Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 506 I Can Wait for You
Harold Heofgot on the stage was still speaking passionately.
The slide has also switched to the next one.
He had no idea of the problem that Chen Zhou had discovered.
He was looking forward to the honors that would come his way after the lecture.
Chen Zhou looked at the content written on the A4 draft paper, and then looked at Harold Heofgott who was enthusiastically describing the proof process on the stage.
He sighed with a hint of regret: "What a pity, the idea should be fine, it's just that I was too impatient..."
Shen Jing, who was standing by, heard Chen Zhou's voice and quickly turned his head to look at him, but didn't ask any more questions.
Anyway, even if I asked him, he wouldn't understand.
Now everything Harold Heofgot said was completely incomprehensible to him.
Not to mention the problems that Chen Zhou might have discovered.
So, instead of asking more questions, it is better to be patient and see what Chen Zhou will do next.
Not only Shen Jing, but many people sitting next to Chen Zhou also "accidentally" heard what Chen Zhou said.
Like Shen Jing, they were silently looking forward to Chen Zhou's next move.
After all, the phrase "I guess the correct way to open it" is too suggestive.
Although they could no longer understand the content of Harold Heofgot's lecture.
And there is a high probability that you will not understand the content of Chen Zhou’s subsequent lecture.
However, the content of the report was not their first goal.
The final result is.
As time slowly passed, Harold Heofgot on the stage finally cut to the last page of the slide.
His lecture on the proof of the Goldbach conjecture is coming to an end.
In the audience, Faltings and Deligne, who were sitting together, quietly put their heads together.
Deligne asked quietly, "Do you see what's wrong?"
Faltings glanced at Harold Hoffgot on the stage, frowned slightly, and said in a low voice: "His steps are the same as his report meeting, very smooth, but I always feel that something is wrong..."
Hearing this, Deligne also said: "I feel the same as you, but I don't find anything obviously wrong."
Faltings was silent for a moment before he continued, "During the question-and-answer session later, we'll see if Langlands and the others have discovered anything. We'll just do our best to answer all our questions."
Deligne nodded.
The two heads that were put together also separated.
As if they knew what Faltings and Deligne were thinking, when the two of them subconsciously looked over, Langlands, Wiles and the others also looked over.
Several mathematics giants smiled at each other.
"…Therefore, combining equations (18-21) obtained by the distribution deconstruction method, we can get the final result…"
"That is to say, in general form, any integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of three prime numbers, which means that the Goldbach conjecture holds!"
Harold Heofgot on the stage quickly finished speaking on the last slide.
This also led to the passionate and exciting proof of the Goldbach conjecture.
After saying the last sentence, Harold Heofgot's face turned a little red due to excitement.
He looked at the people in the audience with burning eyes.
The audience also gave warm applause at the right time.
Including Chen Zhou, mathematical giants such as Faltings, and no less than 500 mathematicians present, all gave applause to Harold Heofgot.
Regardless of the outcome, Harold Heofgot should be applauded for this proof alone.
Harold Heofget enjoyed the applause from the audience.
My originally restless heart finally got a little satisfaction.
After enjoying the applause, Harold Heofgot seemed a little smug.
From these warm applauses, he has felt the recognition of the mathematics community and the recognition of people in the world.
Therefore, the next part is the most important and the highlight of the question-and-answer session.
He also felt that there wouldn't be any major problems and that no major defects would be found.
When the applause died down, Harold Heofgot said into the microphone: "Thank you all for coming to this lecture today and for joining me in witnessing the final answer of the Kok Guess. Next, we will move on to the question-and-answer session of this seminar."
After Harold Heofgot finished speaking, there was a brief silence in the meeting hall.
After the silence, questions began to come one after another.
Many colleagues stood up and began to ask Harold Heofgot questions that they did not understand.
As if he had expected this, Harold Heofgot smiled and said softly, "My fellow colleagues, don't worry. I believe we all have enough time to take this important conjecture seriously."
As he said this, Harold Heofgot glanced at Chen Zhou intentionally or unintentionally.
Chen Zhou also keenly captured this signal.
He couldn't help but grin, thinking to himself: "Maybe you think that if you give me enough time, I can barely find a question that makes you a little embarrassed, but you don't know that the major flaws in your paper have already been exposed to me..."
After Harold Heofgot withdrew his gaze and began to answer his colleagues' questions one by one.
Chen Zhou was not in a hurry to directly throw out the problems he found.
Instead, he listened carefully to the questions from his colleagues and also listened carefully to Harold Heofgot's answers.
Chen Zhou also wanted to see if anyone could find the fatal flaw in the paper.
Speaking of which, the excitement of today's lecture was no less than the one held at SLAC when Chen Zhou discovered the rubber ball.
Even worse than that.
But this is understandable. After all, the Goldbach conjecture has troubled the world for nearly three hundred years and exhausted the energy of many human geniuses.
