Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 350: I am clearly lagging behind
In desperation, Chen Zhou planned to communicate about the distributed deconstruction method with only two people.
No opinion was expressed on the specific issue of the twin prime conjecture.
At the same time, he also joked: "You two are now ahead of my research on the twin prime conjecture. How about we compete to see who can solve them first?"
However, it was this joking remark by Chen Zhou that unexpectedly led to the collaboration between Terence Tao and Zhang Yitang.
Chen Zhou didn't understand why this happened.
But at the same time, two people also formally responded to his words.
A competition between the three people began regarding the two most important world-class conjectures about the prime number interval problem, the Jebov conjecture and the twin prime conjecture.
Few people knew about this, but those who knew kept silent.
Although on the surface, Chen Zhou's research on the Jebov conjecture is still at the level of those four lines of formulas.
Zhang Yitang and Tao Zhexuan are just one step away from completing their research on the twin prime conjecture.
But no one dared to say that Chen Zhou would definitely lose this competition.
On the contrary, professors like Zhang Shouwu, who were relatively familiar with Chen Zhou, joked with Chen Zhou after learning about this incident: "Give them more time and don't rush it. They are all seniors, so give them some leeway."
Chen Zhou thought helplessly, I am obviously the one who is lagging behind?
How come I have to give in to them?
Don't you think too highly of me?
But Chen Zhou also knew, or Zhang Shouwu and others also knew, that jokes aside, no matter which one of the twin prime conjecture and the Jebov conjecture was solved, it would be a major event in the number theory community.
Moreover, if both are solved, if both use the distributive deconstruction method to solve the problem.
For Chen Zhou, this is of great significance.
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On the high-speed train to Yanjing, Chen Zhou was about to exit the campus network interface when he unexpectedly saw a new post refreshed.
The moment he saw the name of the post, Chen Zhou's hand stopped on the interface.
Slowly taking his fingers away, Chen Zhou looked at the post and the name of the poster with a helpless look.
I complained in my heart: "Professor Zhang, Professor Zhang, you are too idle, aren't you? Why are you everywhere? You like to join in the fun too much, aren't you?"
The post was made by Zhang Zhongyuan, an anonymous user from the old campus network.
The post is a voting post.
Chen Zhou clicked on the post and started reading.
The content is about the Jebov conjecture and the twin prime conjecture.
The post also contains a detailed description of the incident.
Zhang Zhongyuan introduced Zhang Yi, Tao Zhexuan, and Chen Zhou in detail in the extremely imprecise tone of a mathematics professor.
【Zhang Yitang, the "sweeping monk" in the mathematics world, mainly studies number theory. He has spent nearly 20 years studying the twin prime conjecture, and published "Bounded Gaps Between Primes" in the Annals of Mathematics, and recently published "Proof Methodology of the Twin Prime Conjecture". 】
[Terence Tao, won the gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad at the age of 12, an honorary science degree from Flinders University at the age of 16, a master's degree at the age of 17, a doctorate from Princeton University at the age of 21, and a Fields Medal at the age of 31... solved the Erdős surprise problem. ]
【Chen Zhou, sophomore at Yanda University, 19 years old. He solved the hailstone conjecture and the Cramer conjecture successively. You all know them, so I won’t say more.】
When seeing this introduction, Chen Zhou was full of question marks. What does this mean?
Why do others have so many narrations, but I only have one sentence?
After introducing the situations of the three people, Zhang Zhongyuan began to introduce the twin prime conjecture and the Jebov conjecture in detail.
Then he wrote down the competition agreed upon between the three of them.
The voting for this post is about this matter.
Do you think Chen Zhou can solve the Jebov conjecture first?
Or do you think that Terence Tao and Zhang Yitang can work together to solve the twin prime conjecture first?
After reading this post, Chen Zhou found that there were already some comments below.
He complained again: "It seems that Professor Zhang is not the only one who has nothing to do..."
Chen Zhou slid his finger lightly and scrolled down the phone interface to read the comments.
"I think the poster is extremely unfair. The introduction of these three big guys is really biased! Just looking at the introduction, you can tell that this is a sweeping monk and a Fields Medal winner who has been a genius since childhood . Is there any need to choose? Anyway, from a rational point of view, I will definitely choose Professor Zhang Yitang and Professor Tao Zhexuan... The big guy Chen Zhou below!"
I thought this was an extremely serious analysis, but I didn't expect there would be a reversal at the end.
Chen Zhou's expression became strange.
"Brother, aren't you being too insincere?"
When reading the comments later, Chen Zhou's expression became even more interesting.
As if to maintain order, all the big names on the campus Internet started using this mode.
Moreover, they basically list in detail the reasons why Zhang Yitang and Tao Zhexuan will win, and finally say, anyway, I support Chen Zhou!
The comments were quickly refreshed. This time, Chen Zhou did not rush to exit, but refreshed the page.
Scrolling down again and seeing the comments, Chen Zhou was stunned for a moment, then returned to the homepage and took a look at the number of comments.
Wow, in such a short time, the number of comments has exceeded 100.
The number of people who participated in the voting reached more than two hundred.
The voting results were almost one-sided.
Chen Zhou is far ahead with an absolute number of votes.
Looking at the gap in votes, Chen Zhou felt embarrassed.
I am clearly in a backward position, why do you think so highly of me?
After thinking about it, Chen Zhou thought, why not vote for Zhang Yitang and Tao Zhexuan?
Finally, Chen Zhou reached out and clicked the vote, silently adding another vote for himself.
After throwing it, he looked around. If someone saw it, it would have a bad impact...
After casting his vote, Chen Zhou continued to read the comments.
It's basically the same tune, but finally someone started to make serious comments.
"From a rational analysis perspective, Professors Zhang Yitang and Tao Zhexuan have already approached the door to the twin prime conjecture. If all goes well, it will be solved soon. But none of us know the research progress of Mr. Chen Zhou."
“Maybe he will solve the Gerbov conjecture quickly, as he did before. Or maybe he will be stuck with the Gerbov conjecture and will never find a solution.”
"In addition, I think the poster is really boring. This kind of world-class mathematical conjecture, which is in the field of number theory, especially requires mathematical talent and fleeting inspiration. It should not be put up for voting at all!"
Wow, well said!
Chen Zhou silently gave this person a thumbs up to show his support.
After clicking the like button, Chen Zhou discovered that this person’s ID looked so familiar.
Scrolling further down, Chen Zhou saw several familiar IDs.
After clicking in and reading the homepage in detail.
Chen Zhou shook his head slightly and sighed softly.
These professors in the School of Mathematics are all hidden campus network bosses...
