Professor Deligne's Gasp Of Surprise

A quiet home in Princeton, New Jersey.

A bald Caucasian man stuffed his clothes into a suitcase and yelled, "I don't have time, go and find someone else! Right now, my teacher is in a hospital bed. This may the last time I'll see him! For this month, I don't want to see anything related to mathematics."

The middle-aged man in a suit had an awkward smile. He was not angry at all.

After all, the man that stood in front of him was the famous Viscount Pierre Deligne, the guy that proved Weil's conjecture. He had won the Fields Medal, Crafoord Prize, Wolf Prize, and the Abel Prize. If there was a mathematics prize, he had won it.

Even in an advanced institution like Princeton, an institution that accommodated mathematics geniuses around the world, Deligne still stood out.

Davis was just an ordinary editor for the Mathematics Chronicle. Although he graduated from the journalism department of Johns Hopkins University, he knew a little about mathematics.