Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 403: Check in with your instructor first
After a night of discomfort.
The next day, Chen Zhou got up according to the same plan as before.
Afterwards, I went for a morning run with Yang Yiyi.
As the system says, good living habits will benefit you throughout your life.
While having dinner last night, Chen Zhou also learned that the two senior sisters lived in New Ashdown.
Why add New?
Because this is MIT's newest apartment building, it was only opened to residents in 2008.
The facilities inside, such as gym, laundry room, study room, table tennis room, bar, etc., are also available.
As for why we are talking about this?
This is also because there are usually a lot of activities going on in this apartment building.
Have parties often.
There is also a monthly brunch.
And coffee hour every Thursday night.
In addition to Tang Hall, there are also many Chinese people here.
It is one of the most popular apartment buildings.
The two senior sisters enthusiastically invited Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi to participate in the coffee hour next week, September 15th.
Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi naturally did not refuse this.
Necessary group activities can help them adapt to life here more quickly.
Moreover, Liu Maosheng and Zeng Zigu will also come to join in the fun.
At first, Chen Zhou didn’t know why these two Harvard students kept coming here.
Later, he finally understood.
Julia and Mary, these two met at coffee hour.
During this time of casual chatting, the two of them fully demonstrated their ability to deceive.
I won over these two European and American girls who have a great interest in Chinese culture.
Chen Zhou silently gave the two of them a thumbs up.
Compared to this, Zhao Qiqi and the others are simply scumbags.
Look at other people, cater to their preferences, and use their interests to show your own charm.
Isn’t that it?
What a waste of the methods I used to teach them Chinese, mathematics, physics, etc.
After finishing their morning run, Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi went to have breakfast.
The only thing that Chen Zhou doesn’t like is shopping or eating.
There is a tax here.
Although the price is not high, it can’t withstand years of paying!
So, Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi discussed how to get the scholarship.
Although MIT has promised Chen Zhou a scholarship in the joint training program.
But Chen Zhou definitely wouldn’t think the scholarship is too much…
After breakfast, I went back to the dormitory and tidied myself up.
Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi prepared to go and report to their mentors first.
According to the plan, Chen Zhou planned to go to Professor Ating first.
Speaking of which, Professor Michael Artin actually comes from a mathematical family.
Although in the history of mathematics, it is not uncommon for both father and son to be mathematicians.
But only a handful of them became famous mathematicians.
The only ones who can be counted as such are probably the Cartan father and son of France, as well as Chen Zhou’s mentor and his father.
I believe that students who have studied abstract algebra must be familiar with the name Ating.
The classic proofs of the Artin ring and Galois's theorem were both written by Emile Artin.
That is Chen Zhou’s mentor, Michael Artin’s father .
In abstract algebra, apart from its founder Noether, the person who made the greatest contribution was Emil Artin.
Chen Zhou's understanding of Emil Artin also began with the name that appeared many times in abstract algebra and commutative algebra.
In addition, if Noether's contribution mainly lies in the development of ring theory and the proof of a series of profound basic theorems.
As for Emir Artin, he blossomed in the three areas of group, ring and domain.
In all three areas, pioneering contributions have been made.
The braid theory in group theory, the Artin ring in ring theory, the real field theory in field theory, and the 17th of Hilbert's 23 questions.
Speaking of Hilbert's 23 questions, Emil Artin solved two major problems by himself at the age of 35.
Of course, Emil Artin's mathematical achievements go far beyond this.
His insights into mathematical structures directly influenced the style of the French Bourbaki School.
He can be said to be a pioneer of the Bourbaki school.
But what is regrettable is that the war changed the life he was accustomed to.
It was also the war that led to the change of the world's mathematical center.
Emil Artin is a person who has witnessed the changes in the world's mathematical center.
He is also someone who has experienced the power of the Göttingen School.
At the beginning, this great mathematician was because the mathematicians in Göttingen were too strong and the positions were full.
And I can't find a teaching position here.
The same experience also happened to John von Neumann, the father of modern computers, game theory, and someone who participated in the Manhattan Project.
All these are enough to show how powerful the Göttingen School was back then.
Although Emil Artin later returned to Germany and tried to revive the former glory of German mathematics.
But perhaps to Emil Artin's disappointment, German mathematics has not yet reached the glory it once achieved.
Chen Zhou’s mentor is the son of this great man.
He was a master of algebraic geometry.
He once went to France and joined the discussions of the Bourbaki School.
This gave him an in-depth understanding of the French school and the work of Grothendieck, the emperor of algebraic geometry.
It was also from Grothendieck's Topos theory and planar cohomology theory that Michael Artin began his research in mathematics.
On representable functors in the category of schemes, he obtained the famous Artin approximation theorem.
This work gave rise to the idea of both an algebraic space and an algebraic heap, and proved to be very influential in module theory.
So, for a person like this, whose father is a great mathematician and who himself is also a mentor of great mathematicians, he has profoundly influenced the history of world mathematics.
Chen Zhou is full of respect.
Moreover, for Chen Zhou, algebraic geometry is an important tool for studying analytic number theory.
Although he has always focused on accumulating knowledge in various fields of mathematics , it is still different to have such a big man teaching him.
What's more, Chen Zhou also hopes to further improve his ideas and perfect the tool of distributed deconstruction through algebraic geometry.
Follow the map in the freshman handbook and the enthusiastic guidance of classmates you meet.
Chen Zhou quickly found Professor Ating's office.
In the office, an old man in his 80s with gray hair was looking at documents at his desk.
This person was none other than Professor Ating that Chen Zhou was looking for.
Speaking of which, Professor Ating originally did not intend to supervise graduate students anymore.
However, when he received Chen Zhou's email and the advice from MIT.
He showed great interest.
Just like now, he looked at Chen Zhou in front of him with great interest.
“Welcome to MIT!”
Chen Zhou politely replied: "Thank you, Professor Ating!"
Atin smiled.
But then he asked directly: "What do you think about studying noncommutative rings from a geometric point of view?"
