Ultimate Scholar

The applause sounded like a tide, and lasted for a long time, like waves, which also pushed the atmosphere of the scene to a climax.

Mathematicians have all kinds of romance in their hearts, and solving the mathematical conjectures left by people in the past is one of them.

It's like a spirit of inheritance.

The problems that were not solved by the famous people in history have been solved in their hands now. Just thinking about it makes the mathematicians of their generation proud.

After all, if it can't be solved, it will give them a feeling that the person who asked the question a hundred or even hundreds of years ago seemed to be laughing at them.

So, at this moment, they were all happy for Li Mu.

Andrew Wiles stood up first and applauded Li Mu.

And Faltings and Deligne also stood up and applauded Li Mu on the stage, and even Faltings, who was always very serious, smiled.

Drigne stood beside Wiles and slapped the back of his hand for a while, feeling something was wrong, so he said to Wiles next to him, "Eh? Why don't you continue to show off?"

Wiles shook his head, with a calm expression on his face: "It's not necessary, my students don't need to show off."

Deligne immediately showed a strange expression that I believe you.

Of course, in Wiles' heart, there is more of a sense of sight for this scene, just like his report back then.

This report lasted for more than two hours, not too long from his report—although that report was a failure.

But what impressed him even more was that the proof of Fermat's last theorem was not officially resolved until more than 300 years later, similar to Goldbach's conjecture, or even longer.

Fermat was the last Fermat problem raised around 1637, and it was not officially solved by him until 1995, and it took nearly 360 years in the middle.

The Goldbach conjecture was put forward in 1742, until this year, a total of 280 years.

The two of them, the teacher and the student, respectively solved two of the longest-spanning problems in the mathematics world.

Look, how destined is Li Mu and him?

This is the fate!

Watching Li Mu enjoying the applause on the stage also reminded him of himself back then.

The only difference is that Li Mu's proof is complete and detailed enough, and he explained it very clearly in this report.

Compared with his proof back then, there are very few doubts, and it can even be said that there is no doubt.

So, this problem has probably been completely solved.

...

After four climaxes, the applause finally faded away, and those who stood up and applauded sat back down.

Li Mu suppressed his hand, suppressed the last scattered applause, and then smiled and said: "Of course, although I think I have completed the proof, but before all the doubts in the mathematics world are over, this problem is not completely over, so If you have any questions, you can ask them now.”

As his question came up, there was silence.

No one raised their hands to ask questions.

"Anyone have questions?"

Li Mu asked again, until a moment later, a position in the back row finally raised a hand.

Everyone couldn't help but look at it, and then they were all taken aback.

It was a girl who looked very young, maybe she was still studying for an undergraduate degree.

The bosses have no problem, such a young girl actually sees the problem?

Li Mu didn't care, and asked with a smile, "Please ask."

The staff at the scene quickly handed over the microphone, and after the girl took the microphone, she stood up cautiously, then opened the paper in her hand and said, "Hello, Li, I am an undergraduate student from Trinity College, Cambridge. , what I would like to ask is why it is said that CoP C(n) has different real axes in "Self-Consistent Properties of Elliptic Curves Under K-Module", page 23, section 2.2?"

Hearing this question, everyone in the audience was stunned for a moment, and then there were bursts of chuckles.

It appears that the young student does not understand the point of asking questions at this time.

Under normal circumstances, the questions raised at this time point directly to the contradictions or mistakes in the speaker's proof.

And the question raised by this young girl is just something she doesn't understand.

People almost misunderstood just now, thinking that she had discovered the error in Li Mu's proof.

Of course, no one blamed the girl, and to some extent, her question made this tense moment easier.

Li Mu also smiled.

When the girl was a little overwhelmed by the laughter around her, he said, "You asked a good question. At least you listened carefully to what I just proved."

Later, he did not turn the paper in his hand to page 23, looked at the specific content of this question, and gave an answer directly: "Here, what you need to pay attention to is that a typical CoP does not need a center. case, we say that the circle has a center that is removed."

"And the CoP C(n) contains all points with positive integer weights from 1 to n-1, including..."

Li Mu turned around and began to write on the blackboard: [C(n)={[x]| x∈ N, x \u0026amp;lt; n}……].

