Great Country Academician

"What kind of giant is not a giant, you kid is just bragging."

Zhang Weiping shook his head with a smile, pointed to the young man beside him and continued: "This is my disciple, Miao Pingbo."

"Ping Bo, this is the student I mentioned earlier, Xu Chuan, despite his young age, he has already proved a world-class mathematical conjecture."

"The one next to him is Academician Chen Zhengping's student, Lin Feng."

Hearing this, the young man who followed Zhang Weiping came forward and said hello to the two of them.

Zhang Weiping didn't put on airs. After introducing his students, he shook his head with a smile and said, "Since we met, how about going for a walk together?"

"Will it bother you?"

"Hey, I'm here to participate in the mathematics exchange meeting. If there is anything to disturb, don't disturb me, as long as you two don't dislike me as an old man." Zhang Weiping waved his hands and said.

"By the way, your boy is going to give a report on stage this time. How are you preparing?"

"In terms of preparation, I have done a lot, but who knows the result? This is Princeton, where top mathematicians from all over the world are gathered."

Xu Chuan spread his hands, no one dared to say that there would be no flaws in Princeton.

Professor Andrew Wiles suffered a severe blow after proving Fermat's Last Theorem.

At that time, Professor Wiles' proof was divided into six parts, which were reviewed by six people respectively. Among them, the third part, which was in charge of Nick Katz, found serious flaws in the structure of the Euler system, which made Kolivagin— The Fletcher method couldn't be applied to it, and Professor Wiles couldn't do anything about it at the time.

But fortunately, he came back from desperation later, and he used Yanze theory combined with the Kolivakin-Fletcher method to repair the defects, proved the Fermat conjecture in one fell swoop, and removed it from the seven millennium problems.

Xu Chuan can't guarantee that his proof is completely correct. Maybe there are some loopholes hidden in it that he hasn't discovered. Although the probability of this is very low, it is still possible.

Zhang Weiping smiled and said: "Mathematics is rigorous. I am very pleased that you have such an idea, but don't worry and go boldly. I have carefully discussed and studied your paper with Academician Zhang Gongqing of P University. It is very good." prove."

After encountering Zhang Weiping from Sun Moon University by chance, Xu Chuan went back to the hotel where he was staying after wandering around Princeton University but failed to find the legendary NPC Professor Felman who dropped randomly.

This International Mathematics Research Exchange Conference was held for five days, and his report on the proof of Weyl_Berry's weak conjecture was in the afternoon of the fourth day, and the time was 30 minutes.

In the past few days, it was basically the super experts in the mathematics world who came to the stage to share their achievements or opinions.

For example, Professor Andrew Wiles who proved the Fermat conjecture, G. Faltins who proved the Model conjecture in number theory by means of algebraic geometry, and Pierre de Ligne and so on.

These are all super experts in the mathematics world, and being able to listen to their lectures is more exciting for ordinary undergraduates than planting five million.

In fact, Xu Chuan, as a first-year undergraduate student, was able to give a 30-minute academic report at such an international mathematics research exchange meeting, which can be said to be directly pulled to the top of undergraduate students.

Such an achievement is a great honor for a doctoral student, let alone an undergraduate student, or even a mathematics professor.

Of course, compared with the International Mathematics Conference held every four years by the International Mathematical Union (IMU), the B rating of this mathematics exchange meeting is still much lower.

If it is the latter, if Xu Chuan can go up and give a 30-minute report, he can directly enter the Hundred Talents Program or participate in the selection of Young Changjiang Scholars after returning to China.

In fact, as of 2014, that is, at the International Mathematical Conference two years ago, there were only the number of people Hua Guo had the honor to give a report on the stage, which can be counted with a slap.

Of course, I will not talk about the Chinese. After all, there are still many mathematicians among the overseas Chinese, but this is not of great significance to Huaguo.

On the first day of the exchange meeting, Xu Chuan followed Lin Feng to listen to the report given by Mr. G. Faltings, and he felt a lot.

This big guy is now recognized by the mathematics community as the top three strongest people, and even vaguely has the title of the first person.

The other two are Professor Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat's conjecture, and Professor Pierre Deligne, who won the Grand Slam in mathematics.

Of course, there are far more than these strong figures in the mathematics world. Except for the three of them, there are all of them with better grades and existing in the world.

For example, Professor Jean-Pierre Serre, who won the Fields Medal in 1954, was the youngest Fields Medal winner so far at the age of 28.

Or solve Professor Gregory Perelman who was once one of the seven millennium problems of the "Poincaré Conjecture".

However, the former of these two big brothers is old and is now ninety years old.

The latter rejected the Fields Medal and the Millennium Award specially set up by the Clay Institute of Mathematics for the seven millennium problems. He is half separated from today's mathematics world, living in seclusion in Russia, and rarely appears in the outside world. Mathematics conference.

