I just want to be a quiet scholar

Chapter 211
Mueller's office is more of a conference room.

There is a round table in the center of the office, which can seat five to six people.

The first person to arrive at the office was Shen Qi. He has been at Pudong University for nearly a month. He followed the local customs and drank coffee.

"I brought this round table from New York." Mueller chatted with Shen Qi. The other two members of his research team hadn't come yet.

"Really, what special meaning does it have?" Shen Qi asked.

"I lived in New York for a while, and I often played Texas Hold'em at this round table." Mueller knocked on the table affectionately.

"It is impossible for your poker friends to win your money unless they are also mathematicians." Shen Qi said, it seems that regardless of China, the United States or Germany, math teachers are all keen to play poker.

"The stakes are not big, and you won't lose more than fifty dollars." Mueller recalled the good times. "Shen, you are very famous recently. You have listened to every math class in the graduate department. You are a very energetic person."

"Oh." Shen Qi replied absentmindedly, his attention was attracted by a group photo on the wall.

"Elon said that you have keen judgment in number theory, but the problem is that you chose mathematical physics as the main direction of attack, and it is too late for you to change direction." Muller looked back at the group photo hanging behind him. In the photo, the young The blond boy is Mueller's youthful look, handsome, very like Dirk Nowitzki.

Elon, whose full name is Elon Linden-Strauss, is an Israeli mathematician and Fields Medal winner who currently teaches at Princeton.

Pupils are fortunate enough to be regularly mentored by Philippine Award winners.

A few days ago, Shen Qi had the honor to attend a number theory class taught by Elon Linden Strauss.

In the class, Shen Qi confidently and calmly talked about his views on the measurement rigidity of ergodic theory and its application in number theory, which was praised by Professor Linden Strauss.

"It won't change." Shen Qi took a sip of coffee and finally discovered the mystery in the hanging portrait: "The handsome young man in the photo is Professor Mueller, and the old man seems to be... Mr. Gödel?"

"That's right, Kurt is my teacher, and this photo of me and him was taken in the 70s." Mueller said sighingly, the handsome blond boy of the year became an old man with white hair, and His teacher Kurt Gödel has been dead for many years.

"So we are the descendants of the Göttingen School?" Shen Qi was a little surprised, and Muller did not say that he had studied under Gödel.

"Yes." Mueller nodded.

The University of Göttingen is located in the city of Göttingen, Germany. The founder of the Göttingen School is Gauss.

Riemann, Dirichlet, and Jacobi, who have become synonymous with mathematical formulas, have carried forward the history of their ancestor Gauss.

In the first half of the 20th century, mathematics was dominated by the Göttingen School.

For half a century, a group of bigwigs such as Klein, Hilbert, Minkowski, von Neumann, Courant, Weyl, and Gödel dominated the mathematical world.

Gödel, a master of number theory and a friend of Einstein.

At the invitation of Einstein, Gödel came to the United States and became a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Phu.

Einstein was also born at the University of Göttingen and was a strong general in the Göttingen School.

During and after World War II, most of the fierce generals of the Göttingen School fled to the United States, and concentrated their refuge in one place - Princeton.

Einstein, von Neumann, Courant, Gödel, Weyl and other famous teachers have taught or done research at Princeton.

After World War II, Princeton was a paradise for top scholars, and Princeton University replaced the University of Göttingen as the new "mathematics capital".

Now Mueller told Shen Qi that his teacher was Gödel and his uncle was Einstein.

Shen Qi was so excited that coffee spilled on his jeans.

The old German comrade Muller is very low-key. Gödel is your master, Einstein is your uncle, and Gauss is your grandfather. Why didn't you say it earlier?
Ranked alphabetically, I, Shen Qi, are also direct descendants of Gauss, Riemann, Jacobi, Einstein, and Gödel!

I study Gauss's theorem, Riemann surface, Jacobian matrix, relativity theory, Gödel's incompleteness theorem every day.

Shen Qi counted with his fingers, one, two, three, four... I am the sixth generation of Gauss.

The highest level settings for the system are:

Level 15 (invincible I am so lonely).There is no contemporary mathematician of grade 15, and the historical reference template is: Gauss.

