August 8th.

At nine o'clock in the morning, in the largest conference hall in the Trieste Convention Center.

Li Mu and Andrew Wiles walked in.

"There are still quite a lot of people."

Seeing so many people in the conference hall, Li Mu sighed with emotion.

Wiles smiled and said, "In Europe, there are still quite a few people who study theoretical physics, after all, CERN is here, and I estimate that many of the people who came to the conference this time are from CERN." ”

"That's true."

Li Mu nodded in agreement.

While they were talking, one of them greeted them, "Hey! Plum! ”

Li Mu turned his head to look and saw Kiliman Fern who he had seen at CERN before.

A young genius in theoretical physics was also one of the original members of their Save the String Theory organization.

"Killiman, I haven't seen you in a long time."

Li Mu also greeted him.

"I've guessed before, I'm probably going to meet you here, and it seems that I guessed correctly." Kiriman Fern said: "When I saw you, I knew that this year's Dirac Medal probably had nothing to do with me. ”

Li Mu laughed twice, "The Dirac Medal is not awarded to just one person, but to several people, you still have a chance." ”

Kiliman Fern spread his hands: "Forget it, there are still a few cattle, maybe because of you, this year's standards have been raised?" ”

Belch...... What's this......

Li Mu is really hard to say.

Because there is indeed such a possibility, it will be because of him, so that the selection criteria of the award have been directly raised a lot.

Of course, Kiriman Fern didn't dwell too much on this issue, and then continued to greet Li Mu.

The two of them didn't talk about anything, but mainly about the organization of the rescue string theory, and the current progress on the rescue string theory.

It must be said that this progress is very slow, and some scholars in the organization have begun to choose to give up and study other issues, while many others have not directly expressed their abandonment, but they are probably shaken.

"We're all looking forward to your stepping up."

Until the two separated, Kiriman Fern couldn't help but say a word to Li Mu.

"Saving the String Theory ......"

Li Mu's heart was silent.

Although he has been working on the Goldbach conjecture recently, he has also thought about the problem of string theory, but it is still like that, and it is difficult to solve.

"Don't think about it yet."

Shaking his head, this problem is no less difficult than Goldbach's conjecture, and even surpasses it, and it took him a lot of effort to solve Goldbach's conjecture.

They then returned to Wiles, and the two of them went to their seats.

But after sitting in the seat, Li Mu felt a little strange.

Because he always felt that there were eyes around him looking at him.

He glanced at it a few times and saw that it seemed to be some mathematician looking at him.

Then the mathematicians took one look at him and started talking to their friends.

It also makes him one head and two big.

In the end, a terrible conjecture was born, could it be - his handsomeness was finally irrepressible?

Ahem, just kidding.

But no matter what, it always made him feel weird.

And Andrew Wiles, who was sitting next to him, seemed to feel it, so he couldn't help but say: "Eh, have you noticed that there always seems to be people around us looking at us?" Hmm, to be specific, it looks like it's looking at you, right? ”

Li Mu Xiaoxiong spread his hands and .jpg, "I don't know." ”

Both of them felt very strange.

At the same time, in the other row of seats.

Qiu Chengtong and his student Xu Ziyang are sitting here.

Xu Ziyang is his protégé, who has graduated from his doctorate, but is still working as a postdoctoral fellow with him, and is trained by him.

At this time, he was saying to Xu Ziyang: "Although with your previous achievements, you are actually qualified to win this award, but you also know that not only you, but also several people have a great chance like you, of course, the most important thing is that there is Li Muzai." ”

"Li Mu is an unavoidable mountain for you."

"If ICTP has the courage to do that this year, he will probably win both awards, so you have to be prepared."

Xu Ziyang nodded and said with a smile: "I know, don't worry, professor, I don't think this award is in my bag yet, not to mention that if it is awarded to Li Mu, I will also be convinced." ”

Qiu Chengtong nodded, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It can really be said that there are talents from all generations, each leading the way for hundreds of years.

