I just want to be a quiet scholar

Chapter 292
The teams of academic institutions such as universities and research institutes follow the project, and if there are subject projects, there will be subject teams.

The person in charge of the "RT Third Expression Project" was formally held by Shen Qi, and Professor Muller took a back seat.

The first-line main force of the team are: Shen Qi, Mary, Ouye, Jonas.

Members of the technical support expert group are: Faltings, Linden Strauss, Muller, Gong Changwei.

On the task of decomposing the third expression of RT, Mary has recently made remarkable research results. Her contribution surpasses Ouye and ranks second, second only to Shen Qi.

In fact, Mary's current status is the most noble. She is a formal research fellow in the Princeton Department of Mathematics.

Shen Qi is a reserve lecturer in Princeton, and has not officially started his post yet.

Jonas received a Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics of Pudong University, and he followed Shen Qi as a research assistant.

Ouye is a graduate student at Columbia University, with the lowest qualifications and the lowest degree.

"Qi, I can see that you love your girlfriend very much, and you entrust her with the most difficult decomposition task." Mary said to Shen Qi, she met Ouye once, and Ouye came to Princeton once.

"Mary, thank you and Jonas for your recent contributions." Shen Qi smiled and said, "I love my girlfriend, and I love you both."

"The first half of the sentence is the truth, as for the second half, it's a polite word." Mary handed Shen Qi a file bag, which was very bulging and heavy: "The task you entrusted to me has been completed, what else do I need to do?"

Shen Qi opened the file bag, took out the information and checked: "The signature is Mary Schmidt? Mary, you changed your name again?"

"Mary-Schmidt is my old name, I'm back to the beginning, a new beginning." Mary's full name a few months ago was Mary-Schulz-Schmidt, where Schulz was her husband's last name , Schmidt is her original surname.

Shen Qi asked: "Mary, I didn't deliberately inquire about your privacy, I just care about the current situation of my team members, so you have gone through formal divorce procedures?"

"I've already signed it, but he didn't." Mary's face was frosty, with a bit of hatred, and a bit disheartened.

Now that the words have been spoken, Shen Qi has nothing to worry about: "You are legally husband and wife, Mary, what I want to say is that your legal husband, Professor Peter Schultz, may be the best member of our team. A strong competitor. In the odds of the Philippine prize offered by Professor Faltings, Pete Schulz ranked fifth, higher than me who was sixth."

"Then beat Pete Schultz," said Mary firmly, eager to win over her husband-in-law.

Shen Qi shuddered, this German woman was really powerful, she was so ruthless that she wanted to kill her husband.

Nemesis Marie Schmidt, what did her husband Pete Schulz do to her to make her so cruel?She was helping a Chinese with a mathematical scheme to defeat her German husband.

There is no conflict between Shen Qi's team and Schultz's team in subdividing research fields.

Shen Qi has been playing number theory recently, while Schultz has been playing algebraic geometry.

However, there must be fierce competition between the 22-year-old Shen Qi and the 32-year-old Schultz in the competition for the Philippine Award.

Most of the European media and mathematics colleagues, and even the Asian media and colleagues outside of China, are almost overwhelmingly optimistic about Schulz.

Shen Qi has a relatively high support rate in China and North America, and his votes are concentrated in China's capital economic circle and the northeastern region of the United States.

"Algebraic geometry brings together the brightest minds in the world, and Peter Schulz is one of the best." - Comments from the British "Nature".

"If even the mathematician who proved the Riemann Hypothesis cannot win the Fields Medal, then what is the point of setting up this award? Shen Qi, he should get the Fields Medal." - A comment from the American "Science".

The day of the Philippine prize draw is getting closer and closer, and all parties are building momentum.

At the end of July, surprising news came from Europe.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh has awarded the Peter Schulz Keith Prize in recognition of Schulz's outstanding contributions to the field of mathematics.

This is the 32th mathematics award won by the 12-year-old Schultz.

Except for the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize and the Abel Prize awarded to the old man, Schultz has won almost all the awards he can get at his age.

At the academic report meeting in Edinburgh, Schulz published a report entitled "p-dimensional algebraic cohomology (p, p) form".

The math world is excited.

Schultz tackled the most difficult problem in algebraic geometry, "Hodge's conjecture", and achieved preliminary research results!

The Hodge conjecture is also considered to be the most difficult and abnormal one among the seven mathematical millennium problems.

In an interview with the BBC, Schultz said: "In three years, I will thoroughly prove the Hodge conjecture. You ask me about this year's Fields Medal? This year does not need to rely on the Hodge conjecture, yes, no need."

"German mathematician Schulz made a major breakthrough in the study of Hodge's conjecture!"

"You don't need to rely on the Hodge conjecture, Schultz can also win the Fields Medal!"

"Schultz could win the Fields Medal for his master's thesis!"

News of Schultz's pursuit spread overnight.

There is such a legend about Schultz. When he was in graduate school, he wrote a paper and gave it to his tutor, the famous mathematician Rapoport, for review.

Professor Rapoport was shocked at the time. After reading Pete Schultz's thesis, he immediately made a decision: "Peter, you don't need to continue your graduate studies, and you don't need to study for a Ph. D. You will get a doctorate immediately."

In this version of the legend, Schultz did not go through the stage of a doctoral student. After finishing his master's course, he directly obtained a doctorate in mathematics.

In this master's thesis, Peter Schulz created a new mathematical framework "perfectoid-spaces theory".

"Perfectoid-spaces" is translated into Chinese and can be understood as "the theory of quasi-perfect spaces". Schulz's theory is known as one of the most promising framework systems in algebraic geometry in the next few decades.

Therefore, Schultz's voice is very high. It is generally believed that Schultz can win the Philippine Award with a master's thesis.

And just now, Schultz released a bigger big move, and he launched an attack on Hodge's conjecture.

United States, Princeton.

Shen Qi's team was extremely nervous. They studied Schulz's latest report "p-Dimensional Algebraic Cohomology (p, p) Forms" overnight.

In fact, only three people in the team are proficient in algebraic geometry: Shen Qi, Muller, and Faltings.

Mary, Jonas, Ouye, Gong Changwei, and Linden-Strauss all specialize in number theory.

"Schultz, he obtained a corollary for partially characterizable algebraic cohomology classes on non-singular projective complex algebraic varieties, and five more convincing corollaries. He is really expected to completely prove the Hodge conjecture within three years .”

After studying Schultz's latest report, Shen Qi couldn't help feeling: "What's wrong in the mathematics world, is it very popular to solve the millennium problem this year?"

(End of this chapter)