Rebirth of science and technology academic master

Chapter 263: The excitement in the world of mathematical physics

MathOverflow, an internationally renowned mathematics forum, has been very lively from yesterday to now.

Yesterday, everyone was basically skeptical and negative. Only a few extremely stupid fans of Qin Yuanqing supported it.

But after the paper came out today, the situation began to reverse.

"Oh my god, my head hurts! I actually said that I didn't understand the first paper. I had to dig out Qin's other papers, and then I would go over the differential geometry... Sure enough, such a big boss submitted a paper. , even if there is something wrong, it is not something that ordinary people can find out. What will be the final result? I can only look forward to the report beginning!"

"This time, "Chronicles of Mathematics" took a big risk. If there were logical problems in the first paper, "Chronicles of Mathematics" would be doomed! Unfortunately, I was confused about the first paper. As a Those who study number theory said that they are not familiar with differential geometry, so I want to study differential geometry... Unfortunately, most of my hair is already bald, and I will probably be completely bald this time! I hope I will be stronger even if I am bald! ( Cry! Come on!)"

"Ahhhhh~~~I'm going crazy. The number theory boss is so powerful in differential geometry that I can't even understand~~~and he's not letting anyone live!!!!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu has never studied the Yang Mills equation. Hundreds of millions of my brain cells will die!!"

"Although he said he didn't understand it, my intuition told me that Qin really solved the Yang-Mills equation!"

Because many new generation mathematicians, including Tao Zhexuan and Schultz, have registered their own accounts on this website, the popularity of topics on MathOverflow can basically reflect the impact of an incident in the mathematics community. What a sensation the response was.

"I think there is no problem with the two papers on the existence proof and general solution of Yang Mills' solution. Now I am working on the third paper! But here, I think the Fields Medal Award Committee can prepare it for Qin Second Fields Medal!" Tao Zhexuan also participated.

As a mathematician, Tao Zhexuan is not comparable to ordinary mathematicians. His words immediately aroused greater discussion.

Affected by this, many people were more inclined to believe that Qin Yuanqing's two papers on the existence proof and general solution of Yang Mills' solution were correct, and then began to discuss whether Qin Yuanqing could win his second Fields Medal. He became the only recipient of the Fields Medal since its inception.

Hot discussions don’t just happen in professional academic forums.

Even though most people don't even know how to write the Yang-Mills equation, they are not unfamiliar with the Millennium Problem.

Almost as soon as the paper came out, a reporter with great skills got to the cover of the paper first, and then the relevant news appeared on the front push pages of various news networks, and attracted countless people to watch.

Compared with the rational discussions on MathOverflo, the reactions of netizens on Twitter and Facebook were more emotional.

"It's not over yet. He produced five papers at once. It's unreliable no matter how you look at it. This shouldn't be the attitude that academics should have."

"Chinese people are so incredible. I remember he just proved Goldbach's conjecture last year, and he has made such a big achievement this year. It's really admirable."

"Today is April Fool's Day, you can't fool me!"

"These scholars are really outrageous and are so far away from our lives. Does this have anything to do with us?"

"This is a big net created by Bill Gates and others to keep us away from God. Just kidding, if we stay away from God, we will go to meet Satan after death!"

"Liar, they are all liar, they can't deceive me!"

"Our scholars are really unsatisfactory. They can't even solve such an easy problem."

"You bastards, entertain yourself until you die! I, the Great China, are the king of all nations!"

Various voices are flooding Twitter and Facebook. People in China think that the United States is the land of science, where everyone respects science and believes in science. But in fact this is not the case, and most of them are just silly.

The physics forum is also very lively.

"Damn, five papers, I have average mathematical ability, I can't even understand them! When will those guys who brag about being great mathematicians give a definite answer? Whether it is true from a mathematical point of view! "

"These mathematicians are really good at troubles. Experiments have already confirmed it, but they just refused to admit it, and this happened."

"This is revenge from the mathematics community. They are retaliating against our Professor Witten for taking away a Fields Medal from them! Now their people in the mathematics community are also going to take away a Nobel Prize in Physics!"

"How can I say this? Once it is proven correct, it will be a monument for both mathematics and physics! I heard that Qin's status in the mathematics community has begun to be called the Pope. The old Pope has already transferred his authority to The staff has been passed down to him!"

"Everyone just wait, the verification results of those mathematical research structures should be announced soon! But I read it, and the paper on the unified theory of strong electricity is really wonderful. It's hard to imagine that it was written by a mathematician. I I swear, based on this paper on the unified theory of strong electricity, he is a great physicist!"

