Chapter 1161 Mathematics Is the Universal Language of the Universe

Professor Grothendieck's tombstone is in an inconspicuous corner of the cemetery. It is covered with dust, and it looks like no one has visited it for a long time.

He has been out of contact with people since his later years. Except for a few friends who know where he lives, most people don't even know where he is buried.

According to the old priest, except for the last two months of his life, Grothendieck would come here to pray almost every weekend before that.

Faced with the old man's rambling preaching, Lu Zhou simply nodded, and then placed the bouquet in front of the tombstone.

In his own way, he sent a blessing to this great scholar in his heart, and thanked him for leaving those precious materials to himself, then Lu Zhou turned and left here.

It's not that he doesn't want to stay here any longer.

It's just that he really didn't want to embarrass the director Giacobino next to him, so he stood there with a sad and deep expression.

In fact, there is nothing to be sad at all. Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature. Being able to choose the life you like to spend the rest of your life is something that many people cannot envy. His seclusion is a great loss to the mathematics community, but it is a blessing to him.

After leaving the cemetery, Lu Zhou followed the old priest to his home not far from the church, and saw the remaining pile of documents in his garage.

The reason why the word heap is used is because there are really a lot of materials, just like a hill.

It is said that in the 18th century when academic exchanges were underdeveloped, European mathematicians mostly relied on letters and manuscripts to "disclose" their research results. Lu Zhou never thought that he would be able to see such a "primitive" communication method in the 21st century.

Although these materials are placed here in the form of piles, it can be seen that the old man still spent some effort, separating drafts and formal notes, and covering them with a layer of plastic cloth to prevent dust.

For the sake of keeping these notes so well, Lu Zhou fulfilled his promise and donated a symbolic one million euros to the Church of St. Lizier, which was regarded as the document storage fee for eight years.

Regardless of how happy the old priest was because of the huge sum of money, Lu Zhou took out his mobile phone and called his senior, asking her to contact a local logistics company in Paris and entrusting them to deliver the books After sending the manuscript and the draft back to China, they boarded the car back to Paris.

After that things are very simple.

When Xingkong Technology offered an irresistible price, the entrusted aerospace company stepped on the heels of Lu Zhou and his party and came to the small town of Omitus, where professionals were responsible for packing and picking up. After taking away those precious materials, they were sent to the special plane to Jinling on the same day, and there was no fighter escort.

Returning to the hotel in the evening, after finishing dinner in the cafeteria, Lu Zhou returned to the room, spread out Professor Grothendieck's notes on the table, and opened the title page with great interest.

"Is it a problem that even Professor Grothendieck can't solve? Let me take a look..."

According to rumors, before retiring in seclusion, Professor Grothendieck and his student Deligne had been working on the Riemann conjecture and its extension in the field of algebraic geometry, and the famous Weil conjecture was during this period Solved by Deligne.

If Professor Grothendieck is still studying mathematics after his seclusion, then there is a high probability that the problem he is studying is the Riemann Hypothesis that he has solved.

However, just when Lu Zhou thought that he would see a research notebook about Riemann's conjecture, the moment his eyes touched the notebook, a strange color appeared in his eyes.

"……What is this?"

motive theory?

wrong!

Although abstract numbers are used, it is completely different from the motivation theory he knows more about.

Continuing to look down, Lu Zhou turned a page, and soon found that the things recorded in this notebook were completely beyond his expectations. This is not a Riemann conjecture at all, but... a mathematical proposition that he has never seen, or even heard of.

For the first proposition, Professor Grothendieck has already given a proof method. As for the second proposition, it seems that he has not solved it.

Interested in this difficult problem that trapped Professor Grothendieck, Lu Zhou picked up the ballpoint pen from the table, pulled a piece of draft paper, and used the unification theorem of algebraic geometry to make a simple transformation of Proposition 2.

However, the moment he completed this operation, looking at the results on the paper, he was stunned for a moment.

Another form of expression of the Riemann conjecture! ?

Quickly turned a few pages to the back of the note, and when he saw the back part, Lu Zhou was relieved.

"...Apparently Professor Grothendieck didn't prove it."

Maybe he already had a hunch with his extraordinary intuition that this proposition is actually the Riemann Hypothesis, but he did not give a reasonable proof.

After all, the unified theory of algebra and geometry was not solved until last year.

With a pencil, I ticked the position of Proposition 2, indicating that this proposition has been solved by myself. Looking at the formula in this notebook, Lu Zhou fell into deep thought.

"...This is definitely not just some math problems."

It is enough for these complex propositions to be publicly published as mathematical conjectures.

Leaving aside the academic value itself, at least in terms of difficulty, they are not much worse than the Millennium Problem, and they don't seem like something that one person can complete.

However, the problem is exactly here.

If he wants to get an answer, Professor Grothendieck can make this notebook public.

Now that the Internet is so developed, even if he still feels resistant to publishing his research results, he can still publish it anonymously.

More people do not necessarily mean greater power, but the opportunity to solve problems is always greater than when one person thinks.

The tip of the pen lightly tapped on the draft paper, and Lu Zhou frowned slightly.

At this time, he suddenly remembered a rumor.

According to Professor Grothendieck's former friends, in his later years, his spirit was in a rather unstable state, and he was addicted to the imagination of the devil and couldn't extricate himself.

For example, he believed that it was the devil who changed the beautiful speed of light, which should have been 300,000 kilometers per second, into an ugly 299,792.458 kilometers per second.

It's not clear why a brilliant mathematician would make such a fundamental mistake about weights and measures, but if the friend hadn't made up the facts, there might have been a reason for it.

After that, the pope who retired from the world suddenly wrote a personal letter to his former student Professor Ilyusi in January 2010, announcing that all his writings published since his "disappearance" should not be republished .

This matter caused quite a stir at the time, because the two books "Fundamentals of Algebraic Geometry" and "Seminar Materials for Algebraic Geometry" that were withdrawn can be said to be the bibles of the field of algebraic geometry. Public distribution, and translation, will only make it harder for people to get them.

Recalling the text on the letter to himself, Lu Zhou actually didn't believe that a mentally ill person could write those things.

What he prefers to believe is that something hard for him to understand must have happened to this scholar.

for example……

The pupils shrank slightly, and Lu Zhou vaguely thought of a possibility.

"...physics is the universal law, and mathematics is the universal language."

Chewing the words he heard from Dr. Ryan over and over in his mouth, looking at the mathematical formulas in the notes, Lu Zhou felt as if his thoughts were opened instantly, and the look in his pupils became brighter.

If his guess is right.

This is indeed not a purely mathematical proposition...

Rather, a language!