Yang Lihan ignored Zhou Hui, who protected Wang Yinan behind her like an old hen, and she said to Wang Yinan,

"It wasn't until I heard what you just said that I really understood the author's ambivalence",

"The great joy and sense of accomplishment that comes from discovering the truth, and the tremendous impact that lies behind the truth, which may even affect the entire human society, keeps him in contradiction and confusion all day long",

"I'm sure you'll be able to help him." Ｘ

"Don't do it all day, who is that author, why doesn't he take the initiative to stand up?" , Zhou Hui couldn't help but say,

"Can you maintain a minimum of respect for an old man who is about to die?" , Yang Lihan obviously didn't have a good face for Zhou Hui.

This time Zhou Hui was speechless, Wang Yinan waved his hand to stop her, "Okay, who is he, can I ask in person", Wang Yinan asked,

"Now I can't tell you his name, but I can take you to meet him," Yang said.

"I can only take you alone", Yang Lihan glanced at Zhou Hui, which obviously meant that the idlers and others quickly dodged away.

"Then what are you waiting for", Wang Yinan said,

He turned around and stopped Zhou Hui, who wanted to speak and stopped, "Don't worry, the person who can write this manuscript and show it to me will not have malicious intentions towards me",

"By the way, I don't know your name yet, can we come back tomorrow", Wang Yinan asked Yang Lihan,

"My name is Yang Lihan, the place is not too far away, I will definitely be back tomorrow", Yang Lihan replied.

"After I leave, you can say hello to Qian Zhonghua again, and say that I have something to go out and come back tomorrow", Wang Yinan said to Zhou Hui,

Knowing that once Wang Yinan made up his mind, the eight horses would not be able to pull back, Zhou Hui had no choice but to agree, Wang Yinan and Yang Lihan called a taxi and went straight to Zurich Airport.

After the transfer in Bali, Wang Yinan and Yang Lihan went to Toulouse, the largest city in the southwest of France, the city of roses, which is also an important R&D and manufacturing center for Airbus and the birthplace of the Concorde.

When they arrived in Toulouse, it was already late at night, and Wang Yinan and Yang Lihan found a hotel to stay.

Early the next morning, he rented a car at the hotel, and Wang Yinan drove it all the way south, towards the border between France and Spain.

France and the West are bordered by the Pyrenees, and in the mountains, there is also a small country of Andorra, which is not long from Toulouse, passing through the small town of Tarbes, and the car enters the Pyrenees.

It's late autumn, and the vegetation in the mountains has turned golden yellow, and the fresh air, as well as the shepherds and livestock that appear on the roadside from time to time, make up a beautiful picture of the countryside.

Yang Lihan is responsible for guiding the way, she drove the navigation does not count, and also took out a printed map, which is full of strange marks and words, after entering the mountainous area, the road conditions have become worse, and there are many forks in the road, what is even more terrifying is that Wang Yinan found the existing intersection, they have passed more than once.

"Hey, do you recognize the way, I've seen this big tree and stone at least the third time!" , Wang Yinan angrily questioned Yang Lihan,

"You're not really going to take me somewhere to sell it, are you?"

"Cut, just your hundred pounds, who is rare", Yang Lihan dismissed, "I've been here once, and it's normal to remember the road clearly",

"Women are born not to remember the way, and God will forgive us".

"Obviously here, I remember that there is a small house on the left side of the intersection, and the small house should turn around here", Yang Lihan muttered to himself,

"Okay, you must use logical thinking to recognize the road, you can't use visual thinking, there is a small house at most of the intersections here, you use the picture to navigate, it's strange not to get lost", Wang Yinan grabbed the map and began to study it.

Wang Yinan first determined the north-south direction, and then marked the route from Tabu on the map, and then cooperated with the number of turns and GPS positioning along the way to find the current location and the route he had taken.

He pointed to the two intersections on the map that did not turn in, and said to Yang Lihan, "Do you see if it is one of these intersections?" ”，

Yang Lihan looked at it, "It's a bit like oh",

"Then let's try it", Wang Yinan turned around and went straight to one of the intersections, no, "Then go to the second one",

When the car came to the second intersection, Yang Lihan began to shout from a long distance, "This is it, this is it, turn in here, and after a section of cobblestone road about a kilometer long, we will arrive at the village we are going to."

Sure enough, not far from the intersection, the car turned into the intersection, it was a cobblestone road, the road surface was quite narrow, and it could only be used for one car to pass.

When Wang Yinan drove in, he didn't see a single car for a full kilometer.

"Most of the people in the village have moved to tourist resorts on the edge of the national forest park, where there is better electricity, better income and, of course, better transportation," Yang said.

