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Chapter 132 Excited Dean Li

The days passed day by day, and now Zhou Ming’s daily life has returned to its previous peace and tranquility. He now spends most of his time at school sitting in front of a computer at his office desk, slowly writing the proof of the twin prime number conjecture During the process, there was still a cup of tea on his left hand, and he took a sip of this cup of tea when he was thirsty.

It didn’t take long for Zhou Ming to write the proof of the twin prime number conjecture while drinking tea in the office every day. Time will write out the proof process completely.

"It's done." By the afternoon of the 16th, Zhou Ming had already submitted his paper on proving the twin prime number conjecture to the "Mathematics Yearbook", and was waiting for the "Mathematics Yearbook" editorial department to review and approve it. Zhou Ming believed in this process. It won't be long.

After completing the proof of the twin prime number conjecture, Zhou Ming went to the experimental field in the afternoon.

Although he is very confident in his own research results, Zhou Ming still tries his best to take time every day to visit the experimental field and have a look.

After walking around the experimental field and seeing that the super beans he had planted were all in order, Zhou Ming prepared to go back to his residence directly, so he would not be able to go to school, but on the way back to his residence, Zhou Ming's phone rang suddenly.

Zhou Ming looked at the caller ID and found that it was Li Yanghua from the Human Resources Department calling, so he pressed the answer button and put the phone to his ear.

"Hello." After connecting, Zhou Ming gave a hello, he didn't know what Li Yanghua was calling him today.

"Hello." After the call was connected, there was also a hello over there.

However, Zhou Ming found out that the person speaking on the other end of the phone was not Li Yanghua based on the voice of his voice.

Although Zhou Ming has hardly had contact with Li Yanghua since the beginning of the semester, he had contacted Li Yanghua several times before coming to USTC. It can be said that Li Yanghua was the first faculty member of USTC that Zhou Ming knew.

Moreover, when Zhou Ming came to HKUST for the first time, Li Yanghua was the one who picked him up. No matter what happened, Zhou Ming couldn't fail to hear Li Yanghua's voice.

"Why does this sound a bit like Dean Li's?" Just when Zhou Ming was wondering, the other end of the phone continued to talk to Zhou Ming after a hello.

"Professor Zhou, I'm Li Mingzhi. We came to your office and found that you are no longer there. Are you still in school?" the voice on the other end of the phone said again.

If it was Dean Li, why would he use Li Huayang's cell phone to call me?After listening to Li Mingzhi on the other end of the phone, Zhou Ming thought about it, and said, "So it's Dean Li, I said this voice doesn't sound like Teacher Li, but it sounds like yours. Thought I heard it wrong.

I came to the experimental field in the afternoon to see how the soybeans I planted before are growing, so I am not at school now.

Dean Li, what do you want me to do?If it's urgent, I'll rush over right now. "

When Zhou Ming was talking, Li Mingzhi heard the noise around Zhou Ming. He guessed that Zhou Ming should be on the road now, either on the way to the test field or on the way back, but whether Zhou Ming was going back to the test field or his residence, This is hard to say.

"Didn't I tell you last time that you are now fully in line with the school's policy on 'outstanding talents'? Is the school planning to give you a higher salary? I thought it would be better to change your contract as soon as possible, so I came here with Li Yanghua to look for it today. You, I didn't expect you to be out of the office.

It's all my fault, I should have called you in advance to ask, I see that you have been in the office recently, so I thought you should still be in the office today, so I didn't call you in advance.

You should be busy with your affairs first. This contract can be signed tomorrow. "

Li Zhiming explained to Zhou Ming why he and Li Yanghua came to Zhou Ming together.

When he heard that Li Mingzhi said that the school wanted to sign a new contract with him and that the matter of improving his salary should be completed as soon as possible, Zhou Ming didn't want to go back to his residence first. Now he wished he could put a pair of wings on his back and fly back to the school directly.

So after Li Mingzhi finished speaking, Zhou Ming immediately said to Li Zhizhi: "Dean Li, I have nothing to do here. I just came to see how the progress is. It's over. I'm on my way back to school soon. You can go to school."

After hearing Zhou Ming's explanation, Li Mingzhi said: "That's fine, then Li Yanghua and I will wait for you in my office. How long will it take you?"

"Come on, come on, there are still more than ten minutes at most." After Li Mingzhi explained to Zhou Ming his and Li Yanghua's intention to find Zhou Ming, Zhou Ming changed his route.

About 10 minutes after Zhou Ming and Li Mingzhi finished talking and hung up the phone, Zhou Ming finally appeared at the gate of HKUST campus.

When Zhou Ming arrived at Li Zhizhi's office, 10 minutes had passed since Li Zhizhi called him.

"Dean Li, Teacher Li, I'm sorry to keep you waiting." Zhou Ming walked into Dean Li's office panting, and said to them with an apologetic face.

