Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 499 Someone Wants to Get Ahead
After the morning run, Chen Zhou and Nott went to the cafeteria together.
While having breakfast, Chen Zhou also received a message from Nott.
It's news about the Goldbach conjecture.
Noether told Chen Zhou that recently, two draft papers on the research of Goldbach's conjecture were published in succession on the preprint website e-Print arXiv.
This incident also caused considerable impact in many well-known mathematics forums.
Because the person who published these two papers was not someone else.
It was the Peruvian mathematician Harold Heofgot who proved the weak Goldbach conjecture.
Moreover, judging from the reaction of the mathematics community, these two papers have extremely high research value.
Although it is not certain whether Harold Heofgot has completely proved the Goldbach conjecture.
But at least it is certain that Harold Heofgot made significant progress in the study of Goldbach's conjecture.
It is also possible that he has completely proved the Goldbach conjecture.
It’s just that the first draft of the paper proving the proof was not released.
Chen Zhou was extremely surprised by this.
Could it be that this Peruvian mathematician, who has been silent for several years, has once again burst out with amazing energy?
But on second thought, if Harold Heofgot really proved the Goldbach conjecture, why didn't he put the first draft of the proof paper on the e-Print arXiv website?
Chen Zhou felt that Harold Heofgott had probably not yet fully proved Goldbach's conjecture.
However, someone's attempt to take the lead still made Chen Zhou feel a different kind of crisis.
Of course, Chen Zhou’s crisis only concerns the fact that he no longer has a graduation thesis.
If Ge Chai was really beaten to the throne by someone else, Chen Zhou would feel distressed, but more importantly, he would congratulate that person.
Then look for the next perfect graduation thesis topic that suits you and meets your expectations.
Just like what he said to Nott yesterday.
Whether it is mathematics or physics, all academic research is open to the public.
The development of any discipline cannot rely on one person alone, let alone wait for anyone.
After hearing the news, Chen Zhou naturally took out his mobile phone and logged into the e-Print arXiv website.
Start looking for two draft papers published by Harold Heofgot.
We still need to understand the other party's research progress.
It’s a pity that today’s mobile phones are already very smart.
But compared to a computer, it still lacks a little.
Chen Zhou’s mobile phone does not support opening the first drafts of these two papers.
Chen Zhou put his phone away helplessly, thinking that maybe it would take another two years for mobile phones to be as good as laptops.
Glancing at Nott, Chen Zhou whispered "thank you".
If it weren't for Nott's reminder, he would definitely not have looked up the e-Print arXiv website.
Maybe, by the time he finishes his retreat, my guess is that the problem has been solved.
But now, with Noether's reminder, Chen Zhou can pay attention to the research progress on the Goldbach conjecture.
On the other hand, you can also try to get inspiration from the other party's paper.
At this time, Chen Zhou also remembered the draft papers he had packed up yesterday.
After finishing breakfast, he gave the things to Nott.
A mathematical blueprint drawn by Chen Zhou himself, as well as some thoughts on the research direction of the subject.
As for whether he could help Nott, Chen Zhou didn't know.
This is all he can do.
The final result still depends on Nott himself.
However, Chen Zhou believed that Nott had obviously changed.
There will definitely be some outstanding moments afterwards.
However, Nott's reaction when he got the information exceeded Chen Zhou's expectations.
After taking a look, the senior student's eyes instantly brightened.
Even the look in her eyes when she looked up at Chen Zhou became sparkling.
After separating from Nott, Chen Zhou returned to the dormitory.
I took a look at the content on the desk that I had written last night when I was researching Ge Guess.
Chen Zhou pondered for a moment: "There shouldn't be any directional problems. After all, after such a long period of research, coupled with the evidence from the collection of wrong questions, I will definitely not make directional problems again..."
"The only thing that exists is the finishing kick. I don't know where to kick it..."
Thinking of this, Chen Zhou opened the collection of wrong questions.
Instead, he forgot that he was eager to open the first draft of the paper and take a look at it while having breakfast.
In the collection of wrong questions, the research content on the Goldbach conjecture has been recorded for more than ten pages.
This is the case even though Chen Zhou has been making some small progress.
