陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Fields Medalist Symposium」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

On Thursday, UCLA hosted a “ Fields Medalist Symposium “, in which four of the six University of California-affiliated Fields Medalists ( Vaughan Jones (1990), Efim Zelmanov (1994), Richard Borcherds (1998), and myself (2006)) gave talks of varying levels of technical sophistication. (The other two are Michael Freedman (1986) and Steven Smale (1966), who could not attend.) The slides for my own talks are available here .

The talks were in order of the year in which the medal was awarded: we began with Vaughan, who spoke on “Flatland: a great place to do algebra”, then Efim, who spoke on “Pro-finite groups”, Richard, who spoke on “What is a quantum field theory?”, and myself, on “Nilsequences and the primes.” The audience was quite mixed, ranging from mathematics faculty to undergraduates to alumni to curiosity seekers, and I severely doubt that every audience member understood every talk, but

已知结果和反例

Disclaimer: the summaries below are reconstructed from my notes and from some hasty web research; I don’t vouch for 100% accuracy of the mathematical content, and would welcome corrections.

Vaughan Jones – “Flatland: a great place to do algebra”

证明或构造的主线

Vaughan gave a very accessible and engaging public lecture, that managed the rare feat of being both non-technical, and yet packing in a surprising amount of meaty mathematics. He began by noting how the Cartesian co-ordinate system of Descartes had demystified the notion of dimension, reducing the two-dimensional plane to collections of pairs of numbers, the three-dimensional space to triplets of numbers, and so forth. Of course, even so, the notion of the “fourth dimension”

Vaughan then talked about his own mathematical journey through dimensions, starting out in the infinite-dimensional theory of von Neumann algebras (in particular, in his celebrated paper developing an index theory for subfactors of von Neumann algebras), and then descending to three dimensions (through his achievements in knot theory) and more recently to two dimensions (through planar algebras). To describe the connections between all these topics, Vaughan first recalled how

阅读时建议盯住的点

To close, Vaughan mentioned how vertex algebra structures also arise naturally in the quantum theory of lattices, and in particular (as proposed by Freedman and others ) could be useful in designing quantum computers. He then noted that the theory of the braid group (including of course the Jones polynomial ) could also be viewed as the theory of dynamics of non-colliding points in the plane (by viewing time as a third dimension); quantising this, one then expects braid group

Efim gave a much more technical, but also very beautiful, talk on some cutting edge research in group theory, revolving around the extent to which a group can be understood from a prescribed set of relations. One seeks to study infinite groups here, but Efim clearly distinguished between the “hopelessly infinite” groups, and the groups which are at least residually finite – groups which have enough finite models that one can distinguish points. For instance, the integers are

值得单独记下的条目

• “Level 2” spaces again include the space of all Lagrangians, are polynomials that convert a quantum field to another (formally) operator-valued function of space time.
• “Level 3” spaces include the space of all Feynman path integrals, e.g. . In particular they include Green’s functions.

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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