In the dark, this is God's will, and Shen Qi instantly respected Mueller.

In Princeton, there are more than a dozen Philippine Award winners, and only one fifth-generation descendant of Gauss is Muller, and the other fifth-generation descendants are no longer alive.

"Professor Mueller, please drink coffee." Shen Qi took the initiative to pour coffee for Mueller enthusiastically, and he became Mueller's disciple by accident.

Shen Qi doesn't regret not being a student of Witten at all now. Although the Göttingen School has evolved into a concept and an inheritance of consciousness in the 21st century, Shen Qi is still pleasantly surprised to be the successor of this school. .

"The Göttingen School doesn't actually have any specific technical instructions. When Kurt taught me, it was already Princetonized. It doesn't matter, mathematics is mathematics, regardless of you or me." Mill is on inheritance, school, etc. It looks very light, there is a bit of Buddhist elements in his character.

"Professor Muller, are you really German?" Shen Qi felt that traditional Germans should not have this mentality.

"My grandmother was French," Muller said, adding, "My grandfather was Greek."

"Oh, by the way, what will be discussed in today's regular meeting?" Shen Qi asked.

Mueller has a research team of four including him and Shen Qi.

Mueller convenes the team for two regular meetings a month, and there are still two people missing for today's regular meeting.

Shen Qi was a newcomer and did not dare to be late. He came to Mueller's office ten minutes in advance and chatted with Mueller for a while.

Five minutes to three, a white man came in, blond, very light blonde, blond to white.His stature is over 2 meters tall, typical of Germanic features.

"This is Dr. Jonas Carr, this is Shen Qi." Mueller introduced Shen Qi to the tall blond.

"Hello, I'm Swedish, you can call me Jonas." Dr. Jonas Carr took the initiative to shake hands with Shen Qi.

"Hello Jonas, I'm Chinese, you can call me Shen Qi." Shen Qi knew in advance that Professor Muller had brought a doctoral student. This was the first time he met his doctoral brother from Sweden.

Muller is both a doctoral supervisor and a master supervisor. Jonas and Shen Qi are both his students. He has only brought these two students and has the energy to guide them carefully.

"Hey Jonas, can you graduate next spring?" Mueller asked Jonas.

"Who knows." Jonas poured himself a cup of coffee. This year is his seventh year at Princeton, and Mueller came to Princeton to teach four years ago.

Jonas stayed at PSU longer than his mentor, Mueller.

Jonas, who looked relaxed, was not in a hurry to graduate, he said happily: "Malmo won against Bayern, Allen, and Shen Qi yesterday, I invite you to have a drink tonight to celebrate this great moment. ."

"Shen Qi, let's go have a drink with you, Bayern lost, I'm not in the mood." Muller was not happy, he asked Shen Qi: "Do you like football? Which team do you support?"

Malmo is the football powerhouse of Ruichao, and Bayern is the king of the Bundesliga. Yesterday's Champions League group match, Malmo defeated Bayern 2-0, breaking the biggest upset of this round.

Shen Qi said weakly: "The Chinese team, I support Evergrande. The Champions League team, I support Manchester United."

"Evergrande is good, but Manchester United is not." Muller and Jonas said in unison.

"Haha." Shen Qi smiled, Manchester United will definitely beat you to dogs in the next round.

The three men chatted about football, which was more like a tea party than a regular academic meeting.

At exactly three o'clock, a white woman came in.

She was very punctual and came to the meeting on time. The regular meeting time notified by Mueller was three o'clock.

Different from the three men dressed in casual clothes, this woman is dressed in formal business attire, a black ladies suit, black skirt, black stockings, high heels, and a folder in her hand.

"Ellen, Jonas, good afternoon." The lady greeted Mueller and Jonas, and she focused more on Shen Qi, the newcomer.

"This beautiful lady is Dr. Marie-Schultz-Schmidt, who graduated from the University of Bonn and is my teaching assistant. This is the newly joined Shen Qi, my graduate student." Mueller introduced the lady to Shen Qi.

"Walter?" Shen Qi was taken aback, Dr. Mary Schultz-Schmidt, a name he was familiar with.

But the blonde mature woman in front of her and the red-haired German doctor on arVix are just two people.

(End of this chapter)