If there is no progress, Chen Zhou estimates that this collection of wrong questions will be as thick as a dictionary.
Starting from the first page of the collection of wrong questions, Chen Zhou flipped through it page by page, examining it one by one.
Looking through is sorting out, and examining is correcting errors.
Although the content recorded in the wrong question collection represents errors.
However, not all of this is wrong .
For example, in a math proof problem, if the first half of the proof is correct, but the second half goes astray.
The entire content will be recorded.
A collection of wrong questions, that's it.
Therefore, there are some areas that Chen Zhou needs to examine himself.
Therefore, Chen Zhou read extremely slowly and seriously.
Chen Zhou, who had originally planned to devote all his energy to solving the difficult problem of guessing the brother's guess, now encountered someone who wanted to get ahead of him.
It made him become more serious.
Chen Zhou spent the whole day sitting at his desk, concentrating on sorting out and reviewing his research content.
It was not until the sky outside the window had completely darkened that he slowly put down his pen and collected the wrong questions.
After stretching, Chen Zhou leaned back slightly and leaned back in the chair.
"It took Professor Wiles eight years to prove Fermat's conjecture, and he spent 18 months just collecting the mathematical tools needed for the proof."
"But this kind of preparatory work is only necessary when there is a lack of mathematical tools and when it is difficult to determine the research ideas or directions."
"Whether it was the sieve method, the circle method, the density method, or the trigonometric method, I worked my way through it step by step, using number theory conjectures one by one."
"So, the key point is still the distributed deconstruction method itself..."
Chen Zhou couldn't help but frown as he thought about this.
Although this review and examination gave him some direction, most of the things remained the same as before.
Chen Zhou did not gain any substantial results.
The thing that had been blocking his finishing touch was still blocking him.
"I remember when Harold Helfgott proved the weak Goldbach conjecture, his two papers only reduced the original lower bound to about 10^30."
"Finally, his colleagues used computers to verify that all odd numbers below this point conformed to the conjecture, thus completing the proof of the weak Goldbach conjecture."
"Could it be that..."
Chen Zhou shook his head slightly and gave up.
He hoped that he could use pure mathematical methods to completely prove the Goldbach conjecture.
Although the method of using computers to prove mathematical conjectures has long been used.
In addition to the proof of the weak Goldbach conjecture, there is also the four color conjecture which was proved by American mathematicians Appel and Haken with the help of computers.
However, although mathematicians proved the four color conjecture with the help of computers.
But to this day, artificial proof has not appeared.
As a proud mathematician, Chen Zhou obviously did not want such an imperfect proof to appear in his hands.
Chen Zhou put away his thoughts and stopped thinking about it.
Instead, open your computer and enter the URL of the e-Print arXiv website in your browser.
He planned to take a closer look at the two drafts of the papers uploaded by Harold Heofgot.
The browser jump ends quickly.
Chen Zhou quickly entered his account and password, clicked to log in, and the page jumped to the personal center.
Then, a series of prompt sounds popped up.
Chen Zhou was startled. He clicked on the prompt message and took a look. He was speechless for a moment.
His account on the e-Print arXiv website has been followed by many of his peers.
These notification sounds are the messages of their attention and the private messages they send.
Shaking his head slightly, Chen Zhou actually didn't really care much about these things.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have left his Weibo account, which had grown to a million followers, unattended.
To him, Weibo is just a tool for sharing.
The e-Print arXiv website is just a place to publish first drafts of papers in advance.
Opening the search bar of the website, Chen Zhou entered the name Harold Heofgott.
What followed was the information about the papers uploaded by Harold Heofgot.
I have to say that this Peruvian mathematician seems to be quite fond of the e-Print arXiv website.
There are many drafts of papers he uploaded.
Well, the preprint website can allow your peers to notice your research results earlier.
Because the papers on this preprint website can be downloaded and printed directly.
However, the help that preprint websites can provide in gaining recognition from the academic community seems very limited.
This is also the reason why Chen Zhou sometimes posts and sometimes does not post on the preprint website.
Moving the mouse slightly and sliding the scroll wheel, Chen Zhou quickly searched for the two draft papers on the Goldbach conjecture that Nott mentioned.
