I Am the President of the University

MIT, in the classroom.

After the class, except for Lu Zhou who looked relaxed, the others were scratching their heads. \b

After all, Professor Stephen is also a Turing Award winner. Although the lectures given by the boss are lively, it is inevitable for them to be strenuous.

Just when Professor Stephen packed his things and was about to leave, he was suddenly stopped by Lu Zhou.

"Professor Stephen."

"Huh? What's wrong, Lu?" Stephen stopped and asked gently.

"Professor, I would like to learn about Goldbach's conjecture from you." Lu Zhou looked serious, not joking at all.

The cause of the matter is still related to the conversation with Professor Edward the night before.

He has basically completed the undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics courses on his own. Just like this question to prove [x^3+y^3+z^3=33], his fighting spirit was rejuvenated.

He believes that challenge is a better way to learn.

Instead of learning step by step, it's better to take a different approach.

As for the Goldbach's conjecture, Riemann's conjecture, Hodge's conjecture, etc. that Professor Edward was talking about at that time, Lu Zhou checked them after he went back and found that they were quite interesting.

In the current mathematics community, among the unsolved problems, the most famous ones are the "Three Major Mathematical Conjectures in the World" and the "Seven Major Mathematical Problems in the World".

The three major mathematical conjectures in the world are Fermat's conjecture, four-color conjecture and Goldbach's conjecture.

Among them, Fermat's conjecture was proved by the British mathematician Andrew Wiles in 1994, and was called Fermat's last theorem; the four-color conjecture was proved by the American mathematicians Appel and Haken in 1976, and was called the four-color theorem. . \b

Only Goldbach's conjecture has not been proven.

The world's seven major mathematical problems, also known as the "Millennium Problem", are: NP-complete problem, Hodge's conjecture, Poincaré's conjecture, Riemann's conjecture (also called Riemann hypothesis), Yang-Mills existence and quality gap , Navier-Stoko equation, BSD conjecture.

Among them, only the Poincaré conjecture was proved by the Russian mathematician Perelman.

Among the seven unsolved problems in mathematics, Lu Zhou is most interested in Goldbach's conjecture and Riemann's conjecture.

He planned to try Goldbach's conjecture first.

"Goldbach's conjecture?" Professor Stephen was slightly stunned, looked at Lu Zhou, and said doubtfully, "Of course I know this, but... Lu, why do you ask this?"

Lu Zhou replied truthfully: "I heard Professor Edward mention this before, and I was a little interested."

"This is a bit interesting. What does it mean?"

A ridiculous idea suddenly came to Professor Stephen's mind.

Isn't Lu Zhou going to prove Goldbach's conjecture?

as expected.

"Professor Stephen, I want to give it a try."

Then, Lu Zhou said sincerely to Professor Stephen: "I know it feels like I am overestimating my abilities, but I still want to try. I want to ask you, if I plan to solve Goldbach's conjecture, what should I do to strengthen it?" What aspects should I study, and do you have any suggestions for me?”

Seeing Lu Zhou admit it personally, Professor Stephen was still shocked. As for the few kids who listened in the classroom with their ears perked up, they were stunned and couldn't close their mouths in shock.

It was Professor Stephen's reaction that surprised Lu Zhou.

"Lu, I don't think you are overestimating your abilities. On the contrary, I support you. You are very talented and very young. Who stipulates that you need a certain age to prove Goldbach's conjecture? I don't think so, so, There’s nothing wrong with that.” Professor Stephen shrugged and said with a smile.

In Lu, he saw his student.

Back then, Chen was so bold in challenging seemingly unachievable goals.

Young people should not be timid, but should have a fighting spirit to move forward.

What's more, mathematics is a field that requires talent.

What is needed is 99% talent + 1% sweat.

Stephen didn't think there was anything wrong with Lu Zhou's idea.

Maybe Lu Zhou can really prove Goldbach's conjecture.

Afterwards, Professor Stephen provided some suggestions to Lu Zhou in great detail, while Lu Zhou listened quietly.

Ten minutes later, Professor Stephen patted Lu Zhou on the shoulder.

"Well, I'll take some time today to sort out the information on Goldbach's conjecture and send it to your mailbox. Come on, Lu."

Lu Zhou looked moved and said gratefully: "Dear Professor Stephen, thank you very much for your help to me, thank you!"

As soon as Professor Stephen left, Zheng Tianyu, Zhang Lei and other friends gathered around.

The eyes of several people were shining, just like the monsters that saw Tang Monk in Journey to the West.

"What a shame, Plath! This is Goldbach's conjecture. Let alone trying to prove it, I don't even dare to think about it!"

"Lu Zhou 666, if this can really be proved, I'm afraid I can get a doctorate directly, right?"

"Doctorate degree? Nanako, are you too low-minded? Isn't this a direct Fields Medal + full professor at the university?!"

"I think it's okay to become an academician."

Compared to the chatter of a group of people, Zheng Tianyu could still remain conscious.

He asked with concern: "Elbow, how is your paper?"

"I posted it before going out this morning." Lu Zhou replied.

"Huh? Published so soon? Doesn't the submission process take several months?" Zheng Tianyu's eyes widened. Did he hear it wrong?

After Lu Zhou explained the website arXiv, Zheng Tianyu and others finally understood it.

"Elbow, what journal do you plan to submit to?"

"Annals of Mathematics, I also submitted articles when I linked to arXiv."

"Oh, this journal is okay, wait a minute!" Zheng Tianyu woke up suddenly, his eyelids twitching.

"Which "Annual Review of Mathematics" is it? It can't be... one of the four great journals, right?"

"Well, Professor Edward from Princeton didn't think it was a big problem, so he voted."

Zheng Tianyu: "..."

Zhang Lei: "..."

Other friends without names: "..."

This...why is the gap between people so big?

We're in the same school, the same age, but they all submitted their articles to the "Annals of Mathematics", one of the four great journals in mathematics. Good guy, will this happen in the future? !

Before, everyone heard that Lu Zhou was going to prove Goldbach's conjecture, which was commendable for his courage, but now they saw... the clown turned out to be me?

Since the Princeton professor said so, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Thinking about it, Lu Zhou published a paper in the four major journals as an undergraduate. It seems that it is not impossible to solve the famous Goldbach's conjecture in a few years?

"Boss, are you still missing some pendants for your thighs? I can warm the bed~"

"Call the boss, you are so awesome! This is one of the four great magazines!"

"It's so sour. I feel that I may not be able to publish it in the "Annual Review of Mathematics" in my lifetime..."

Several young men said with envy, as for jealousy and hatred, they didn't exist at all.

The gap is really too big, I can only admire you.

While everyone was talking, the news that x^3+y^3+z^3=33 was proven suddenly became popular on the Internet in Europe and the United States.

The cause was a tweet by Professor Gowers, a Fields Medal winner and British mathematician, and a similar tweet by Professor Edwards of Princeton University in the United States.

The global mathematics community was instantly shocked!