Compared with the first-tier cities in Xiaguo, which often have a population of tens of millions, Miami, as the second largest city in Florida and also the most populous city in Florida, has a permanent population of only about 610,000. This situation will probably make many people

People who have passed through this city are surprised, because they are deeply impressed by the bustling and bustling city that is full of people all year round.

In fact, it is not surprising that most of these pedestrians are tourists. As a popular tourist city, Miami attracts more than 11 million tourists every year. It is a typical tourist city with more tourists than locals.

Winter is originally the peak tourist season in Miami, but this year, affected by the upcoming "Little Ice Age", the number of tourists in Miami has increased several times. The number of tourists in the past two weeks alone has exceeded the entire winter in previous years.

Number of tourists.

Those who have the most profound experience of this heated scene are probably the mathematicians from all over the world who came to participate in the International Congress of Mathematicians held by IMU.

For example, Faltings, Deligne and Linden Strauss from Princeton. As soon as the three of them got off the plane at Miami International Airport, they saw groups of tourists, most of whom were traveling with their families.

Dragging several large suitcases, it looked like he was going to stay for two to three months.

It was even more exaggerated after they came out of the airport. The reception car they took was less than one kilometer away from the airport and was stuck on the road.

The IMU representative in charge of the reception was a young man named Arnaud Calomon. He probably had just graduated from his Ph.D., and he still had residual acne on his face.

He sat in the passenger seat, glanced at the endless traffic queue in front of him, and turned back helplessly: "I'm sorry, the three distinguished guests, it is estimated that it will take three to four hours to arrive at the Miami Hotel today.

Yesterday it took almost as long."

About three to four hours?

Faltings and others looked at each other. They had all been to Miami before and knew that the distance from the airport to the city center was only 40 to 50 kilometers. They did not expect that the traffic jam would be so serious.

Deligne asked: "Apart from the people who come to attend the Mathematicians' Conference, they are mainly tourists who come to escape the cold and winter, right?"

"Yes, ever since Academician Qin Ke of Xia State issued the early warning message of the 'Little Ice Age', people in many northern cities have become nervous. They are waiting for our meteorological center to confirm and issue a warning to prevent extreme low temperature disasters.

After the announcement, the number of rich tourists coming to Miami began to surge. The hotel room rates increased several times, but they were still full everywhere, even the hotels in the suburbs were fully booked." Carlomon shrugged his shoulders and said thankfully:

"Fortunately, our IMU has booked the hotel and venue one month in advance, otherwise we would not have been able to book rooms. We had several mathematicians who originally said they were not available, but later changed their minds and wanted to attend the conference. We also had to

Without telling them, we can no longer arrange a single room, so we can only share the room vacated by our staff.”

Linden Strauss looked at the long flow of traffic outside the car window and sighed: "Miami is really going to be overcrowded this time..."

Carlomon echoed: "Who says it's not the case? I heard that the mayor of Miami privately praised Academician Qin Ke of Xia State. It seems that it is really thanks to Academician Qin that Miami's tourism industry this year has improved."

Income has doubled."

Lindenstrauss smiled and said: "At least IMU changed the venue of the meeting because of Qin Ke's warning message."

"More than that," Calomon lowered his voice again and said in a gossipy tone:

"As far as I know, in addition to the large number of wealthy tourists coming here from the north to escape the cold, there are also dozens of award-winning representatives from academic and scientific research institutions who have previously said they would award awards to Academician Qin Ke and his wife.

including the World Food Prize Foundation. Because Academician Qin Ke and his wife stated that they would only stay in Miami and would not go to other places in the United States, in order to award awards to this great couple of scientists, the awarding organizations had to

They came from out of town. They arrived late, and most of them didn't book a hotel in the city center. They could only beg us to let IMU temporarily set aside a small lecture hall in the Miami Hotel to decorate it for them.

The award ceremony..."

When talking about the latter, Carlomon couldn't hide his envy: "When scientists are at the level where Academician Qin Ke and his wife are pursued by countless institutions for awards... it is really unheard of and unseen. The last time Academician Qin attended the Mathematicians Conference, I also

I don’t work at IMU and I never had the chance to meet him in person. This time I finally have the chance. I wonder if it would be difficult to ask him for an autograph..."

