Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 134 Concerns of all parties
As time goes by, the pre-draft of Zhou Ming's article on the proof of the twin prime number conjecture uploaded to arXiv is gradually being noticed by more and more people. Well-known mathematicians around the world, whether they specialize in number theory or not No matter how to study number theory, they put all or part of their attention on arXiv, and gradually more and more people pay attention to Zhou Ming, the author of this paper.

Some people are no strangers to Zhou Ming, whose name has appeared in "New Advances in Mathematics" and "Mathematics Yearbook" this year.

"Professor, a new paper on proving the twin prime number conjecture has recently been published on arXiv." At the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, a young mathematics professor is preparing to leave after finishing a course on analyzing the theory of prime numbers. In the classroom, he was stopped by a student who walked up to the professor and asked the professor.

"I've been busy recently, so I haven't read it on arXiv. What's the matter, is there any merit in this paper?"

The young professor who was stopped asked the student in front of him politely. He didn't find it strange that the student said that someone on arXiv had uploaded a proof proving the twin prime conjecture.

After all, there are many people who claim to have proved various difficult problems in the world every year. Not to mention the proof of the twin prime conjecture, Goldbach's conjecture and Riemann's conjecture. Every year, many people say that they have proved it, and even every year they prove it. There are also people who claim to have invented a perpetual motion machine, but these are all just claims.

The young mathematics professor who was stopped by the students for questioning was exactly the one who taught himself calculus at the age of 7, won the gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad at the age of 12, entered university at the age of 14, received an honorary degree in science at the age of 16, and obtained a master's degree at the age of 17. Tao Terence, who was once known as a genius boy, received a doctorate from Princeton University at the age of 21, was hired as a full professor by the University of California, Los Angeles at the age of 24, won the Fields Medal at the age of 31, and received the MacArthur Genius Award at the age of 32.

The student who was talking to Tao Zhexuan at this time was a graduate student of Tao Zhexuan and a student with a very talented mathematics in his class. He often asked Tao Zhexuan to discuss some mathematics problems.

"I only noticed this proof yesterday. I haven't finished reading it yet, but I haven't found anything wrong after reading the previous part, so I think this person is very likely to really prove the twin prime number conjecture.

Therefore, I will come to the teacher to ask you as soon as the get out of class is over.

I saw that you often visit arXiv, and thought you already knew about this and read this paper. ’ the student also explained to his tutor.

After hearing what his student said, Tao Zhexuan also became interested.

"Really? I'll check it out in a while. If that person really proves the twin prime number conjecture, I'm afraid there will be one more Fields Medal in 18 besides the one who won the country. There is no suspenseful winner. By the way, what is this person's name? How old is this year? Have you heard of it?"

Tao Zhexuan was a little surprised at first, and then asked the student with a very interested expression.

"I've heard of this person. His name is Ming Zhou. He is from Huaguo. He should be in his 20s. I don't know how old he is. He has been published in "New Advances in Mathematics" and "Mathematics Yearbook" this year. I have published several articles, and professor, you told me about this person before." The student briefly explained to his tutor what he knew about Zhou Ming, and it seemed that they had heard of Zhou Ming's name before.

"It turned out to be him? He also studies number theory?" After Zhou Ming's first mathematical paper "The Dichotomy of Weierstrass-type Functions" was published in "New Advances in Mathematics", some people in the mathematics community paid attention to him, but Most of the people who pay attention to him are not because of how powerful his thesis is, but because of his age.

A little-known kid who had never had such a number one figure in the mathematics world before, but suddenly appeared this year, and he was only 22 years old. His appearance seemed very abrupt.

Zhou Ming and Tao Zhexuan are completely equal to two kinds of people, two kinds of geniuses, one is a genius who is advancing step by step, unimpeded, and the other is the kind of genius who "doesn't sing for three years, makes a blockbuster; "Soaring to the sky" genius, but Zhou Ming is not right if you say that he is a late bloomer. After all, he is only 22 years old, and he is still in the era of talent explosion.

After "New Advances in Mathematics" published Zhou Ming's papers, Zhou Ming published several papers in the "Mathematics Yearbook" within a year, which suddenly made everyone in the mathematics circles around the world popular. Everyone knows that there is such a person as Zhou Ming.

