Chapter 184: Too impressive

Liu Yang is now studying at Qinghua Academy of Mathematical Sciences. Next month, he will finish his first year of graduate school when summer vacation begins. Although compared with Xu Yuan's achievements, his results are nothing, but among the few people in the dormitory, they can be considered pretty good.

Because the summer vacation was approaching, he still had a group project to complete.

I spent the morning in the graduate dormitory, concentrating on completing my homework.

He was accompanied by his graduate student roommate.

"It's still difficult to fully understand differential geometry. This efficiency is too slow!"

At this moment, Liu Yang suddenly stopped writing, rested his elbows on the table, and massaged his temples with his fingers.

Obviously, he was tortured by the group project.

Before my undergraduate studies, I didn’t realize how difficult higher-level mathematics knowledge would be.

Coupled with the relaxed look Xu Yuan always showed, it seemed as if learning mathematics was just a very simple thing.

So after careful consideration, he decided to take the postgraduate entrance examination.

But it was only after he became a mathematics graduate student and began to learn higher-level mathematical knowledge that he truly felt the difficulty.

At the same time, he also understood more clearly Xu Yuan's terrifying talent.

He has studied differential geometry for a year, but he still gets stuck from time to time when facing group projects, which often take him a lot of time to solve.

However, Xu Yuan was able to easily prove the singularity of differential geometry, which was simply a world of difference.

He even began to feel fortunate for Li Zhenya and Wang Haitao. It might be a good thing that they did not take the postgraduate entrance examination in mathematics.

Of course, no matter how much we complain, we still have to find a way to complete the group project.

He paused for more than ten seconds, took a deep breath, and adjusted his state, then focused his attention on the subject again.

Just as he was about to continue his research, a loud scream suddenly rang out in the dormitory.

It gave him a complete fright.

As for the instigator, it was naturally his graduate student roommate.

The next second he turned around and shouted.

"Dongzi!"

"What are you yelling about?"

As my roommate came into view, I saw a tall and thin figure standing up from a chair.

Looked very surprised.

After hearing Liu Yang's shout, he quickly reacted, turned around and shouted excitedly:

"Liu Yang, look at our group. Someone said that Professor Xu Yuanxu solved the Goldbach conjecture. Now everyone is discussing this matter. The whole network has exploded in popularity."

After saying that, without any further delay, he quickly sat back in front of the computer screen and went into the website to check it out.

After hearing his roommate's words, Liu Yang was stunned at first, then he was also surprised and confirmed the news.

As for the unfinished group projects, they were simply forgotten about.

When Xu Yuan went to attend the defense for the Young Elite Scholars Program in May last year, they all specially sent their blessings.

Later, it was naturally clear that Xu Yuan wanted to study the Goldbach conjecture.

But since graduation season was approaching, Li Zhenya and Wang Haitao both returned to their hometowns. Only if he was admitted to graduate school could he continue to stay in Qinghua University with Xu Yuan.

However, due to the gap in their current status, and the increased pressure of his graduate studies.

She was also afraid of delaying Xu Yuan's work, so the number of times they met could be counted on one hand only.

I didn't expect that before the end of this semester, Xu Yuan had already solved the Goldbach conjecture. As good brothers who have been together for four years, even if the frequency of our meetings decreases, the affection in our hearts will not change. In this case, I must send my congratulations as soon as possible.

Next, according to Dongzi's words, he clicked into the more active department group to check the messages.

The page just popped up.

Sure enough, I saw that everyone was discussing Xu Yuan's proof of the Goldbach conjecture.

One can clearly feel the admiration for Xu Yuan between the words.

"Professor Xu is amazing. He proved the Goldbach conjecture so quickly."

"This should be the pinnacle moment for our mathematics community."

"It has only been a year since Professor Xu selected the Goldbach conjecture as a Young Elite Scientist Project. I'm afraid no one would dare to imagine this kind of efficiency."

"I have solved the ultimate problem in number theory. This is the highest level of mathematics."

"With so many university official accounts and media reporting on it, it's really impressive."

"I really want to apply to be Professor Xu's graduate student, but the most regrettable thing is that there is not even a single open class for him."

Liu Yang glanced at the recent information and then opened the websites he usually used.

I immediately saw many familiar official accounts reporting on this. This kind of presentation is indeed something that other mathematicians in the country do not have.

But after scrolling down and reading the comments, he couldn't help but frown slightly.

Because some people questioned why Xu Yuan published his paper in a domestic journal called Journal of Mathematics.

Is it because the paper did not solve the Goldbach conjecture?

I was afraid that if I continued to send it to the Annals of Mathematics, it would be rejected. Although more people responded below, as a good brother, I couldn't stand my friend being questioned.

"These people are talking nonsense. Since Brother Yuan said he proved the Goldbach conjecture, he must have completely solved the problem."

