Great Country Academician

At night, the stars are shining brightly outside, and the lights in the cubicle are bright.

Xu Chuan was lying in front of the table, sometimes meditating, sometimes writing with the ballpoint pen in his hand.

Although he has not found any breakthrough in the direction he wants to research, the research on the Riemann Hypothesis is also a direction he has always longed for a breakthrough.

Mathematics is the foundation of natural science and the focus of his lifelong study and research.

Those things that were not accomplished in the previous life, such as controllable nuclear fusion technology, physical particle calculation methods, the framework of condensed matter theory, etc., were all accomplished based on mathematical breakthroughs.

Needless to say, the importance of the Riemann Hypothesis. If some breakthroughs can be made in this field, the gains that can be brought to him are unimaginable.

What's more, behind the Riemann Hypothesis, or behind the prime numbers, there may be hidden secrets of space, time and the universe.

This is what he cares about more.

It is true that mathematics is the basis of natural science, but physics is its root.

How could he let go of the opportunity to explore the mysteries of physics and the universe?

Asking in the morning and dying in the evening are all right.

The road to 'truth' is right in front of you, and I believe that no scholar can refuse such a temptation.

At this moment, the office door was gently pushed open.

Carrying two steaming supper, Liu Jiaxin walked in.

"Let's eat something first." Putting the midnight snack in her hand on the table, the senior said softly.

Xu Chuan stopped writing and looked up. The two late-night snacks on the table had been opened. A burst of aroma wafted over, making his nostrils twitch slightly, and his stomach began to growl.

From the time the high-speed train landed to now, it is already 11:30 at night. Even after he had dinner, he was already hungry, but his attention had been on mathematics before, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Now that the senior sister is coming over with supper, he can't bear it anymore.

After simply sorting out the papers on his desk, Xu Chuan took the chopsticks and began to eat happily.

Pulling up the green hair around her ears, Liu Jiaxin also picked up the chopsticks and sat across from her, eating in small bites. She was also hungry.

Xu Chuan brought her some suggestions on the paper on proving the polynomial decomposition problem of positive integer factors. From the evening until now, she has been reading and sorting it out.

After all, is it a top world problem, or is P=NP? Guessing one of the important cores of this millennium problem, before the paper is officially submitted and published, it is what every scholar will do to achieve perfection.

"How are you organizing your thoughts?" Liu Jiaxin asked proactively in the office.

After swallowing the food in his mouth, Xu Chuan said: "There are indeed some gains, but it is not the direction I was thinking before."

"Um?"

Hearing this, Liu Jiaxin glanced at him suspiciously, a little confused.

Collating some inspirations and ideas gained, can something like this go wrong?

Xu Chuan shrugged, stopped his chopsticks and thought for a while before replying: "How should I say this?"

After pondering for a while, he continued: "What I wanted to study before was the Einstein Rosen Bridge, which is the space hole, but the harvest aspect is in the field of Riemann Hypothesis."

"Einstein Rosen Bridge? Space holes? Are they related to the Riemann Hypothesis?" Liu Jiaxin asked, blinking.

Xu Chuan nodded and said: "Rather than saying it has something to do with the Riemann Hypothesis, it might be more to do with prime numbers."

After a pause, he continued: "This can be regarded as something I gained when I went to St. Petersburg to attend the International Mathematics Conference last year. The concepts of Einstein's Rosen Bridge and space holes originally emerged from the study of Schwarzschild's solution."

If someone is willing to exchange things in the academic field, Xu Chuan is naturally happy to do so.

However, seeing the confusion on the face of the senior student opposite him, he finally shook his head gently, briefly explained the possible connection between prime numbers and space-time, and then skipped the topic.

"It's just a pity that there has been little progress in this research. I thought there would be some breakthroughs today, but the result is that we still can't figure out the direction."

"By the way, speaking of the International Congress of Mathematicians, haven't I met Jiaying? Is she still studying with Academician Zhang Weiping?"

It has to be said that when he reaches his height, it is often difficult for him to find people to communicate with in China.

Just like now, the sister who studies mathematics can still chat with him and even bring him some inspiration.

