Chapter 348 When You Are Young, You Should Go Out More Often

Because he couldn't make up his mind, Lu Zhou told his mentor, Professor Deligne, about the invitation letter from the Max Planck Society. After listening to Lu Zhou's statement, the old man stopped the pen in his hand and raised his head to look at Lu Zhou.

"Are you planning to go to Mapu Institute?"

"Under consideration," Lu Zhou said after thinking for a while, "Actually, I prefer to hold this report in Princeton."

Germany is just too far away.

He just came back from a business trip to Columbia University, and he didn't want to travel far for a while.

After Deligne thought about it, Lu Zhou unexpectedly did not agree with his point of view: "Principal Isgrubb must be very happy to hear you say that, and will definitely be willing to spend a lot of time on your behalf, but I I don't recommend you to do that."

Lu Zhou: "Why?"

"This is like a monastery, suitable for practice, but not for preaching. There is a wider world outside the Institute for Advanced Study," put down the pen in his hand, Deligne looked at his former students, and continued, "My suggestion is that when you are young, you should go out more. No matter what you are studying, communicating with scholars in the same field is far more conducive to research than closing the door and persecuting yourself."

In Deligne's eyes, Lu Zhou's way of delving into the problem is really no different from "persecuting himself".

Lu Zhou made a helpless expression and shrugged: "Okay, I will seriously consider your suggestion."

"I hope you will. Also, after you go there, remember to say hello to that old fellow Faltins for me." Speaking of the old friend's name, Deligne's serious face showed a rare trace of Smiling, "It's been more than 20 years since I left Princeton, and I don't know if his arrogance has been cured."

Recalling the encounter with the old gentleman in Stockholm last time, Lu Zhou's expression suddenly became a little subtle.

Although it is not clear what Professor Faltings was like when he was still at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton twenty years ago.

But I think it probably didn't heal...

After leaving Professor Deligne's office, Lu Zhou returned to his own office.

Sitting in front of the computer, he thought for a while, edited an email, and replied to the invitation from the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of the Max Planck Society according to the email address left in the written letter.

In the end he decided to go to Germany.

Since the Max Planck Society has promised in the invitation letter to bear all the expenses during his visit to Germany, it is not bad to go out as a public trip.

It's just that in this way, the PPT for the report must be prepared as soon as possible...

After working all day, it's finally dinner time.

Lu Zhou stretched, saved the unfinished PPT, and sat up from the office chair.

After returning home in the evening, he still had some special things to do. He planned to end his work earlier, so he told Vera that she wouldn't have to bring him a bacon sandwich for a while, and then went to the dining area on the first floor alone.

Coincidentally, just as Lu Zhou was about to start eating, he ran into Edward Witten who had just finished picking up his meal.

"Didn't you go to the Ivy Club for dinner?" The talkative Jewish professor sat down across from Lu Zhou with a plate. There's a new chef."

"Every time I plan to go, I end up sitting here because I'm too lazy to go that far," Lu Zhou said with a helpless expression while stirring the meat sauce on the macaroni with a fork.

"Haha, I am the same. Actually, after getting used to it, I found that the food at the Institute for Advanced Study is also quite delicious." Edward Witten smiled, "If it wasn't because they changed my membership to a lifetime membership, I guess They've all retired."

"Lifetime member? Don't you have to pay the membership fee?" It was the first time I heard about this, Lu Zhou looked at Witten unexpectedly and asked.

"Of course not, but you're coming soon. No club will allow a Fields Medal or Nobel Prize winner to pay dues. This is the historical tradition of Ivy League clubs," Witten suddenly remembered something after a pause , and continued to ask, "Speaking of which, have you received the invitation letter from IMU?"

IMU is the abbreviation of the International Union of Mathematicians. The invitation letter Witten refers to is naturally an invitation to report on the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Nodding his head, Lu Zhou replied, "Yes, they invited me to give a 60-minute report."

Edward Witten was not surprised that Lu Zhou was invited.

As the strongest candidate for the Fields Award, it would be strange if he did not receive an invitation letter.

"Sixty minutes is not a short time. Have you thought about what to do in the report meeting?"

Lu Zhou: "If nothing else happens, it's Kakuya's conjecture."

"No accident? What is no accident?" Edward Witten glanced at Lu Zhou in confusion, and continued to ask with interest, "What if there is an accident?"

Lu Zhou smiled and answered the question in a relaxed tone.

"Naturally, it's also Kakutani's conjecture."

The only difference is who does the work.

After taking off the crown jewel of Goldbach's conjecture, among the many propositions in additive number theory, there are no propositions that can arouse Lu Zhou's interest.

The theory of the group construction method has been perfected when proving Goldbach's conjecture. Compared with spending limited time on solving isolated problems, Lu Zhou would rather see someone use his theoretical tools to create new ones. theory, or to prove new theorems based on it.

It is precisely because of this that at the beginning of the application for the Kakuya Conjecture, Lu Zhou decided to hand over this project to his students, and he only provided guidance and suggestions on methods and directions.

Of course, if his students can't finish it, he will eventually consider doing it himself.

However, Lu Zhou is quite optimistic about the abilities of his students.

Especially Vera, whose talent in mathematics is the best among all the scholars he has seen under the age of 25.

Although lacking in creativity, it is surprisingly strong in analytical ability and logical thinking. As long as many things are taught to her once, she can not only remember them quickly, but also quickly apply them to solve practical problems.

I believe that as long as she is properly guided, she might not be able to become a scholar of Schultz's level.

At least in terms of talent, she even won the IMO gold medal a year before Schultz...

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After dinner, Lu Zhou did not go home immediately after leaving the Institute for Advanced Study, but jogged along Carnegie Lake.

As a researcher, only with a healthy body can he perform better in research.

Since becoming a professor, Lu Zhou has realized this more and more deeply.

After sweating, he returned home and took a shower. Lu Zhou lay on the bed refreshed, closed his eyes and said "system" silently, sinking his consciousness into the system space.

When he completed the task last time, he only received the task reward, and he has not touched the new task yet.

Now, the theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure has been completed, and Lu Zhou has enough time for the work at hand to come to an end.

It's also time to see what kind of multiple-choice questions the system will ask him to do this time.

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(There was something wrong yesterday... I must not make salted fish tomorrow!)