After a while, he turned around and said to the girl: "So we said that CoP C(n) has different real axes, so, do I understand?"

The girl forgot the bewilderment just now. After thinking for a while, she showed a happy expression and said gratefully: "Thank you! I understand."

"OK."

Li Mu smiled and nodded, then he looked at the time and said, "Then you can ask any questions you have in the next 10 minutes, no matter what questions you have."

The underlying meaning of what he said, naturally, is that anyone who has not understood his proof process can ask questions now.

After a while, another pair of hands was raised below.

There were too many people who didn't understand the paper or the report, accounting for almost 95% of the audience.

So, of course they have a lot of problems.

Now that they can directly ask these questions to the prover, they are naturally unwilling to give up.

Just like that, Li Mu picked up random people to answer their questions, and the people who asked the questions were not only students, but even professors from famous schools. For example, a mathematics professor from Cambridge also raised his hand and was clicked by Li Mu. stand up.

Of course, as a professor, it is also a good thing to still be able to ask questions when you don’t understand, so no one will laugh at this professor.

And as each question passed, the people below also discovered that when Li Mu answered these simple questions, he never read the original text of the paper, as long as he heard the questions, he was able to give the answers.

Deligne couldn't help but marvel: "There are more than 150 pages of papers in total, and he can remember them so clearly."

"Maybe this is genius." Wiles smiled, "That's why he can master so many Fancy."

Deligne shook his head with a wry smile.

genius?

Who is not.

It's just that there is a gap between geniuses...

In this way, until the last minute passed, Li Mu finally announced: "Okay, 10 minutes are up, let's end the questioning here."

"If you have any other questions, you can communicate with me by email later."

"So, today's report..."

Before Li Mu finished speaking, he saw Dean Martin Taylor raised his hand.

He couldn't help being taken aback.

What's wrong with Dean Taylor?

But he still said, "Dean Taylor, what's your question?"

Martin Taylor smiled and pointed to the champagne next to the podium, and said, "Did you forget this thing?"

Li Mu was taken aback for a moment, then looked down.

The bottle of champagne sat there quietly, from the beginning to the end of the presentation.

And as Martin Taylor's voice came out, the audience present immediately became noisy.

I didn't expect to see the opening of champagne after watching a report. For a while, the audience started booing.

In the first row of seats, these most basic mathematics masters are winners of the Wolf Mathematics Prize, and there are smiles on their faces.

Strictly speaking, if it is opened now, it can be regarded as an act of opening champagne at halftime.

After all, it will take some time to thoroughly verify Goldbach's conjecture.

It's just...

"Open it!"

Faltings said first.

"Open it!"

Deligne also shouted.

Afterwards, Wiles and others also said to Li Mu, "Open it!"

The words of these mathematicians all expressed their affirmation of Li Mu's proof.

To some extent, this row of people represents half of the mathematics world.

Faced with such a situation, what else can Li Mu say?

Smiling, he picked up the bottle of champagne, then unwrapped the foil and wine ring, and shook the bottle up and down.

till the end--

"Plop!"

"ohhhhh..."

The whole venue was filled with cheers.

And this report meeting is completely over!

...

"Li Mu: The Unsealer of a 280-Year-Old Letter"

The End of Another World Problem! "

"Is He Really the Ultimate Genius?" Goldbach's conjecture succeeded! "

"The Opening of Champagne, the End of the Century Conjecture"

...

Many world-renowned news media are overwhelmingly publicizing this matter, not only in the mathematics field, but even among ordinary people, people have shown great interest in this news.

All of a sudden, the hot search list of social platforms in the entire European region was covered by this news, and even in the United States, the trend of Twitter has always been dominated by various Super Bowl, NBA or star news. The top of the list was also squeezed out by this news.

Of course, not to mention the country of China, it is almost crazy.

All kinds of hot search lists are dominated by this matter!

Even many academic journals have become popular and published commentary articles on this matter, such as "Science" and "Nature", which almost never publish articles related to pure mathematics. They have cited this matter under their research highlights column.

Within a few days, this matter was a well-deserved focus.

And Li Mu is a well-deserved top class!