Rebirth of science and technology academic master

Chapter 68 Reception

"Strong young people will make the country strong, and China has hope!" "Renren Daily" reported this headline.

This time, the report reviewed Qin Yuanqing’s CMO and IMO championships in his senior year of high school, including his achievement of becoming the top scorer in science with full marks in the college entrance examination, and now, for the first time, proving Zhou’s conjecture and the twin prime conjecture, saying that from Qin Yuanqing’s perspective By the time the post-90s generation began to enter the stage of history, strong young people would make the country strong, and China had hope, so they were highly praised.

Qin Yuanqing’s high school alma mater immediately put up a banner at the school gate: celebrating our school alumnus Qin Yuanqing’s proof of the twin prime number conjecture.

The school’s mathematics teachers have to popularize in class what the twin prime number conjecture is, the difficulty of the twin prime number conjecture, and Qin Yuanqing’s status after proving the twin prime number conjecture. In the mouth of the mathematics teacher, Qin Yuanqing is already comparable to Hua Rogeng and Chen Jingrun, who are destined to go down in history. A great mathematician who entered the history of mathematics.

With the efforts of various traditional newspapers, the most intuitive feedback from Xinhua Bookstore to Qin Yuanqing is that the sales of his "Qin's Collection" have skyrocketed. Students and their parents would rather go to Xinhua Bookstore to buy the original version than buy pirated copies at street stalls. Creation A miracle.

You must know that "Qin's Collection" sells for 100 yuan in Xinhua Bookstore, but the pirated version on the street stalls only sells for 50 yuan, and even more unscrupulously, it is priced at 30 yuan. Some students can't stand the temptation of the price and buy it directly. Piracy.

It is also true that Qin Yuanqing's remuneration in November was only more than 8 million yuan, which was nearly half of that in September and October.

Qin Yuanqing stayed in the library all day and ignored the reports outside. He didn't go back to his dormitory until the library closed every day. The reporters couldn't block him even if they tried to block him. After all, no reporter could hold on at that time.

In addition, Qin Yuanqing sometimes reads books under the street lamp and returns to the dormitory at irregular times, so there is no way for reporters to get in.

On December 10, the first issue of the prepared "Shuimu Mathematics Special Issue" was officially published. This issue has only two papers. The first one is the Chinese version of the twin prime number conjecture just published by Qin Yuanqing in "Mathematical Chronicle". The second article is the Chinese version of the last time Qin Yuanqing proved Zhou's conjecture.

Once it was released, it actually attracted orders from mathematics departments in various universities across the country. After all, only a very small number of people can read foreign language mathematics magazines without any barriers.

In the past, when reading foreign language magazines, you had to have an Oxford Dictionary next to you and look up the dictionary while reading. Now that there is a Chinese version, you can read it without any barriers.

In fact, many high school mathematics teachers will subscribe, and even high school schools will subscribe as library books. The first issue actually sold 300,000 copies, which is enough to make mathematics journals in schools such as Yan University jealous to death. You must know that they Every issue of the journal is buy one get one free, half sold and half given away.

Like professional mathematics journals, each journal is not cheap. For example, "Shui Mu Mathematics Journal" is priced at 200 yuan per copy, and 300,000 copies is 60 million yuan. This is not only enough to maintain the operation of the journal, but also to issue papers to authors. Huge royalties.

You know, many professional journals often find it difficult to make a profit because their sales volume is very low and they are half-sold and half-free. In many cases, authors often need to pay their own money to publish papers.

Qin Yuanqing had no idea how much the Shuimu Mathematics Journal had sold. As the Department of Mathematics of Shuimu University announced on December 10 that it had completed the verification of Qin Yuanqing's proof of the twin prime conjecture, Qin Yuanqing also began to prepare for the upcoming mathematics report.

The scale of this mathematics report was even larger than the last one. Shuimu University invited famous mathematicians at home and abroad to participate in order to increase the reputation of Shuimu University and the influence of the Department of Mathematics.

Dean Li had to find Qin Yuanqing once a day, and he was even more nervous than Qin Yuanqing. In fact, Qin Yuanqing felt that there was no need to be nervous at all. After Shuimu University announced the completion of the proof and argument, mathematics departments and mathematics research institutions in universities successively announced proof and argument, among which It’s not just a prestigious school like Princeton University, which ranks first in the world in mathematics department.

