I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

Edward Witten's father was a physicist who studied the theory of relativity.

Inheriting his father's career, Edward Witten has an unimaginable physical intuition, so that the esoteric physics theories he put forward cannot be explained clearly by himself.

So Edward Witten explained his superstring theory through mathematical language, so he won the Fields Medal.

The basis for the award from the International Mathematical Union is that Mr. Edward Witten has done a unified mathematical treatment of superstring theory, with outstanding achievements and outstanding contributions.

Edward Witten claimed that he didn't understand mathematics. He probably meant that he didn't understand all mathematics, but only a little bit.

In the field of mathematics that Edward Witten understands, his level is better than most professional mathematicians in the world, such as low-dimensional topology.

Low-dimensional topology studies four-dimensional and lower-dimensional manifolds. Because of the intervention of algebraic topology, low-dimensional topology is closely related to algebraic geometry.

In this algebraic geometry class, Professor Witten explained his understanding of low-dimensional topology and combined it with string theory for divergence.

There are many students in the classroom who are confused and understand little. No one can interrupt Wei Teng's lectures. They can't understand and don't know where to intervene.

Wei Teng is used to not being understood by the world, not to mention these students, even few of his colleagues really understand him.

In recent years, Witten has not brought any graduate students or doctoral students, because the previous students let him down.

Kong has the ability to pry into the mysteries of the universe and the truth of the microcosm, and Wei Teng can't find a successor.

"The microcosm can be like this." Witten had a stick of chewing gum in his hand, and he peeled off the wrapping paper, and stretched and stretched the chewing gum.

"It can also be like this." Witten compressed and compressed the chewing gum, and finally kneaded it into a small pellet.

Witten used a piece of chewing gum to demonstrate the changes in the microscopic world, and simultaneously explained: "When we enter the four-dimensional space, the three-dimensional space we observe is completely different from the three-dimensional space we observe in the three-dimensional space. If the three-dimensional simplex is a tetrahedron, then the four-dimensional simplex is a generalized tetrahedron with five vertices..."

"But no one has ever entered the four-dimensional space and the higher-dimensional space." Finally, a student interrupted Professor Weiteng's lecture, and this student was Shen Qi.

Wei Teng walked up to Shen Qi and said, "So you are the only one who understands what I'm talking about?"

Shen Qi happened to have chewing gum in his pocket, so he peeled off the wrapping paper of a piece of chewing gum, stretched, compressed, and kneaded the gum into small pellets, imitating Wei Teng's tone and said: "The microcosm can be like this, or it can be like this, But the truth is..."

Shen Qi stuffed the gum into his mouth and started to chew: "It's like this."

"Should I call you Einstein or Schrödinger?" Professor Witten laughed.

"Shen Qi, my name is Shen Qi."

"Shen Qi, he successfully demonstrated the topology of the 21st century!" Wei Teng suddenly became excited, and his tone changed.

Turning back to normal, Wei Teng said again: "Before this, all I talked about was topology in the 20th century. The theories of the 20th century are outdated, but no one questioned me, except Shen Qi."

The other students looked at each other in blank dismay, and did not understand the true meaning of topology in the 21st century from the two pieces of chewing gum in the 21st century.

After class, Wei Teng asked Shen Qi to stay in the classroom, and asked very interestedly: "Have you studied string theory?"

"No, Professor Witten, actually I don't understand physics." Shen Qi shook his head.

String theory states that all subatomic particles are not tiny points, but strings that resemble rubber bands.

The significance of the existence of string theory is to describe the entire universe with a unified model. Of course, this theory is difficult to be verified by specific experiments, at least at this stage.

"Although I have a bachelor's degree in physics, it's nothing at Princeton." Shen Qi said with shame, "I'm trying to explain Professor Witten's problem mathematically. In a projective algebraic manifold, the codimension is positive. An algebraic subvariety of integers whose base classes generate vector spaces that vary from moment to moment."

"The explanation is good. I explained it in the same way back then, and I won the Fields Medal by accident. You know, Shen Qi, I have never positioned myself as a mathematician, but it turns out that there are very few mathematicians in the world. A mathematician is a man of understanding.” Witten was a bit regretful, he positioned himself as a physicist but unexpectedly won the Fields Medal, but the Nobel Prize in Physics has never been with Witten.

"Hehe." Shen Qi laughed dryly. What Witten meant was that other physicists in the world were limited in level. The Nobel Prize review experts hired by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences could not understand Witten's physical theory, or could understand it. There is no way to verify it, and some people even say that string theory is a pseudoscience.

Only those mathematicians who engage in pure theoretical research can understand Witten's true skills.

Wei Teng was very popular ten or twenty years ago. In recent years, he has aged a lot, and he is somewhat depressed in the academic world.

"You are a gifted student." Wei Teng ended his brief exchange with Shen Qi, who left a deep impression on him.

After saying goodbye to Wei Teng, Shen Qi suddenly realized a great idea: "orbifold!"

Orbifolds are considered in the field of mathematics as manifolds with singularities.

Orbifold involves many branches, including topology, algebraic geometry, and string theory, which Witten is good at.

In topology, the orbifold singularity is often regarded as an orbifold structure on a topological manifold, and a similar differential manifold can be regarded as a smooth structure on a topological manifold.

The proof of Riemann's conjecture is delayed for a while, and there is no clue anyway.

Shen Qi immediately went to the Flint Library, and after consulting some materials, he decided to do research on a relatively unpopular topic.

For symplectic manifolds, only a few scholars in the world have proved that two symplectic manifolds are equivalent if and only if their fundamental groups are isomorphic.

The research results on how to use the orbifold basic group to characterize the symplectic orbifold group embryos are almost unavailable.

"Do an unpopular topic for fun, maybe you can win an award." Shen Qi's desire for an award is getting stronger and stronger, and he has been often stimulated recently.

Not long ago, Shen Qi was stimulated by Mary's husband. Her husband won 11 math awards in just a few years, like a devil.

Just now, Shen Qi was stimulated by Wei Teng. Wei Teng, who studies physics, even reluctantly won a Fields Medal.

Expect to prove Riemann's conjecture to win the Fields Medal, maybe which year to wait.

There are many competitors for hot topics, and the competition is fierce.

As long as an unpopular topic can produce a result, there is a great chance of winning a prize.

However, the biggest obstacle to researching unpopular topics is that there are too few useful references, and it is impossible to find a few powerful citations.

"So, I can only rely on my brain." Shen Qi wrote a written report and was going to apply to Professor Muller for project approval.

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