Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 288: Poachers
The familiar figure obviously also discovered Chen Zhou.
He walked towards Chen Zhou with a smile on his face.
Chen Zhou greeted him politely: "Professor Zhang, what a coincidence. Are you here to visit the stalls too?"
Zhang Shouwu looked around and these people really did seem to be setting up stalls.
He smiled softly and said, "Chen Zhou, you are finally here."
Hearing this, Chen Zhou joked, "Professor Zhang, it hasn't been long since we separated, has it?"
"You kid, you know what I'm talking about." Zhang Shouwu said with a smile.
Chen Zhou smiled and said, "Shall we talk while walking?"
Zhang Shouwu thought about it. Today 's first lecture was also about number theory, so he nodded and said, "Okay, let's go."
There were not many people in the auditorium.
Chen Zhou and Zhang Shouwu found a seat in the middle and back, waiting for the lecture to begin.
"Chen Zhou." Zhang Shouwu looked as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Chen Zhou couldn't help but smile: "Professor Zhang, we are so familiar with each other, just tell me what you want to say."
"Are you really not considering coming to Princeton?" Zhang Shouwu once again invited Chen Zhou.
Although Chen Zhou had rejected the two previous invitations to the Qiu competition.
But Zhang Shouwu really hopes that Chen Zhou can come to Princeton to continue studying mathematics.
Princeton is undoubtedly the current world center of mathematics.
Princeton University also has one of the best mathematics departments in the world.
In a sense, Princeton also has a mathematical heritage.
Because the establishment of Princeton as the world's mathematics center was inherited from the Göttingen School.
As we all know, the Göttingen School is a school that has long dominated the development of world mathematical science.
The Göttingen School is also a school that has produced many truly outstanding people.
If it weren't for the war, the world's mathematics center might still be in Europe.
The Prince of Mathematics Gauss started the initial era of the Göttingen School of Mathematics and brought modern mathematics to a new level.
Later, Riemann, Dirichlet and Jacobi inherited Gauss's work and made contributions in algebra, geometry, number theory and analysis.
Klein and Hilbert brought the Göttingen School of Mathematics in Germany into its heyday, and the University of Göttingen became an international center for mathematical research and education.
People like von Neumann, Weyl, Artin and others all came from the Göttingen School.
Including Einstein, who also studied at the University of Göttingen.
However, as the war progressed, talent shifted.
If we make a partial list of mathematicians and physicists who have sought refuge in the United States from Germany, Austria, Hungary and other countries, we can see the transfer of talent.
As Weyl and von Neumann became professors at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA, Courant taught at New York University and founded the world-renowned Institute of Applied Mathematics.
American mathematics then took the lead in the world, and Princeton replaced Göttingen as the center of world mathematics until today.
For example, Faltings, Deligne and Langlands, who helped Chen Zhou review the paper this time, are all professors at Princeton.
"Maybe I'm more capable of... struggling?" Chen Zhou thought as he said, "I like more challenges, not just in mathematics!"
Zhang Shouwu was stunned. He didn't expect Chen Zhou to give such a reason.
But this...can't Princeton give you a challenge?
"But Princeton's other subjects are not weaker than MIT. I know you also minored in physics. I can tell you with certainty that Princeton's physics department is definitely better than MIT's!" Zhang Shouwu said with some excitement.
Chen Zhou's talent in number theory is definitely worthy of his further studies at Princeton!
He didn't want Chen Zhou to give up this talent.
Moreover, even if you want to study physics at the same time, Princeton should be your first choice, right?
There is no other reason, just one reason.
This is the school where Einstein taught. I just want to ask you, is this enough?
Chen Zhou was a little confused. Professor Zhang's purpose today was to... poach people?
But this is MIT?
Moreover, Chen Zhou himself feels that for him, the difference between MIT and Princeton is not that big.
If we really talk about honors alone, MIT has produced 97 Nobel Prize winners, 8 Fields Medal winners, and 26 Turing Award winners.
Princeton has produced 68 Nobel Prize winners, 15 Fields Medal winners, and 14 Turing Award winners.
So, MIT is strong in science? Princeton is strong in mathematics?
Of course, this is just a comparison of the number of awards won.
Just like every Nobel Prize winner, his or her contribution cannot be compared by a single award.
MIT and Princeton should not be compared solely based on honors.
"Well..." Chen Zhou looked at the speaker on the stage who was about to start speaking, and said to Zhang Shouwu, "Professor Zhang, let me think about it again. "
Zhang Shouwu glanced at Chen Zhou and sighed softly: "Okay, then you should think about it carefully. I still sincerely hope that you can come to Princeton!"
"Yeah." Chen Zhou nodded and turned his gaze to the podium.
He is a young mathematician who is about 40 years old. The main content of his lecture this time is about the L-function problem in the field of number theory.
In general, for a mathematical object X, we can define a complex number sequence {λx(n)}n=1→∞.
Just like L(s,X)=n=1→∞∑λx(n)/n^s, Rs>>1.
And if it has a Dirichlet series with Euler product, it can be called an L-function with respect to X.
According to Professor Langlands' report at the International Congress of Mathematicians, studying an L-function mainly involves three parts.
They are analytical extension, distribution of zero points, and values of special points.
There are too many speculations involved here.
Like Artin conjecture, Riemann hypothesis, BSD conjecture and so on.
The research of the present speaker is to study the distribution of the zero-point imaginary part under the assumption of the Riemann hypothesis.
It’s not the style Chen Zhou likes, but that doesn’t stop him from listening to it.
A stone from another mountain can be used to polish a jade.
After the first semester of his freshman year, Chen Zhou hasn’t attended any classes since.
This lecture gave him some of the feeling of attending a lecture.
However, what Chen Zhou found strange was that the conference had already started, so why were there only so many people?
Are all academic conferences nowadays so open?
Does it feel like no one cares about you?
Seeing that Chen Zhou was listening attentively, Zhang Shouwu couldn't help but sigh again. He decided to leave this matter to his teacher, Professor Faltings.
Zhang Shouwu's attention was also diverted to the speaker on the stage.
The young professor on the stage thought that there would be many bigwigs.
It turned out that the seats in the audience were not full.
He was not depressed at all, but relieved instead.
In this way, the QA process becomes simple.
Obviously, his tone gradually became relaxed and his speaking speed also increased a lot.
Just as Chen Zhou and the others were listening attentively, a man quietly approached them.