After learning that Zhou Ming appeared suddenly this year, they also felt that although Zhou Ming's experience was different from that of Tao Zhexuan, who was a genius since childhood, it was also a legend. of mystery.

"Let's go, let's talk as we go." After hearing that the author of this paper was Zhou Ming, Tao Zhexuan couldn't help but want to read this article proving the twin prime number conjecture quickly. Back to my office.

Seeing that his tutor heard that the author of this article was Zhou Ming, he couldn't wait to go back to the office. This student also knew that his tutor wanted to see the article proving the twin prime number conjecture earlier, so he was very excited. Follow Tao Zhexuan to his office while talking to Tao Zhexuan that he has read half of the content.

"His abstract directly explained which methods he used for his own proofs, including the Eratosthenes sieve method and the three-prime number theorem, which are commonly used in the study of prime numbers, and some other methods that have been used to study prime numbers but are relatively The unpopular topology method, and the differential geometry method that no one has used in this area..." The student said as he walked.

"Differential geometry? Isn't that the study of the geometric properties of space? Could it be that he created some new method in connection with topology?" Hearing what his students said, Tao Zhexuan was very curious about how Zhou Ming proved the twin prime number conjecture. I am more curious.

……

It was also on the same day that at the University of Bonn in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, a mathematics professor who was born in 1987 and was 12 years younger than Tao Zhexuan was also browsing arXiv attentively. Zhou Ming’s proof of the twin prime conjecture.

In 2012, he was hired as the highest-level professor at the University of Bonn at the age of 24. He is 12 years younger than Tao Zhexuan and is only 28 years old this year. He is the most outstanding of the new generation of young talents in recent years. Math prodigy Peter Schultz.

Although this math genius is not as legendary as Tao Terence, he also participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad 4 times in high school and won three golds and one silver.

After completing his high school studies, he obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in a 5-year national system within 5 semesters, and continued to study for a doctorate at the University of Bonn under the tutelage of Professor Rapoport.

Two years later, Schulz dropped a blockbuster in the field of arithmetic geometry. In his doctoral dissertation, he developed "seemingly complete geometry", fully applying geometric methods to the field of algebra, and using this method to solve Opened several difficult problems in the field of algebraic geometry.

He is also regarded as one of the most influential mathematicians in the world because of his outstanding contributions in the field of arithmetic algebraic geometry, and he is a popular candidate for the next Fields Medal.

The life of a genius seems to be a genius since he was a child. Compared with Zhou Ming's experience before the age of 22, it is a heaven and a world. If someone compared Zhou Ming with them a year ago, it would be comparing rice grains with Haoyue.

How can the light of a grain of rice compete with the brightness of the vast moon?

But in just one year, Zhou Ming, who relied on life simulators to continuously simulate and gain knowledge about his future self, has caught up with them like he was on a rocket, and will surpass them to catch up with the real masters of mathematics. They went.

The original light of rice grains can now not only compete with Haoyue, but also chase the sun like Kuafu.

Speaking of a mathematician, Viscount Pierre René Deligne, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1944, moved to Uganda in 1984 and entered the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is also browsing Zhou Ming's article proving the twin prime number conjecture.

Nicholas Katz, who was previously on the editorial board of the "Yearbook of Mathematics", saw Zhou Ming's article, and pushed it to Peter Saar, who is also a member of the editorial board but has a deeper knowledge in number theory. rnak.

After confirming the importance of Zhou Ming's proof of the twin prime number conjecture, Peter Sarnac pushed this article to Professor Deligne.

This Viscount Pierre René Deligne studied under Alexander Deligne, who has many top titles such as "Emperor of Mathematics", "Father of Modern Algebraic Geometry", and "Greatest Mathematician of the 20th Century". Grothendieck, Peter Schulz is known as the successor of Grothendieck,

Viscount Deligne's doctoral dissertation was completed under the guidance of his legendary supervisor. In addition, he completed the work on Hodge's theory and Weil's conjecture when he was a professor at the Institute of Advanced Science in Fargo.

Moreover, Deligne also won the Fields Medal in 1978, the Crafford Medal in 1988, the Wolf Medal in 2008, and the Abel Prize in 2013. These are the top awards in mathematics. It is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in other scientific circles.