"Who stipulated that papers can only be published in overseas journals? I think you don't understand mathematics at all."

Liu Yang responded with a few words to himself, then put his hands on the keyboard and quickly typed a reply.

He had been with Xu Yuan for several years and naturally knew the pride in mathematics that Xu Yuan possessed.

If the Goldbach conjecture had not been truly solved, it would never have been announced to the public.

Just as he was hesitating whether to transform into a keyboard player and start a war on the Internet, he suddenly felt some weight on his shoulder.

I lowered my eyes and saw my roommate coming towards me without me noticing.

He put his hand on his shoulder and said excitedly: "I was wondering why so many professors came to the school some time ago. Now I think they must have known that the Goldbach conjecture has been solved." He recalled the scene in his mind and told Liu Yang his judgment.

Liu Yang naturally knew about what his roommate had said. At that time, he heard several buses driving into the college.

And they are all well-known mathematics professors in the country, so I guessed that it was most likely related to Xu Yuan.

After all, he had familiar experiences with this kind of thing. When Xu Yuan first entered college, he made this happen on his own.

However, he was worried about disturbing Xu Yuan's work, so he did not ask Xu Yuan about this matter specifically.

The news reports that the Goldbach conjecture has been solved should be related to this incident.

"The Goldbach conjecture is the ultimate problem in number theory after all. Now that it has been solved by our mathematical genius, it is normal for it to attract the attention of domestic mathematicians."

"I'm afraid this news will cause a huge shock in the international mathematics community."

"From this perspective, Professor Xu will definitely win the Fields Medal at the next International Congress of Mathematicians." His roommate Dongzi nodded at Liu Yang's words and couldn't help but sighed, "It's a pity that Professor Xu doesn't have graduate students, otherwise you would definitely be selected."

"We don't have a chance anyway. Professor Xu will probably take on master's and doctoral students in the future."

Liu Yang said to his roommate with a smile, then turned his attention back to the screen, found Xu Yuan's chat window and sent his congratulations.

……

Mathematics students like Liu Yang who are inspired by news reports can be said to be happening in major universities across the country.

And the news on the Internet about Chinese people solving the ultimate problem in number theory continues to ferment and spread.

The Goldbach conjecture, as the ultimate problem in number theory, has now been announced to have been solved, which affects the entire mathematical community.

Therefore, the relevant news quickly spread overseas.

News media such as The Times and Reuters chose to report the incident as soon as possible after learning about it.

There is no doubt that this news immediately caused an uproar in the mathematics community.

For overseas mathematicians, they never expected that the Goldbach conjecture would be solved so quickly.

However, compared with the cheers and celebrations at home, there are many questioning voices overseas.

The most common point is the questioning of Xu Yuan's publication of this paper in an unknown mathematics journal.

I did not choose the Mathematical Yearbook as I did before.

All we can say is that they do not trust the professionalism of the editorial board of Acta Mathematica Sinica.

Even many well-known overseas mathematics professors have publicly expressed their doubts about the proof of the Goldbach conjecture.

In the past two years, Thornston has been much quieter in the mathematics community.

As a well-known professor in the Department of Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University, he was not only well-known in the school, but also active in the mathematics community and paid attention to the latest research results in mathematics.

But since he publicly questioned the mathematical genius Xu Yuan last time, he proved Qiu Chengtong's conjecture on the spot at the Princeton academic conference.

This caused him to fall into introversion afterwards.

The main reason was that when he first heard the news, his first reaction was complete disbelief.

So before his own verification results came out, he publicly posted on the Internet questioning the authenticity of the on-site certification.

After all, in his opinion, how could the Qiu Chengtong conjecture, as the last unsolved problem of the Calabi conjecture, be solved by such a young man?

What’s more, it was directly demonstrated at the conference.

Unfortunately, this turned out to be his most wrong decision.

What happened next was also very simple. Before his doubts continued to ferment on the Internet for too long, Deligne of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and the editor-in-chief of the Annals of Mathematics all publicly confirmed them.

This shows that Xu Yuan did prove Qiu Chengtong's conjecture on the spot.

Even his good friend who was at the proof gave Qiu Chengtong the answer that the conjecture had been solved.

The natural result was that he became notorious in the mathematics community and was accused of having limited mathematical skills and being unable to verify whether Qiu Chengtong's conjecture had been successfully proved.

What's more, the subject involved in Qiu Chengtong's conjecture is the area he is best at.

Especially when I saw Xu Yuan won the Gauss Prize, I felt that I was slapped in the face again.

He even reduced his participation in mathematics community exchanges, to the point that he no longer dared to show up online.

But today, after seeing Xu Yuan solve the Goldbach conjecture again, he suddenly felt that his chance to wash away the shame had come. Although he was not very good at number theory, he knew the difficulty of the Goldbach conjecture as the ultimate problem in number theory.

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(End of this chapter)