Chapter 744： Professor Lu? Classmate Lu?

Latest website: University of Cambridge, UK.

in a cafe on campus.

Timothy Gowers is a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (hereinafter referred to as the Department of Mathematics) at the University of Cambridge, and a 1998 Fields Medal winner.

At the moment, he is chatting with two of his own doctoral students about the progress of each other's projects.

"Harvey, your research direction is very interesting and you can try it boldly."

Just as he was about to ask another student, the mobile phone placed on the table suddenly sounded a prompt tone.

Professor Gowers glanced at a new email.

He originally planned to check it later, but after noticing the name of the person who came, he couldn't help frowning.

"Sorry, please allow me to check my phone." After apologizing to the two, Professor Goles picked up his phone and opened the email.

[Dear Professor Gowers:

I am your old friend Edward, this letter is from a good news that the integer solution of x^3+y^3+z^3=33 has been proved, and the paper has been published on arxiv... 】

Although Professor Edward is currently working in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, the relationship between the two is OK, because Professor Edward was in the Department of Mathematics at Cambridge University earlier, and then went to Princeton University.

When he saw [x^3+y^3+z^3=33], Goles raised his eyebrows.

This mathematical problem is not like Goldbach's conjecture and Poincaré's conjecture, which is world-famous, but it has also plagued the mathematics community for decades, and it is a difficult problem.

Has it finally been resolved?

But which mathematician did it?

Professor Gowers was very curious and asked the two students in front of him: "Harvey, Owen, who of you brought a computer? I need to go to arxiv to read a paper."

"Professor, I brought a computer." Owen said, taking out the computer from the backpack behind him.

When handing it to Professor Goles, Owen couldn't help but ask, "Professor, did something happen?"

Goles looked up at the two of them and chuckled, "[x^3+y^3+z^3=33] has been proven, and it will be posted on arxiv."

The integer of [x^3+y^3+z^3=33] is solved? ? ?

The two doctoral students shook their bodies, and then there were envious eyes in their eyes.

In fact, the significance of this problem to the mathematical community is not as great as those conjectures. Solving this problem will not allow them to win the Fields Medal, but it can make them famous in the mathematical community.

This is also the reason why countless mathematicians flock to it.

After all, every time a mathematical problem is proved, there is one less.

Open the arxiv website, and you can find the articles mentioned by Professor Edward with little effort.

[Proof of the integer solution of x^3+y^3+z^3=33——zhoulu]

"zhoulu?"

Professor Goles murmured, "Is it a Chinese mathematician or a Chinese mathematician?"

In the case of the former, there are several top-notch young mathematicians, but none of them are top-notch; the latter is different, there are elites, not to mention the old Qiu Chengtong, and there is a Tao Zhexuan who is in his prime.

The fingers swiped quickly on the trackpad of the laptop, and the changes in the content of the computer page made the two doctoral students at prestigious universities, Owen and Harvey, complain.

Halfway through, Professor Goles turned it over.

ten minutes later.

"This idea is very interesting, and the algorithm is perfect." Professor Goles praised.

"Professor, is this proof okay?" Harvey rolled his eyes.

Seeing the attitude of Professor Goles, it seems that there should be no problem.

Gowers's major contribution to the Fields Medal was his use of functional analysis and combinatorial mathematics to shape a series of structures in Banach space with no symmetry at all.

Although Gouls's field of expertise is functional analysis, at their level, their understanding of mathematics is basically beyond what ordinary people can imagine.

"No problem, a very successful proof process, and this is because 'Professor Lu's mathematical thinking is very meticulous, but I don't know why I haven't heard the other party's name." Professor Goles shook his head and said.

It stands to reason that if he has such strength, he should also be a mathematics professor in a famous school, more or less famous, and there is no problem in participating in the International Conference of Mathematicians.

But he didn't know anything about Professor Lu.

as if,

The other party appeared suddenly.

Gu Ran

"Let's take a look too, I left beforehand." Returning the computer to Owen, Professor Goles left the cafe.

Walking on the campus path, he picked up his mobile phone and called Professor Edward on the other side of the ocean.

The reason is because Professor Edward specially instructed a sentence at the back of the email, saying that he asked him to call him after reading it.

It's 3pm in the UK and 10am in the US.

The call was quickly connected.

A hearty laughter sounded first.

"Hahaha, Goles, how do you feel after reading that paper?"

Goles thought for a moment and asked suspiciously, "Edward, is this Luzhou your newly hired professor at Princeton University?"

Of course he wouldn't think that the other party had tossed so much, just telling him this message must have ulterior motives.

Is this Professor Lu from their Princeton?

"professor?"

On the other side, Professor Edward laughed again, "Goles, my old buddy, you can't guess the identity of this author."

"Not from your Princeton University?" Gales frowned and guessed again, "Is it the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton?"

"Neither."

"His name is Lu Zhou, and he is an undergraduate from China."

Then, Professor Edward beamed: "But you guessed right, this Lu will indeed join us at Princeton University. Of course, not as a professor, but to come to Princeton to study for a doctorate."

Professor Goles stopped suddenly, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

Emotions are an old thing to show off.

However, after learning that the other party was an undergraduate student, he was still shocked.

"Really an undergraduate?" Professor Goles asked in disbelief.

An undergraduate can prove this problem, the talent is limitless!

Professor Edward smiled and said deliberately, "And he's not an undergraduate in the Department of Mathematics. Lu's undergraduate major is electrical engineering."

Gales: "..."

Being able to become a monk halfway through is so powerful, he still underestimated this talent.

The heart of love was suddenly angry, but then he sighed sadly.

The other party has already chosen Princeton University, and even if Cambridge University sends an invitation, it is difficult to impress the other party.

Princeton University did not enter the top ten in the world university rankings, and even its first place in mathematics was replaced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but the heritage of Princeton is hard to underestimate.

Among the professors currently serving in the Department of Mathematics and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton alone, there are more than a dozen Fields Medal winners and Nobel laureates in economists.

Such as the 1978 Fields Medal winners Professor Pierre Deligne, Professor Charles Fefferman;

Professor Edward Witten, winner of the Fields Medal in 1990;

1994 Fields Medal winner Professor Bourguein;

2014 Fields Medal winner Professor Manuel Bhargava and many more.

Not to mention Professor Faltings who left (proved Model's conjecture, now the director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Germany), Professor Andrew Wiles (proved Fermat's Last Theorem, now a professor at Merton College, Oxford University) ) et al.

Calm down, Goles thought for a moment, blinked, and asked, "Edward, so who will be this Lu's tutor? You, or Professor Deligne or Professor Fefferman?"

"My old buddy Who can say that?" Professor Edward smiled disapprovingly, "Of course this choice is left to Lu."

After chatting for a while, the call ended.

As for Professor Goles, he walked back directly to his office.

However, remembering the content of the conversation just now, Goles was particularly interested in this student Lu, who had never seen him and heard his voice first.

As long as the other party does not die prematurely, I am afraid that the mathematical world in ten years will be extraordinarily exciting.

Back in the office, Goles opened a tweet that he didn't use often.

Cut a picture of the title of the paper on arxiv, add a sentence and publish it.

"An amazing young man, I really hope to have the opportunity to communicate."

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