"Professor, are you really sure?"
Peter Schultz said in disbelief.
A 17-year-old can write this kind of paper?
Thinking back to when he was 17 years old...
To be honest, at that time, he had just started to enter middle school, and he was still repeating a grade in middle school.
Of course, the reason why he repeated a grade was not because his grades were bad, but on the contrary, it was because his grades were so good.
Because his mathematical talent was very good and he was able to win the gold medal in the International Olympics Math Olympiad, he specially repeated the grade to participate in the Olympiad. He won the silver medal in the first year and the gold medal in the next three years.
Then, at the age of 20, he entered university.
It seems that he started much later than others, but it did not affect that it only took him two and a half years to complete all the studies from undergraduate to master's degree, and then completed his doctoral degree at the age of 24, and his graduation thesis directly sent him to the Fields Medal chairmanship seven years later.
His experience can obviously be called a dazzling genius.
But at this moment, he had to be surprised by what Faltings said. After all, being able to publish an article on IHES at the age of seventeen was indeed much better than what he was back then.
"Of course it's true. This matter has become big news in China. I also learned about this news from my friends in China."
Faltings said with a smile, "How is it? Do you feel challenged?"
Schultz came back to his senses, accepted this fact, and shook his head helplessly, "Professor, please stop joking. I hope that more geniuses will emerge in our mathematics. If more and more geniuses come to challenge me, it means that the future development of our mathematics community will become better and better."
"If they pass me, that's even more cause for celebration."
Faltings laughed loudly, "You kid, you taught me a lesson."
"You're right, though."
The 66-year-old mathematician sighed with emotion, "I don't know what results I can produce in the last period of time in the future. I may never be able to produce anything that satisfies me, so I can only hope that you young mathematicians can complete more outstanding results. When I go to see Grothendieck, I can talk to him about things that interest him."
"Hmm... maybe this guy changed his gender after he died, started to study mathematics again, and gave a mathematics lesson to God by the way?"
The three people laughed.
Faltings and Grothendieck have a good relationship and have exchanged letters many times, although Grothendieck is nearly thirty years older than the former.
Unfortunately, Grothendieck and Math Emperor began to gradually withdraw from the mathematical world after 1970. Of course, this cannot change the fact that the vast majority of mathematicians still admire this mathematical master who has brought glory to the mathematical world.
To a certain extent, most of the mathematicians in the field of mathematics can be regarded as his "fans".
"Then will you tell him about your student Shinichi Mochizuki?" Schultz teased.
Faltings frowned. "Don't mention that guy. He was indeed a very smart student before, but it's a pity that he became stupid in order to study the abc conjecture. Otherwise, I would still like to see him get Fields Medal."
Yes, Shinichi Mochizuki is a student of Faltings. At first, this young Japanese guy gave Faltings a good impression, so that he, who has always been strict and meticulous, commented that Shinichi Mochizuki is a very smart mathematician.
But unfortunately, just as Faltings thought, he, a student, was fooled by the abc conjecture. After reading Shinichi Mochizuki's paper, he made the following evaluation. "I tried to read part of it, and then at a certain stage, I gave up. I didn't understand what he was doing, and he didn't express his ideas clearly at all."
However, although he did not want to talk about Shinichi Mochizuki, he finally said, "I hope you can completely convince him in the next meeting that he has better options instead of wasting his talents on abc conjecture. He should have brought more value to the mathematical community."
As a teacher, he still doesn't want to see his students wasting their talents.
"We will."
Hearing Faltings's request, Schultz and Sticks both nodded solemnly.
"I also hope that he can start studying Far Abelian Geometry again and bring more value to the mathematics community." Schultz said.
In any case, Shinichi Mochizuki is indeed an extremely good mathematician. Otherwise, after he and Sticks went to Kyoto two years ago and had five heated discussions with Shinichi Mochizuki, they would not have reached a result that no one could convince anyone.
It would obviously be a good thing if the mathematics community could welcome back such a talented mathematician.
"Then, we are going to hold this academic conference in two weeks, that is, on September 13, and then we will start preparing to send invitations to mathematicians."
Schultz said, "In addition, I will personally send an invitation letter to the student named Xiao Yi."
[Xiao Yi, hello:
My name is Peter Schultz. Since I don't know if you know me, I will introduce myself to you first. I am a somewhat outstanding mathematician with good luck. I got the Fields Medal in 2018 and served as the director of the German Max Planck Institute of Mathematics.
The paper "Non-singular Analytic and Absolute Remote Abelian Conjecture" that you submitted to "Publications mathématiques de l'IHS" some time ago was reviewed by me. When I first read your paper, I was deeply surprised. Your mathematical ideas are the most unique I have ever seen, as if there is a feeling that is not affected by the inherent experience in the mathematical world. This kind of thinking has also brought me a very profound inspiration.
At the same time, whether it is etale cohomology or the Far Abelian Geometry method you used in your paper, it fully proves that you have your own understanding in this aspect, so there is no doubt that you are a very unique mathematician.
In addition, I heard that you are only 17 years old this year. This is very shocking news. I never thought that someone could write such a profound mathematical paper at the age of 17. This makes me very eager to communicate with you.
This opportunity is approaching. Max Planck Institute for Mathematics will hold a mathematics academic conference on September 13th. I sincerely invite you to come. The invitation letter has been sent and I added the money. I believe it will be delivered to you soon. All your expenses will be fully reimbursed by Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. I look forward to meeting you then.
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