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Chapter 450 Return to MIT
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In the past year, there have been two major shocks in the geometry world.

Once, at last year's International Congress of Mathematicians, Cheng Nuo's theorem was proposed.

And another time, now, the Jacobi conjecture was declared successful.

Careful people discovered that the first author of the paper that announced the proof of Jacobi's conjecture was a familiar name——NuoCheng.

Cheng Nuo, or Cheng Nuo!
Since the end of that academic exchange, there has been little news about Cheng Nuo from the outside world.

Many people thought that Cheng Nuo felt that he was in the limelight and was going to spend some time in silence.

The fact is indeed as expected.

But what they didn't expect was that Cheng Nuo would make a "big move" right after he was born!
Cheng Nuo proved the Jacobi conjecture!

Five leading mathematicians in the field of geometry have proven this themselves, and no one can doubt that it is true.

The eruption after half a year of silence, that kind of energy, like a volcanic eruption, shook half of the mathematics world.

On September 2023, 9, Cheng Nuo had just passed his 10st birthday.

Jacobi guessed that it was his birthday present to himself.

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9 month 15 day.

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Aldin frowned and looked at the resignation letter in his hand, and looked at the young man standing in front of him, "Can't you stay?"

Cheng Nuo smiled, "I've exceeded my one-semester exchange student deadline. MIT has started school for more than ten days, and I'm going back to report."

"Then why don't you transfer directly to our Cambridge? Our Cambridge is not weaker than MIT, right? And if you stay in the institute, you will also get our resources."

From the bottom of his heart, Ordin still hoped that Cheng Nuo could stay.

Cheng Nuo, however, had a wry smile on his lips, "You never think about it, will MIT agree?"

A word to awaken the dreamer.

Aldin understood instantly.

Now, Cheng Nuo has proved that Jacobi's conjecture is no longer a secret.

Without this matter, it would be difficult to get MIT to agree to Cheng Nuo's transfer to Cambridge University, but it is not impossible.

But once this incident happened, it was impossible for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to agree to release him anyway.

Cheng Nuo said, "To be honest, Professor Fresnel has urged me many times, otherwise I could still stay in Cambridge for a few days."

"Hey!" Ordin sighed, "Forget it, I know I can't do it, so I won't force it."

"But..." Ordin threw Cheng Nuo's resignation letter into the trash can, and said with a smile, "I don't agree to your resignation!"

"I will reserve your researcher status for you, and I will also reserve that office for you. Come back whenever you want, but I still hope to have a big fight with you in the casino again!"

"Sure!" Cheng Nuo forced a smile, turned around and walked away.

Ordin looked at Cheng Nuo's leaving back, feeling a little disappointed.

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9 month 18 day.

MIT Laboratory Building.

"Senior Hull, good morning!" Cheng Nuo pushed open the door, carrying his office bag, and greeted Senior Hull who was still sitting at the door.

Hel looked up and looked at Cheng Nuo, who was smiling brightly at him, and didn't react for a moment.

After being stunned for a few seconds, he swallowed hard, "Cheng...Cheng Nuo, are you back?"

Cheng Nuo smiled, "Why, you're not welcome?"

"No, no." Hull waved his hand and whispered, "I thought you wouldn't come."

"Wait, I'll call the teacher. The teacher said that you are back and let you notify him as soon as possible." After speaking, Hull called Professor Fresnel.

Ten minutes later, Professor Fresnel hurriedly pushed the door open and entered.

Seeing Cheng Nuo, he first laughed and patted Cheng Nuo on the shoulder, "Haha, I knew, that guy Ordin dared not let him go! Just come back, just come back!"

With that said, he pulled Cheng Nuo into his office.

After receiving the news that Cheng Nuo had proved Jacobi's conjecture, Fresnel had been worrying whether Cheng Nuo would stay in Cambridge or not.

You know, Cheng Nuo has already obtained the status of a formal researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Physics at Cambridge University, but at MIT, he is just a small assistant he accepted.

The status of the two is naturally very different.

Now that Cheng Nuo is back, Professor Fresnel can no longer treat Cheng Nuo with the same attitude.

But Cheng Nuo was still a student. Professor Fresnel was only an honorary professor of MIT, and he did not have the right to allow Cheng Nuo, who was still a student, to hold a higher position like Aldin.

Therefore, we must pay close attention to removing Cheng Nuo's student status.

Professor Fresnel thought for a few seconds, then said, "Cheng Nuo, at your current level, it doesn't make any sense to continue graduate studies. So my idea is to let you graduate as soon as possible."

Cheng Nuo rubbed his chin, "Professor, I have no objection."

Indeed, continuing to retain a student status has no superfluous effect other than making others look down on oneself.

However, if you want to graduate, you must submit a dissertation, just like undergraduates.

Professor Fresnel's advice to Cheng Nuo was to directly submit his thesis proving Jacobi's conjecture as a graduation thesis.

In this case, it is still the title of the strongest graduation thesis in history.

But Cheng Nuo didn't intend to do that.

Cheng Nuo couldn't do it on his laurels.

"Professor, I'm going to write a new thesis as my graduation thesis." Cheng Nuo said.

Professor Fresnel doesn't object.

"Okay, but hurry up."

"No problem, one month is enough."

"By the way, the college is going to ask you to give a report on the proof of Jacobi's conjecture on campus. What's your opinion?" Professor Fresnel asked.

Cheng Nuo frowned slightly, "I have to work on my graduation thesis during this time, can I postpone it until after I finish writing the thesis?"

Professor Fresnel nodded, "Let me talk to the college, it should be fine."

In fact, as long as Cheng Nuo came back, it would be the most satisfactory result, and the rest can be discussed.

Otherwise, it would be a real blood loss for a talent recruited with great difficulty to be picked by Cambridge University.

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After resting for a few days, Cheng Nuo started his research again without caring about the world.

Use one day to select the topic and determine the direction of the graduation thesis, and then start to work slowly.

The general direction of Cheng Nuo's graduation thesis was still related to geometry.

After all, geometry is the field I am most familiar with now.

At present, his three major achievements, in addition to the proof of the weak BSD conjecture, Cheng Nuo's theorem and Jacobi's conjecture, oh no, it should be called Jacobi's theorem now, are all in the field of geometry.

(End of this chapter)