Under normal circumstances, Lu Zhou would never talk about something he didn't understand very well.
The statement he made earlier is one of the many conjectures about the Artin-L function in the Langlands Program, and it is also a very classic algebraic geometry proposition.
"On behalf of the Chinese Mathematical Society, I would like to toast you, congratulate you on winning the Fields Medal, and thank you for bringing this honor to the Chinese mathematical community."
Listening to Lu Zhou's drunken ramblings, Schultz sighed, shrugged and said, "I'll help you get some hangover medicine from the organizer..."
Lu Zhou had some reaction to these words, and subconsciously touched the inner pocket of his chest.
Secretary Cheng:…
"Of course I'm still here... I just said I'm not drunk."
Zhang Wei's expression was a little subtle: "No, maybe Professor Lu really has hope..."
"My dear Mr. Schultz, I don't have a hundred thousand whys. I can't possibly know everything..."
The owner of this restaurant is a Chinese and his ancestral home is Shancheng. It is said that he used to be a dispatched employee of PetroChina, but later found that it was more profitable to open a restaurant here, so he simply quit his job and started a catering business here. Later, the business became more and more popular, and he immigrated. Now he has married a wife and has children locally, and has settled down.
Thinking of the bottleneck he encountered in his research, Schultz frowned slightly, let out a light sigh, crossed his arms and thought seriously.
"Thank you," Lu Zhou replied with a smile: "I will definitely visit if I have the chance!"
"The party is tonight, you drank too much."
According to Mr. Wang Shicheng, this is his seventh time coming to this city, so he is quite familiar with it.
While muttering to himself, this Germanic young man with long flowing hair seemed to have completely forgotten the sobriety medicine he had mentioned, and just walked away...
"It is now being spread throughout the Chinese circles in South America that Professor Lu from Princeton won China's first Fields Medal. It is my honor for you to come to my place for dinner, and I will treat you to anything you say! If you win the Nobel Prize, come to my store and eat open, and as many people as you bring will get free food!"
However, through this rare opportunity, Lu Zhou also met many outstanding people in the Chinese mathematics community.
Group representation theory and analysis methods, such general things...
Looking at Lu Zhou who insisted on paying, the boss pushed his hand away without saying a word and said with a smile.
Although Rio de Janeiro is hosting the International Congress of Mathematicians for the first time, it has hosted many international mathematics conferences before.
Lu Zhou: "What's the problem?"
This guy was indeed drunk.
Looking at Schultz who suddenly became silent, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned.
Similarly, he didn't think Lu Zhou could figure it out. He just hoped to hear different opinions from different people, maybe he could get some unexpected inspiration.
Upon hearing this, Schultz's eyebrows twitched fiercely.
The meal took a long time, and it wasn't until two o'clock that Lu Zhou returned to the hotel drunk.
Similarly, Lu Zhou always felt that he had heard this sentence somewhere before, or perhaps seen it before.
Schultz teased: "Drunk people say that about themselves? Do you still have your medal?"
But drunk...
After lowering his head and thinking for a while, Lu Zhou burped.
Taking a step forward, Schultz said seriously: "No so, I just want to know 'why'?"
Schultz raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll test you with a question."
Since his mathematics level was upgraded to LV7, Lu Zhou has always felt more and more sensitive to the memory about mathematics in the fuzzy memory area of his brain.
For example, Xu Chenyang, Wei Shen, Yun Shen, Zhang Pingwen, etc...
Schultz happened to be standing next to the elevator in the hotel lobby and was slightly stunned when he saw Lu Zhou walking towards him.
Lu Zhou frowned and tried to concentrate. He thought for a while and finally shook his head, "I don't know, this problem is too difficult. And I have a hunch that if I want to figure this problem out, I will waste three months of my time..." Maybe half a year."
Taking a deep breath, Schultz asked patiently: "Okay, do you have any good ideas about this problem? Or maybe an idea."