It is one of the three most difficult mathematical problems in the modern world.
It is also the only unsolved problem.
Its fame is far beyond the discovery of the rubber ball.
At the same time, this lively scene also indirectly illustrates how much people are paying attention to this matter.
As the question-and-answer session progressed, time gradually approached 2 p.m.
The lecture started at 9:00 a.m., and Harold Heofgot reported the contents of his paper, which took nearly 4 hours.
To be honest, Harold Heofgot's time was not very long, excluding the time for questions.
After all, this is a report on the Goldbach conjecture, not an ordinary mathematics lecture.
You know, Wiles' lectures at Cambridge University were actually a series of reports.
Because Wiles's argument is lengthy and highly technical.
He did not finish his third speech until 20 minutes into it.
In comparison, the time taken by Harold Heofgot can be said to be very short.
From this we can also see how thoroughly Harold Heofgot prepared for this lecture.
But no matter what, after the 4-hour speech, the question-and-answer session always starts around 1 p.m.
In other words, this report completely covered the lunch time.
Originally, the organizers planned to schedule the question-and-answer session directly in the afternoon.
However, what I didn't expect was that the time Harold Heofgott spent exceeded expectations.
Second, the enthusiasm of the people at the scene and my colleagues in the mathematics community completely dispelled the hunger.
No one had any intention of going out for lunch.
Therefore, the question-and-answer session started directly after the lecture.
But now it's already 2 o'clock, if I don't arrange lunch, then I will only have dinner.
So the organizer took the initiative to step forward and temporarily stopped the question-and-answer session.
Although many people still expressed that they could cook a meal in the evening, the organizers still insisted on taking a break for an hour and continuing at 3 o'clock.
And so, the question-and-answer session was temporarily postponed.
This was not the first time that Chen Zhou had encountered this situation, so he was not surprised.
After all, the last presentation at SLAC was pretty much like this.
But that time he was the protagonist.
This time, he hasn't appeared yet.
An hour passed quickly.
It's only enough for a meal and a short rest.
Some people even did not leave the venue at all, but took a short rest in the venue, waiting for the question-and-answer session to begin at 3 o'clock.
When Chen Zhou returned to the venue again, Harold Heofgot also arrived.
The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.
Chen Zhou took the initiative to step forward and praised: "Professor Harold Heofgot, it's a wonderful lecture."
To be fair, if we ignore that major flaw and just talk about the report itself, it was indeed a wonderful lecture.
What Chen Zhou praised was indeed the lecture itself.
However, Harold Heofgot misunderstood. He did not try to hide his inner joy and said directly: "Dr. Chen Zhou, thank you for your compliment. If you could solve the Goldbach conjecture earlier, I would not have the opportunity to stand here."
Chen Zhou did not comment, but smiled slightly and said softly: "Any proof of a mathematical conjecture must be extremely carefully checked and verified before it can be recognized. Whether it is your proof or mine, it is the same."
Harold Heofgot chuckled. "I believe my proof will withstand any inspection and verification, even any test."
As he spoke, Harold Heofgot seemed to think of what Chen Zhou had said, and added, "I also think that my proof is the correct way to solve the Goldbach conjecture."
Hearing this, Chen Zhou was stunned for a moment, then said, "Well, I wish you a smooth conclusion to the question session this afternoon."
Harold Heofgot: "I believe so."
After a brief conversation between the two, Chen Zhou went straight back to where he was sitting.
The scene of his conversation with Harold Heofgot was witnessed by everyone present.
Although there was no tension between the two, many people did not even hear clearly what the two said.
But this does not affect people's imagination at all.
They felt that there must have been a very tense conversation between Chen Zhou and Harold Heofgot.
The climax of this conversation will most likely be the question-and-answer session in the afternoon.
Everyone speculated that during the question-and-answer session in the afternoon, there would be an exciting question-and-answer battle between Chen Zhou and Harold Heofgot.
It all depends on whether Harold Heofgot can keep Chen Zhou.
In fact, Chen Zhou didn’t really think about it that much.
The reason he took the initiative to step forward was just to give Harold Heofgot a small reminder.
Make him understand that there are flaws in his paper.
So as not to be embarrassed during the question-and-answer session in the afternoon.
However, I didn't expect that the person who proved the weak Goldbach conjecture was so confident to the point of arrogance.
To be honest, Chen Zhou actually doesn't like this kind of overconfident people.
It’s okay to be confident, but don’t let it turn into arrogance.
Because, no matter what time, only by remaining calm and humble can you recognize your own problems.
Thereby changing yourself and becoming stronger.
But arrogance will ruin all of this.
Harold Heofgot on the stage obviously did not realize the purpose of Chen Zhou's visit to him. All he was thinking about at the moment was what questions Chen Zhou might ask and how he should answer them.
At 3:00 p.m., the question-and-answer session continued.