The same is true for academia, where every era has such a leading figure.

The only difference is that in this era, there is such an unreasonable person as Li Mu.

I don't know how many other shocking things this young man can do.

At this moment, his mobile phone suddenly vibrate.

The conference was about to take place, so he had already put his phone into vibrate mode.

When I took out my phone, I saw that it was a friend of his.

Richard Hamilton.

Richard Hamilton is also a famous figure in the mathematical community, as he once discovered the Ridge Flow, which helped Perelman prove the Poincaré conjecture.

Both he and Qiu Chengtong are important scholars of differential geometry, especially the latter, who is an important founder of differential geometry, and the two are also familiar with each other because of their research on differential geometry.

Seeing this call, Qiu Chengtong was a little puzzled, why did Hamilton suddenly call him today?

Of course, the conference hadn't started yet, so he answered the phone.

As soon as the phone was connected, before he could speak, a voice had already sounded on the other side: "Qiu! Did you read that paper?! ”

Qiu Chengtong was stunned: "Paper? Which paper? ”

"Ou! You haven't even watched it yet?! This is not for you! ”

Qiu Chengtong was even more confused, "I'm now in Italy to attend the ICTP conference, and I haven't done any research in the past few days, so don't sell anything to me, let's talk about what is going on." ”

"Well, I'll tell you, Goldbach guess!"

Qiu Chengtong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly couldn't sit still, "What's wrong with Goldbach's guess?" Is there anything new? ”

"It's not just new developments." Hamilton said: "This time it is very likely that it is directly proven, and this crown jewel of mathematics is about to be taken off." ”

"You're still selling me guanzi!"

Hamilton laughed: "Hahaha, okay, I won't sell it, I won't sell it, the paper is on arixv, and it's still the paper published by Li Mu, he actually combined the K-mode theory and the elliptic curve, and then fused the sieve method and the original method into one method, so that the Goldbach conjecture was easily solved!" ”

"These two papers add up to more than 150 pages, and I read them for two whole days before I basically finished them! I haven't gone into the details yet, but from what I think, he's already at the finish line. ”

"And as you know, for so long, we have never found fatal flaws in Li Mu's papers on those important achievements, perhaps...... He was right again this time. ”

Hearing Hamilton's words, Qiu Chengtong was immediately stunned.

Plum...... Shepherd?

It's actually Li Mu again?!

He took his mobile phone, turned his head and glanced around the venue a few times, and finally looked at Li Mu.

As a result, Li Mu probably noticed his gaze and turned his head to look at him.

Qiu Chengtong smiled at Li Mu and nodded, then turned his head and said to the phone again: "I know, I'll take a look now." ”

"Okay, then I won't bother you."

After saying that, they hung up the phone, and then Qiu Chengtong immediately entered arxiv on his mobile phone, and then searched for related papers.

Soon he found Li Mu's two papers.

"Self-Consistent ...... of Elliptic Curves in K-Mode Form ...... of sieve and circle method"

Seeing the titles of these two papers, Qiu Chengtong was already attracted to them.

After a brief glance at the abstracts of the two papers, he immediately realized that the proof of Goldbach's conjecture was not the point, but the other paper was.

"Combining K-Mode Theory with Elliptic Curves?" Qiu Chengtong's brows froze.

If there is really no problem with the process and conclusion of this paper, Qiu Chengtong is very clear about the significance of this to the Langlands program.

"It's hard to believe ......"

He couldn't help but think in his heart.

And just as he was about to read the paper, the voice of the staff rang out in the stereo of the venue.

"Attention participants, please note that our conference is about to start, please be quiet and adjust your mobile phone to silent mode, thank you for your cooperation."

"Attention ...... Attendees"

The host's voice was repeated several times in the stereo, and then gradually, the room fell silent.

The people stopped talking and turned their eyes to the podium.

Soon the staff saw that everyone was quiet, and left the rostrum, and after a while, an old man in his 60s walked up to the stage.