Because Qin Yuanqing's paper was clearly written, logically rigorous, and the calculations clear, it was much easier to verify. If some mathematicians think outside the box and ignore many steps, it will be much more difficult to demonstrate. For example, it took the entire mathematical community three years to complete the demonstration of the Poincaré conjecture and recognized the proof of the Poincaré conjecture by the Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman.

On December 19, 2009, in the sleet and snow weather, the temperature in Beijing dropped to more than ten degrees below zero, but Qin Yuanqing, along with Dean Li and Director Lin, welcomed famous mathematicians from all over the world, including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Jiaxing, vice chairman of the Magic City Mathematical Society, and more than a dozen mathematicians. The foreign ones include Chinese mathematicians Qiu Chengtong and Tao Zhexuan, as well as Professor Wang Mudao of the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University, Chair Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Wu Shijue, Professor Liang Naicong of the Department of Mathematics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Li Wenqing from Baodao. . In addition, there are the world's top mathematicians such as Professor Deligne, Professor Faltings, Andrei Okunkov, etc.

You must know that top mathematicians are easy to invite, but top mathematicians are not easy to invite. Even if you pay high remuneration, you may not be able to invite a top mathematician.

The most important thing about being invited to attend the academic seminar this time is the influence of the twin prime conjecture!

With two high-quality papers that continuously proved Zhou's conjecture and twin prime conjecture, Qin Yuanqing became more and more famous in the circle of international mathematicians. Many people already regarded Qin Yuanqing as Qiu Chengtong and Tao Zhexuan. Although Qin Yuanqing is still a young mathematician, he is still young, less than twenty years old. As long as he keeps going like this, the Fields Medal is basically a certainty.

Even if Qin Yuanqing makes the same outstanding mathematical achievements in the next year or so, he might be able to compete for the Fields Medal to be held next year.

Compared with last time, the lineup that came to participate in the report this time was obviously a step up. Five of the world's top mathematicians came, and these five were all Fields Medal winners. In addition, many of the world’s top mathematicians also came.

No wonder Shuimu University specially held a reception to arrange these mathematicians properly. In fact, these people stomped their feet and even Shuimu University was shocked. To put it mildly, they all added to the reputation of Shuimu University.

"Qin, your talent is really amazing. If anyone today can prove Goldbach's conjecture, I'm optimistic about you!" Professor Faltings patted Qin Yuanqing's shoulder and said appreciatively.

Many people were shocked when they heard this. They did not expect that this stubborn old man would give Qin Yuanqing such a high evaluation.

Faltings was born in Germany in 1954. He was awarded a doctorate at the University of Münster in 1978 at the age of 24. He then went to the United States and worked as a researcher at Harvard University for a year. Then he returned to Germany in 1979 and was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Wuppertal. In 1983, he published his proof of Model's conjecture in Germany, which caused a sensation. He was appointed professor at Princeton in 1985 and received the Fields Medal in 1986. Faltings has been one of the world's top mathematicians ever since.

Anyone who knows him will know how rigorous, demanding and stubborn this professor is about his work. There are only a handful of mathematicians who can be recognized by him!

"Professor, you praised me!" Qin Yuanqing was a little flattered and joked. He knew his own abilities. The Poincaré Hypothesis and Riemann Hypothesis were both very difficult. With his current mathematical level, there was still a long way to go.

Even for the top mathematicians in the world today, facing the seven major mathematical problems of the millennium is still nerve-wracking and insurmountable. It’s not because it’s not powerful, but because to solve this kind of century-old problem, more importantly, you need that flash of inspiration. Sometimes, without a flash of inspiration, you won’t be able to figure it out after ten or twenty years of research. And if you have a flash of inspiration, you can get results in a short time.

So there are about a dozen of the top mathematicians in the world today, all of whom stand at the pinnacle of mathematics, but no one can prove these conjectures.

Qin Yuanqing attended this reception and met so many of the world's top mathematicians. He couldn't help but sigh with emotion. China is indeed a big country in mathematics, but it is not a strong country in mathematics. In such a big country, even one of the top mathematicians is... No.

Even Hua Lao and Chen Lao are actually still a little far away from the top mathematicians. As for Qiu Chengtong and Tao Zhexuan, they are Chinese, not overseas Chinese!

They represent that the Chinese nation can also produce top mathematicians!

Are there any monthly tickets and recommended tickets? (Smirk) By the way, please add it to your collection. I have almost 5,000 in it.