September 13, 8:30 a.m.
That morning, Münsterplatz in Bonn became lively.
If one looked closely, one would find quite a few people heading toward the northwest side of Bonn's largest square.
There stood a building with a distinctly medieval air.
This had once been a city palace in Bonn, a place occupied by nobles, state officials, and church dignitaries roughly a century ago. It later became Bonn's post office, and after 1999, it became the workplace of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.
At that moment, the people making their way there were mathematics scholars attending the academic symposium, "The abc Conjecture and Shinichi Mochizuki: Far Abelian Geometry," convened by Peter Scholze, director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.
Although Schultz had personally invited only around a dozen people, that did not stop other mathematics scholars interested in the symposium from applying to attend, Hu Guangde among them.
Of course, Hu Guangde's main purpose was to accompany Xiao Yi, while the other attendees were interested in the ultimate fate of the abc conjecture.
Would the abc conjecture remain merely a conjecture, or would it become the abc theorem? Perhaps the answer would emerge today.
"Ahh~"
In Münsterplatz, a young man yawned.
The young man was Xiao Yi, with Hu Guangde following beside him.
Rubbing his head, Xiao Yi could not help sighing. Adjusting his body clock after going abroad really was a hassle.
If it were 8:30 a.m. back home, he would not be sleepy at all by now.
Part of it, of course, was because he had been making sure his Ruthless Continuous Study buff could continue.
He had nearly messed up a couple of days ago.
As he arrived in front of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, he spotted a statue.
Oh! Beethoven.
Well, Bonn