"Found it..."
On the computer screen, the cursor stopped in the middle.
Chen Zhou clicked the mouse and opened the paper page.
While waiting for the paper to be downloaded, Chen Zhou was also browsing the keywords and abstract information on the paper page.
"Weighted sieve method, circle method, distribution... distribution deconstruction method???"
When Chen Zhou saw the third keyword, he was stunned.
He had never imagined that this familiar name would appear in someone else's paper.
Moreover, it is the keyword of the paper!
His pupils slightly dilated, thoughts swirling in Chen Zhou's mind.
Could it be that Harold Heofgot proved something that I failed to prove using distributive deconstruction?
Did he also find the direction that I didn’t?
Or did he simply use the distributed deconstruction method and achieve certain research results?
Or did he perfect the method of distributed deconstruction?
Chen Zhou's heart at this moment was far from as calm as when he first heard the news.
If nothing else, if Harold Heofgot really used his distributional deconstruction method to solve the Goldbach conjecture.
Chen Zhou must be extremely sad.
This is different from what Chen Zhou originally thought.
At the beginning, for Chen Zhou, it was just a topic that he was concentrating on researching, and there was a possibility that someone else would get there first.
Scientific research itself is a competition. There is nothing to say if Chen Zhou is not capable enough.
But now, it’s not just a lack of ability.
It was as if the other person took the flower gift that he had carefully prepared and seduced the goddess that he had been pursuing for a long time.
There are only two words: heartache!
Shaking his head slightly, Chen Zhou threw all these messy thoughts out of his mind.
Now, no matter what he thought, someone else had already published the first draft of the paper.
He could only wait and see whether the other party could solve the Goldbach conjecture in one step.
Do I still have a chance to compete with him?
At this time, Chen Zhou had also downloaded the first draft of the paper uploaded by Harold Heofgot.
Slide the mouse and click quickly and continuously.
While opening the paper, Chen Zhou also began downloading the first draft of the second paper.
"Mr. Chen must have studied the proof of '1+1' many times, otherwise he wouldn't have such a deep understanding of it, but..."
Chen Zhou himself has also studied Teacher Chen’s proof many times.
However, Mr. Chen has already taken the weighted screening method to its extreme.
Later on, there is almost no possibility of surpassing.
Moreover, Chen Zhou's intuition also convinced him that the weighted sieve method would not be the way to prove Brother's conjecture.
At least it will not be a proof method based mainly on weighted screening method.
Chen Zhou continued reading and soon verified his idea in the paper .
After Harold Heofgott had demonstrated his ability to apply the weighted sieve method, he quickly added the circle method.
Harold Heofgot also used the circle method very skillfully in his paper.
It can be seen that this is definitely a mathematician with extremely high attainments in the field of number theory.
Next comes Chen Zhou’s distributed deconstruction method.
However, as he watched, Chen Zhou's brows suddenly frowned.
Harold Helfgott seems to be unskilled in his use of distributive deconstruction...
At this point, the paper has achieved its first phase of results.
After reading this paper, Chen Zhou also breathed a sigh of relief.
What he was worried about was just that trivial thing that happened.
Although he has not read the other paper, judging from this paper alone, Harold Heofgot should not have proved the Goldbach conjecture.
Because the research results of this paper are far from enough to reach the depth of proving the Goldbach conjecture.
It is no exaggeration to say that the research results of this paper alone are not even as in-depth as Chen Zhou's current research.
As a result, Chen Zhou gradually relaxed.
He didn't believe that the two drafts of the papers uploaded at the same time could be that different.
But it has to be admitted that this sudden opponent really put a lot of pressure on Chen Zhou.
In addition to the partial deconstruction method, Harold Heofgot also made good use of both the weighted screening method and the circle method.
This is a mathematician who has the potential to make breakthrough research on the difficult problem of Goldbach's conjecture.
Thinking of this, Chen Zhou opened the downloaded draft of the second paper with a slightly relaxed mood.
As long as you finish reading this article and your conclusion does not change.
Then it's true, there's still a chance.
But after reading the keywords and abstracts.
Chen Zhou's expression changed.
