Rebirth of science and technology academic master - Chapter 703

c697 Aging is a sad topic (please subscribe for a monthly ticket)

The two-day negotiation was intense and arduous.

Although the Russian Space Agency delegation has clearly realized during the past few days that China’s aerospace industry is so powerful that they can no longer catch up with it through hard work, and cooperation is the only way out, but as the world’s number one company after China, The two largest aerospace industries are powerful, and they have their own glory days. They have their own pride. Even if they want to sell, they must sell it at a good price.

As for China, although it was said before that as long as we can cooperate, we can negotiate any conditions and everything is easy to discuss, it does not mean that you can open your mouth and ask for prices. Naturally, you need to lower the price. Otherwise, what else do you need to cooperate with? Just wait a few years.

The first day of cooperation negotiations ended unhappily.

Qin Yuanqing did not participate in the cooperation negotiations. He felt that this kind of cooperation negotiation should be left to professionals. He accompanied Perelman to visit Chang’an City, experiencing the prosperity of this city that never sleeps and the radiance of it. With the ancient heritage, I went to see the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and the terracotta warriors and horses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

“Time is really the greatest force in the world. Nothing can stop the erosion of time. Now only these things can be seen of the once glorious civilization, and the rest are no longer visible.” Perelman said with emotion: “Man seems great and has created a brilliant civilization, but he is also insignificant in the face of time. It is said that knowledge and wisdom are eternal, but in fact it is just that time is not long enough. When time As the scale becomes longer, all knowledge and wisdom will completely become dust of history, and no one will know it.”

Qin Yuanqing understood what Perelman meant.

Human beings have never stopped thinking about time, or the pursuit of life span has never stopped. Some sages put forward a view that knowledge and wisdom are eternal, which means the knowledge you create and the wisdom records you contribute. Yes, as long as the record is immortal and as long as someone is still learning your knowledge and wisdom, then you will be immortal.

There is another view that is very similar to this, that is, as long as your name can go down in history and be remembered by future generations, you will be immortal. It is precisely because of this point of view that people have either pursued profit or fame since ancient times. No matter how indifferent to fame and fortune, people long to do great things and be remembered in history. Being immortal in a sense means immortality. . It also evolved from this that many people do good deeds and then hope to be enshrined as gods after death. As long as the temples are still there and people worship them, they will be immortal.

This evolved into a saying that people have three kinds of death, one is physiological death, one is sociological death, and the other is historical death. When you die at the first level, you lose your life in the conventional sense; when you die at the second level, others know that you are dead and the society considers you dead; and at the third level, there is no more life in this world. People remember you!

These three kinds of death can also be understood as, as long as you have not experienced one kind of death, then you are still alive.

Of course, in the face of the power of time, no matter how great a person you are, no matter how famous you are, no matter how great your contribution to mankind is, when the time comes and mankind is destroyed, you will naturally be completely destroyed.

“We have an old Chinese saying that birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature! The value of life is that there is only so much time, and the maximum scale is there. At this maximum scale, how wonderful can you get.” Qin Yuanqing’s gaze Somewhat profound, aging is a sad topic, and it is a topic that no one can avoid. No matter who you are, no matter how much power you have, no matter how much wealth you have, or you are just the lowest level person. , when the time comes, you have to face aging, or birth, old age, illness and death.

Life, aging, illness and death are issues that a person must face from birth, and you can’t escape them!

“Qin, don’t you plan to leave a legacy to the mathematics community so that mathematics can continue to develop forward?” Perelman mentioned the mathematics he is most interested in.

For Perelman, he is also about to start his retirement life. He is no longer interested in other things that are bothering him, because there is nothing he can do about it. The only thing that still makes him interested is mathematics.

Even in mathematics, some papers took Perelman a long time to understand. This has made Perelman deeply aware that his thinking has become very slow under the erosion of time.

But there is another thing that bothers him about mathematics that he can’t let go of. That is, all the famous conjectures in mathematics have been solved. Even the seven major mathematical conjectures in the world have been solved.

Although many mathematicians have tried to propose some mathematical conjectures in recent years, none of these mathematical conjectures has sufficient weight and great research value.

From the current point of view, mathematics has experienced a golden age of nearly thirty years. This thirty-year golden age of mathematical development has surpassed any previous era, whether it is the number of mathematicians, the number of mathematical papers published, or the quality of papers. It’s definitely better than any other period. A group of young mathematicians have grown into world-class mathematicians, and some even won the Fields Medal at the age of 30.

