Ultimate Scholar

This 2020 Spring Festival has passed in a happy and lively atmosphere.

Nothing unexpected happened to bring society to a standstill.

And Li Mu stayed at home until the seventh day of the first lunar month.

January 31, 2020.

"Are you leaving today?"

Father Li and Mother Li looked at their children who were packing their luggage, and asked reluctantly.

Li Ruyu is also leaving today, because her mentor urged her to go back to the laboratory to do experiments.

She said helplessly: "Hey, if I knew it earlier, I wouldn't have chosen this major. My tutor has to do experiments every day, even during the Chinese New Year."

Li Mu also said helplessly: "I'm going to the United States to attend the meeting in five days, there's no way, people don't want to celebrate the New Year like us."

Li's father and Li's mother also knew that the two children did not intend to go back early, so Li's mother stepped forward and rubbed the heads of the two children, "Well, be careful outside, especially Li Mu, you go After going abroad, just follow the teacher, don’t run around in other places, it’s very chaotic abroad.”

Father Li also emphasized: "Especially don't go to places where there are many black people, and go back to the hotel early at night. You can wander the streets at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night in China, but not over there."

"besides……"

Listening to his parents' instructions, Li Mu did not feel impatient.

After all, he doesn't know when he will come back next time. If there are too many academic matters, he probably won't be able to come back this summer vacation.

And Li Ruyu next to him saw his parents talking to Li Mu, so he became jealous: "Mom! Dad! You don't talk to me, just talk to Li Mu!"

Mom gave her a blank look: "It's not like you're going abroad."

Dad also said: "You should learn more from your younger brother. He has been invited by foreign conferences to give reports. You should also work hard to keep up with your younger brother."

Li Ruyu pouted immediately.

And Li Mu laughed out loud.

When Li Ruyu was studying at Peking University, his parents asked him to learn from his sister.

And now, it's easy to attack and defend.

...

Without too much nonsense, the two left the house and got on the shuttle bus to the airport.

Li Mu's plane was an hour earlier than Li Ruyu's. Standing in front of the boarding gate, Li Ruyu, as a sister, still expressed her concern: "When you go abroad, listen to what our mother and father said, don't run around, and don't be caught by those girls abroad Some of them have been abducted, especially the kind of women who stand outside at night, if you want to find a girlfriend, my sister will introduce you..."

Li Mu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Okay, don't be an old mother here, I still don't understand."

"Eldest sister is like a mother, I don't know!" Li Ruyu rolled his eyes at him: "You brat."

"Okay, I'm going to board the plane first." Li Mu waved his hand, and then dragged his suitcase to the boarding gate.

Li Ruyu waved to him: "Don't forget to bring me a gift."

"Don't worry a hundred times."

...

It takes only a few hours for the plane to take off to land.

Li Mu has already crossed the north and south of the river and arrived at the Shanghai stock market.

He first went to the consulate in Shanghai to get the visa he had applied for before the holiday. Because he was invited to attend an academic conference, it was very easy to get this visa.

At the same time, because it is not a student visa, it does not require English score certificates such as IELTS and TOEFL.

After getting the visa, on February 5, he and Professor Lin Yao got on the plane to the United States.

The 2020 Joint Mathematics Conference will be held in Denver, Colorado, so they have to take a plane transfer after arriving in New York.

In this way, until February 7th, they finally arrived at their destination.

I stayed at the Hyatt Hotel at the Colorado Convention Center, which is one of the official hotels designated for this session, and the cost of staying is relatively low.

"Okay, our meeting started on February 10th. In the next few days, you can go around by yourself first. Of course, you can only walk around here at most, but you can't run too far. "

When they arrived at their room, Lin Yao gave one last instruction.

"Okay." Li Mu nodded.

"Well, I have to go to bed first, the biological clock feels like it hasn't been adjusted yet."

After speaking, Lin Yao yawned, rubbed his head and went back to his room.

As for Li Mu, because of his high rest efficiency, his biological clock has already been adjusted on the plane.

However, he never thought about going out for a walk at all.

"My reporting date is February 14th, so there's only one week left."

"As for the conjecture of hail, it's still a little short of the last..."

Li Mu returned to his room, frowning.

In fact, the report they are going to make is due two weeks before the meeting.

So there is no way, a week ago, he made a report on his current progress and submitted it.

It's just that he still hasn't stopped his attempts.

Because he already felt that he was getting closer and closer to the last source of inspiration.

He's about to catch it!

...

The fleeting moment of time, carrying the earth, came to February 14th.

Valentine's Day.

However, for mathematicians, Valentine's Day seems to be far less important than mathematics.

In the Colorado Convention Center, discussions about mathematics abound.

Today's conference project is mainly about the reports of the major report inviters. These report inviters are arranged to give speeches in different conference rooms, and other participants can choose the reports they want to hear according to their interests.

Although there are quite a lot of people sitting in most of the meeting rooms, they are basically not full.

But there are always exceptions.

In one of the conference rooms, hundreds of seats were packed, and there were even people standing in the aisle.

And anyone who knows something about contemporary mathematicians will be amazed at the lineup of participants as long as they stand in front of it.

Renowned mathematicians such as Terence Tao, who is known as Mozart in mathematics, Professor Pierre Deligne, a grand slam winner of mathematics awards, and Andrew Wiles, a prover of Fermat's last theorem, are all here. Eltings, the great god, also came.

What is the attraction of this report, so many great gods can come?

"Professor Faltings."

Tao Zhexuan walked into the conference room, and after seeing Faltins, he smiled and walked up to say hello.

Faltings once used the method of algebraic geometry to prove the Model conjecture in number theory, and thus won the Fields Medal. Since then, he has made many achievements, and has also served as a member of the Institute of Mathematics of the Max Planck Society in Germany. the director.

He is one of the well-deserved gods of contemporary mathematics.

And the relationship between the two of them is relatively close.

"Tao." Faltins saw Tao Zhexuan and nodded to him.

"Professor Faltins can come to participate in this report, should he have read the article in today's report?"

"Yes." Faltings nodded and said: "This report is very close to proving the success, but unfortunately, it is only the last step, but it can be said that this reporter should be called a distance Hail guesses the person closest to the answer."

"Yes." Tao Zhexuan also nodded.

Just that last step.

But for mathematics, one step away often means a thousand zhang gully.

"Just listen to the experience he shared."

"Maybe it can give me some inspiration."

Terence Tao looked at the podium.

This report is about to start.