Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 351: Hastily Posting a Paper
Along the way, Chen Zhou basically took a nap and browsed the campus network, and time passed quickly.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, he finally arrived at Yanjing South Railway Station.
Chen Zhou excitedly pulled his suitcase, carried his backpack, and headed towards the gate.
After passing through the gate, Chen Zhou looked around, searching for the figure he had been dreaming about.
After searching for a long time, Chen Zhou wondered, "Isn't he here? Didn't he tell me he was coming to pick me up?"
Before Chen Zhou got on the car, Yang Yiyi asked Chen Zhou for his itinerary information.
Yang Yiyi told Chen Zhou that she would pick him up when he arrived at Yanjing South Station.
Because she hoped that the first person Chen Zhou saw after getting off the car would be her.
"Shouldn't it be? Yiyi has always been a liar..."
Thinking of this, Chen Zhou prepared to call Yang Yiyi.
However, before he could make the call, he saw Yang Yiyi walking out from behind a big pillar with a smile on her face.
When Chen Zhou saw the girl with a smirk on her face, he immediately reacted.
This girl had been hiding on purpose just now...
Chen Zhou took two steps at a time and walked to Yang Yiyi, then pulled her into his arms.
After a long time, the two separated.
After leaving Yanjing South Station, Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi went to eat and then watch a movie as planned.
The long-awaited date brought a long-lost sense of freshness to the two of them.
Along the way, Yang Yiyi was a cute little girl jumping around.
After this little episode, Chen Zhou returned to Yanda and his dormitory and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the final battle of his undergraduate studies.
On the campus network, the discussion about the Jebov conjecture and the twin prime conjecture continues to ferment.
But the wind direction gradually changed.
Various discussion threads began to discuss the identities of Chen Zhou, Tao Zhexuan, and Zhang Yitang.
After all, this was the first time in history that a mathematical conjecture competition was held among three Chinese people.
It was also the first time that an interesting competition received great attention from the mathematics community.
Secondly, a detailed examination of the identities of Chen Zhou and the other two.
It has become a competition between young Chinese mathematicians and Chinese mathematicians living abroad.
In this way, the meaning represented by the identities of the three people was artificially extended.
The most hotly debated issue is, if Chen Zhou wins, does it mean that we can also cultivate outstanding talents that are not inferior to those abroad?
In this regard, Chen Zhou actually disagrees with this comparison.
He felt that this was more of a joke between three friends and should not be given such an overtone.
But public opinion will not listen to his explanation.
Because when he asked Li Li, Shen Jing and others to express such opinions outside the campus, they were quickly drowned out.
How should I put it? Everyone’s focus has already been formed and it is difficult to change it.
In other words, he was previously featured on the news broadcast and reported continuously by mainstream media.
It has its own unique characteristics, and everyone hopes that his flag will always be brilliant and beautiful.
Seeing things turn out like this, Chen Zhou really wanted to find Zhang Zhongyuan to have a talk and complain.
But in the end, Chen Zhou did not go.
It’s not that he didn’t want to go, but Zhang Zhongyuan went out for academic exchanges.
Chen Zhou guessed that he had not expected that this would lead to the current direction of public opinion.
Chen Zhou simply decided to ignore the voting posts on the campus website.
Focus on doing your own thing first, and as for the final result, take it half and half.
Chen Zhou was not sure of winning, after all, he was facing two math giants!
Just like the rational analysis on the campus website, Chen Zhou also believes that mathematical conjectures are difficult problems that require the most talent and inspiration.
It’s really hard to say, who will suddenly solve the problem one day.
In the library, Chen Zhou was looking up relevant literature on the Jebov conjecture.
He discovered something very interesting.
Although many people have studied the Jebov conjecture before, the number of papers published each year is not large.
But, after November last year.
To be precise, it was after his lecture at MIT.
Scholars who conducted research on the Jebov conjecture seemed to have been greatly inspired, and the number of papers they published increased sharply.
Especially in recent times, there has been a blowout outbreak.
Seeing the huge increase in the number of papers, Chen Zhou's expression was a little strange.
Could it be that the competition between himself and Terence Tao and others inspired everyone?
So everyone started researching it all at once?
Thinking of this, Chen Zhou searched for related papers on the twin prime conjecture on the e-Print arXiv website .
I paid special attention to the number of papers uploaded recently.
"My goodness, these people are really crazy..."
Chen Zhou couldn't help but sigh.
Little did he know that his friendly competition with Terence Tao and others had already caused concern among slow-paced mathematicians.
The exploration of mathematical conjectures often brings new mathematical content and also induces some new conjectures.
Just as Fermat's conjecture gave rise to the core concept of "ideal number" in algebraic number theory; Poincaré's conjecture helped people better study three-dimensional space; Goldbach's conjecture promoted the development of sieve method and circle method, especially the discovery of almost prime numbers, exceptional sets, and the three prime number theorem of small variables.
The four-color problem was solved by electronic computers, thus opening up a new era of machine proof; the Riemann hypothesis not only made it possible to prove the prime number theorem, but also enabled more than 1,000 mathematical propositions to be proposed based on the premise that the Riemann hypothesis was true.
In this sense, mathematical conjectures are not only "bright and beautiful gems" but also "hens that lay golden eggs."
To put it simply , apart from those truly meaningful research results, these mathematical conjectures are enough to fill countless papers.
But now, according to the opinions on Weibo, two teams that have been competing to kill the golden rooster are waving pens and papers, trying to strangle the two hens that have laid countless golden eggs!
That’s why there is this current rush to publish papers.
Everyone is afraid that one day, Chen Zhou, or Tao Zhexuan and Zhang Yitang will stand up and claim that they have proved the Gerbov conjecture or the twin prime conjecture.
And they believe that this day will not be too late.
The birth of new mathematical tools and mathematical ideas, namely the distribution deconstruction method, will inevitably lead to the solution of some mathematical conjectures.
It’s just that many people don’t have enough confidence, and they don’t believe that they will be the one who wins the game in the end.
After all, there is a saying in the academic community that there are no more than a hundred people in the world who are suitable to solve important mathematical conjectures.
And these one hundred people are all mathematicians with 100% talent.
Many mathematical conjectures seem simple and easy to understand, and most people can understand them.
But in fact, its connotation is extremely profound and cannot be easily touched or solved blindly.
Otherwise, you are doing useless work, basically wasting time and life.
Therefore, most people know that they are not among these one hundred people.
It is better to publish a few more papers while there is still time and accumulate experience.
