A Breakthrough in Miniaturization!

In the end, Senior Brother Luo stubbornly refused his offer. He said he would bring back the Clay Mathematics Institute's check intact and hand it to Lu Zhou.

After thinking it over, Lu Zhou realized his offer had been a little ill-considered. He stopped pressing Senior Brother Luo and instead had the Institute for Advanced Study's finance department send him a hundred thousand US dollars for travel expenses. He also wished him a good time in France with his new girlfriend.

Senior Brother Luo didn't turn down the money. In fact, he even asked for another month off.

Apparently, he planned to spend it all before coming back...

But Senior Brother Luo was still in Europe.

Over the past few days, Lu Zhou had received congratulations from many people.

They included students he had supervised at Princeton, colleagues he had worked with, fellow scholars he had briefly spoken to or exchanged business cards with at conferences, and friends he knew well.

Terence Tao was one of them.

The two had worked closely together on the Goldbach Conjecture, and they had remained on good terms ever since. Both were versatile scholars whose research covered almost every branch of mathematics, so they never lacked things to talk about.

Over the phone, Terence Tao offered his congratulations with a smile. "Congratulations. Another Millennium Problem has fallen before you. Perhaps the Clay Mathematics Institute should update its 'question bank.' By the way, can you tell me what you're working on next?"

Lu Zhou said, "I probably won't be researching mathematics for a while. Instead, I'm thinking about how to use mathematics to change science."

Terence Tao asked, "Like landing on the moon?"

"Among other things!"

"That sounds exciting. My wife works at NASA, and she's always sharing things far removed from my field of