Because Perelman only bought his own food, and it was still the amount for the next week, he didn't want to see the great genius's life in trouble, so the group didn't have the cheekiness to stay.

Before leaving, Scholz tried to mention that the IMU conference was being held in the center of St. Petersburg, but received only a "hmm" response and no follow-up.

Judging by the look on the hermit's face, neither Schultz's proposal nor the International Congress of Mathematicians, which was to be held in two days, did not look very concerned.

However, before taking it away, he asked Lu Zhou when his report would be and what it would about. When he heard that what Lu Zhou was going to say was just a brief summary of the work he had done before, a disappointed expression appeared on his face, and he didn't say anything more.

After coming out of Perelman's house, looking at the bright sunshine outside and squinting his eyes, Schultz suddenly sighed heavily and said.

"Looks like I've made a trip for nothing this time."

Lu Zhou looked at him strangely and asked, "Why?" Aren't you here to visit an old friend? Now that you've seen it, why do you want to make a trip for nothing? ”

"Visiting an old friend is only one of the purposes," Schultz continued, with a helpless expression, "Actually, Professor Faltins asked me to come this time. ”

Lu Zhou: "Faltins? ”

Schultz nodded and continued: "Well, he wants to invite Perelman to the University of Bonn and participate in a great program. ”

“…… What a great plan? ”

As if guessing that Lu Zhou would be interested in this statement, Schultz smiled, squeezed his eyebrows at him, and said with a smile.

"If you're interested, keep an eye out for Professor Faltins' 60-minute presentation, where he will explain the project in detail. In short, we need a good expert in topology, differential geometry, differential topology, and Perelman, who proved Poincaré's conjecture, was undoubtedly the best candidate. ”

When saying this, Lu Zhou always felt that this person was hinting at something.

But of course, he didn't know anything about this plan, so he just pretended not to hear it and continued to ask.

"Do you think Perelman would consider it?"

Schultz was silent for a moment, shrugged his shoulders and said, "...... Whether it works or not, we'll have to give it a try. ”

……

Crazy ideas, great plans......

Today, Lu Zhou felt that he had really heard a lot of interesting things.

His intuition told him that this year's International Congress of Mathematicians would probably be more exciting than the previous ones he had participated in.

Of course, although he has only participated in one session......

After finding a random place to eat, after returning to the hotel, Lu Zhou said goodbye to Schultz and returned to his room.

After writing down some important things he had heard today, Lu Zhou continued to study the proof of the unfinished Riemann conjecture for a while, until the deep night crawled out of the window before he yawned and stopped.

"Is it already ten o'clock?"

Looking at the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen, he muttered, just as Lu Zhou was about to go to bed, his heart suddenly moved, and he thought of an important thing.

"Xiao Ai."

Xiao Ai: [Yes, master! 】

After thinking about it, Lu Zhou continued: "Help me find a person whose name is Albert Laszló Barabas, and this person seems to be a visiting professor at Harvard University. ”

Xiao Ai: [Roger!] 】

Searching for a person's academic resume is easy.

For Xiao Ai, it took less than three seconds, including a series of information such as academic resume, Facebook account, etc., which had been made into a chart and presented on the computer screen.

In terms of productivity alone, there is probably no one in the world who is better at the work of a secretary than him.

After reading the entire report, Lu Zhou found that this Albert was also an interesting guy.

Although this guy is a physicist, he is famous for his research on network theory.

And the most interesting thing is that, as Professor Krugman complained about him, although this benevolent brother has published many articles in nature and science, and even created the Barabási-Albert model as a theoretical tool, it is not his academic work that really makes him famous, but what he writes......

His "Link" can be said to be the cornerstone of complex network theory, and is also regarded by many people as the originator of big data theory, and his later "Explosion" is considered to surpass "Black Swan", which further promotes big data theory.

If Taleb believes that human behavior is random, all of which are small probability events, and cannot be predicted, then his theory is that human collective behavior is like a system of multiple particles, and although individual behavior is uncertain, collective behavior is predictable!

At the very least, more than 93% is predictable.

As for why he got together with Professor Krugman......

This actually didn't make Lu Zhou feel too surprised.

Krugman himself is a scholar who likes to open his mind, and he is most admired for integrating the theories of mathematics, physics and other natural sciences into the principles of economics.

Many people only know that he won the Nobel Prize for the new international trade theory, or complained in public about the stupidity of a certain president, but few people know that he also put forward the "interstellar trade theory" and "two fundamental theorems of interstellar trade" in academic papers, based on the models established by existing physics, which will make people feel brain-opening even if they are in science fiction works.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Albert would find him, and he will be interested in the crazy and abstract academic proposition of "predicting the future", and Lu Zhou does not find it any strange.

However, although he can be very interested in this, Lu Zhou does not have the spare time to deal with this issue now.

Whatever happens in the future there is a 93% probability that it will happen, at least for him now, there are two things that are 100% likely to happen.

One thing is the International Congress of Mathematicians, which will be held in two days' time, and he has a 60-minute presentation at the end of the conference.

The other thing is the itinerary for a visit to the nuclear fusion power station tomorrow morning.

This is BEAPOWER's first project in Eastern Europe, and it is also the first project for the reactor core to truly go overseas and explore the global market.

The plant is said to have a very romantic name, and it was named by the current president himself.

Its name is Helios.

Transliterated as Helios, it is both the prototype of Apollo in Greek mythology and the incarnation of the sun itself in old mythology......