From small town academic to chief scientist

Zhou Yi's heart seeks blessings from various gods, which is a short-term task related to mathematics.

Otherwise, Zhou Yi might turn around and study some more superficial conjectures.

[Ding, task three is released, accumulate wealth, Xueba. As a math major, how could my savings be so low? Why do all kinds of star actors get high salaries and top intellectuals who are pure math live in poverty?

Requirement: Whether you solve some conjectures and get bonuses, get various scholarships, or engage in mathematical applications, within three months, your wealth will reach 5 million RMB;

Reward: 500 points, unknown math experience (subject to circumstances). 】

Zhou Yi was speechless, what a ridiculous task.

I have been looking forward to such a mission in vain.

This kind of task can be done casually.

If it weren't for the sake of the five hundred points, Zhou Yi would have given up on this task directly.

Five million is an astronomical number for a mathematical monk who does pure numbers, but for Zhou Yi, it is really not a problem now.

After accepting it, Zhou Yi was thinking about what means to use to obtain the greatest value.

After much deliberation, Zhou Yi received a call.

"Hello, Zhou Yi?"

When I heard the voice, it was Qiu Chengtong calling.

Zhou Yi immediately said:

"It's my teacher. I'm Zhou Yi."

"Tomorrow the weather is nice and cloudy, suitable for mountain climbing. Seeing that it is not easy for you to do scientific research, I will take you to climb the Great Wall and relax. Maybe you can adjust your mentality."

Qiu said with a smile on the phone.

Zhou Yi felt warm in his heart and said:

"Good teacher."

I have to say that Qiu is indeed a good teacher, at least to Zhou Yi.

Personally take the apprentice out to climb mountains to relax.

Zhou Yi packed up the things he needed and prepared to continue reading the documents.

The next day, Zhou Yi arrived at the agreed place and set off together, along with Shan Peng.

When you arrive at your destination,

Qiu said as he walked:

"In fact, there is no need to insist on proving the ABC conjecture first. You can also prove several conjectures related to the ABC conjecture, and then further prove the weak ABC conjecture, and finally prove the strong ABC conjecture."

Zhou Yi said while supporting Qiu:

"The teacher is right, but I am too obsessed with proving it completely."

Qiu said again:

"Look at Zhang Yitang. For the twin prime conjecture, didn't he also prove a weak version of the twin prime conjecture?"

Speaking of Zhang Yitang, Qiu looked very excited and said:

"In fact, in my opinion, the work done by Zhang Yitang may be greater than proving Goldbach's conjecture. The proof of Goldbach's conjecture did not have a great impact on the entire trend of mathematics, but Zhang Yitang's work, in my opinion, It has a milestone significance.”

Regarding Qiu's evaluation of Zhang Yitang, Zhou Yi did not comment much.

After Qiu said so much, Zhou Yi also understood his teacher's thoughts and said:

"Then I will start to study the Fermat-Catalan conjecture, Beal conjecture and Pillai conjecture."

Qiu said:

"Yes, you can do this, from weak to strong, analyze it step by step. The main thing is to find some useful tools in this process. These tools can help you solve the ABC conjecture."

Xiao Wanyi on the side was a little confused. She didn't understand. Shan Peng was well-informed and said:

"These conjectures mentioned by Zhou Yi are somewhat closely related to the ABC conjecture. As long as the ABC conjecture is proved, these conjectures will successfully become theorems."

While going up the mountain, while talking about current mathematical forms, Zhou Yi, Shan Peng and Xiao Wanyi also had their horizons greatly expanded.

At least this climb up the mountain is very meaningful.

"Mathematics and physics are just like a sentence in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The general trend of the world will be divided after a long time. Now mathematics and physics have taken two different paths. Although it is unexpected, it is also reasonable."

Seeing the changes in Zhou Yi, Qiu was very excited and talked as he walked.

During the day, Zhou Yi and others also had a great time, and it was already very late when they returned to Shuimu.

But Zhou Yi was very excited and couldn't sleep, because Zhou Yi found out that he only needed to prove Beal's conjecture, and he would get one million magnesium gold.

This conjecture was proposed by Andrew Beal, a famous banker and amateur math enthusiast in China.

The guess form is as follows:

equation:

x^p+y^q=z^r, there is no positive integer solution that satisfies the conditions (x, y, z) = 1, p, q, r\u003e2.

In other words, if the above equation has a positive integer solution, then x, y, and z must have common factors.

This conjecture seems simple at first glance, and most high school students would think it is possible.

Even many college students feel that it is enough to have hands.

In fact, this conjecture has not been solved since it was proposed.

Of course, the civil scientists must feel that the steps they have proved are correct.

The form of this equation is somewhat similar to Fermat's last theorem.

Zhou Yi decided to start from these moderate conjectures.

If you solve this conjecture, you can also get one million magnesium gold, complete new tasks, and gain mathematical experience. It is simply killing two birds with one stone.

Of course, it’s okay if someone gives a counterexample, and you can get one million magnesium gold.

After having determined the goals, Zhou Yi began to prepare the subsequent study plan and the literature to be read.

The first thing Zhou Yi had to do was read Yingguo mathematician Andrew Wiles's paper on the proof of Fermat's last theorem.

This Wiles is a famous mathematical figure.

The International Mathematical Union made an exception and awarded him a special Fields Medal.

Just because he proved Fermat's last conjecture, it became Fermat's last theorem.

At that time, Wiles was already older than the age at which he won the Fields Medal.

As we all know, the Fields Medal is only awarded to young people aged 40 and under, and Wiles was already 43 years old at that time.

In 1993, Wiles announced that he had proved Fermat's Big Conjecture and gave a report to more than 200 people at Cambridge University.

Everyone present was a top expert, which caused quite a stir at first.

But then at the end of the year, irreversible mistakes were discovered.

Wiles did not give up at this time, but in 1994 he completely proved Fermat's last theorem by proving the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture of semi-stable elliptic curves.

It was finally published in the "Annals of Mathematics" in 1996.

Until the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in 1998.

At that time, Wiles was already older than the age to win the Fields Medal, but the International Mathematical Union still awarded him a special Fields Medal.

After downloading the contents of these two hundred pages of papers, Zhou Yi's next work is to thoroughly understand them and find some useful tools from them, or prove Beal's conjecture from some previous preparation tools.

In this process, what Zhou Yi had to do was to find some new tools, mathematical tools that were helpful in solving the ABC conjecture.

For many days, Zhou Yi spent time in the office, canteen and dormitory, very regularly.

PS: Thanks to the book friends for discovering the author’s mistakes in the previous chapter, which have been corrected. I’m really sorry. The author has been ill these days, and has some writing problems, so there is less to read.

In addition, if there are any errors in the article, please remind me. Thank you very much. The temperature in Yuzhou has changed a lot these days. I hope everyone will take care of themselves.

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