Chapter 701: I don't seem to find a reason to give up on mathematics

With the media's overwhelming publicity, Xu Qingzhou, as the protagonist, was naturally busy running off his feet, needing to cooperate with interviews, and on October 14th, he also attended a celebratory banquet.

The banquet was held magnificently.

Quite a few acquaintances came from abroad, such as mathematician Maynard, his doctoral supervisor Professor Roberts, senior fellow Hoer, and Ma S. Klinger, director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, and so on.

In the hall.

Soothing music flowed, glasses clinked, and scholars from all over talked in low voices, exchanging experiences and sharing their research projects.

Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao, after greeting Professor Roberts, walked toward a middle-aged man with a Xia Nation face in the corner.

"Congratulations." Tao Zhexuan raised his wine glass.

"Thank you."

The three clinked their glasses lightly.

Song Yao didn't disturb the two and went to find senior sister Han Shiyi.

Tao Zhexuan sized up the young man in front of him and said with emotion, "Congratulations on becoming the first person to sweep both the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Fields Medal, and you've also refreshed the record for the youngest Nobel Prize winner."

"The Nobel Prize record isn't me."

Xu Qingzhou shrugged and said. He did indeed refresh the record for the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but the true record for the youngest Nobel Prize winner was a girl named Malala Yousafzai, 17 years old, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.

"The Peace Prize is nothing but a political game."

Tao Zhexuan's tone was filled with undisguised contempt.

Xu Qingzhou chuckled, raised his glass, and clinked it with this mathematician of Chinese descent, as a sign of agreement.

Besides researching mathematics, another hobby of the person in front of him was commenting on current politics.

For example, in 2016, he published a blog post titled "Trump's New Clothes and the Blue Eyes Mystery," bluntly stating that Trump "is not qualified or capable of serving as US President."

Facts proved that compared to politics, this person was still better at mathematics.

After all, Trump was quite good at playing the game, and he even won the election again later.

However, what Tao Zhexuan said was also correct. In the eyes of a considerable number of scholars, the Nobel Prize refers to the few most weighty awards: the Medicine or Biology Prize, the Physics Prize, and the Chemistry Prize.

Although the Literature Prize is occasionally watered down, the winners are basically masters with brilliant literary talent and great influence on the world.

The Peace Prize is completely playing abstract.

It has a strong tendency toward political instrumentalization. Every year when the Peace Prize comes out, a saying circulates—the Nobel Peace Prize is the greatest irony to peace.

For example, it was once awarded to US President Ao Guanhai, who had launched several wars.

Tao Zhexuan sipped his wine, and the topic returned to mathematics: "Alright, congratulations are over, now it's time to talk about mathematics. How is your supersymmetric Z-function theory progressing? Any good news?"

"I'm working on the design of transition rules in the sieve method."

Xu Qingzhou roughly explained the content of the transition rules, the theoretical feasibility verification, the implementation path, the difficulties encountered, and so on.

"That is to say, in the construction of the supersymmetric Z-function and the gap dynamic sieve method, it is necessary to ensure that every step of the mathematical model can be mapped to observable physical quantities—such as energy gaps, photon frequencies, and material mechanical responses—through three major means: experimental verification, symmetry constraints, and parameter inversion. Only in this way can we avoid the theory becoming an 'exquisite mathematical sculpture'."

Tao Zhexuan lived up to being a great mathematician; he quickly sorted out the problems Xu Qingzhou encountered and summarized them.

"That's right, I hope that the zero distribution of the supersymmetric Z-function can be presented in other ways, rather than just mathematical self-consistency verification." Xu Qingzhou nodded.

Tao Zhexuan pondered for a moment and shook his head: "Sorry, I don't have any good ideas at the moment. However, you might be able to study the Majorana zero modes in topological quantum computing; it realizes a strict theory-experiment mapping and avoids the risk of distortion."

"Is that the experiment that associates mathematical topological invariants with the conductance quantization experiment in semiconductor nanowires?" ===== CHAPTER 702 =====