"No, no, no~~~ Do you know that 10 years ago there was a Russian mathematician named Grigory Perelman. He wrote three papers to prove one of the Millennium Problems of Poincaré. Guess, it turned out that it took those guys in the mathematics community three full years to confirm it!"

"Three years, my God, the math guys are so inefficient. In three years, we can discover particles that have never been discovered!"

"In fact, these guys don't know themselves, they still think how great they are, and they look down on us theoretical physics!"

Mathematicians have always been aloof and looked down upon other subjects, thinking that they were nothing without mathematics. Theoretical physics looks down on subjects other than mathematics, and maintains a superior attitude. After all, during the golden age of physics in the 20th century, the construction of the physics building was basically completed, and the physics achievements were so brilliant.

Because the impact of this incident is so significant, even Nature, which rarely pays attention to research progress in the field of mathematics, excerpted the abstract of the paper and introduced it in a new issue of the publication.

At the same time, a reporter from Science magazine contacted Professor Witten of Princeton University and interviewed him. Professor Witten gave a very high evaluation of the paper.

"Qin's mathematical talent is very amazing. His use of mathematical tools is very clever, which is very admirable. He can compete with the great scientists in history in the field of mathematics. This time, in the first paper alone, he Three completely different directions, partial differential equations, differential geometry, and topology, are integrated together, and a new mathematical method is derived on this basis."

"In fact, I spent 3 days studying the first paper and found no mistakes! Personally, he did prove the existence of solutions to the Yang-Mills equation, and he holds the same view as me at Princeton There are still many people! Now I am working on the second paper, which is also amazing, but I have to be a little more cautious!”

Professor Witten gave it a very high evaluation and was full of praise.

"As the world's top physicist and mathematician, do you think Qin has succeeded?" the reporter asked.

"I have a strong hunch that he may have succeeded!" Professor Witten said.

The reporter said: "But now someone is saying that the new mathematical tools he used to prove the existence of the solution to the Yang-Mills equation are not necessarily correct, and they may not be meaningful!"

The value of a mathematical proposition is not reflected in the proposition itself, but in the mathematical methods that can be created when solving the proposition.

If this paper only uses mathematical language to tell people that a general solution to the Yang-Mills equation exists, but cannot pave the way for finding this general solution, then even if it is also considered an outstanding achievement, it will still be difficult to achieve. Outstanding level.

Witten smiled lightly and said: "The person who said this obviously has a very average professional level, and does not even have any professional level scientific research!"

"The value of a mathematical conjecture does not necessarily have to be the creation of a brand new mathematical tool. It can also be the improvement of existing mathematical tools, or even just an abstract mathematical idea." Witten said: "Qin is proving The existence of solutions to the Yang-Mills equation has created a brand-new mathematical tool. You cannot deny it just because you don’t understand it! At least I was pleasantly surprised. I have some opinions about this new mathematical tool that I would like to share with Qin. Communicate, it might shine in string theory!”

"Professor Tao Zhexuan said on Twitter that he believes that the first paper and the second paper are correct. What do you think about this?" the reporter asked.

The corners of Professor Witten's mouth twitched, and his face looked a little ugly!

I have read my first paper several times and kept reviewing it to make sure there are no problems. I have just read this second paper once, and it turns out that Tao Zhexuan has already verified the second paper.

Young people don’t respect martial ethics!

Professor Witten, who felt unhappy, just dealt with it casually and ended the interview.

what happened? Did I say something wrong?

The reporter was a little confused. After thinking about it carefully, he found that he was not wrong. Could this be geriatric syndrome? ?

At this time, Qin Yuanqing had returned to normal working hours. His mathematics students were struggling with their papers one by one. They were reading the papers, searching for corresponding papers, and studying partial differential equations, differential geometry, and topology. , learn from each other to speed up understanding.

Everyone who looks at Qin Yuanqing's eyes is like looking at a god. They will feel that Qin Yuanqing is the incarnation of god walking in the world, full of the light of wisdom.

Sometimes they saw Qin Yuanqing, as if Qin Yuanqing's head was emitting golden light, and the golden light seemed to be the light of wisdom.

Since the paper was published, the number of students and scholars coming to Shuimu has suddenly increased a lot. Many people are standing outside the institute, just wanting to see Qin Yuanqing's true face. People around him are being asked about it, and they want to know about Qin Yuanqing from their mouths. Many reporters even interviewed Qin Yuanqing's former university teachers and professors from the School of Science, including researchers and students from the two institutes and even Qin Yuanqing's students.