In 2006, the bigwig won the Fields Medal "for his contribution to geometry and his revolutionary insights", but he refused to go to accept the award.

Jon Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, persuaded Perelman to accept the award. After two days of trying and 10 hours of persuasion, he finally gave up.

Perelman famously said: "I'm not interested in money or fame, and I don't want to be exhibited like an animal in a zoo."

So let alone the mathematics exchange meeting held by Princeton, even the International Mathematical Conference held by the International Mathematical Union cannot invite this big guy.

He won't even take a look at giving him a Fields Medal and giving him a million dollars.

So now the mathematics world is really hard to predict the strength of this big guy, so they simply give up ranking him for the time being.

But no one can deny the strength of this big guy in mathematics.

Well, in addition, there are many top mathematicians in the new generation.

For example, Terence Tao, who won the Fields Medal in 2006, or Peter Schulz, the youngest W3 full professor in Germania.

However, compared with seniors like Faltings and Wiles, their accumulation is indeed inferior.

The first day of the mathematics exchange meeting began. Different auditoriums in Princeton University gathered mathematicians and talents in different fields. These mathematicians who came to the meeting chose their corresponding fields to participate in different seminars.

As for Xu Chuan, he would listen to whoever was more famous.

For him, those little-known mathematics professors didn't have much way to attract his attention. Rather than wasting time in the past, it would be better to listen to the explanations of the big guys.

After listening to Professor Wiles' report, Xu Chuan walked out of the No. 2 auditorium, ready to go to Carnegie Lake to relax, when he bumped into a somewhat familiar figure head-on.

"Sorry, sorry to bump into you."

A voice came from his ear, and Xu Chuan rubbed his forehead that was a little sore from being bumped and raised his head. He saw a man in his thirties, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and looked Chinese.

"Huh? Are you Professor Terence Tao?"

Xu Chuan asked in surprise, the Chinese-looking man in front of him was none other than Professor Terence Tao, a rising star in the mathematics world.

This big guy won the IMO International Mathematical Olympiad mathematics gold medal when he was 13 years old. He was already a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles when he was 24 years old. He won the Fields Medal when he was 31 years old.

In terms of age, he is now 41 years old, but it may be due to talent or something, he looks like he is in his thirties, and he remains quite young.

"It's my scumbag, are you?"

Tao Zhexuan looked at Xu Chuan with some doubts and asked.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. Hello, Professor Tao, my name is Xu Chuan, and I am from Huaguo." Xu Chuan introduced himself with a smile.

"Xu Chuan?" Tao Zhexuan muttered, as if he had heard this name somewhere.

Frowning and thinking for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said quickly: "Weyl-Berry conjectures that the weakened form is what you proved, right?"

"Compared to Professor Tao's achievements, this is nothing worth mentioning." Xu Chuan responded with a smile.

A weakened form of the Weyl-Berry conjecture proves that there is indeed nothing in front of the super bull in front of him.

As an all-rounder in mathematics, Tao Terence's research has spanned multiple fields of mathematics, from harmonic analysis to nonlinear partial differential equations, to combinatorics, analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, etc.

The degree of exaggeration across fields is greater than his previous life's research on physics.

"No, no, you are too modest. The Weyl-Berry conjecture is a difficult problem that has plagued the mathematics community for more than 30 years. The difficulty is at the top level. I have read your paper and it is a very good proof. A 'small opening' is opened between the branches to connect the non-connected areas, this idea is simply excellent."

Tao Zhexuan said with a smile, stopped and began to chat about mathematics with Xu Chuan.

The two just stopped in the corridor outside the auditorium and exchanged their understanding of mathematics, which also attracted the attention of other participants in the exchange meeting.

After recognizing the famous Tao Zhexuan, many people chose to approach quietly, wanting to hear what the two were talking about, and they were also a little curious about who the young boy who looked very young on the opposite side was able to speak freely with Tao like this Chat Mathematics.

When Xu Chuan woke up, there were already many people around the two of them.

"It seems that it is not suitable to continue to ask you for advice for the time being, Professor Tao, here is my contact information and email address, I hope to consult with you more in the future."

Looking at the crowd around him, Xu Chuan shrugged, took out his portable notebook and pen from his pocket, wrote down his mobile phone number and email address, and handed it to Tao Zhexuan.

"It's fine to ask for advice, it's really interesting to communicate with a math genius like you." Tao Zhexuan took the note with a smile, glanced at the number on it, and put it into his pocket.

The two said goodbye to each other and were about to leave. Suddenly, Tao Zhexuan stopped, turned around and shouted: "Hi, Xu Chuan, do you want to go with me to listen to Professor Schultz's report?"

There is another update tonight, but it may be later.