1991 Starting from the core

One hundred years ago, David Hilbert, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, asked the famous 23 questions. These twenty-three questions covered the basics of mathematics, number theory, algebra \u0026 geometry, and mathematical analysis. Famous puzzles in the four major sectors. The eighth-ranked problem can be described as "there are infinitely many prime numbers p, and for each p, the number p+2 is also a prime number."

It is the famous twin prime conjecture.

What Zhang Yitang said was that he found the bounded distance between prime numbers, which is a weakened version of the twin prime conjecture - he proved that there are infinite pairs of prime numbers with a difference of less than 70 million and gave a method.

After simply listening to Zhang Yitang's description on the phone and confirming that Zhang Yitang had received a reply from the Annual Journal of Mathematics, Su Yuanshan knew that history had not been changed.

For the number theory community, there has been no substantial breakthrough in the twin prime conjecture for 150 years. As long as the reviewers of the Annual Mathematics are not blind, they will definitely understand that this proof will definitely cause a sensation.

Before hanging up the phone, Su Yuanshan asked curiously: "Brother, I'm curious, why is it 70 million?"

"Because I'm too lazy to forget it." Zhang Yitang smiled happily on the phone: "As long as we keep calculating, we should be able to find a smaller difference soon."

"Okay, I'll let someone do the math at that time."

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A week later, Amazon attended the Spring Festival Gala as promised and sent a red envelope to the people of the country on behalf of the US emperor. Compared with TB, Amazon was more generous and suffered an unprecedented traffic impact. Even YOS's application server was affected, causing serious problems. Countless engineers stayed awake at night in the computer room.

But compared to more than 80 million downloads in one night, all the hard work was worth it. The stock market quickly responded with positive feedback - Amazon's stock price rose by one-third by the end of the day.

The good news was not over yet. On the first day after the holiday, Zhang Yitang's paper was officially published in the Annual Journal of Mathematics. Just as Su Yuanshan expected, the journal caused a sensation in the number theory community as soon as it came out.

Su Yuanshan also arrived at the Special Administrative Region on the second day of official work.

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"Practice fraud to harm others and yourself."

In the Institute of Biology, Su Yuanshan, Wei Sihe, Tao Xingang, Gao Xiaofang and others were sitting in the reception room, chatting while cracking melon seeds left over from the Spring Festival.

Naturally, everyone's topic immediately turned to Zhang Yitang.

Although everyone here is a group of people engaged in biology and medicine, who knows the famous twin prime number conjecture? Being able to be pushed by domestic scholars to take a big step... his contribution is no less than that of Chen Jingrun who used the screening method to the extreme in Goldbach's conjecture to turn 1+3 into 1+2. Even in a sense, Zhang Yitang gave a method from scratch and made a greater contribution.

Facts have proved that his method is indeed effective. Mathematicians have already reduced this number to millions according to his method, and the number is still getting smaller.

"I heard that Professor Zhang was tricked by his mentor?" Wei Sihe peeled off an tangerine with a smile and glanced at Tao Xingang without leaving any trace.

——Su Yuanshan came here this time, naturally, to make final preparations for the guillotine that had been raised last year. And looking at Su Yuanshan's determination... If Tao Xingang was stunned to go down the road of cardiac stem cells, it might be a little bit to say that he would be ruined... but it would definitely affect his students.

"How did you cheat?" someone asked curiously.

"I have heard about it." Among the people present, Gao Xiaofang is the youngest and has the youngest qualifications. However, he was personally invited back by Su Yuanshan. At this time, he was sitting next to Su Yuanshan, and he could clearly feel the close relationship. Seeing everyone looking at him, Gao Xiaofang smiled: "I heard that Professor Zhang's doctoral thesis quoted a result of his mentor Mo Zongjian, but later the mathematics community found that Mo Zongjian's result was wrong... and then... It is said that Mo Zongjian blamed Professor Zhang for this, and delayed him for several years without telling him, and later did not write a letter of recommendation... Those who engage in mathematics are not as good as us, especially in foreign countries. If a doctor does not get a letter of recommendation from his supervisor, it will be almost impossible to move forward. ...So Professor Zhang was in a difficult situation in the next few years, relying on part-time jobs to make ends meet. Later, he relied on his juniors to find a job as a lecturer at a state university..."

