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From a confidentiality perspective, the less information you leave online, the easier it is to hide your identity.

In this regard, March is undoubtedly extremely successful. Ning Wei has not left any information on other social platforms except for applying for an email address and a WeChat account for March. Especially on WeChat, only Ning Wei and Jiang Chenshuang were added. Therefore, it is almost impossible to find the mysterious Professor March on social software.

After sorting out the relationship between the two, the next step is how to explain the absence of this person in Jiang Dacha. There must be a reasonable explanation, of course not for Jiang University, but for the editors of the journals opposite.

Because just now, at one o'clock in the morning, March received an inquiry letter from the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society" in March's mailbox. In fact, he forwarded the inquiry letter from Jiangsu University, and then asked March if he had mistaken the research unit. Already...

This was something Ningwei hadn't thought of before. If he couldn't find anyone, why would he go and ask?

You have to reply to the email. Otherwise, with the intelligence of those editors, they would definitely be confused. How could they not find this person?

Ning Wei hadn't thought about how to reply to this email, but March had already made up a sentence on his own.

"Dear Editor-in-Chief Connerson: Hello, the letter has been received. The unit did not write it wrong, but reputation is not the most important thing to me now. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, it is also to be able to travel across the ocean as soon as possible. I’m drinking coffee with you. I chose to use a pseudonym. Please forgive me! Jiang Da: March!”

Ning Wei read this sentence, and then felt that March had indeed grown into a genius. The reason for using the topic was very good, and it also gave everyone on the opposite side ample room for imagination, so he helped March press the send button.

Things were indeed as Ning Wei imagined. After seeing March's reply, the editorial office quickly responded to Jiang Da with an official letter.

"After verification, the unit of the paper was not wrong, but because the author of the paper hopes to concentrate on research and does not want his identity to be exposed, in order to respect the author's personal thoughts, it is inconvenient for me to disclose the true identity of the author of the paper."

Principal Yan, who was still awake in the middle of the night, immediately learned of the reply letter from his secretary, and was stunned again.

The unit made no mistake, that is, it was indeed a professor from Jiang University who published this paper, but the reason behind it made him unable to do it. People publish papers not for fame or profit, but just want to concentrate on research, so there is a person in the school who is like A professor who is like a sweeping monk, who publishes papers under a pseudonym just because the school can’t find him?

This kind of unique boss actually appeared in his school, and Principal Yan didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

I couldn't sleep at all now, so I simply sent this reply directly to the deans of the major colleges in the school. Of course, the focus was on the Department of Mathematics. Then I called Kong Mingde, who wanted to come to the dean of the Department of Mathematics at this time. He probably hasn't slept yet, and he wouldn't be able to sleep either today.

It turns out that Principal Yan was right because he picked up the call as soon as it was dialed.

"There is a reply from the magazine. I forwarded it to you just now. Have you read it?"

"I just received it and haven't opened it yet. Let me take a look... Well, I am indeed from our Jiang University? But I don't want my identity to be exposed?"

"Yes. But it seems understandable. You guys have weird personalities in mathematics. Didn't the Russian mathematician Perelman who proved the Poincaré conjecture also be unwilling to accept the award even after he won the award? Maybe there is no way to accept it. This professor really feels that this achievement is not worth mentioning..." Principal Yan said, feeling that he was speechless.

"Then... we won't investigate anymore?" Kong Mingde asked hesitantly.

"It's not a bad thing. The professors don't want to stand up and claim the honor. It's not good for us to investigate hard. We should respect the professors' ideas. In this way, we can have a meeting after the vacation and you can also talk about it. This matter can be commended anonymously. . If no one comes forward, forget it. If someone feels unhappy with such a high-profile search, and jumps away directly, the gain will outweigh the loss." Principal Yan thought for a while and said.

"Well, that can only be like this. At least it proves that the paper published by the professor of our school is indeed quite good. It brings glory to the school. Hey, wait a minute, Lao Kong, I remember you have studied it before When it comes to artificial intelligence, you're not shouting about catching thieves, right?" Principal Yan suddenly said suspiciously.

The person on the other side of the phone was obviously stunned, and then smiled bitterly: "Me? Lao Yan, you think highly of my sentiment. Even if I don't think about myself at this age, I can still promote my students, right? What you said, If I hadn’t known that March was in school, I would have wanted to pretend to receive this honor.”

Principal Yan laughed and said, "Haha, I was just kidding. Okay, let's deal with this matter coldly first."

"Are we not going to publicize it anymore?" Kong Mingde asked tentatively.

"What is this propaganda for? Doesn't the outside world say that our Jiangnan University is the most low-key school in China? Then keep a low profile to the end. No publicity, no response, that's it!" Principal Yan finally decided.

"No publicity at all?"

"Well! That's it. This professor doesn't even want his personal reputation, so why should we bother? I've decided!"

"Oh well!"

After deciding on the non-publicity strategy, the senior management actually breathed a sigh of relief. As for everyone's various speculations, they were unable to control it. As Principal Yan said, this is a good thing after all.

However, when everyone fell asleep, many units in the United States thousands of miles away began to operate in the opposite direction.

For example, many professors from well-known universities have mentioned this March paper in class. If this is just a fermentation in the academic circle, then the bosses of technology companies have chosen to mention this March paper on various occasions. , successfully made this paper in March popular.

In particular, at the Cloud Next conference held by Google on October 5, the speech delivered by the chief scientist of the Google X laboratory became the most powerful boost for this paper in March.