"The whole village is basically deserted, except for some old people who are unwilling to leave their homeland",

There is a dilapidated two-story building on the edge of the village, the door of the small building is hidden, Yang Lihan pointed, "This is it",

Wang Yinan parked the car on the side of the road and followed Yang Lihan over, Yang Lihan directly pushed open the door of the small building, and what caught Wang Yinan's eyes was several huge bookshelves, which were densely packed with various books and magazines.

In the center of the room was a large wooden table, on the side of which was a huge blackboard filled with symbols and numbers, and at the end of the wooden table, there was a large bamboo rattan chair, on which the sunlight from the window was dappled and formed a band of light and dark.

The bamboo rattan chair is located in the shade of the sun, and a person is faintly half-reclining on it.

As if hearing the sound of Yang Lihan and Wang Yinan coming in, the rattan chair creaked around, and a soft voice came from the chair, "You are here."

Wang Yinan looked at it carefully, this person is already very old, and his hair is dark blue, it seems that he is not bald, but he has shaved his hair, and his eyebrows are a little white.

The facial contours of this man are typical of Europa, with a large nose and a slightly small hooked nose, "Jew", Wang Yinan said in his heart, "and the most authentic Jew",

Wait, Wang Yinan felt how familiar this man's face was, "I saw your photo in the memorial hall of Ens Paris", Wang Yinan suddenly remembered, "Yes, there was you in the family portrait of the Bourbaki school in the past".

Wang Yinan finally understood where this is sacred, Mr. Qiu and Wiles's suspicions are correct, "Sure enough, mathematical language will not deceive people", Wang Yinan was very emotional, "They guessed correctly, this mysterious author is the God of algebraic geometry",

"Grothendieck, who is known as the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century, but has long since left the world of mathematics and lived in seclusion."

Grothendieck was the kind of true genius who thought as if he had insight from another world, and unlike most mathematicians, he never paid attention to detail, so much so that in a lecture on prime numbers, when the audience asked him to give an example, Grothendieck uttered the classic saying, "Give an example of a prime number, then 57".

Actually = 9 times 13, which is clearly not a prime number, and it is conceivable that Grothendieck's neglect of detail is outrageous.

Since then, "Grothendieck prime" has become a term used in the scientific community to denote an outrageous neglect of detail.

This anecdote does not detract from Grothendieck's status in the mathematical community, as a very simple example, there are at least dozens of Fields Medal winners, whose work is based on Grothendieck's theory, and the mathematical tool used by Wiles to prove Fermat's theorem is precisely the algebraic geometry created by Grothendieck.

Grothendieck turned, his voice a little low and hoarse, but still clear, "You're here",

Wang Yinan nodded, "Yes, I have read Mr.'s manuscript, and I have a lot of questions to ask."

The old man waved his hand, "Those are not important anymore",

"Since Yang Lihan can bring you over, it means that you have understood what I want to tell you",

"Answer me a question first",

"You say", Wang Yinan said respectfully,

"Do you still have faith in human civilization?" , Grothendieck gently raised his own question,

Wang Yinan didn't think about it, he opened his mouth and was about to speak, but the old man stopped him, "Don't answer me so hastily first",

"You know, I'm persona non grata, and at the math conference I took someone else's microphone because that person used my cherished mathematics to calculate the trajectory of a missile",

"I quit the Institute of Mathematics that I founded, because the results of our research were used in the war",

"In the end, I discovered that the most popular field of application of modern mathematical geometry was actually for the communication service of war, so I withdrew from mathematics and lived in seclusion."

"It wasn't until I read your paper and lifted the layers of fog that I found that chaos and contradictions, as well as disorganization, are the essence of nature, and we may never be able to explain the principles and operating mechanisms of chaos with concepts and logic", the old man's voice became deeper and lower,

"We used to be proud that we, as a product of nature, were able to understand nature."

"The most incredible thing in the world is that we can understand it",

"But ironically, I found that nature limits our ability to understand, and we soon create chaos that exceeds our own logical expression, and this confusion seems to be the norm in nature."

"I really can't imagine where this kind of chaos, which we can't understand ourselves, will take our civilization."

In an instant, Wang Yinan understood Grothendieck's concern, and that intense fear.

Following the concept of logic, it is enough to die with humans armed with formal systems, and now more powerful neural networks can no longer be described with logical and formal systems, in other words, neural networks don't care what the damn robot three laws are.

So, once such a neural network, which is beyond the limits of human understanding, becomes the core capability that society relies on, then where will it take our civilization?

Perhaps, it is going further and further down the road of death? r