As he spoke, Xiao Gao looked at Su Yuanshan: "Later, Professor Su met Professor Zhang by chance and urged him to return to China. In the end, Professor Zhang chose the Academy of Sciences in Hong Kong and was recommended by Professor Su to work at the University of Hong Kong."

Su Yuanshan burst into laughter: "How do you know so clearly?"

Gao Xiaofang smiled: "The foreign academic circle is only that big in total. Besides, everyone will always pay attention to matters involving you..."

Professor Wei Sihe smiled and said: "It seems that the people Professor Su invited back are all experts."

Wei Sihe's words were originally just a greeting, but as soon as he finished speaking, everyone immediately realized that Gao Xiaofang seemed to have been invited back by Su Yuanshan.

For a moment, everyone's eyes turned to Gao Xiaofang.

Fortunately, Gao Xiaofang didn't realize that he was "invited" back - after all, his father "entrusted the relationship". So he continued to smile and said: "Anyway, Professor Zhang has become famous in the mathematics world this time. I wonder how his mentor will express his position."

"How do you express your stance? If it were me, I wouldn't have the nerve to express my stance." Su Yuanshan snorted, extremely dissatisfied: "Apart from anything else, I don't agree with the fact that a card-carrying student graduated. He originally had a beautiful graduation thesis, but it turned out to be... Because he used the teacher's wrong results - if Zhang Yitang didn't quote his co-author, Mo Zongjian would be able to live in peace for the rest of his life? I don't think so, even if the person is gone, as long as the mistakes and fraud are still there, then there will be The day you are exposed does not mean that you will not report it, because the time has not come yet.”

Su Yuanshan paused as he spoke: "Actually, those who are engaged in pure mathematics are not that big in reality. Those who are engaged in applied physics or biomedicine, if they really want to fabricate results out of thin air, the impact will be really big - for example, I If you say that graphene can now complete the industrialization of carbon-based transistors, and then launch a decent carbon-based chip...then the world's semiconductor industry must not go crazy?"

"Another example is the so-called cardiac stem cells. You have also seen that even when there are doubts, various countries and laboratories are launching. The reason is not because heart disease is the number one killer of human life. If it can be solved , that’s a long-term success.”

"It's a pity, is there any?"

Su Yuanshan snorted softly: "No, liar."

After his words fell, everyone laughed together, but the meaning of their laughter was different.

As everyone knows, Tao Xingang has been working on cardiac stem cells for more than a year, and then it was stopped last year and then turned to other fields.

But Tao Xingang's expression was calm.

Because... his laboratory has already fired the first shot at cardiac stem cells.

In the next month, several domestic laboratories will follow up, question or withdraw the manuscript.

In short, the purpose is to bring down Piero.

"By the way, Professor Su, let me make a suggestion."

Professor Wei Sihe saw that the scene was a little strange, coughed slightly and looked at Su Yuanshan.

"how?"

"I think Professor Zhang Yitang has achieved such influential achievements... but he has missed the Fields Medal that is most suitable for him..."

Before he finished speaking, Su Yuanshan immediately took over.

"Well, that's our plan too."

Su Yuanshan looked at everyone with a smile. These people are all elites in various fields in the country, and they are in their prime.

After joining the Yuanxin Institute of Biology, they no longer have financial problems. Even because of Yuanxin's strong influence, they no longer have the worries of "mundane matters" such as professional titles.

After all, Yuanxin itself has a very high influence.

Then... to achieve higher pursuits, there is only one well-known award.

But in China...it doesn't seem to be the case.

Even before Su Yuanshan won the Nobel Prize, all the awards he won were from foreign countries.

Of course, there are also some in China, for example, there are several in mathematics. But those projects are unsatisfactory in terms of influence and bonus attractiveness - at the very least, they cannot be used internationally.

This... is not possible.

This is incompatible with the country's desire to be independent and innovative in science and technology, as well as its competitiveness.