"...As everyone knows, Google has been committed to the research of artificial intelligence platform. Our artificial intelligence platform has always been committed to providing services to everyone. We provide everyone with a wide range of artificial intelligence tools, from development to advanced data scientists to Tools and services, to services that automatically learn models.”

"Now we have noticed a paper published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society by Chinese mathematician Professor March. This paper provides theoretical guidance for us to build a new machine consciousness from mathematical theory. Our Scientists see the possibility of future artificial intelligence from this paper. Laboratory verification has even begun."

“We believe that the theoretical foundation established in this paper will allow us to build a new artificial intelligence platform that will potentially provide more advanced developers with an end-to-end solution, allowing them to start from receiving data to training and testing. their models, to putting them into production. You can even use it to pre-build models!”

“God, I dare say that this paper is the most amazing idea in mathematics in ten years, but what makes us even more excited is that this paper gives us a new understanding of the field of artificial intelligence! I don’t know what to do I can’t describe my feelings after reading this paper, but one thing I’m sure of is that this paper will lead the world’s artificial intelligence to a new level!”

How should I put it? Since the emergence of AlphaGo and its direct defeat of the world's top Go masters, at least in the minds of ordinary people, Google has established its leading position in the world in artificial intelligence research.

This was followed by a clip performed at the Google press conference the following year in which the Google Assistant made a call on its own to help the owner make an appointment for a haircut with Mr. Tony. Throughout the entire process, the receptionist at the barber shop did not realize that artificial intelligence was leading the appointment. , which shocked the world at the time and triggered a worldwide discussion on artificial intelligence.

Now the chief scientist of Google's X laboratory has praised a mathematics paper written by Professor Hua Xia in this field. The repercussions can be imagined. Especially at the end of this paragraph, the words of the chief scientist, Astro Taylor, who had met Ning Wei once, made countless people salivate.

"I have suggested to the company's senior management that if Professor March is willing to come to Google, I would like to give up my position to him and let him be directly responsible for building a new generation of Google's artificial intelligence platform. I believe he deserves this courtesy. .”

With such high praise, March's paper became popular. Many well-known mathematicians received interview requests from journalists, inviting them to comment on the mysterious Professor March and her paper.

"Well, the outside world may not know much about Professor March, but she is actually very famous in the mathematics community. As far as I know, several mathematics journals plan to award her the best reviewer of this year. . You may not be familiar with the concept of a paper reviewer. How should I put it? Her basic mathematics skills are extremely solid and she has extremely advanced attainments in multiple fields of mathematics. This is a common evaluation of her in the mathematics community."

"As for her paper, I have indeed read it, but because I am not researching in this direction, to be honest, I don't understand the proof process of some lemmas very well. However, I have consulted several friends and they all agree on this. This paper has a very high evaluation. Using pure mathematics instead of other technical means to build a machine consciousness system is an extremely complex and difficult project."

"Everyone must know that it is very difficult for a machine that can only recognize 0 and 1 to have complex human emotions, especially if it can be done with mathematics alone. So it does not mean that with a theory, you can immediately create a machine with human emotions. Emotional programs or machines. This is still a long process, but there is no doubt that the publication of this paper has given our scientists who specialize in artificial intelligence a theoretical guidance. Yes, mathematics has always been You need to solve specific problems, it just points you in the right direction, and that’s the beauty of mathematics.”

"In short, no matter what, based on this paper alone, I think the name of Professor March will definitely be among the most famous mathematicians in the 21st century. The only regret is that I heard that Professor March Just a pseudonym. Well, many mathematicians have quirks of one kind or another, and the more successful the mathematicians are, the more so, but I hope I can have a drink with her, it will be a wonderful thing. "

Of course there are different arguments during interviews.

"Professor March! Well, I admit that she may be very capable, but in fact I don't think it is a good idea for Google to invite her to lead a department. If you ask more people, you will know that many people I suspect there is something wrong with her character, she is extremely extreme in her views on issues, and it is difficult to get along with others, let alone lead a team."

"Why? Well, you should interview the editors of professional mathematics journals about this. They have a better say. Let's put it this way, she is always extremely harsh on peer review results. Harsh is not even the right word to describe it. Accurate, even vicious. Don’t be surprised if you see an attack on human dignity in her comments.”

"Yes, maybe she's a very capable and talented scientist, but I don't think I could ever be friends with her. We couldn't even sit down together and discuss math problems because it might turn into an argument. I doubt she's normal. The ability to communicate with others is probably the reason why she chose to use a pseudonym instead of her real name! To be honest, I don’t like her! Even if she is talented, I don’t want to be a colleague with her!”

Of course, reporters would not let Connerson, the editor-in-chief of the journal where the paper was published in March, go.

"Actually, what everyone said is correct. Professor March is indeed a professor with great character. Her academic ability is as distinctive as her personality. But you know, I am just a journal editor, and my daily tasks are just to publish countless articles. I select the best papers among them and publish them in journals. As for the mathematician’s character and character, I don’t really consider them.”

"Of course I would like to say a few words here. Although she often has sharp opinions as a reviewer, our email communication is quite pleasant. In fact, she is not completely unreasonable as some professors describe her. That's all I can say. At least as an editor-in-chief of a mathematics journal, I admire her very much. Thank you, that's all I can say."

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Really, never underestimate what a promotional tool can do when it’s in full force.

In just one day, almost all technology enthusiasts in the world knew about a female mathematician in China. She published a paper under a pseudonym and was sought after by professors from prestigious foreign universities and major foreign technology companies.

Although there are still some differences in the evaluations given by different people, no one doubts the level of Professor March.

When all these comments were conveyed to China, there was no surprise that Professor March, who was unknown at home but praised by foreigners, suddenly became popular.