Chapter 1111 A Letter with only Six Characters

November 25.

It was raining heavily in North Rhine-West, and people couldn't help but worry about whether the Rhine would overflow its embankments.

Located on a corner of the right bank of the Rhine River, an unremarkable research institute is suffering from such troubles at this very moment.

The gray-black stone bricks are covered with mottled years, and under the baptism of wind and rain, they let out low-pitched mourning, just like an old man leaning on the vine trellis, panting gently for the time-limited years.

Of course, this bit of bad weather pales in comparison to the things that are really worth bothering about.

As a witness of the past glory of the Göttingen School and the inheritor of the Bourbaki School, it has been thinking about this world for nearly two hundred years, and will continue to think about it without accident.

However, this is probably the first time.

Because of a certain problem that bothers it so much...

The door opened, and an old man stepped on the water-soaked steps and walked in from the outside of the institute.

Shaking off the water droplets on the raincoat, he handed it to the assistant who came here together. Professor Faltings, who just came here from home, rubbed his hands while exhaling the white mist, and walked towards the Go in the direction of the meeting room.

It has been more than a month since I returned to Europe from China.

During this period of more than a month, many things have happened in the mathematics world.

Starting with the paper on the proof of the Beilinson-Bloch conjecture published in "Future Mathematics", the research on motive and cohomology theory in algebraic geometry was directly pushed from the shoal near the coast to the deep water area.

A large number of research results have emerged in this field, making people more and more convinced that Grothendieck's prediction of algebraic geometry is close at hand, and the probability is correct.

If there are not too many accidents, perhaps in their lifetime, most people hope to see that day.

The day that algebra and geometry were unified in a sense!

"Long time no see, Professor Faltings." Looking at Faltings who walked in from the meeting room, an old man who looked a little blessed had a smile on his face and warmly stretched out his right hand to greet him.

"Speaking of which, it has been six years since I last met you in the Blue Room in Stockholm."

"Don't come here, Sanak, you are finally here," holding his hand and shaking slightly, Faltings glanced at his belly like a ball tightened by a rope, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitched For a moment, "It seems that your life has been good in the past few years."

"It's okay," Sanak laughed heartily, "Your humor is still so unflattering."

Professor Sarnak, the former editor-in-chief of the "Annual Journal of Mathematics", and the winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2014, the scholars who can win this award including lifetime achievement may not be the top academically, but they must be The kind that is famous all over the world.

As for why the former editor-in-chief of "Annual Mathematics" appeared here...

The reason is naturally the same as that of Deligne who sat at the conference table and flipped through the meeting minutes without saying a word. They are all sitting here for the same reason and the same goal.

This event in the mathematics world gathered almost the top scholars of the entire Bourbaki School.

Including him Sarnac, including Grothendieck's most proud protégé Deligne, also including Faltings who is known as the first person after the Pope of Mathematics, and Faltings recognized as the most promising to surpass him Young scholar Schultz...

And up to now, this meeting has lasted for three full days.

"Since everyone is here, let's go straight to today's topic," Faltins said slowly after walking to the conference table and sitting down tremblingly, looking at the heavy rain pouring down from the window, "It's going to be winter in a few days, and it's really uncomfortable to sit together and have a meeting like this."

"I agree with your point of view." Finally, after reading the meeting minutes in his hand, Professor Deligne pushed the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said in a steady voice, "I can't stand the thing about Europe, it's always rainy at this time of year , my coat has never been dry in a single day.”

Faltings' proposal was unanimously endorsed by more than a dozen participants.

This seminar on the topic of grand unified theory kicked off quickly.

The first speaker was Schulz, who reported his research on the morphism Hom(hX, hY) of smooth projective varieties on k over the past month, and identified it as a non-Abelian category.

Once this point of view was published, it immediately attracted the attention of all the participants.

It is well known that the Abelian category is the basic framework of homology algebra, if the morphism of the smooth projective variety on k is a non-Abelian category, it undoubtedly negates the most likely way they once guessed to solve the grand unified theory—that is, through the above Homology groups and methods of algebraic topology theory.

Although such a result is somewhat frustrating, it can prove that an idea is not feasible, and it still saves everyone a lot of precious time.

At least now they don't have to discuss an uncertain proposition in terms of uncertain probability while assuming various possibilities of Hom(hX, hY).

The meeting lasted for two full hours.

Basically, everyone put their research results of the past month on the conference table for discussion without reservation until the conference came to an end.

Looking at the lines of scribbled notes recorded in the notebook, Faltins nodded slightly with satisfaction.

Compared with yesterday, today is barely a certain progress.

In addition to proving that it is a waste of time to use the method of cohomology group and algebraic topology theory to study the morphisms of smooth projective varieties on k, through the theory of algebraic chains, they successfully deduced the category of smooth projective varieties on k as V(k) , which verifies one of Grothendieck's conjectures about the standard conjecture.

In normal times, this exciting result alone would be enough to pop at least one bottle of champagne.

It is not just a staged result of the grand unified theory.

At the same time, this is also a phased result of proving the standard conjecture.

Now, however, not only is no one talking about champagne, no one even feels any optimism about it, but the sense of urgency in their hearts is getting stronger and stronger.

Algebraic chain theory is not a particularly complicated method, and Faltins believes that if they can figure it out, that person must have figured it out too.

He has not published a paper for more than a month.

Either that means he's stuck, or he's brewing something even more amazing.

Faltings is more inclined to believe that the latter is more likely.

After more than a month of difficulty, he no longer expects to solve this proposition with his own or Schultz's strength.

There may be some selfishness in it, but it's definitely not for myself.

Now he only hopes to gather the strength of the entire Bourbaki School to overcome this difficulty, so that the glory of this school can continue, instead of being overshadowed by the light of a brighter lighthouse.

If that person actually completes a Grand Unified Theory...

Unlike the Riemann Hypothesis, which makes thousands of propositional promotion theorems, the grand unified theory will connect thousands of theorems in a straight line.

This achievement will even exceed the sum of all mathematical achievements in the 20th century.

And after completing this great cause, his achievements will undoubtedly reach the peak of history...

End of the meeting.

The attendees got up and left.

Putting away the notebook, just when Professor Faltings was about to get up, he suddenly noticed the smart phone on the table, the screen flickered, and a line of unread email reminders popped up.

Pointing his index finger on the screen, he picked up his phone and was about to check who sent the email.

But the moment his eyes touched the mail, he was stunned.

The text is short.

as short as six letters—

【Finish.】

Please don’t be in a hurry for the children who have just learned junior high school English. You all know the perfect tense. I have passed CET-6, so don’t you know? Look through the dictionary first, can finish be used as a noun? Ten thousand steps back, you have to follow the written grammar and speak the spoken language. When using ed as a verb, do you have to add a subject predicate? If you send an email, will there be an English teacher to correct the test paper for you? Can't click send in less than 60 minutes?