"Is it a problem that even Professor Grothendieck can't solve? Let me take a look..."
This is indeed not a simple mathematical proposition...
He has stopped interacting with people since his later years. Except for a few friends who know where he lives, most people don't even know where he is buried.
Rather, a language!
Although abstract numbers are used, it is completely different from the motivation theory that he knows a lot about.
Chewing the words he heard from Dr. Lane over and over again, Lu Zhou looked at the mathematical calculations in his notes. Lu Zhou felt as if his mind had been opened instantly, and the look in his pupils became brighter and brighter.
With a pencil, he lightly put a tick on Proposition 2, indicating that this proposition had been solved by himself. Looking at the calculations in this notebook, Lu Zhou fell into deep thought.
It's not that he doesn't want to stay here longer.
However, just when Lu Zhou thought he would see a research note on the Riemann Hypothesis, the moment his eyes came into contact with the notes, a strange look appeared in his eyes.
Recalling the words in the handwritten letter to himself, Lu Zhou actually didn't believe that a mentally disturbed person could write those things.
After all, the unified theory of algebra and geometry was not solved until last year.
Although it is not clear why a brilliant mathematician would make such a basic error in a matter of weights and measures, there is probably a reason for it, if the friend did not fabricate the facts.
Another expression of the Riemann Hypothesis!
After that, the retired pope suddenly wrote a personal letter to his former student Professor Ilusi in January 2010, announcing that all his writings published since his "disappearance" must not be reprinted. .
Becoming interested in this difficult problem that trapped Professor Grothendieck, Lu Zhou picked up the ballpoint pen from the table, pulled out a piece of scratch paper, and used the unification theorem of algebraic geometry to make a simple transformation of Proposition 2.
for example…
It is said that in the 18th century, when academic exchanges were underdeveloped, most European mathematicians relied on letters and posthumous manuscripts to "publicize" their research results. Lu Zhou did not expect that he could still see such a "primitive" communication method in the 21st century.
“…This is definitely not just some math problem.”
In fact, there is nothing to be sad about at all. Birth, aging, illness and death are human nature. Being able to choose the life you like to spend the rest of your life is something that many people cannot envy. His seclusion was a great loss to the mathematical community, but it was not a blessing for him.
"…Apparently Professor Grothendieck did not prove it."
Regardless of how happy the old priest was about this huge sum of money, Lu Zhou took out his mobile phone and called his senior sister, asking her to help contact a local airline in Paris that dealt with logistics and entrusting them to transfer the books. After returning home with the draft, I got on the bus back to Paris.
Nowadays, the Internet is so developed that even if he is still resistant to publishing his research results, he can publish them anonymously.
Putting aside the academic value itself, at least in terms of difficulty, they are no less than the Millennium Problem, and it is not like something that one person can complete.
After leaving the cemetery, Lu Zhou followed the old priest to his home not far from the church and saw the remaining pile of information in his garage.
motivation theory
Although these materials are placed here in the form of piles, it can be seen that the old man still spent some effort to separate the drafts and formal notes, and covered them with a layer of plastic sheet to prevent dust.
If he wanted to get the answer, Professor Grothendieck could have made this notebook public.
If his guess is correct.
This incident caused quite a stir at the time, because the canceled books "Fundamentals of Algebraic Geometry" and "Algebraic Geometry Seminar Materials" can be said to be the bibles of the algebraic geometry community. Public distribution and translation will only make it harder for people to get their hands on them.
If Professor Grothendieck is still studying mathematics after seclusion, then there is a high probability that the problem he is studying is the Riemann Hypothesis that he has solved.
However, the problem is exactly here.
Facing the old man's rambling preaching, Lu Zhou simply nodded and placed the bouquet in front of the tombstone.
Lu Zhou quickly turned a few pages to the back of the note. When he saw the back part, Lu Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.
It is enough for these complex propositions to be published publicly as mathematical conjectures.
At this time, he suddenly remembered a rumor.
Professor Grothendieck's tombstone is in an inconspicuous corner of the cemetery. It is covered with dust and looks like no one has visited it for a long time.
In his own way, he sent a blessing to this great scholar in his heart and thanked him for leaving those precious materials to him. After receiving Lu Zhou, he turned around and left.
But he really didn't want to embarrass Director Giacomino next to him, so he stood there with a sad and deep expression.
More people do not necessarily mean greater power, but the chances of solving a problem are always much greater than when one person is thinking alone.
Continuing to read down, Lu Zhou turned a page and soon discovered that what was recorded in this notebook was completely beyond his expectations. This is not the Riemann Hypothesis at all, but... a mathematical proposition that he has never seen or even heard of.
According to the old priest, except for the last two months of his life, Grothendieck would come here to pray almost every weekend before that.
The word pile is used because there is really a lot of information, just like a hill.
The tip of the pen tapped lightly on the draft paper, and Lu Zhou's brows furrowed slightly.
What happens next is very simple.
What he prefers to believe is that something must have happened to this scholar that is difficult for him to understand.
Professor Grothendieck has already given the proof method for the first proposition. As for the second proposition, it seems that he has not solved it yet.
However, the moment he completed this operation and looked at the results on the paper, he was stunned for a moment.
"… What is this?"
According to rumors, before going into seclusion, Professor Grothendieck and his student Deligne had been working on the Riemann Hypothesis and its extension in the field of algebraic geometry, and it was during this period that the famous Weil Hypothesis was It was solved by Deligne.
His pupils shrank slightly, and Lu Zhou vaguely suddenly thought of a possibility.
“… Physics is the universal law of the universe, and mathematics is the universal language of the universe.”
When Xingkong Technology offered an irresistible price, the aerospace company that accepted the commission stepped on the heels of Lu Zhou and his team and came to the small town of Omets. Professionals were responsible for packing and picking up. Those precious materials were taken away and put on a special plane bound for Jinling that same day, without even having to arrange for fighter jets to escort them.
Seeing that these notes were well preserved, Lu Zhou fulfilled his promise and donated one million euros symbolically to the Saint-Lizier Church, which was regarded as the storage fee for the documents that had been left for eight years.
For example, he believed that the devil changed the beautiful speed of light, which should have been 300,000 kilometers per second, into an ugly 299,792.458 kilometers per second.
wrong!
Maybe he had a premonition with his extraordinary intuition that this proposition was actually the Riemann Hypothesis, but he did not give a reasonable proof.
According to friends of Professor Grothendieck during his lifetime, in his later years, he was mentally unstable and obsessed with imagining devils.
After returning to the hotel in the evening and finishing his dinner in the cafeteria, Lu Zhou returned to his room, spread out Professor Grothendieck's notes on the table, and opened the title page with great interest.