After Zhou Ming got out of the car, he ran all the way to Li Zhizhi's office. This is also a year of exercise that he insisted on, and his body has become much stronger. If his physical fitness is still the same as it was a year ago, it is estimated that he will die before half of the run.

"It's fine, it's fine, I told you I can sign again tomorrow, look at you, you have to run back in such a hurry, sweating profusely from exhaustion." When Zhou Ming arrived at Li Zhizhi's office, Li Zhiming was chatting with Li Yanghua , The topic they talked about was Zhou Ming. After seeing Zhou Ming, Li Mingzhi spoke politely while pulling Zhou Ming to sit down. After Zhou Ming sat down, he poured Zhou Ming a glass of water.

"How are your soybean crops going?" Li Mingzhi poured a glass of water, handed it to Zhou Ming, and asked him.

The reason why he asked this was not that Li Mingzhi really cared about Zhou Ming's research. He just wanted to find a topic first.

"It's okay, everything is within my expectation, can we sign a new contract now?" Zhou Ming said straight to the point.

When Li Yanghua heard what Zhou Ming said, he quickly handed over the new contract in his hand, and said to Zhou Guangming: "This is a new contract, in duplicate. You should read it after association. After reading it, if you think there is nothing wrong with it If you want to modify it, you can sign it directly.”

Zhou Ming took over the contract from Li Yanghua, and this new contract in duplicate was quite thick in his hands.

After reading the new contract for a while, Zhou Ming found that many contents of the new contract were not much different from the previous one, and the revisions were the same as what Li Mingzhi said last time, adding some conditions for better treatment.

"Okay, I'll sign it now." After spending some time carefully reading through the contents of the contract in his hand, Zhou Ming signed it readily.

After Li Yanghua left, Li Mingzhi said to Zhou Ming again: "Next time you see him, you can call him Director Li."

"Director Li? Has he been promoted?" Zhou Ming was a little surprised when he heard what Li Mingzhi said.

"Well, he is now the deputy director of the office." Li Mingzhi nodded and said, after reminding Zhou Ming, he didn't continue Li Yanghua's topic, but changed to other topics, "Why are you planting soybeans at this time? Does your research topic include winter soybeans? Isn’t your application about soybean pest resistance, drought resistance and lodging resistance?”

"It's all there. I will have to wait until next year for the specific changes in my soybeans to tell you. If I say now, you can designate me as bragging to deceive the country's funds." Zhou Ming didn't say anything. He explained the specific content of his research to Li Mingzhi in detail, and just explained it with a faint smile.

"Good boy, why, now you have something you can't say to me? Okay, if you don't say it, don't say it. When your results come out next year, I want to see what you can do with this soybean." .”

Seeing that Zhou Ming didn't say anything, Li Zhizhi also said to Zhou Ming with a smile.

"However, I don't believe you are cheating on funds. You can't cheat on anyone who cheats on funds. With your current net worth and your company, do you still need a piece of the country's funds?

If your company continues to develop at this rate, I estimate that in a year or two, your net worth will be on the ranking list. "Li Mingzhi continued.

"I didn't expect Dean Li to value me so much?" Hearing what Li Mingzhi said, Zhou Ming felt a little surprised.

"Three people can do two such studies in a month, can I not value you?
By the way, I see that you have been staying in the office every day recently. Do you have any new ideas in mathematics recently?You don't need to attend this class, and you don't have any experiments now, let alone any position. You can't hide in the office every day and play spider solitaire, right? "Li Mingzhi finally asked Zhou Ming again.

"I have some ideas." Seeing that Li Mingzhi paid so much attention to himself, Zhou Ming prepared to reveal some information to him.

"What idea? Which aspect? Is it a problem with the Laplace characteristic function or the dynamic system?" When Li Mingzhi heard Zhou Ming say that he had a new idea recently, he couldn't wait to continue asking Zhou Ming.

Seeing that Zhou Ming's expression did not change when he mentioned these two fields that Zhou Ming had previously covered, he continued to ask tentatively: "None of them? What is that? Partial differential equations?"

"No." Zhou Ming shook his head, and instead of letting Li Mingzhi continue to guess, he said directly, "It's a question about number theory. I took off a pearl from the crown on the queen's head."

Gauss once said that mathematics is the queen of science, and number theory is the queen of mathematics.

Later, this sentence was changed to Mathematics is the queen of science, number theory is the crown on the queen's head, and Goldbach's conjecture is a bright pearl on the crown.

Therefore, when Zhou Ming said that he had picked off a pearl from the crown on the queen's head, the first thing Li Zhizhi thought of was Goldbach's conjecture.

Although Li Zhizhi valued Zhou Ming very much and felt that Zhou Ming would have greater achievements in mathematics in the future, Li Zhizhi did not believe that Zhou Ming had proved Goldbach's conjecture now.

