Chapter 13: Accident

Already somewhat unfamiliar names were awakened, and past events and old friends surged into his heart.

Honestly, Horkheimer and Larry Meyer were not familiar. Besides being colleagues, the two had no private friendship, and the topics they studied in academia also lacked intersection.

He had never heard that Larry Meyer had any Chinese students.

"Okay, child, what do you want to find me for?" Horkheimer asked, suppressing the doubts in his heart.

Lin Ran did not choose Li Xiaoman's great-grandfather Li Junnan, but chose Larry Meyer, because Larry Meyer died. In this era of poor information, Horkheimer, or other big shots of the Frankfurt School, found it difficult to judge the authenticity of what he said.

Li Junnan's son, that is, Li Xiaoman's great-grandfather, is still alive and well in New York. If he took out the badge and said it was Li Junnan's, and then was followed by someone with ulterior motives to find the badge from Li Xiaoman's great-grandfather, this would be a small hidden danger.

To go a step further, for Lin Ran, he needs the protection of the Frankfurt School, and the Frankfurt School may not need top talents like him to make a name for them in the government and academia?

Who said that the critical theory of the Frankfurt School can only be used in the field of humanities and social sciences? Critical theory was used in mathematics to solve the Fermat's Last Theorem of hundreds of years, and used in the engineering field to help America realize manned moon landing before Soviet Russia.

You must know that before Lin Ran, a top talent of the Frankfurt School, joined NASA, NASA lagged behind the Soviet Aerospace Agency in artificial satellites and manned aerospace.

By then, the huge power of the Frankfurt School in America will naturally help him blow the trumpet. The main members of the Frankfurt School are all Jews.

And Lin Ran will also become a representative figure of the Frankfurt School in the field of science and engineering, helping them expand the influence of critical theory in academia.

This is a win-win situation.

"I hope to be a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University," Lin Ran said.

Horkheimer raised his eyebrows: "This is not an easy thing. Do you have a doctoral degree from a European university?"

Horkheimer was obviously amused by the young man's whimsical ideas. This made the credibility of the other party saying that he was a descendant of Larry Meyer's old friend drop significantly.

In his impression, Larry Meyer was at most a literary critic, and the distance between him and mathematicians was too far.

"No," Lin Ran said bluntly.

Horkheimer shook his head: "Then this is not an easy thing. Even if I recommend you, you still need to convince Ralph Fox.

He is not so easy to convince."

Ralph Fox served as the chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University from 1952 to 1962, and in 1960, he was in the middle of his term as chairman.

The reason why Lin Ran chose Columbia University as his first foothold was also because this place was very friendly to Chinese people.

At this time node, Zhou Yuanshen was an assistant professor in the statistics major at Columbia University, and on New Year's Day in 1960, the day Lin Ran came to the 60s, he was transferred to IBM's Watson Laboratory to work.

For a long time, IBM had close ties with the military, and Zhou Yuanshen was able to be transferred to work at IBM's core Watson Laboratory.

Coupled with the fact that Wang An of Wang An Computer, who rose in New York in the future, was also in New York, and future Zhou Yuanshen's student Professor Shaw-Hwa Lo directly served as the chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University.

The combination of various factors is enough to show that at present, New York is friendly to Chinese, and Columbia University is friendly to Chinese.

"I have enough confidence to convince Professor Fox."

Lin Ran's unprovoked confidence gave Horkheimer a strange feeling.

The room fell into silence.

Before Horkheimer could speak, a noisy sound of footsteps came from outside, followed by the security guard's loud cry: "Sir, without permission, you cannot be in the professor's office!"

The door was opened with a bang. The leader was a man with a typical Germanic appearance, and one of them Lin Ran knew, Ebenezer Haines.

Ebenezer Haines said apologetically: "Randolph, this is Arthur Rudolph, my boss.

I'm sorry, after I provided your manuscript to him, he insisted that I bring him to find you."

Before Haines could finish, Arthur Rudolph interrupted: "Okay, stop, Randolph, NASA needs your help, please come with us."

Haines didn't tell Rudolph about Lin Ran's matter, but because he stayed in New York for too long, under Rudolph's pressure, he told Rudolph the whole story.

After Rudolph heard it, he was dissatisfied that Haines had let the person go. After the mathematical experts at the Redstone Base finished reading the derivation process of the Newton gravitational perturbation correction formula sent back by Haines, this dissatisfaction reached its peak.

You let such a genius go? Regardless of whether it is a genius or not, you have to bring it back to the base for verification first.

Therefore, under the pressure of performance, Rudolph personally brought two federal staff members from the Redstone Base to New York to catch people.

Lin Ran secretly thought that the situation was not good, knowing that only Horkheimer could save him now.

With Arthur Rudolph's style of doing things, if he really went to NASA, he didn't know what kind of trouble would be caused.

Although he had a door to ensure personal safety, he didn't want to expose this ability.

"Professor Horkheimer, these two are NASA staff. They are enough to prove my ability, right?"

Immediately after, Lin Ran walked to Horkheimer's side, took out the Fabian Society badge from his pocket, and whispered: "Professor, this is proof that my father once followed Larry Meyer.

And I have proven Fermat's Last Theorem."

There was no need to say anything more.

Horkheimer took the Fabian Society badge from Lin Ran's hand and rubbed it in his hand. Looking at the four people who came aggressively, his face changed color: "Get out!

I don't think Mr. President has the power to forcibly conscript personnel for NASA. This is Columbia University, and you have no right to speak here."

With these words from Professor Horkheimer, the security personnel who had been waiting for a long time rushed in and dragged the four people out.

Among them, when going out, Haines apologized to Lin Ran with his hands together, and Lin Ran didn't even look at him.

By the time the office was quiet again, Horkheimer's previous anger had disappeared without a trace, and he looked like an ordinary, harmless professor again:

"Don't think too much, I'm not doing this for you. Arthur Rudolph, this executioner, is not a good guy. I didn't expect to see him on this occasion." ===== CHAPTER 14 =====