Facing the hale and hearty old professor with great reputation in front of him, Zhang Yuan was a little nervous.
Let alone other miscellaneous titles, just a title of "academician of mathematics" is enough to scare ordinary people to death.
academician!
Professor Wang''s main research direction is specialty, that is, motivation theory, one of the most difficult disciplines. Motive is a generalization of Galois group theory in high dimensions. Later, it was accidentally found to have a mysterious connection with quantum field theory.
Langlands program and motive theory are the two mainstream of mathematics. The Langlands program attempts to unify number theory, algebraic geometry and groups, while the kinetic theory attempts to unify discrete and continuous.
They are called both sides of a coin.
Mathematicians once predicted: "when mankind really completes these two frameworks, the mathematical world will usher in real unification. All mathematical problems can be solved with these two theories. "
It''s bluffing, but human beings may never finish this step. The progress of the Langlands program is fairly sloppy. After hundreds of years of research, mankind has developed geometric Langlands, p-adic Langlands and so on. However, as for kinetic theory, because of its ultra-high abstraction, it has become the self talk of some mathematicians, and even peer review has become very difficult, so the development speed is extremely slow.
There is no doubt that Wang Zhong is one of the top mathematicians. The structure of hybrid motion was proposed by Professor Wang, which caused a great sensation at that time.
In the past, I often heard my father mention his mentor, and his tone was full of respect, so Zhang Yuan stopped by to visit his elders, but he had no other ideas.
He even brought a small gift, Donghua ham, a local specialty of Donghua city. Although it seems a little strange now.
"When did you graduate from college?"
"Z is large." Zhang Yuan answered honestly.
"Z big......" Wang Zhong frowned, slightly dissatisfied. Although Z university is the third university in Xia country, it is still a little worse than the top two. In the eyes of an old man like him, good students have to go to the first two schools
"Are you also a space volunteer?"
"Yes."
"Very good, inherited your father''s ambition." Wang Zhong nodded, which was very satisfactory.
If he wasn''t old enough to live for a few years, he would be one of 500000 people to experience the life of Star Trek.
"What are your plans for the future?" Professor Wang picked up the teacup and took a sip slowly.
"There are 19 days left. I''m going to read books in the library for a while. After boarding the spacecraft, I hope to find a tutor to complete my master''s and doctoral studies... "
"It''s good to learn more knowledge. Which direction do you want to engage in?"
Speaking of this, Zhang Yuan smiled shyly: "I like learning mathematics very much. However, restarting a civilization requires a large number of practical talents. All of them still intend to engage in engineering research, such as informatics... Well, it''s mainly mathematics and space engineering."
Wang Zhong is a science professor. Science despises engineering and engineering despises liberal arts. This has always been a chain of academic contempt.
This is determined according to the simplicity of water papers. It is relatively difficult for science professors to teach water papers. No matter how, they have to be a little innovative, don''t they? In the liberal arts, it''s not easy to write water papers. What''s the major of film and television, the major of performance department, and the doctor of parallel goods
When his father changed from mathematics to space mechanics, Wang Zhong also lost his temper and thought that the transfer to engineering was "too utilitarian".
Sure enough, Wang Zhong frowned again and remained silent for a while. But because it was the first conversation, they didn''t know each other very well, and he didn''t make much comments.
"Has the tutor been found?"
"Not yet. I have to take an exam after I get on the spacecraft. I hope I can get a high score..." Zhang Yuan said very modestly.
“……”
In Wang Zhong''s eyes, he naturally has some wrong thoughts.
"Earth times" is only a large spacecraft. Even if sufficient preparations are made, the resources and output in the spacecraft are still limited. The crew inside will spend most of their time in hibernation.
If you want to restart civilization on a strange planet, knowledge reserve and technical level are the most important. Therefore, the experts and scholars in the spacecraft naturally control more resources and have greater authority.
These well-known experts and scholars also have limited places to recruit students. When they are students, of course, they have more benefits than ordinary skilled workers, which is equivalent to a kind of "backstage".
