Great Country Academician

(Additional update 6/10 for the leader of the alliance, Mr. Xingyan, there are still 4 updates left, it’s coming soon (ω))

At noon, Xu Chuan, who was resting on the bed, opened his eyes naturally.

Although he had stayed up late for several days in a row, he couldn't sleep at this time.

The mental excitement naturally leads to physical reactions.

This is just like a normal person rushing to take a business trip at 8 a.m. Even if you didn't go to bed until early in the morning the night before, you will naturally wake up before 6 a.m. in the morning.

After going to the bathroom and taking a cold shower and washing up to get rid of the morning odor, Xu Chuan wiped his hair with a towel in one hand, opened the refrigerator with the other, and took out a bag of yogurt from the freezer.

After biting a small hole smoothly, he walked towards the study.

Picking up the manuscript that he had just sorted out in the early morning, Xu Chuan sat down on the engineering chair and read through it carefully.

After carefully browsing it again to confirm that there were no problems, he pulled up his chair, turned on the computer and the scanning device next to it, and scanned the manuscript paper in his hand into the document.

Different from ordinary scanners, this is a specially customized scanning device that can identify various academic documents, mathematical symbols, ancient Greek symbols, etc.

However, no matter how useful the scanning software and hardware is, there will always be errors in things written purely by hand.

Therefore, after scanning the document, Xu Chuan had to check it carefully twice to prevent incorrect recognition of mathematical letters and symbols during the scanning process.

“It would be nice to have an artificial intelligence assistant.”

While sorting out the papers in his hands, an idea suddenly came to Xu Chuan's mind: "Perhaps we can ask the senior sister to try it and see if she can write a dedicated intelligent assistant."

If you have an artificial intelligence assistant for this kind of daily document sorting work, you can save a lot of time and energy.

Although the task of recording papers onto the computer can be left to his students, for him who is used to doing it himself, it is still relatively rare for his students to do this kind of thing.

As for the AI ​​assistant, it doesn’t matter.

After spending two or three hours, Xu Chuan carefully entered the paper in his hand into the computer and saved it.

After confirming that there were no major problems with the format, he opened his email, found the editorial office of the "Annals of Mathematics", and sent the paper.

Although he has not completely solved the weak Riemann Hypothesis, the current paper is undoubtedly top-notch no matter which journal it is published in.

Its value is no less valuable than a proof paper of a world-class conjecture.

After all, in this tool, he solved many long-standing problems.

After submitting the paper to the "Annals of Mathematics", he remembered something again, opened the address book, found the mailboxes of his mentors Deligne and Terence Tao, and forwarded the emails.

After confirming that there was no one else who needed to be arrested, he habitually clicked on the arxiv preprint website and uploaded the manuscript to the mathematics module.

Things like the arxiv preprint website have advantages and disadvantages for academia.

Its biggest advantage is to promote academic exchanges, improve the quality of papers, publish review comments, review processes, revision processes, etc., increase academic transparency, and allow scientific researchers to learn from each other.

Judging from today's development trends, this is actually constantly confirmed.

At least preprints have been widely recognized in foreign academic circles. Although the quality of internationally renowned preprint articles such as arXiv, which he often contributes to, is uneven, some of the articles are mostly published in high-quality OA journals, and even many of them are published in high-quality OA journals. Included by SCI.

This provides a new channel for the development of academia and reduces a certain financial burden for those in relatively "poor" status.

After all, purchasing journals is actually a considerable burden for many regions or countries.

According to the influence and popularity of the journal, the price of the journal is also different, ranging from dozens to hundreds of dollars, and even thousands of dollars per issue.

If you really want to calculate it, the annual journal subscription cost of a university is at least several million, or even more.

Not to mention other things, the notorious ‘Certain Network’ in China has become a serious burden on major universities and related scientific research units.

Many universities have announced in recent years that they have stopped purchasing CNKI. Otherwise, the rising prices every year are really disgusting.

But relatively speaking, the existence of journals is necessary.

Whether in terms of academic authority, academic influence, research orientation and academic recognition, preprint websites like arxiv cannot be compared with regular journals.

Relatively speaking, professional academic journals are like beacons in the academic world. They not only illuminate the direction of those who are moving forward, but are also responsible for guiding all ships (referring to professional review and verification of papers).