But once things in other fields are involved, it is difficult to understand, let alone the submission flow.

Perhaps this is the reason why top scientists like Newton, Nobel, Cavendish, Descartes, and Leonardo da Vinci remained unmarried throughout their lives?

Many times, it’s not that they don’t want to get married, it’s just that it’s difficult to find a suitable candidate, right?

Nodding, Liu Jiaxin responded: "Well, she is taking the path of pure mathematics, which is different from me. It would be better to follow Academician Zhang."

Liu Jiaying's ability to win gold medals in the IMO competition in the past two years was naturally inseparable from her guidance.

Xu Chuan said with a smile: "Last year, I said that I would accept her as a student after she completes college courses with Academician Zhang. It has been more than a year now, and I don't know what the situation is now."

After a slight pause, he continued: "When I solve the problem at hand, I will call Academician Zhang and ask for someone to come over."

What was said must still be done. Since he had promised to accept this student, he still had to take action.

To be able to win the gold medal in IMO and solve the puzzles he personally created, his talent must be enough.

But to learn this kind of thing, even mathematics, relying solely on talent is not enough. Talent is very important, it can determine your upper limit, but the environment is also important.

Academician Zhang Weiping's mathematical ability is indeed good, but it also depends on who he is compared with.

Domestically, he can be said to be a top mathematician; but internationally, it may be difficult to even be ranked first-class.

After all, Academician Zhang Weiping’s longest report at the International Congress of Mathematicians was only forty-five minutes.

Of course, this does not deny Academician Zhang’s ability.

His ability is not reflected in mathematical reports, but more in areas of mathematical application, such as information security.

There is a specialization in the art. In this case, instead of letting Liu Jiaying continue to study with Academician Zhang, it is better to recruit him as soon as possible.

Although he does not necessarily have much time to guide Liu Jiaying, he is often in a state of letting go of his students.

But I have to say that with a good foundation, you can learn more and see more by following him.

Sometimes, the environment has a greater impact on people than talent. Bringing Liu Jiaying here might help China train another Fields Medalist in the future.

This kind of educational work is what he has always done.

After returning from Chuanhai Network Technology Company, Xu Chuan put down most of his work and affairs and devoted himself wholeheartedly to mathematical research.

For him, concentrating on studying a certain mathematical problem seems to have been a long time ago.

Since Yang-Mills's existence and mass gap problems were solved, he rarely devoted a lot of time to any one problem.

More often than not, he is the person in charge of a certain project and leads the entire team to overcome one or more problems.

However, concentrating on mathematics is not unfamiliar to him. This familiar feeling is like a gene engraved in his DNA.

When he sat at the table and picked up the pen and the white manuscript paper, the mathematical formulas were like streams, winding down from the mountains, like copper bells blown by the wind, playing One beautiful sound after another.

In the study room, Xu Chuan stopped the pen in his hand, looked at the manuscript paper spread on the desk, and the corners of his mouth gently curved in a beautiful arc.

It has been a few days since he came back from Liu Jiaxin. In the past few days, he has hardly left his villa, not even his study.

The effort paid off, although the 'random Hermitian matrix eigenvalues' he wanted to study did not make much progress on the correlation function.

But regarding the Riemann Hypothesis, he found a new path.

Looking at the manuscript paper in front of him, Xu Chuan said to himself:

"If you want to advance the non-trivial zero points of the Riemann Hypothesis to 1/2, what you need to do is to prove that all the zero points are distributed on the zero limit. But this is a difficult route to reach the end. The infinite number of prime numbers is like the universe. A barrier generally separates the two worlds.”

"So, rather than working in the non-trivial zero region, we shrink it back to Jensen's inequality and work through subsigma algebra"

"I believe this will be more interesting than shrinking the critical zone!"

The raised arc at the corner of his mouth never subsided. Xu Chuan stood up, stretched out and moved his muscles before walking to the bathroom.

He has already found the road. Whether he can pass it depends on the next time.

As for now, before he officially charges towards the Riemann Hypothesis, he first takes a bath, takes a nap, and adjusts his energy to the best state.