"How is it possible? Haven't you been busy doing experiments in the laboratory before? How long have you been taking a break? Can you prove Goldbach's conjecture in such a short time?" Li Mingzhi said to him with a disbelieving tone and expression. Zhou Ming said.

Zhou Ming:? ? ?
After listening to Li Zhizhi, Zhou Ming was full of question marks, but he quickly realized that what he just said was somewhat ambiguous, so Li Zhizhi misunderstood him.

"Oh, I see. I misunderstood. What you just said was an idea. Did you have some new ideas on Goldbach's conjecture?" Before Zhou Ming could explain, Li Mingzhi continued. .

"I didn't make it clear, which caused you to misunderstand. What I said was not Goldbach's conjecture.

The Goldbach conjecture is the jewel in the crown, but I'm talking about a pearl.

Although they are all inlaid on the crown, one of them is located in the center of the crown and is the most eye-catching existence of the entire crown, and the other is one of the pearls around the crown. "

Zhou Ming explained to Li Zhiming.

After hearing Zhou Ming's explanation, Li Zhizhi's previous expression of surprise and disbelief eased a lot, and he said to Zhou Ming with a look of understanding: "So that's the case, that's the way it is, I thought you proved it What about Goldbach's conjecture. If you really prove Goldbach's conjecture, then you are the greatest mathematician in the entire 21st century..."

Before Li Zhizhi could say anything, he realized that although what Zhou Ming just explained denied that he had proved Goldbach's conjecture, except for the most dazzling pearl in the crown, the other pearls were not just decorations. The pearl of is also what every mathematician can't dream of.

"Wait, you mean, although you didn't prove Goldbach's conjecture, you proved other conjectures? Or that you made other new breakthroughs in number theory?" Li Mingzhi, who had just recovered his composure, at this time But he looked at Zhou Ming with a look of surprise.

At this time, in Li Mingzhi's mind, all the conjectures he knew in number theory that had not been proven emerged one by one.

"It's a conjecture, the twin prime conjecture." Zhou Ming explained calmly.

"Twin prime number conjecture? Have you made a breakthrough on the twin prime number conjecture? Is it based on Professor Zhang, and has there been any new progress?" When Zhou Ming mentioned the twin prime number conjecture, the first thing Li Mingzhi thought of was, On the basis of Professor Zhang, Zhou Ming has made new progress and narrowed the interval from 246.

"No, I didn't use Professor Zhang's method. I directly proved this conjecture and proved it to be correct." Zhou Ming explained again.

Only now did Li Mingzhi know what Zhou Ming was thinking.

"You proved the twin prime number conjecture?" As for what Zhou Ming was doing these two days, Li Mingzhi just asked casually, and he didn't have any idea, but now he heard Zhou Ming say that he proved the twin prime number conjecture. Li Mingzhi was surprised and made him feel happy for Zhou Ming.

"You, you...what method did you use...did you publish it?" Li Mingzhi was very excited at this time. Once Zhou Ming's proof is successful, their School of Mathematics at HKUST will not only become more famous in China, but also surpass the imperial capital. The two universities in China will be further known to the world, even in the world.

Moreover, Li Mingzhi made a lot of efforts when the School of Mathematics applied to the higher authorities to award Zhou Ming an exceptional doctorate in mathematics from the University of Science and Technology, and hired him as an exceptional mathematics professor.

If Zhou Ming's performance is mediocre after entering HKUST, then even Li Mingzhi's authority in HKUST will decline.

However, if Zhou Ming's performance is outstanding, for the University of Science and Technology, Li Mingzhi's contribution will be greater.

"I was a little excited just now. You don't need to tell me what method you used. Have you submitted to a journal?" After Li Mingzhi finished what he said just now, he found himself asking Zhou Ming to prove the twin prime number conjecture. Sure, although he really didn't have other thoughts, but after reacting, he still added a sentence.

"I have already submitted an article to the "Mathematics Yearbook". I guess it will not be long before I can receive their reply." Zhou Ming said.

For Zhou Ming, who has contributed to the "Mathematics Yearbook" several times this year, he is quite familiar with this journal.

The number of submissions to top mathematics journals is far less than that of top journals in other subjects, and Zhou Ming's paper skills are also very superb. In the abstract, he has clearly and accurately explained what he will do in the next few pages, the specific content It is also concise and easy to understand for mathematicians, and there will be no such situation that even the audit cannot understand.

In addition, Zhou Ming's name is listed here, and he is already an old acquaintance of "Mathematics Yearbook". I am afraid that as soon as the editorial board of "Mathematics Yearbook" notices Zhou Ming's name, they will be the first to take out Zhou Ming's papers. Seeing the title of Zhou Ming's paper, he would read the content carefully to see what a wonderful article Zhou Ming wrote so quickly.

After one of the mathematicians is immersed in it, the other mathematicians will also sit down and slowly appreciate Zhou Ming's article, and it will be a matter of course if it is passed.

(End of this chapter)