Faltings and others couldn't help but smile when they heard the nagging chatter of a staff member who was still talking like a student and who was not yet calm and experienced in his work.

In fact, various "stories" about Qin Ke are also spread like crazy at Princeton University, known as the "Holy Land of Mathematics". Not only do many students regard Qin Ke as their spiritual idol, they post his photos in the dormitory, and some even

Young professors highly praise it.

No one else mentioned it, but Kelvin Thomson, a representative of the Mesozoic generation of mathematics professors, went to Xia Kingdom, intending to stay for three to five years, just to follow Qin Ke's footsteps and see more and more beautiful mathematical scenery from him

.

——Qin Ke is definitely the first mathematician from Xia State to be treated like an academic superstar at the prestigious Princeton University.

Even the ostracism and supercilious looks faced by Xia Guo's international students at Princeton University have basically disappeared. Local students in the United States all regard them with special regard and are more friendly to them.

It is no exaggeration to say that Qin Ke alone has changed the entire world's impression of Xia Guo's mathematics community. Together with his best partners, Ning Qingyun, who has also achieved dazzling results in mathematics, and Chen Licheng,

Zhang Xiangdong and other young mathematicians who have begun to emerge in the international mathematics community have made people say that the Xia Kingdom mathematics community has begun to usher in a golden period of blooming flowers.

Carlomon turned back and glanced at the expressions of the three mathematics professors. Seeing that they did not seem to be disgusted by his thoughts, he took the opportunity to say: "By the way, I heard that the three of you are very familiar with Academician Qin and his wife.

Let's work together to study 'new geometry'? In the 'acknowledgments' section at the end of his new geometry paper, Academician Qin highly praised all of you, saying that without your help, the 'new geometry' would have achieved

The level of perfection now is huge.”

Deligne shook his head and smiled: "The birth of 'New Geometry' was mainly due to Qin Ke and his partners. We just happened to come up with some ideas and it didn't have much effect. It can even be said that our

I have benefited a lot from this cooperation.”

As a student of Grothendieck, how could he see his mentor's "algebraic geometry" being updated and upgraded to "new geometry" and becoming the most popular and promising emerging discipline in today's mathematics world?

Not excited or happy? It also added a bit of intimacy and implicit respect to Qin Ke, a young genius mathematician whom I already admired very much.

Carlomon was extremely interested in topics related to Qin Ke, and immediately added: "To be honest, in order to better understand Academician Qin, I have been studying Chinese for the past two years. I found a period when Academician Qin was still in high school.

In the video, he said that he reads books very quickly and can finish a thick book in half an hour to an hour. Is that true? This is amazing."

The best-tempered Linden Strausch smiled and replied: "It's true, I've seen it with my own eyes. It only takes him an hour to read a mathematical monograph of more than 500 pages, and he can completely understand the entire book."

He absorbed the mathematical thinking in the monograph and integrated it into his own mathematical system and used it for his own use. With such top talent and hard work, it would not be too incredible for Qin Ke to achieve what he is today.

Already."

Deligne added: "I think what is most commendable about Qin Ke is his unconstrained creative thinking, extremely agile reaction speed, and profound mathematical knowledge, especially his creative thinking, which is enough to establish a sect.

, creating a new era of mathematics..."

Listening to the people next to him chatting about Qin Ke, Faltings never spoke. This is his character. He disdains chatting with unfamiliar people. He is a bit naive like Carlomon, who has just stepped out of campus.

It is naturally difficult for students to get into his eyes.

But listening to these conversations, Faltings unknowingly remembered the scene when he met Qin Ke at the Tiger Bar.

At that time, Qin Ke proved in one breath that there are infinite Mersenne prime numbers and that the Fibonacci sequence has infinite prime numbers, two world-class unsolved problems, which made Faltings look at this young man from Xia Kingdom with admiration.

But no matter how high he thought of this young boy at that time, he would never have imagined that in just six years, this boy from Xia Kingdom would reach the top of the world in mathematics and lead the trend of an era.

Considering that Qin Ke is only 25 years old now, it is estimated that the mathematical world will become more exciting under his light in the next few decades.

But Faltings soon sighed: "What a pity..."

His words attracted the attention of the other three people. Deligne asked curiously: "Gelder, what are you regretting?"