However, there are no mathematical conjectures with enough weight to guide mathematical research and exploration, which means that the future of mathematics is dark, tortuous and bumpy.

Some mathematical conjectures with research value do not lie in proving that the mathematical conjecture is true or proving that the mathematical conjecture is not true. Their value lies in the birth of new mathematical thinking and new mathematical tools in the process. This is its greatest value. the value of!

Although mathematical conjecture is only a part of mathematics, not all of it, it is undoubtedly an extremely important part of the development of mathematics. However, if this part is missing now, it means that the development of mathematics in the future will be very tortuous and bumpy.

If mathematics stops developing, it will be disastrous for other subjects, and it will inevitably stagnate soon. Because mathematics is the foundation of all natural subjects, without the support of mathematics, other natural subjects cannot even think of development.

Perelman also thought about it in his spare time. He proposed an interesting mathematical conjecture, which could be regarded as his last fortune in the mathematical world. Unfortunately, he tried several times, and his thinking was no longer enough to support him in proposing such a valuable idea. mathematical conjecture.

Many of the great mathematical conjectures in history were mathematicians who had a sudden inspiration. They captured this inspiration and wrote beautiful formulas or discussions. However, they were unable to answer their own conjectures and passed them down. , attracting mathematicians to study hard with the intention of solving the puzzle. In such exploration, mathematics can continuously add fresh blood and thus continue to move forward.

“Qin, as a friend and a mathematician, I suggest you leave a rich wealth to the mathematics community for future generations to explore, so that you can continue to promote the development of society.” Perelman said seriously and He gave his own suggestions seriously.

It’s almost the same. When Perelman left Shuimu University, he once told Qin Yuanqing that unfortunately after so many years, Qin Yuanqing has been silent. Perelman felt that Qin Yuanqing was too busy, so he had to send out well-intentioned suggestions again. .

“Perelman, we are friends. I think I have to tell you that mathematics has almost reached an end in its current situation. Now there is actually only the unification of mathematics.” Qin Yuanqing pondered for a moment and organized his language. : “Unless humans can truly break through the constraints of the solar system, enter the vast universe, and experience more of the wonders of the universe, it will be possible to achieve a higher ceiling in mathematics.”

“This is like the magical world of mathematics. We humans see it through a tube. Now what we humans can see is the maximum field of view that this tube can see. If we want to see more faces, we have to Expand the diameter of the tube.” Qin Yuanqing said using a relatively simple and clear metaphor.

In his view, now that we observe and think from the perspective of the earth, mathematics has almost reached its ceiling. Without insight, sufficient vision and accumulation, it is very difficult to break this ceiling.

At least for now, Qin Yuanqing has no way to break this ceiling, because in essence he is also a two-dimensional and a half creature, also a life on earth, instead of completing a life transition and thinking about mathematics in a higher dimension.

“Has it reached this level?” Perelman was stunned, a little unbelievable.

In his impression and understanding, Qin Yuanqing’s attainments in mathematics were unparalleled, and he was undoubtedly the first person in history. He opened up a new world of mathematics, brought thirty years of golden development time to the mathematics world, and made mathematics gain great progress. Development, this contribution cannot be overstated.

At the same time, Qin Yuanqing also has the most say in mathematics and can put forward truly meaningful mathematical conjectures. If other mathematicians have no way, then only Qin Yuanqing can do it. If Qin, Yuan and Qing could not do anything, other mathematicians must also be at a loss.

And Qin Yuanqing said that mathematics has reached its end, then mathematics may really have reached its end.

Qin Yuanqing was silent and didn’t say anything. He couldn’t think of any major development in human mathematics in the next three hundred or five hundred years. What can be discovered is basically within the existing framework.

This is the luck of mathematics, because the framework has already been established and there is a direction for development, so a lot of steps can be saved. But this is also the tragedy of mathematics. When mathematicians go one after another to study mathematics and work hard all their lives, they find that they are still unable to break out of the frame that has been drawn, and they are unable to break the ceiling that spans their heads. What’s even sadder is that they may work hard all their lives, but they can’t see the ceiling that has been built above, and then they are still complacent.

Tomorrow I will enter the next volume – the Great Nirvana volume. If nothing else happens, it should be the last volume. I hope some ideas will pop up as I write it!

At this point, I actually discovered the flaw of the theme that the editor mentioned before, that is, after reaching the pinnacle of the earth, it is difficult to continue because there is no sense of immersion!