September 13, 8:30 am.
Bonn's Münsterplatz became lively this morning.
If you observe carefully, you will find that many people are walking towards the northwest of Bonn's largest square.
There, there is a building that looks quite medieval.
This was a city palace in Bonn. It was a place where nobles, state and church dignitaries stayed about a hundred years ago. Later it became the post office in Bonn. Until 1999, it became the working place of Max Planck Institute of Mathematics.
At this moment, those people who are rushing here are precisely the mathematics scholars who want to participate in the "abc conjecture and Shinichi Mochizuki, Far Abelian Geometry" academic seminar held by the director of Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Peter Schultz.
Although Schultz personally invited only about a dozen people, this did not prevent other mathematics scholars who were interested in this symposium from actively applying for qualifications to participate, such as Hu Guangde.
Of course, the main purpose of Hu Guangde is to accompany Xiao Yi, while the other participants are interested in the final outcome of abc's conjecture.
After all, is the ABC conjecture still a conjecture, or will it become the ABC theorem, and the conclusion may be reached today.
"Ah~"
On Münster Square, a teenager yawned.
The boy is Xiao Yi, and Hu Guangde is also following him.
Rubbing his head, Xiao Yi couldn't help but sigh, it's really troublesome to adjust the biological clock after going abroad.
If it had been 8:30 domestic time, he would have stopped dozing off by now.
Of course, part of it is to ensure that his [Ruthless Continuous Study] buff can be renewed.
The car almost overturned two days ago.
Walking in front of Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, he also saw a statue.
Yo! Beethoven.
Well, Bonn is also the birthplace of Beethoven, so it's not surprising that there is a statue of him here.
Without looking any further, he and Hu Guangde walked into the building in front of them.
As you walk in, you can see more and more people.
Until finally, we came to the door of a large conference hall.
"Well, this is it. Take out your invitation and let's go in."
Hu Guangde said.
Xiao Yi nodded, and then took out the invitation letter written by Schultz from his pocket, but he asked curiously, "What about your invitation letter?"
"Oh, those of us who apply to attend the conference all receive electronic invitations on their mobile phones."
Hu Guangde took out his phone and pointed to a picture on it.
There are no anti-counterfeiting signs.
Maybe this is mathematics...
After all, who among the unrelated people would join in the fun with nothing to do?
I can't even understand it.
Basically, only people in the industry know about such a thing.
Soon we arrived at the entrance.
"Please show your invitation."
At the door, a staff member from the Max Planck Institute said.
Then, he saw the paper invitation handed over by Xiao Yi.
The staff member was stunned for a moment. After taking a look at the invitation letter, he suddenly said, "So you are Mr. Xiao Yi. You are indeed as young as the news said."
"Please come with me, your place is at the head table."
Xiao Yi is confused, is the location still arranged?
Why is there still a [main table]?
But after entering the conference hall, he probably understood.
There are about two to three hundred ordinary seats in the conference hall, and at the front is a circular table with sixteen seats around the table, facing the podium.
At this time, some people were already sitting on the 16 seats.
If Xiao Yi guessed correctly, all the people sitting on it are big guys.
Because he has recognized two of them, Gerd Faltings and Jacob Sticks.
Needless to say about the former, the famous Fields Medal winner is the former director of this institute. The latter is the Far Abelian Geometry boss who, together with Schultz, questioned the Shinichi Mochizuki proof. Xiao Yi has also read his paper.
In addition, he also recognized the proposers of the abc conjecture, David Mather and Joseph Oastley, who were also sitting on it.
These four are already big bosses, and the other people sitting there must also be big bosses.
And he actually wants to sit with these big guys?
He glanced back, and Hu Guangde also walked in at this time, smiled and nodded at him, gave him a reassuring look, and then walked towards the ordinary seats in the back.
Well, it looks like he can only sit with the big guys.
Under the guidance of the staff, he walked to the main table at the front and sat down.
He even saw a nameplate of his own with [YiXiao] written on it.
What he expected was that as soon as he sat down, the big guys who were still discussing in the other seats stopped and looked at him.
Of course, this was not over yet. From the corner of his eye, he could also notice that hundreds of mathematicians who had arrived at the stage were also looking at him in surprise.
In addition, there were reporters in the last row who had received the news, and they had probably turned on their cameras and pointed them at him.
Hmm...
Calm down.
What should we do now?
That's right!
Post a circle of friends!
So he took out his mobile phone and asked the bosses calmly, "Can I take a photo?"
The big guys in front of them all laughed, and then nodded in agreement.
"Thank you."
Xiao Yi immediately took a photo and went in, including his nameplate and several other big guys.
Click Send.
At this time, Faltings, who was closest to him, finally said, "Young man from China, you wrote a good paper."
Xiao Yi was flattered and said repeatedly, "Thank you Professor Faltings!"
Faltings smiled and nodded to him, "Looking forward to your next paper."
"Okay." Xiao Yi nodded.
Afterwards, these big guys finally stopped paying attention to him and continued their previous discussions.
Xiao Yi finally felt relieved. As for the eyes behind him...
Forget it, forget it.
At this time, a staff member came up and handed him a bound A4 paper. It was not thick, but not thin either. It had about twenty pages.
When you open it, you will see a series of doubts found by Schultz based on the proof of Shinichi Mochizuki, which should have been further explored based on the paper of Xiao Yi.
Unknowingly, Xiao Yi looked in.
It wasn't until he didn't know how much time passed that he suddenly heard a burst of applause.
It turns out that the meeting has already started, and now Peter Schultz is delivering a speech on behalf of Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.
"... Then, let's not talk about other things anymore and let's start with the first item of our discussion."
A picture appeared on the big screen at the front.
[Why abc is still a conjecture.]