I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

April 30, the last working day and study day before the May Day holiday.

"Shen Qi, you have participated in the Yanda Golden Autumn Camp, and you are no stranger to Yanda University. You can play by yourself. I will go to SJS to meet up with my girlfriends and old classmates. If there is anything to do, call the contact." After Mu Rong gave her orders, she ran away alone. .

"Business trips at public expense, private loitering... You, you, then you go loafing." Seeing the back of Teacher Mu going away, Shen Qi felt relieved.

In such a short few days, it is impossible for Mu Rong to teach Shen Qi too many things, so it is better to go to battle lightly.

When he came to Yanda again, Shen Qi was indeed no stranger. He wandered around the Yanda campus by himself, and immediately called Professor Sun Erxiong from the Department of Mathematics. It is ignorant not to greet Professor Sun when Yanda came here.

"Professor Sun, I, Shen Qi, am back!" Shen Qi said excitedly on the phone.

"What's great about being back?" Sun Erxiong sounded very noisy.

"This..." Shen Qi was speechless, yes, this is Yanda University, forcing Wang Manjie to leave, what's so special about me being a pre-enrolled student from the Department of Mathematics?

"I'm too busy to talk to you right now. You'll come to the auditorium in an hour to listen to a speech." Sun Erxiong hung up after finishing speaking.

"This... Old Sun, you have changed." Shen Qixin said that last autumn, Old Sun, you invited me to eat dumplings, eat steamed stuffed buns, and gave me directional advice. It was very good to me. This year's May Day, how did you become like this? This man, he changes as he says, so indifferent.

He Fangsheng gave a speech in the auditorium today, so that Lao Sun has no time to talk to me? Let's go and have a look. Shen Qi walked towards the auditorium.

Walking to the auditorium, Shen Qi saw a large sign erected at the entrance of the auditorium, with words on it: "Welcome internationally renowned mathematicians Yun Wei and Gong Changwei to return to the school to give speeches."

"It turns out that Yunshen and Weishen are back, no wonder Old Sun doesn't have time to talk to me!" Shen Qi was a little bit complaining about Sun Erxiong just now, but now, he was relieved.

Where are the Gods of Cloud and God of Wei?

They are the pride of Yanda Mathematics Department, and they are the most promising contemporary Chinese mathematicians to win the Fields Medal.

F+W+A mathematics super grand slam winners such as Jean-Pierre Serre, Deligne, John Milnor, John Thompson are too far away from Shen Qi, and he does not know whether he will see these mathematics in his life The super big cow who lives in the world, after all, is an old man, and his age is not forgiving.

(F=Fields Medal, W=Wolf Medal, A=Abel Prize)

A slightly younger F+W+A Grand Slam winner, Shen Qi has a relationship with Andrew Wiles.

Even if he met Andrew Wiles once in London, Shen Qiju felt that Sir Wiles was still too far away from him.

But Yunwei and Gong Changwei are different, they are both Chinese, very young, in their thirties, both produced by the Department of Mathematics of Yanda University, and both of them won IMO gold medals when they were in middle school... This makes Shen Qi feel very involved ah.

Entering the auditorium, looking for a seat to sit down, Shen Qi looked around, and there was nearly an hour before the lecture, and a small half of the audience had already arrived in the auditorium, all of whom looked like college students.

So Lao Sun is busy entertaining Yunshen and Weishen, right? Shen Qi figured it out, and waited for the speech to start.

It is not ordinary people who can give speeches in the Yanda Auditorium. Clinton gave speeches here, Chirac gave speeches here, Gates gave speeches here, as well as many big names in the scientific field and well-known young scholars.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the auditorium was full and the speech began.

The host introduced grandly: "We invite Yun Wei, the youngest professor of Yale University, winner of the Scientific Breakthrough Prize and Ramanujan Prize, to give a speech!"

Clap clap!

There was warm applause from the audience, and Shen Qi was also applauding, cheering for Yunshen from the bottom of his heart.

The host highly summarized Yunwei's achievements in three sentences.

The Breakthrough Prize was founded by business tycoons such as Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, and Sejibrin, who own companies such as Facebook, Ali, and Google that rely on technology for their livelihoods.

The Breakthrough Prizes set up prizes in life sciences, fundamental physics, and mathematics, with a single prize of up to 3 million US dollars, far exceeding the Nobel Prize.