He is none other than the President of the ICTP, Artish Dabhorkar.

"Thank you scholars for coming all the way to ICTP to participate in this conference, and I would like to welcome you all on behalf of the International Center for Physical Research."

"Today is August 8, the 119th birthday of Mr. Paul Dirac."

"To commemorate his contributions to our scientific community, we are gathered here today not only to express our memory of Mr. Dirac, but also to hope that every scholar can gain something here."

When he said this, Atish also smiled slightly and continued: "In the past year, whether it is our theoretical physics community or the mathematics community, it can be said that there are many changes, and there have been many achievements in it, so it can also be said that this year is a year of continuous shaking in our scientific community. ”

“我也希望在未来的每一年，都能有像过去一年的这种盛况。”

"Of course, no matter what, we also have to make a summary of the previous year."

"We want to reward those scholars who have made important contributions during the year, so that every scholar who has worked hard can understand that where there is contribution, there will be gains."

"So, let's stop talking nonsense and move on to our first topic of the day."

"The award of the Dirac Medal!"

Atish smiled slightly, and instead of immediately announcing the winner, he glanced at the audience first.

However, what puzzled him was that some people didn't seem to pay attention to him here, and he probably recognized it, as if they were some mathematicians.

The mathematicians all seemed to be holding their phones, not knowing what they were looking at.

Of course, although he was puzzled, he didn't care too much, after all, the Dirac Medal really has nothing to do with pure mathematics.

At least all physicists are looking forward to it.

As a major branch of physics, the biggest difference between theoretical physics and experimental physics is that theoretical physics may not be verified.

As the highest honor in the field of theoretical physics, the Dirac Medal does not depend on whether the theory has been verified, so Edward Witten once received the Dirac Medal.

Of course, it is precisely because of its status as the "highest honor" that all theoretical physicists are constantly chasing this medal.

And who will it go to this year?

Atish finally spoke, and his first words revealed the answer.

"Dimensional Force—"

"It is the fifth fundamental force of the universe, and in the past, we have never discovered it, and we have always thought that there are only four fundamental forces in the world."

"But now, under the guidance of a genius, we have discovered this ubiquitous, yet ubiquitous mysterious power."

"The analysis of theoretical physics has once again played a decisive role, which fully shows that our theoretical physics has infinite possibilities."

"So, we want to thank that genius for his guidance, which complements the physical framework of the world as we know it, and at the same time gives us more confidence."

"He's—"

"Li Mu!"

"Hereby I officially announce that this year, the winner of the Dirac Medal is, Li Mu!"

"Thank you for your great contribution to our theoretical physics community in the past time!"

With Artish's announcement, the venue erupted in thunderous applause after a moment of silence.

All the physicists let out a sigh of relief, and then all of them showed their expressions.

Competing with Li Mulai for a place is indeed a bit self-defeating.

Let's look forward to the other places.

I just don't know how much this year's award standards will be improved because of Li Mu.

It's always impossible...... Only Li Mu will be awarded alone, right?

It's not like nothing like this has ever happened.

The most recent was in 2006 when it was awarded to one person, and further afield was in 2001 and 1999.

All in all, although the probability is low, it is definitely not impossible.

So, the rest of the physicists were glued to Artish on the stage, looking forward to his announcement again.

However, to their regret, Atish did not announce it again, but said: "Then, let's invite Mr. Li Mu to come to the stage to accept the award!" ”

In the venue, there was an uproar, which means that only Li Mu won the award this year!

All of a sudden, many physicists became even more helpless.

Okay, accept it honestly, they can only be a companion once.

Anyway, the Dirac Medal doesn't have an age limit like the Fields Medal, so it's not a big problem.

Of course, some physicists also jokingly think to themselves, maybe they will win the Nobel Prize, the Wolf Prize, or even the Fields Medal, and then they will not be eligible for the Dirac Medal.

(End of chapter)