"It's nothing, I just feel a little sorry to think that Qin Ke will not focus on mathematics in the next few years, but will focus on studying extreme climate disasters. Not only Qin Ke, but also Ning Qingyun, Tao Zhexuan, the most eye-catching

Mesozoic mathematicians and outstanding mathematicians in the past two hundred years have also devoted their energy to this subject. Without these people, the mathematics community will probably be lonely for a few years. My "Annals of Mathematics" will have to worry about high-quality manuscripts.

Already."

Indeed, meteorological centers in various countries are now looking for people like crazy, especially mathematicians. Qin Ke's "Global Extreme Climate Big Data Advanced Analysis Team" has recruited 187 Mesozoic people recognized by their mathematics masters.

Excellent mathematician.

It is foreseeable that in the future, most elites in the mathematical community will focus on responding to extreme climate disasters.

Deligne nodded in approval: "Yes, I hope that new young mathematicians will emerge in the next few years..."

Linden Strauss said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "To be honest, if I weren't not good at mathematical analysis, I'd probably like to join Qin Ke's big data analysis team, thinking about being able to handle global-scale big data.

, this kind of opportunity is extremely rare.”

Carlomon asked a question: "Well... I have always been curious, why does Academician Qin pay so much attention to the direction of extreme climate disasters? I admit that extreme weather disasters have become more and more frequent in recent years, and there will be another year this year.

The 'Little Ice Age', but in human history, this should be considered a normal climate change, right? There have been at least four 'Little Ice Ages' in history..."

The young man's words caused the three masters of mathematics to fall into silence.

In fact, they have long discovered that Qin Ke pays more attention to extreme climate disasters than others. If you look closely at his research direction, he has started to deal with extreme climate disasters like today a few years ago. Look at him

The researched desert sweet potato technology, seawater desalination technology, and the world-famous extreme climate disaster big data prediction model, etc., are almost all related to the response to extreme climate disasters.

Could it be that Qin Ke had seen a crisis early that others could not see?

Behind this "Little Ice Age" is not just occasional global climate change, but there are deeper factors that may even endanger the planet itself?

Otherwise, it is hard to imagine why Qin Ke would spend so much time and energy to deal with this extreme climate disaster, and for this purpose, he also gathered the power of meteorological centers and mathematical talents around the world...

Faltings rolled down the glass window slightly, and the biting cold wind came in through the gap, making everyone in the car feel that the "Little Ice Age" was approaching.

Yes, today is obviously October 30th, and there is still one or two days before the "Little Ice Age" predicted by Qin Ke will fully invade the northern hemisphere. However, the city of Miami, where the average temperature in winter has exceeded 20 degrees Celsius, seems to have felt this strangeness in advance.

Due to the unusual chill, the average temperature has dropped to just over 10 degrees Celsius in the past few days.

Deligne murmured: "Maybe we can see snow in Miami this year..."

"Yes." Linden Strausch responded softly, and then said: "Qin Ke and the others should be arriving soon, right? Then we can have a good chat with him..."

Due to the temporary change of venue, this year's International Congress of Mathematicians was postponed by three days compared to previous years. The conference period is from November 4 to November 13, a total of 9 days.

Moreover, before the conference, IMU also set aside November 3rd to conduct a public review meeting to "prove the Hodge conjecture". Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun will definitely arrive before November 2nd - although such an argument is not possible

In the eyes of most people, it is a bit "taking off your pants to fart is unnecessary", purely to maintain the impression that IMU is "serious and cautious" about world-class mathematical problems.

"Well, let's have a good chat with him then." Faltings' expression also became serious.

At this moment, he just hoped that his worst guess was wrong.

…

What Carlomon did not notice or mention was that it was not just the IMU that held the conference in Miami, but also the Meteorological Center of the United States. They also planned to hold a national extreme climate disaster response conference here, and Qin Kehe

Ning Qingyun is the most important invited guest.

——In order to prevent the two Xia scientists from making an extra trip, the American Meteorological Center also set the location of the meeting in Miami as a show of sincerity in making friends with Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun.

They realized the seriousness of climate change earlier than mathematicians such as Faltings.

To solve this problem, we are absolutely inseparable from Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, a pair of Xia scientists who are unparalleled in extreme climatology.
Chapter completed!