At the dinner table, after everyone got to know each other, Wang Shicheng, chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society, raised his glass and said to Lu Zhou solemnly.
Lu Zhou frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly relaxed his brows and said with a drunken smile: "If you want to prove that the above-mentioned automorphic L functions can be uniquely decomposed into the product of the 'standard' L function, you must first prove that the automorphic L functions Maintaining the uniqueness of L function decomposition... In this case, why not try to prove it through group representation theory or analytical methods? I think you can give it a try."
Xu Chenyang also nodded: "Indeed."
After finishing it in one gulp, Academician Wang said with a smile: "I know that our research and academics are the first priority. As for winning awards, they are the icing on the cake, but no matter what, I have to toast you with this cup."
Maybe it was just an inadvertent glance in a certain book or a certain paper. Things that can only be recalled by going back and looking through the documents again. It can be recalled with only a vague sense of déjà vu.
Although the Nobel Prize in Mathematics does not exist, there is still hope for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Whatever he thought of, he felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he probably just said it casually.
Lu Zhou:…
Half a year…
The boss obviously knew Academician Wang. When he heard that they were mathematicians attending the International Congress of Mathematicians, he readily gave them a 10% discount.
In fact, Lu Zhou didn't understand this stuff very well. His understanding of algebraic geometry was limited to what Deligne taught him. Some deeper propositions were only understood but never studied in depth.
Lu Zhou shook his head: "I didn't."
After hearing this, Secretary Cheng standing nearby said with a smile: "I'm afraid this is a bit difficult. There is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics."
Seeing that his boss was resolute, Lu Zhou finally stopped insisting and accepted the offer.
"Lu Shen, I also want to toast. I don't represent anyone, I represent myself." Xu Chenyang smiled heartily and raised the wine glass in his hand. "In the future, if you have the opportunity to come to our Yanda International Mathematics Research Center, it is the only one in the world. It’s a research institute located in a courtyard, so it’s good to go there as a tourist.”
"No... maybe, what you say makes sense," Schultz said thoughtfully, circling his exaggeratedly long hair with his index finger, "Why don't you try the expression wheel method or the analysis method? You are right, how can I did not expect… "
"... I just said it casually, so don't take it seriously."
Schulz smiled: "For the elliptic curve E defined on the finite field, the most general Hasse-Weil-L function should be the automorphic L function of GLn on the algebraic number field, and these automorphic L functions can be Uniquely decomposes into products of 'standard' L functions."
Last year, Lu Zhou won the Hoffmann Medal in Germany, and earlier he also won the Adams Prize in Chemistry. This is considered a relatively famous thing in the Chinese mathematics community.
After clinking glasses with Academician Wang and drinking it down in one gulp, Lu Zhou said modestly, "I don't dare to take it seriously. I just did what I should do."
Originally, Lu Zhou didn't plan to drink too much, but on this day worth celebrating, everyone was very enthusiastic, and Lu Zhou himself was very happy.
After calling in other Chinese mathematicians who came here to give a 45-minute report, the original group of four people now became about ten people. Academician Wang led the way to a Sichuan restaurant on the street near the hotel.
"It's a very interesting statement. If I guess correctly, it's probably a question of the direction of algebraic geometry... So what?"
That's hard to say.
Over the past year, he has tried countless methods. Although he has achieved certain results, the most critical part is that he cannot do it.
etc.
It is precisely because of this that he always feels a little ashamed of his ancestor. Although he has Grunthendieck's suicide note, he has never thought of going to France to receive this mathematical legacy.
After a few rounds of drinking, he was still tipsy even though he had a pretty good drinking capacity.
Although there is no recognition of the Fields Medal, the Fields Medal has never been the only criterion for measuring the greatness of a mathematician. In academia, they are respected scholars, and their work is important and cannot be ignored.
Later, when he heard that Lu Zhou was also here, the cheerful Shancheng man stopped discounting and directly waived the order for them, and refused to take any money at all.