After everyone subconsciously glanced towards Chen Zhou, the conference hall resumed the lively question-and-answer atmosphere of the morning.
Colleagues in mathematics continued to ask Harold Heofgot their questions.
However, many people are wondering, what is Chen Zhou waiting for?
Isn’t it said that his own paper is the correct way to explain the Goldbach conjecture?
In that case, why not point out other people's mistakes as soon as possible?
And before the question-and-answer session started this afternoon, weren't there a lot of tension between the two of you?
What are you waiting for?
Even Faltings, Deligne, Terence Tao, and Shing-Chiu seem somewhat strange.
They also began to doubt whether Chen Zhou had really found the flaws in Harold Heofgot's paper?
Anyway, they didn't find any fatal flaws in the paper.
The problems they found can most likely be fixed.
As time went on, Faltings and Deligne also stood up and began to ask questions about what they had discovered.
Harold Heofgot's questions and answers gradually slowed down compared to the quick response at the beginning.
As these big guys threw questions at him, the time he spent thinking gradually became longer and longer.
But fortunately, he was not at a loss for these questions.
But there is a clear solution idea.
As long as this is the case, it means that he can solve the problems they ask.
This means that the paper itself does not have any major fatal flaws.
Chen Zhou has been listening and thinking, and is not in a hurry to ask his own questions.
Anyway, the dinner starts at 8pm and the question-and-answer session will last until 7pm.
He still had some time, and so did Harold Heofgot.
It's just a little disappointing that the questions took so long.
No one noticed the major flaw in the paper.
Even Faltings, Deligne and others found many other problems.
However, this most important flaw, which is enough to subvert the entire paper, has never been mentioned.
After Tao Terence asked another question, Chen Zhou raised his hand to check the time.
That's about it.
After Harold Heofgott finished answering Tao's questions, it was time for him to ask his own questions.
There are nearly 40 minutes left before the end of the question-and-answer session.
After Harold Helfgott answered the questions asked by Terence Tao.
Chen Zhou stood up slowly.
In an instant, everyone's eyes were focused on Chen Zhou.
The moment they had been looking forward to finally happened after waiting for so long.
One of the protagonists of this conference is finally going to take action.
Faltings and Deligne also looked at each other at this time, and both of them saw a hint of expectation in each other's eyes.
Tao Zhexuan immediately came to Zhang Yitang and whispered, "He's here, he's finally here!"
President Sun of Yanda, Wu Xiping, Zhang Zhongyuan and others looked at Chen Zhou with .
At this time, many people even took out their mobile phones silently and turned off their flash lights.
Get ready to record this historic moment.
Chen Zhou naturally did not observe the expressions of the people around him. He kept looking at Harold Heofgot on the stage.
Harold Heofgott was also looking at Chen Zhou.
Harold Heofgot , looked at Chen Zhou with a hint of excitement in his eyes.
It's like saying, you're finally here!
Chen Zhou's expression did not show any excitement, but rather was quite calm.
He slowly said, "I only have one question, which is about the distribution deconstruction method used in the paper..."
Hearing Chen Zhou's voice, everyone was stunned.
Including Harold Heofgot on stage.
Just one question?
There is only one question, but he publicly declared that his proof is "the correct way to open it"?
Just one question is enough to prove that your opponent's paper is wrong?
Could it be that Chen Zhou discovered the most fatal flaw in the paper?
Everyone is thinking about this question in their hearts, what exactly is it like.
After being stunned for a moment, Harold Heofgot frowned slightly. He didn't believe that Chen Zhou could make his thesis collapse with just one question.
Moreover, Chen Zhou is extremely confident that the distributed deconstruction method he mentioned will not have any major flaws.
Even though it was a mathematical tool invented by Chen Zhou.
Without paying attention to the shocked expressions of the people around him, Chen Zhou continued, "In the logical structure of the distribution deconstruction method, the most basic logic is the normal distribution and probability theory, followed by the fusion of the sieve method and the circle method..."
Chen Zhou explained in detail the birth of the distribution deconstruction method and described the mathematical ideas in it as clearly as possible in words.
As Chen Zhou spoke, Harold Heofgot's brows furrowed even more.
He didn't understand what Chen Zhou was trying to do, nor did he realize what the problem was.
However, some people have gradually understood what Chen Zhou wanted to express.
The flaw in the paper gradually became clear.
"…Whether it is the formula (18-21) obtained by the distributed deconstruction method or the original formula (9-16), both violate the logical structure of the distributed deconstruction method itself. The distributed deconstruction method you used has a fatal flaw in its logical structure!"
Although Chen Zhou's voice was not loud, everyone present could hear it clearly.
Although some people were still confused, they already knew the result from the expressions on the faces of the big guys.
Harold Heofgot on the stage had turned pale at this moment.
Chen Zhou glanced at Harold Heofget and said softly, "You can try to repair it first. I can wait for you."
After saying that, Chen Zhou sat down.
Waiting quietly...
