The other party paused for a mont and continued: "Well, it seems that this year we need an extra candidate for the Fields dal."
"Haha, that’s inevitable! Anyone who solves the Riemann Conjecture will receive a Fields dal, even if they’re over forty, they’ll get a silver dal, right? Besides, Qiao Yu is only seventeen! Damn it, he’s a genius that appears once in a millennium!"
"Yes, you’re right! He’s only seventeen! Alas, every ti I think of his age, I get quite emotional. Pierre, we’re already old. Our ti is running out."
"Alright, Lucas, stop lanting! Do you know why I’m in such a good mood today? At least before we die, soone has proven the Riemann Conjecture! Don’t you think that’s our good fortune?"
I just finished a call with Professor Yuan, and he told a Huaxia saying, ’To hear the Dao in the morning is to die fulfilled by evening.’ It ans if you can grasp the truth in the morning, then even if you die in the evening, you will be satisfied. That’s how he feels now!
So no matter what, we’re much luckier than Sir Atiyah. He held his last lecture in life three months before his death, but unfortunately, his report was not recognized."
Lucas Eiseng sighed inwardly upon hearing this.
In this regard, Pierre is indeed luckier than Atiyah. This British knight was still striving to prove the Riemann Conjecture at the age of eighty-nine.
But it’s really a pity that the proof he presented can only be described as difficult for many peers to evaluate. Indeed, many people, including his colleagues, refuse to publicly comnt on his result.
So even privately comnt that the old knight may have truly beco senile in his final days, deceived by researchers eager to obtain resources from him, thus rambling in his last stage of life.
This is truly regrettable.
Lucas Eiseng also understands why Pierre specifically ntioned Michael Atiyah.
After all, Pierre Derini is the most famous student of Alexander Grothendieck, and Atiyah’s early research was also greatly influenced by Grothendieck.
For example, Atiyah’s earliest achievent was collaborating to establish topological K theory.
In this regard, Pierre is evidently much luckier than Atiyah. At least he personally witnessed the Riemann Conjecture being resolved and was even one of the reviewers of this paper.
Of course, this also ans that Qiao Yu’s receipt of the Fields dal this year is a certainty. Originally, Lucas thought Qiao Yu should be a runner-up this year and receive the award at the next International Congress of Mathematicians.
But now it seems impossible! After all, no one would want to offend those twelve reviewers, not even him.
After a few more words, Lucas Eiseng hung up the phone. He sat in his office and contemplated for a few minutes before suddenly thinking of his grandson-in-law, Frank.
Honestly, he initially thought Frank was a very talented guy too.
When Frank was still dating his granddaughter, he published a paper titled "From Modular Forms to Moduli Spaces: Hecke Algebra Action on Algebraic Curves," which once gave him a bright feeling.
After that, he published "Properties and Applications of Hecke Algebras on Algebraic Curves."
After the two young people got married, Lucas Eiseng truly cultivated Frank as a successor. He hoped Frank could take his place and beco the academic leader in the interdisciplinary field of algebraic geotry and number theory at the Berkeley Branch in the future.
So he introduced Frank into the Geotric Langlands Conjecture research group, and at that ti, Frank actually perford well, publishing "Lower-Dinsional Curve Analysis in the Geotric Langlands Frawork" in 2021.
This paper proposed a thod for geotric Langlands correspondence on low-dinsional curves, simplifying traditional high-dinsional moduli space processing. It also established his foothold at Berkeley, where he taught "Introduction to Algebraic Geotry."
But what dissatisfied him was that ever since his paper was critiqued by Qiao Yu, this guy’s mathematical intuition seed to suddenly disappear.
Completely lacking any notable achievents over such a long period might be forgivable, but when he suggested Frank contact Qiao Yu to collaborate on relevant topics, he ended up ssing it up.
This reminded Lucas of the algebraic geotry conference, where he specifically called Frank over and earnestly advised him to build a good relationship with young mathematical talents like Qiao Yu. It truly wasted his painstaking efforts.
Day by day in a muddle, even now, he has not found a research direction, which is truly disappointing.
Okay, in fact, it can’t all be Frank’s fault. After all, many people want to collaborate with Qiao Yu. Moreover, finding a new research direction within a bit over a year is indeed quite difficult.
But sohow, the most feared thing is comparison.
Qiao Yu, after proving the Geotric Langlands Conjecture, has done many things, like proposing a Generalized Modal Axiomatic System, reducing the gap between pri numbers to 6, and even directly proving the Riemann Conjecture now.
Frank, on the other hand, has achieved nothing so far and could even be said to have no direction, making the contrast very clear. If you also consider that both are Huaxia people, the contrast becos even more evident.
Undoubtedly, during this period, Frank has not shown any qualities or capabilities to beco an academic leader.
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