Now, as if Zhang Yuan knew he couldn''t get high marks in the exam and was begging him to open the back door, he tried to find a good mentor through Wang Zhong.
He frowned and asked, "what kind of mentor do you want?"
Zhang Yuan was stunned and said casually, "of course, the more cattle, the better. It''s best to be like my father!"
Wang Zhong was even more unhappy and looked at the "Donghua ham" on the table.
With his years of teaching experience, a person who wants to rely on his father''s relationship to go through the back door, don''t think, he must be a learning scum!
If not, Wang Zhong will eat this ham alive!
I don''t look in the mirror to see what I am
If you want the best mentor, you have to think about whether you deserve it!
He looked at Zhang Yuan''s eyes and became a little bad.
……
Wang Zhong is not the kind of person who knows nothing about the world. He is proud of his disciple''s son and takes care of him a little. In fact, it can''t be said to be a big event.
But when it comes to the "Earth time", it seems to touch his sensitive point, which makes him very anxious.
Because "earth times" is an independent society, once it is launched, earth civilization can no longer interfere with it. Throw away those messy external factors, such as Dyson ball and extreme supernova. In fact, there is another internal reason for this huge project.
It is the carnival of idealists on earth!
A great social experiment!
When Professor Qi Yuanshan, the "father of nuclear fusion", established the "deep space foundation", he also established a new school called "new civilization school".
The new civilization school believes that the development of civilization is like biological evolution, which can only be repaired on the original basis, and there is no way to completely push it down and start over. Thus, the history, culture and ideology that have been produced will have a profound impact on future development.
This impact has good and bad, and can not be greatly changed by means of simple repair. Just like human growth, once the world outlook is stereotyped, it will be completely fixed.
Therefore, some old historical burdens will become a burden in development.
The new civilization school once asked a question: the earth civilization has not been integrated to form a unified country. Why?
The answer is simple.
First, human beings have no way to give up their vested rights and interests. If several countries are united with each other, the leaders of some small countries will have to step down, a large number of class interests will have to be redistributed, and the vested interests are unwilling.
Take a simple example: at present, the rail spacing in the world has not been unified.
Unifying rail spacing involves not only political factors, but also various economic issues. It takes money to replace the old railway tracks. Who will pay for this part?
Since no one wants to go out, we can only drag it.
I don''t know how long it will take to delay such a simple problem as "track spacing", not to mention other complex interest issues.
Second, in history, the gap between countries is difficult to repair, and ethnic hatred and ethnic conflicts still exist today. After the Third World War and the fourth World War, except that East Asia is a little better, there are still new hatred and old hatred and small-scale friction in other places. The poorer the place, the greater the conflict..
They are unlikely to disappear in the foreseeable future.
Third, many countries are not even worth supporting and saving at all.
In some countries, dictatorship + bureaucratic capitalism; In some countries, people take drugs and export them to the world, and even the government has been kidnapped by black hands; People in some countries are lazy. They would rather let the fruit fall on the ground than pick it; There are other countries where the whole people believe in religion... The confusion of global ideology can not be saved by just a great man or a big country.
In short, the "new civilization school" believes that since the current earth civilization cannot be unified, it will not be unified in the future. Even if reunification is forced, there will be more messy contradictions, which is determined by historical, cultural and other comprehensive factors.
Therefore, "earth times" is a great attempt of the new civilization school.
It tries to use the partition of physical distance to abandon all the dross in human history and try to build a new civilization that is more powerful, unified and United and has the same ideology of the whole people!
It''s just like when dad found that he had no hope in the future, he put everything on the baby.
Once this more powerful new civilization succeeds, it will have a certain probability to affect the original earth civilization in turn.
This is Mr. Qi Yuanshan''s original plan.
A great... Ten thousand year plan!
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(about the kinetic theory, Grothendieck''s dream is to establish a "universal cohomology theory", which is called kinetic theory. Anyway, if the words "kinetic" and "kinetic" appear in mathematics, you know they are powerful and abstract.)
(there will be some mathematical science fiction in the future. You don''t need to know a lot, just know it.)