Chapter 1116 "Review Conference"

Germany.

North Rhine.

The conference room of the Max Planck Institute of Mathematics, the round conference table was full of people and looked a little crowded.

Sitting at the conference table and observing the expressions of several other participants, Faltings was full of complex emotions.

He had never thought about it before.

This internal seminar of the Bourbaki School, which was held to solve the Grand Unified Theory, turned into a "review conference" for the final conclusion of this proposition...

There seems to be a kind of providence, as if from the beginning, it was doomed that his expectations would not come true.

What made him both happy and worried, finally happened...

Many scholars sitting at the conference table were silent.

On the one hand, it is because surprise has occupied all the thinking, and on the other hand, it is because I am so surprised that I don't know what to say...

Even if you want to express your own opinion on this matter, you have to wait until you have read the paper.

It is for this reason that from yesterday to today, the mainstream voices who really hold the right to speak in the mathematics community have been quite silent. So far, no well-known scholar has expressed a professional opinion on this matter.

"I see."

The first to break the silence in the conference room was Professor Fefferman.

Looking at the paper in his hand, his eyes narrowed into two crescent-like gaps, and the approval from the crow's feet was like looking at this exquisite piece of art.

"The more profound and complex the truth, the more minimalist it tends to be in its expression, and the Motive we study, as we expect, is the common source of all good cohomology."

"These beautiful properties remind me of the metaphor of Plato's cave. Do these properties all come from the same thing? Just the realization of the same abstract thing on different levels? Like numbers and shapes that go straight to the root of the universe. , in the abstract sense they are actually the same thing, the only difference is the angle we look at the problem.”

"...It's really wonderful."

As for why Professor Fefferman, who is not of the Bourbaki school, appeared here, it would be a long story.

Originally, he was in Paris to attend an academic conference in the field of partial differential equations, but he suddenly learned of this amazing thing.

After a brief exchange with Professor Deligne via email, he learned that the "Review Committee" still lacked an expert in the field of partial differentiation, and immediately rushed here from Paris.

Along the way, he had read half of the thesis.

And now, he finally finished the remaining half.

Noticing that everyone was looking up at him, he put the paper in his hand on the table and shrugged.

"Roughly... I have finished reading this paper, and there are no major problems."

"Don't just look at me, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has finished watching it... Tell me what you think."

Professor Deligne and Professor Sanak looked at each other and said after being silent for a while.

"It's up to you. After all, he used to be my student. It's not convenient for me to jump to conclusions."

"So are you going to kick the ball to me?" With a helpless expression, Professor Sanak sighed and took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"For such a major proposition, even I can't give an immediate evaluation. Maybe some words should wait until after reading it a few more times, but since you have asked so..."

After a short pause, he cleared his throat and changed into a serious tone.

"Honestly I was blown away."

"Not only his own understanding of the Langlands program and motive theory, but also his application of various mathematical tools in various fields... I didn't expect that at this age, there is still an opportunity to open my eyes to this."

"Let's not comment on whether his argumentation process is complete, but the mathematical methods and frameworks he proposes throughout the paper are probably worth more than anything we have achieved in the field of algebraic geometry since the 20th century."

"It's more of a book than a treatise. Since the EGA, we have a new bible... no, it's maybe greater, the bible tells us what to believe, and it's like an epic, connecting past and future."

When Professor Sanak said these words, almost everyone at the conference table turned their surprised eyes to him.

In particular, Professor Deligne was speechless in surprise.

Compared with others, he has worked for a long time at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and he is very familiar with this old man.

Although it seems easy-going, there are very few people who can get a positive evaluation from this guy.

And obviously, this is not just a positive evaluation.

Professor Faltings opened his mouth and spoke after a while.

"Comparable to EGA... Wouldn't it be too exaggerated."

EGA, Fundamentals of Algebraic Geometry by Grothendieck.

Although the name may sound like a textbook or lecture notes from a university, it is in fact the cornerstone of modern algebraic geometry and is regarded as the bible by scholars working in this field.

In any case, it would be an exaggeration to compare this still-unsure paper with Professor Grothendieck's greatest achievement.

At least Faltings thinks so.

Professor Sanak shook his head and said: "It is not an exaggeration at all, my statement is already very conservative. In fact, what I want to express is that its influence on the future should even be in Euclid's "Elements of Geometry". Go...at least on par. It's just too early to discuss this, just wait and see, someone in the future will witness my prophecy."

There was a lot of chatter in front of the conference table.

Some agreed with Prof. Sanak's point, while others thought it was an exaggeration.

The only thing that is not controversial is that Lu Zhou did an earth-shattering event.

Whether or not a scholar with comparable merit can be found in retrospect, this paper is destined to be a watershed in mathematics, one world before it was born, and another world after it was born .

"This paper..." Looking at the typescript in his hand, Schultz said with a complicated expression, "I can't make a conclusion right away, I may have to wait until I go back and study it carefully. Besides..."

After a pause, he complained.

"Wouldn't it be too informal to put such a major mathematical proposition on Arxiv? There must be a report meeting."

"I agree with your point of view," Professor Deligne, who was very silent throughout the whole process, nodded, "I will send him an email later with suggestions in this regard."

"It seems that I have to fly to Jinling again."

Looking at his watch, Professor Fefferman muttered.

"If I knew I had bought a ticket to Jinling directly, why would I come here?"

Faltings: "..."

Schultz: "..."

Deligne: "..."