International Congress of Mathematicians (2)

Professor Cross began chattering away-.

“When you proved the Riemann hypothesis, my lab went wild. You had theoretically proved something we'd spent years verifying only through numerical experiments.”

“Heeheehee.”

“That's why I wanted to ask you today. When you constructed the operator in the proof, did any ideas from random matrix theory make their way in, even a little?”

“Mmm, not directly!”

I began explaining excitedly.

“When approaching it from the spectral side, I knew that eigenvalues repel one another. That helped me choose that approach!”

“Oh! I see!”

“And, and…”

“Professor.”...