Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 389 Congratulations
Terence Tao asked himself, he is not a pure person.
On his blog, he often mocks some mathematicians and their ignorance.
I also often express my opinions on some of the issues I have studied.
Just like the hailstone conjecture.
Naturally, Terence Tao will also be slapped in the face.
It’s just that I get slapped in the face very rarely.
Especially like when Chen Zhou proved the hail conjecture, there were even fewer times when he was slapped in the face by the results.
This kind of character of Terence Tao is inseparable from the fact that he has been a mathematical genius since childhood.
However, although he is high-profile, he is not stubborn.
Tao is brave enough to admit his mistakes.
After the hail conjecture was proved by Chen Zhou last time, he made fun of himself on his blog.
Naturally, such a Terence Tao is more likely to be liked by everyone.
It’s different from Zhang Yitang sitting in front of the computer writing emails.
Tao Terence thought about it and opened the blog.
After all, I haven’t posted a blog for such a long time, and I miss my fans a lot.
As a blogging expert in the mathematics community, Terence Tao still plans to use blogs to express his current feelings.
After logging onto the blog, Tao saw the situation he had expected.
His blog private messages, comments, etc. all exploded.
Judging from the time, the explosion started on the day when Chen Zhou made his move to end the game.
What surprised Terence Tao was that he thought he would be somewhat angry when he saw this.
After all, mathematical conjectures are not like eating or drinking water, which can be solved easily.
What's more, this was just a small agreement between him, Zhang Yitang and Chen Zhou.
It doesn't even reach the national level. How come American mathematicians were defeated by Chinese mathematicians?
If this had happened in the past, with Terence Tao's temper, he would have immediately fought back one by one.
And no one can escape.
But now, somehow, Tao just feels that these comments are ridiculous and boring.
The process of exploring mathematical conjectures is inherently full of unknowns and changes.
Nothing is absolute.
They had published a lot of related results before, and seemed to be far ahead of Chen Zhou.
But in fact, as long as the conjecture is not finally solved, it is still full of countless variables.
Even though they were just one step away from success.
And this is indeed the case.
Tao Zhexuan shook his head , sighed in his heart, and said, "Really, I study mathematical conjectures not for the competition with Chen Zhou, but because of the significance of mathematical conjectures themselves..."
Thinking of this, Tao Zhexuan was slightly stunned and subconsciously glanced at Zhang Yitang not far away.
He was indeed influenced a lot by Zhang Yitang...
Looking away, Terence Tao looked at these almost identical contents, selectively replied to a few, and then began to edit his blog.
First of all, Terence Tao plans to write an explanation on his blog about where he has been during this period.
Secondly, he planned to respond positively to the competition with Chen Zhou and congratulate Chen Zhou on solving the Jebov conjecture.
At the same time, it provides an excellent research tool such as distribution deconstruction method for the study of number theory.
Third, let’s talk about the twin prime conjecture.
Here, Terence Tao did not overemphasize his own role, but put Zhang Yitang first.
Secondly, it is the distribution deconstruction method used by Chen Zhou to solve the Gerbov conjecture.
As soon as Terence Tao’s blog was published, it instantly attracted great attention.
Many people are waiting for Tao's response.
Compared to Zhang Yitang, the "sweeping monk", everyone doesn't know how to find him.
As for Terence Tao, all he needs to do is hang out on his blog, where everyone can get first-hand information.
It’s just that Terence Tao has been a bit missing during this period.
So, as soon as netizens saw Tao’s blog update, they flocked to it.
However, after reading the blog published by Terence Tao, they were a little dumbfounded.
Is this still the Terence Tao they know?
When did Terence Tao become so humble and low-key?
Logically speaking, after holding it in for so long and finally coming up with the twin prime conjecture, shouldn’t we let it go?
Therefore, many netizens who know Terence Tao began to comment with some concern: "Professor Tao, is this really you? Are you okay?"
Some people also commented with concern: "Professor Tao, you are not too stimulated, right?"
In response to this, Terence Tao naturally received the "concern" from netizens at the first time.
But why does this "concern" sound so awkward?
In contrast, the Chinese self-media who have been following Tao Terence Tao’s Weibo were overjoyed.
As soon as possible, this news was compiled into a press release and released on the self-media platform.
As for the news headline, it is naturally...
[After disappearing for several months, the famous American mathematics professor Terence Tao showed up for the first time and personally admitted defeat to that person ! ]
[It turns out that he not only proved the Jebov conjecture, but also indirectly proved the twin prime conjecture! ]
[Amazing! It turns out that Terence Tao, who proved the twin prime conjecture, was inspired by him! ]
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Chen Zhou knew the news not because of the reminder from the news app on his mobile phone.
Instead, it was an email sent to him by Zhang Yitang, and he received it.
Chen Zhou was still quite surprised. He didn't expect that more than a month later, Zhang Yitang actually sent him another email.
And the content of the email was actually to thank him.
Although after Chen Zhou completed the proof of the Gerbov conjecture, there were still some email exchanges between him, Terence Tao and Zhang Yitang.
But as time went by, they had no email communication for nearly a month.
Therefore, Chen Zhou had no idea about the progress of the twin prime conjecture that Terence Tao and his colleagues were studying.
When seeing the news, Chen Zhou was still sincerely happy for Terence Tao and Zhang Yitang.
After all, the result of their hard work did not disappoint the two of them.
Put aside other external factors and ignore the things that the media is hyping.
Returning to mathematics itself, Chen Zhou felt that Terence Tao and Zhang Yitang had accomplished a great thing.
The twin prime conjecture is a difficult problem that has plagued the mathematical community for nearly two hundred years.
This is also the 8th question among Hilbert's 23 questions.
It is also an extremely important mathematical conjecture in the problem of prime number intervals.
Together with the Gerbov conjecture, it opened up a vast world for number theory and mathematical research.
Therefore, Chen Zhou believes that after he proved the Gerbov conjecture, the proof of the twin prime conjecture is of great significance.
Perhaps starting from today, the research on prime number interval problems in the field of number theory will reach a height not seen in a century.
This is of great significance to Chen Zhou, to Tao Terence, to Zhang Yitang, and to the entire mathematics community.
The greatness of the two mathematical conjectures should not be measured by the original joke competition.
Chen Zhou also saw the same idea in Zhang Yitang's email.
As for the competition, Zhang Yitang simply smiled.
But Zhang Yitang has endless things to say about mathematics, the twin prime conjecture, and the distribution deconstruction method.
After reading the email, Chen Zhou sent a congratulatory email to Zhang Yitang with a smile on his face.
Chen Zhou sincerely congratulated him and Terence Tao for completely solving the twin prime conjecture.
