg in a smile)]

Lu Zhou: ......

Nima, is this broken artificial intelligence unable to understand human speech?

Lu Zhou's eyebrows twitched, and he continued to type: [Didn't we say that we wouldn't send pictures? 】

The built-in fan whined and spun for a while, but this time it didn't send a picture.

Xiao Ai: [Taobao link: IBM-X3950-X...... server, preferential price of 2.37 million yuan (poor .jpg)]

Lu Zhou: ......

Lu Zhou: [...... Then you should continue to post pictures. 】

MMP！

I didn't learn anything else, but I learned to visit a certain treasure.

This is an artificial retardation, and I am afraid that it will be hopeless.

Lu Zhou sighed, and after completing the "daily task" to train Xiao Ai to speak, he crossed out the dialog box and began to continue to revise his speech.

After Director Zhang told him about the Person of the Year award last time, Dean Qin also found him and told him about it and asked him to take it seriously.

For the sake of the more than 10,000 yuan scholarship, he also showed the spirit of 120 points and changed the speech many times.

Finally, on January 5th.

The 2014 Jinling University Student of the Year Award Ceremony was held in the auditorium of the new campus as scheduled!

The award ceremony aims to recognize outstanding students with outstanding performance in academic research, innovation and entrepreneurship, campus culture, and public welfare practice. At the same time, the award will be presented at the same time as the 2014 Jinling University Pillar Special Scholarship, which will be broadcast live by Jinling TV and Suzhou Provincial TV.

Regarding the significance of these two awards, it is probably equivalent to the annual special award of Mizuki University, although the amount of scholarship is not high, only 15,000, and it is not even as much as a SCI award in District 1.

But the significance behind this kind of award is far from being comparable to a prize of 15,000 and a SCI.

After all, Jinling University is one of the top 10 universities in the country.

To stand out from such a strong school and become a model for tens of thousands of students to learn from is a cow among the best.

There are only ten places for Person of the Year.

It is evenly shared, and there is only one place in each hospital. However, compared with the annual figures with scarce places, the number of places in the "Pillars" special scholarship is slightly more, and there are eighteen undergraduate students in this year, but there are still not many evenly shared colleges.

According to convention, sophomores actually have no chance to award awards, and the minimum standard for the selection of previous annual figures is also juniors, and the outstanding students in the third year generally have to make way for the seniors in the senior year. Even if it is really excellent, it will win a special award this year, and then evaluate the year next year.

However, Lu Zhou, who is about to walk on the podium, is undoubtedly an exception.

He has just embarked on his sophomore year, and his name was not only nominated by the dean of the school, but also unanimously approved by the school-level leaders.

And the rarest thing is that this year's top ten people of the year were awarded, not by the Academy of Things, but by the annual figures of the Academy, who took the lead in speaking on stage......