Facing the energetic and famous old professor in front of him, Zhang Yuan felt a little nervous.

Let alone other miscellaneous titles. Just the title of "Mathematics Academician" is enough to scare ordinary people to death.

academician!

Professor Wang's main research direction is major, that is, motivation theory, one of the most difficult disciplines. Motive is the product of Galois group theory in high-dimensionality promotion, and was later accidentally discovered that it has a mysterious connection with quantum field theory.

The research of the Longlands Program and the motive theory are the two major mathematical mainstreams at present. The Longlands Program tries to unify the theory of numbers, algebraic geometry and groups, while the motive theory tries to unify discrete and continuity.

They are called the front and back sides of a coin.

A mathematician once predicted: "When humans truly complete these two frameworks, the mathematical community will usher in a true unification. All mathematical problems can be solved by these two major theories."

It sounds very incredible, but humans may never be able to accomplish this step. The progress of the Longlands program is quite sloppy. After hundreds of years of research, humans have developed geometric Longlands, p-adic Longlands, etc. However, the motive theory, because of its super high abstraction, has become the self-talk of some mathematicians, and even peer review has become very difficult, so the development speed is also extremely slow.

There is no doubt that Wang Zhong is one of the top mathematicians. The structure of hybrid motive was proposed by Professor Wang, which caused a huge sensation at that time.

I used to hear my father mention his mentor, and his tone was full of respect, so Zhang Yuan visited his elders on the way, but he had no other thoughts.

He even brought some small gifts, which is Donghua Ham, a local specialty of Donghua City. Although it seems a bit strange now.

"What college did you graduate?"

"Z-big." Zhang Yuan answered honestly.

"Z-University..." Wang Zhong frowned, slightly dissatisfied. Although Z-University is the third largest university in Xia Guo, it is still a little worse than the top two. In the eyes of an elderly person like him, good students have to go to the top two schools...

"Are you a space volunteer too?"

"Yes."

"It's very good. I inherited your father's ambition." Wang Zhong nodded, quite satisfied with this.

If he hadn't been old and could not live for a few years, he would have been one of 500,000 people to experience the life of interstellar travel.

"What are your plans in the future?" Professor Wang picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"There is 19 days left, and I am going to read books in the library for a while. After getting on the spaceship, I hope to find a tutor to complete my master's degree and doctoral degree..."

"It's good to learn more knowledge. Which direction do you want to engage in?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Yuan smiled embarrassedly: "I like to learn mathematics very much, but restarting a civilization requires a lot of practical talents. All of them are still planning 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 is the academic despised chain that has always been.

This is determined by the simplicity of water papers. It is relatively difficult for science professors to teach water papers, so they have to be a little innovative no matter how you do it? In the liberal arts, water papers are simply too easy. What are the majors in film and television majors, performance majors, and specialize in producing parallel doctoral students...

When his father changed from mathematics to space mechanics, Wang Zhong also got angry and believed that the behavior of switching to engineering was "too utilitarian".

Sure enough, Wang Zhong's brows frowned again and remained silent for a while. But because it was the first time to talk, the two of them were not very familiar with each other and he did not make too many remarks.

"Have you found a tutor?"

"Not yet. I have to take the exam after getting on the spaceship. I hope I can get a high score..." Zhang Yuan said very modestly.

“…”

In Wang Zhong's eyes, he naturally thought a little wrongly.

The Earth Age is just a large spacecraft. Even if you make sufficient preparations, the resources and outputs in the spacecraft are still limited. The crew members inside will spend most of their time hibernation.

If you want to restart civilization on a strange planet, knowledge reserves 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 have limited quotas to recruit students. When their students are of course more beneficial than ordinary skilled workers, it is equivalent to a kind of "backstage".

Now, it was as if Zhang Yuan knew that he could not get a high score and was begging him to open the back door, trying to find a good mentor through him, Wang Zhong.

He frowned and asked, "What kind of mentor do you want?"

Zhang Yuan was stunned and said casually: "Of course, the better the better. It's the best like my father!"

Wang Zhong felt even more unhappy and looked at the "Donghua Ham" placed on the table again.

With his many years of teaching experience, a person who wants to rely on his father's relationship to the back door must be a poor student!

If not, I, Wang Zhong, would eat this ham alive!

If you don't look in the mirror, you will see what you are...

If you want the most awesome mentor, you must first think about whether you are worthy of it!

His eyes when he looked at Zhang Yuan became a little unkind.

...

Wang Zhong is not the kind of person who is not familiar with the world. He is the son of his proud disciple. If you take a little care of him, it is actually not a big deal.

But when it comes to "Earth Age", it seems to touch his sensitive points, making him very anxious.

Because the Earth Age is an independent society, once it is launched, the Earth civilization will no longer be able to interfere with it. Putting aside the messy external factors such as Dyson's ball and supernova, this huge project actually has another internal cause.

It is an idealist carnival 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 the "New Civilization School".

The New Civilization School believes that the development of civilization is like biological evolution, and can only be repaired on the original basis, and there is no way to completely overturn it. As a result, the history, culture and ideology that have emerged will have a profound impact on future development.

This kind of influence can be good and bad, and cannot be changed significantly through simple repair methods. Just like the growth of a person, once the worldview is fixed, it will be completely fixed.

Therefore, some old historical burdens will become burdens in development.

The New Civilization School once raised a question: Earth civilization has not been integrated yet to form a unified country. Why?

The answer is very simple.

First, human beings cannot give up vested power and interests. If several countries are unified with each other, the leaders of some small countries will have to step down, and a large number of class interests will need to be redistributed, and the vested interests are unwilling to be.

Let me give you a simple example: At present, the spacing between rails around the world is not unified.

Unified rail spacing not only involves political factors, but also various economic issues. Replacing old rails requires money, so who will pay for this part of the money?

Since no one wants to go out, he can only drag it.

It is not known how long it will take to delay such a simple question, let alone other complex interests.

Second, in history, the gap between countries is difficult to repair, and ethnic hatred and racial conflicts still exist. After the third and fourth wars, in addition to the slightly better area in East Asia, there are still new and old hatreds in other places, as well as small-scale frictions. The poorer the place, the greater the conflict...

They are unlikely to disappear within the foreseeable future.

There is also a third, and many countries are not even worthy of support or rescue.

Some countries are dictatorial and bureaucratic capitalism; some countries are taking drugs and exporting them to the world, and even the government has been held hostage by the hackers; some countries are lazy, they would rather let the fruit fall to the ground than pick it; some countries are religious... The chaos in global ideology cannot be saved by a mere great man or a big country.

In a word, the "New Civilization School" believes that since the current earth civilization cannot be unified, it cannot be unified in the future. Even if it is forced to unify, there will be more messy contradictions, which are determined by comprehensive factors such as history and culture.

Therefore, the "Earth Age" is a great attempt by the New Civilization School.

It tries to use the partitions of physical distance to abandon all the dross in human history and to build a stronger, unified, united new civilization with the same ideology of the whole nation!

It’s like when my father finds out that there is no hope for his future, he puts everything on the baby.

Once this more powerful new civilization succeeds, there will be a certain probability that it will in turn affect the original earth civilization.

This is the plan formulated by Mr. Qi Yuanshan at the beginning.

A great... ten thousand-year plan!

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(About the motive theory, Grothendieck's dream, he wanted to establish a "universal" cohomology theory (universal) and called it motive. Anyway, the word motive appears in mathematics, and the word motivic is very powerful and abstract.)
Chapter completed!