"That's a pity, the Pope is in seclusion, which means that he doesn't want us to bother him, although it is easy to find him, but the difficult thing is how to meet him." Junxin sighed.

"Haha, don't worry about it!" Professor Searle could only comfort Junxin like this.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it, being able to come to this place to meet you is already the biggest gain, but I seem a little long-looking."

"Delong Wangshu?" Professor Serge gave Junxin a strange look.

"That's an idiom in our country." "It means that you get one and you want the other. ”

"Hehe, China's culture is really broad and profound, but it's a pity that you have fallen behind in the past few years." Professor Searle said.

Junxin really doesn't know how to answer this sentence, although the **** has passed, but the high-level has not yet made a decision on its reflection, Junxin doesn't want to contact this matter, at least now he doesn't want to touch the forbidden area here.

"Forget it, you're not just here to see me, old man, right?" Professor Serge looked at Junxin and said. Through this period of exchange, he recognized Junxin's mathematical ability, and basically no longer regarded him as a student or a rising star, but promoted him to the same level of scholar.

Junxin smiled and said, "Coming to visit you is naturally the most important thing, and everything else is just a small matter." After a pause, Junxin said, "My supervisor, Professor Hu Si, used to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and I came here to see where my tutor studied and lived back then. ”

"Hus? As I think about it, he's a bit of a maverick. At the mention of Professor Hu's name, Professor Searle still seems to have an impression of him, "But he chose the wrong direction at the beginning, and I want to say that his talent is not in algebraic geometry, and he may be more talented in calculus and number theory, but he finally insisted on choosing algebraic geometry." So I still have a little impression of this student. But he seemed to be in IHES back then. ”

"The professor is indeed a graduate and doctoral student who has been in the senior teacher program for two years and has since studied at IHES." Junxin is naturally familiar with Professor Hu's scientific research career, and replied, "Later, after returning to China, my supervisor changed his choice and specialized in number theory, but after all, he passed his best period, so the research results were relatively insufficient." ”

"I remember that he defined the convergence law of a series above calculus, but because it is more biased, fewer people know about it, but in fact, his level is not low."

The two chatted for a while about Professor Hu's interesting stories at the Institute of Advanced Studies and Advanced Studies, and Junxin said: "It's a pity that this time I only passed through France and couldn't stay too long, so I still have a lot of questions to wait until the next time to communicate." ”

"Oh, where is your destination?" Professor Searle asked curiously.

"I received an invitation from the International Union of Crystallography to go to Canada to attend this year's International Union of Crystallography Congress." Jun Xin then told the professor in front of him the whole story.

"I see!" Professor Searle shook his head with a smile and said, "It turns out that you predicted the existence of this crystalline substance when you were studying the geometric puzzle!" Several professors from the School of Chemistry at our university once approached me to read the mathematics part of the paper, and although the method used was very simple, the idea was very clear. Very nice paper. ”

"You've won a prize!" Junxin shook his head and said, "This time, the International Federation of Crystallography invited me to participate, but in fact, I was under a lot of pressure. Because the impact of the discovery of the substance on the crystallography community is actually very great, and even because of my discovery, the definition of crystallography has to be rewritten, and I don't know how many people will object. ”

"Haha, some time ago, Professor Rasko mentioned your paper when he was chatting with me, and he spoke very highly of your paper, thinking that it was the most creative discovery in the field of crystallography in recent years, and that once such a discovery was recognized by the world, it would be okay to win the Nobel Prize. If that's the case, I'm afraid you'll be the first scientist to win a Fields Medal and then a Nobel Prize. ”

Although there is still more than a year before the Fields Medal is announced, Professor Searle no longer has any doubts about whether Junxin can win the Fields Medal, in his opinion, Junxin's Modell conjecture is not a matter of luck, but a real strength, coupled with his age, winning the Fields Medal is not a problem at all, the only guess is in which year he will get it.

"Thank you for your good words!" Jun Xin said with a smile, he has been humble many times today, for a mathematician, modesty may not be a good thing, because most mathematicians are in their twenties and thirties, and at this time there are often a large number of mathematical authorities above them. Therefore, when you are a mathematician, you must have the self-confidence to be a teacher in your own research field, and excessive modesty becomes hypocrisy.

"You give me the same feeling as him, I mean Alexander, just as talented and academically excellent." This is the second time that Professor Searle has compared Junxin and Grothendieck together. Professor Jean-Pierre Serre, who worked as an assistant to Grothendieck to create the modern foundations of geometric algebra, knew Grothendieck well and respected Grothendieck, who was two years his junior. In his opinion, it is a great value to compare a person, especially a mathematician, with Grothendieck, if not inferior to him.

Since the Renaissance, only Euler, Gauss, Riemann, Poincaré and Hilbert have been publicly comparable to Grothendieck, which is almost openly recognized by mathematicians. Although Mr. Grothendieck has always scoffed at such things as his mathematical position and historical position, and does not bother to evaluate it, he will not do it.

But to be recognized by mathematicians is already an achievement. Even Jun Xin could read a hint of the subtext from Professor Searle's words, that is, he hoped that he would become the next Grothendieck, the leader of the new mathematical community.

Junxin was silent for a long time before he slowly said to Professor Serge, "No, Professor. I'm not. ”

"I'm just me, I'm not going to be Grothendieck. Because I am and only me, my name is Junxin, just Junxin. ”