Chapter 451 I Heard that Someone Wrote You Into the Paper

With the Fields Award and the Nobel Prize in hand, Lu Zhou feels that he has completed his meritorious deeds during these years in Princeton, and this trip is worthwhile.

To be honest, even though he decided to return to China, he was actually quite reluctant to stay here.

Whether it’s the cottage he’s spent a lot of time decorating, or the fireplace in the living room, or the office of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Carnegie Lake not far away.

Whether it is the scientific research environment here, or the scholars here...

Come here again when you have a chance.

Well, it's decided, the house is still not for sale.

In the early morning, Lu Zhou came to the office. As soon as he opened the door, he was sprayed all over by the ribbon of the salute.

"Congratulations, professor! The youngest Nobel laureate in history." Wearing a pointed round cap on his head, Hardy took a emptied salute as a microphone and approached it with a playful smile. "May I ask how you feel now?"

After being stunned by his students, Lu Zhou immediately smiled when he came back to his senses.

"My impression is that...a person may be needed to sweep the floor."

"Oh, please don't be so realistic, my dear professor." Hardy made a helpless expression, "I will clean it later, but what we should do now is not to celebrate? I propose that we can have a There's a party, and I'm in charge of the barbecue."

Lu Zhou: "...I will consider it."

Standing beside her, Vera's face was blushing, and she also looked at Lu Zhou excitedly.

"Congratulations, Professor."

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded to Vera: "Thank you."

For him, ordinary congratulations are enough, he doesn't need his students to do anything for him.

Also congratulating Lu Zhou, Qin Yue continued to ask: "Professor, when is the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony?"

Lu Zhou: "December 10th, there are still two months."

Hardy immediately asked: "Professor, can you take us with you when you go to receive the award?"

When Hardy asked this sentence, the entire office looked over.

Even Wei Wen, who has been digging into the literature in his hand, also cast attention here from the corner of his eye.

There are not many opportunities to attend a Nobel dinner, especially for mathematicians.

If it is not engaged in economics research, it can even be said that there is no chance at all...

Of course, their mentors are an exception.

Lu Zhou smiled and said: "No problem, if you want to go, go together, but I have a condition."

Jericho raised his hand and asked, "What conditions?"

Lu Zhou continued in a relaxed tone: "Those who want to go with me must complete the topic selection of their graduation thesis before the end of the month. You have been studying with me for a long time, and it is time to start thinking about graduation. "

"The topic of graduation thesis?" Hardy looked confused, "But professor, we only got a master's degree this year..."

"Then try to get a Ph.D. degree next year," Lu Zhou smiled, "Your level is definitely enough, and my request to you is very simple, I don't need you to work under me for a long time, just need Just write a paper that satisfies me."

Hardy: ...

Qin Yue: ...

Jericho: ...

How easy is this? !

...

Even at Princeton, winning a Nobel Prize is an honorable thing.

In history, Princeton has produced a total of 25 Nobel Prize winners, most of whom are in physics. And no matter what the subject is, if you can win the honor of the Nobel Prize, the photos of the winners have the opportunity to enter the Hall of Fame in Princeton for later scholars to look up to.

However, Lu Zhou's photo is already inside, and it is displayed together with the 12 Fields Medal winners in Princeton history, so it is naturally impossible to hang it next to it.

Anyway, to celebrate the occasion, the Institute for Advanced Study threw a party in his honor.

Lu Zhou originally planned to hold the celebration party at his home, but unexpectedly, the Institute for Advanced Study arranged it for him, and arranged it directly in the No. 1 lecture hall.

Facts have proved that this lecture hall, which is designed to be connected with the canteen and coffee shop, is unexpectedly suitable whether it is used for serious mathematics reports or for holding some special celebrations.

At the party, Professor Fefferman held a bottle of champagne, smiled and clinked a glass with Lu Zhou.

"Congratulations, I didn't expect you to become the first scholar to win both the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize, and both of them are the record holders of the youngest laureate...I think the Guinness Book of Records can open up a new one for you alone subcategories."

After taking a sip of the champagne in the goblet, Lu Zhou smiled sheepishly: "This is too exaggerated. It is impossible for Guinness to create a sub-category for just two records."

"This is not something that can be summed up simply by 'two records', let alone you are only 25 years old. I believe that many PhD students in the history department will be very interested in writing their graduation thesis with you as the subject," Fei said. Professor Furman said in a joking tone, not joking.

Although the application rate of his papers is quite high in the statistical information of major databases, it is the first time Lu Zhou has heard of such a coquettish operation when it is written into the paper as a research topic.

In other words, is there really a chance to graduate with this kind of graduation thesis?

Lu Zhou expressed doubts.

It was not only Professor Fefferman who sent him congratulations, but also his mentor Professor Deligne.

The old gentleman clinked glasses with him, and after sending his congratulations, he paused for a moment and continued.

"Although I think mathematics should be pure, you must also have your own thinking about mathematics. In any case, I must congratulate you. At this age that should be ordinary, you have made achievements that are enough to be remembered by the world."

Lu Zhou said solemnly: "Thank you."

"There's nothing to thank me for. The knowledge I taught you seems to be useless up to now." Pausing for a moment, Professor Deligne, who had always been serious, also joked with a smile, "We used to think that , Edward Witten will become the first person to win the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize at the same time, but I didn’t expect you to be the first to win it.”

Professor Witten, who happened to come here, heard what his old friend said, smiled indifferently and said, "It's impossible, unless I can live until he becomes an old man, or M theory will never come to fruition." Impossible to prove in experiments."

Not to mention the proof, it is full of difficulties to find a trace of evidence about superstring theory in experiments, let alone the M theory that unifies the five superstring theories and the supergravity theory of eleven-dimensional space.

At present, experimental physics is still at the stage of testing the standard model and exploring new physics at the boundary of the standard model, which is still far away from the mysteries of the one-dimensional world.

However, there are some things that cannot be solved in this century.

As long as physics continues to develop, there will always be someone who can see that day coming for him.

Just like today, a century later, people are still carefully proving Einstein's theory of relativity, and thus discovered the existence of gravitational waves. Whether it is proof or falsification, in the not-too-distant future, people will always give an affirmative answer to these remaining questions...