These are incomparable to preprint websites like arxiv.

Xu Chuan doesn’t know what impact he will have on the future academic world by posting various professional papers on arxiv for such a long time, but at least for now, he feels that knowledge in basic subject areas should be open to all mankind. .

Meanwhile, on the other side, Princeton University.

Although he is still teaching students, Pierre Deligne, who has not taught undergraduates for several years, is holding a textbook and preparing to give an open class in the lecture theater of the Department of Mathematics.

Next to him, walking beside him, Fefferman, the dean of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, asked with a smile.

"Speaking of which, haven't you paid little attention to such open courses and undergraduates for a long time? Why have you become interested again recently?"

Deligne glanced at him and said calmly: "Isn't it what every scholar does to spread the knowledge in his mind?"

Hearing this, Fefferman smiled and joked: "Are you planning to work until you grow old?"

For Pierre Deligne, if he wants to pass on all the knowledge in his mind to the younger generation, it will probably be an extremely long process.

After all, in the world of mathematics, with his prestige and scholarship, he can definitely be ranked in the top five, not just in the top three.

The only two Grand Slam players in mathematics, a student of Mr. Pope Grothendieck, and he is close to eighty years old this year, no one knows how much civilizational wisdom has gathered in his mind.

After teasing his old friend with a smile, Fefferman then asked: "I heard that your student seems to be studying the Riemann Hypothesis recently. It has been almost a while. Is there any new progress? "

Deligne shook his head and said, "I haven't received any information from him yet."

Fefferman shrugged, with a hint of disappointment on his face, and said, "Okay, if something happens, please remember to tell me."

After a pause, he continued: "By the way, I remember that you and Witten seemed to be collaborating on the problem of strong electric unification before? Speaking of which, why did you suddenly switch to physics research?"

When this topic was mentioned, a glimmer of light flashed in Deligne's calm eyes. He smiled rarely and said: "The unified theory of strong electricity is also based on mathematics. What I study is still mathematics. .”

Fefferman asked casually: "Okay, so has there been any progress?"

Deligne: "On this question, you have to ask Witten for the specific progress."

Before he could finish speaking, the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated twice.

Frowning slightly, Deligne took out his mobile phone from his pocket. His mobile phone was specially set up so that it would basically remain silent for any non-special messages or situations.

If there is a reminder such as vibration, it is basically related to those friends that he pays special attention to.

His finger slid lightly on the screen, and the source of the vibrating message came into his eyes, and his brown-green eyes suddenly focused.

An email from his student!

Could it be said that Riemann Hypothesis has already...

Thoughts flashed through his mind, Deligne quickly clicked on the email message on the screen with one hand and entered the mailbox app.

On the side, Fefferman, who was still waiting for an answer, saw him suddenly stop, glanced at him curiously, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Deligne did not answer. After a long silence, he suddenly called his assistant on his mobile phone.

"Alice, I have an open class on algebraic geometry here. Please come over and help me."

"Yes, I have some things that need to be dealt with temporarily here. Just come over now, in Lecture Hall No. 3, classes will start soon."

If the class is not about to start, he is more likely to choose to cancel the class or adjust his time, rather than find his assistant to teach instead of him like now.

Although it is common for him to have his assistants or his students give lectures for him in universities, and he often did this before, at least now he prefers to go himself.

After giving a few brief instructions, Deligne stuffed his cell phone into his pocket, turned around and prepared to leave.

Suddenly, he remembered that there was Fefferman beside him, stopped, looked at him and said quickly: "As for the question you asked before, about the Riemann Hypothesis, there may already be an answer."

Before he finished speaking, the others had already taken several steps away, leaving a confused Fefferman standing there.

He stared blankly at Deligne's back, unable to react for a moment.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck his heart, causing him to swallow a dry breath of air.

"Riemann Hypothesis, is there an answer?"

"arxiv!"

Thoughts were running through his mind quickly, and he walked away quickly towards his office.

arxiv! If it is related to that person, there should be related papers on arxiv now!

PS: The second update today, there will be another chapter tonight, the third update, Yawei has been so diligent, it’s time for me to give him the monthly ticket (ω)