The Ramanujan Award, everyone who engages in mathematics knows its weight, and it is second only to F+W+A mathematics awards in the world.

Yun Wei is in his early thirties this year and works as a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Yale University. He is the youngest full professor in the history of Yale University for hundreds of years.

Yunwei wore glasses and looked gentle. He said immediately, "I'm rather stupid, so I chose mathematics."

hehe.

The audience laughed knowingly, why are you still stupid? Then we're all mentally retarded, okay?

Yun Wei briefly introduced his own experience. He loved mathematics since he was a child. He won the IMO gold medal (this one is a gold medal with a perfect score) when he was a sophomore in high school. After that, he was very lucky to be recommended to the mathematics department of Yanda University...

Until here, Shen Qi listened very deeply. My experience is very similar to Yunshen's... Well, the experience of the last one or two years.

Yun Wei said a few words lightly. When I was an undergraduate student in the Department of Mathematics of Yanda University, I was awarded the title of "three good students" every year. I basically got full marks in the mathematics professional exams. The only thing I missed was number theory. I was particularly afraid of number theory.

"So I didn't dare to touch number theory. When I was studying for a master's degree and a doctoral degree in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton, I chose the direction of algebraic geometry..."

After finishing his undergraduate degree in the Department of Mathematics of Yanda University, Yun Wei went to the Department of Mathematics of Princeton to obtain a Ph.D., and then worked as a lecturer at MIT and an associate professor at Stanford. He is currently a professor of Mathematics at Yale University.

"The field I am studying is called the Langlands program, which can be understood as a new program of number theory + algebraic geometry. It has historical significance. I hope to make a breakthrough and let the names of Chinese mathematicians shine on the world stage."

Clap clap!

The audience in the audience interrupted Yunwei's speech with thunderous applause. Most of the audience were teachers and students of Yanda University, who were knowledgeable.

"Awesome, Yunshen, if you can get the Langlands program done, the Fields Medal is nothing. This program is enough to unify the international mathematics martial arts." Shen Qi applauded warmly, of course he knows the meaning of the Langlands program .

The research fields known as "programmes" in the mathematics world are particularly powerful.

So far, there are only three programs in mathematics: Erlangen program, Hilbert program, and Langlands program.

The first two programs were produced from the 19th century to the early 20th century, leading the development of mathematics for nearly a hundred years.

The Langlands program was proposed in the middle and late 20th century. The Langlands program is explained in more popular terms: it integrates number theory, algebraic geometry and group theory to form a programmatic guidance document.

To put it more simply, if a mathematician cannot solve a problem in one field, he will solve it in another field.

There is no mathematical problem that cannot be solved by the Langlands program. If there is, then let’s do it again... Theoretically speaking, if the Langlands program is thoroughly proved, it will have the power of programmatic unification with this omnipotent attribute.

After the 1990s, three mathematicians partially solved some of the conjectures in the Langlands Program and won the Fields Medal successively. One of them was the contemporary mathematician Drinfeld.

In fact, F+W+A Grand Slam winner Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem, which provided very important support for the Langlands program.

Wiles is a master at number theory. He is very sensitive to numbers. Do you think it is easy for an Englishman to quickly calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within 40? No, this requires extremely high arithmetic talent, and Wiles has this talent, so he won the Fields Medal and became one of the big cows in today's mathematics world.

The existence of a program is very attractive. Shen Qi set up a lofty goal in his heart, the Langlands Program, and hoped that before you, Yunshen, could get it done, I could get involved in one or two.

"I am very honored to be able to return to my alma mater this time. I would like to thank my teachers in the Department of Mathematics of Yanda University, Mr. Zhang Yuxin, Mr. Su Weilong, and Mr. Sun Erxiong. The kindness of teachers will never be forgotten in my heart. Thank you for your cultivation!" Yun Wei bowed deeply to the audience, which again aroused roaring applause.

The first two teachers Zhang and Su are famous teachers in the Department of Mathematics of Yanda University. Sun Erxiong is not as famous as the two of them, but after all, he has taught mathematics at the undergraduate level of Yunshen.

"Fat old Sun is fine, you are also a famous teacher?" Shen Qi looked left and right, Professor Sun must be in this auditorium, the obvious target of more than 200 catties, where is the person sitting?