And Deligne was made a Viscount by King Albert II of Belgium in 2006.

Viscount Deligne is not the only mathematician who pays attention to Zhou Ming's article proving the twin prime number conjecture.

As far away as Merton College of Oxford University in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Andrew Wiles, the prover of Fermat's Last Theorem, one of the three major modern mathematical problems in the world, and the special silver winner of the Fields Medal in 1998.

As well as the prover of Model's conjecture, Faltings, the winner of the Fields Medal in 1986, and many other figures in the field of number theory, have gradually begun to pay attention to Zhou Ming's article proving the twin prime conjecture.

Dean Li Zhiming read all the proofs of Zhou Ming's twin prime number conjecture, and proved it himself according to his method. When he found that there was really no problem, it was already the afternoon of the 19th.

The 19th is Saturday. If Li Mingzhi wants to find Zhou Ming, he has to go to Zhou Ming's residence. If he wants to go to Zhou Ming's residence, he needs to call in advance. Anyway, what he wants to say to Zhou Ming is not very important, and it is okay to say it later. It doesn't matter, so Li Mingzhi didn't bother Zhou Ming during the weekend.

Zhou Ming has been living relatively leisurely these days, and he has already started to think about the content of the next biological project.

On the 20th, Tao Zhexuan took the lead in expressing his own views on Zhou Ming's paper on a well-known foreign mathematics forum.

"The article on arXiv proving the twin prime number conjecture is perfect, maybe I'm not strong enough, I can't find even a little loophole.

In my opinion, the twin prime number conjecture, a mathematical conjecture that has plagued people for more than 100 years, has finally become a mathematical theorem.

I have learned about the author of this article [There are infinitely many prime numbers P, making P+2 a prime number]. Before this year, I could not find anything related to this Chinese author, whether on the Internet or in various media. information.

According to the information I know, the author who proved the twin prime number conjecture was only a third-year student at an unknown university in Huaguo in the first half of this year, and his major was not even a mathematics major.

This is indeed a rare mathematical genius, and his research fields are also very extensive. If I were the president of the university I am in now, I would definitely invite this mathematical genius from across the ocean to our school professor……"

Tao Zhexuan’s long series of speeches on the mathematics forum can be said to have caused a thousand waves with one stone. Originally, the discussion on Zhou Ming’s article on the Internet was still at the stage of proving whether it was right or wrong. Some people even said that Zhou Ming’s article This article is a farce performed by clowns as before.

But now after Tao Zhexuan's speech, most people's discussion has changed to whether Zhou Ming can win the 18 Fields Medal.

Tao Zhexuan's remarks naturally aroused heated discussions among some Huaguo students studying abroad, and some of them also passed the news back to China.

In addition, there are also some people in China who visited foreign forums and websites through some means, and learned about Zhou Ming's proof of the twin prime number conjecture.

However, these people are still too few, and there is no news of thanks to the authority, and relevant domestic information is only passed on in a small area.

Until the 23rd, Mathematics Yearbook was discussed by mathematics professors who have studied number theory, and they all agreed that Zhou Ming’s proof of the twin prime number conjecture has no problem, and the twin prime number conjecture has indeed become a theorem up.

After the confirmation, many members of the editorial board of the "Annals of Mathematics" decided to let Peter Sarnak announce it to the public after some discussions. The "Annals of Mathematics" recently received a proof about the twin prime number conjecture. The proof has been confirmed by them internally, and it is deemed that there is no problem, and the twin prime number conjecture has been solved.

This kind of news is different from the previous gossip, and Tao Terence’s words cannot be trusted as an authority, but the speech in the "Almanac of Mathematics" is different. Peter Sarnak does not represent a certain person. It represents one of the top four journals in the field of mathematics, the Yearbook of Mathematics.

When Peter Sarnak came out to express his position, it meant that this paper had been fully accepted by their "Annals of Mathematics", and it was waiting to be published later.

Regarding Zhou Ming's proof of the twin prime number conjecture, it was only circulated in some small circles in China, but now the "Mathematics Yearbook" has publicly issued a statement that after the twin prime number conjecture has been solved by Zhou Ming from Huaguo, this article The news quickly spread all over the world, especially in China.

All of a sudden, the major official media also reported the matter one after another.

(End of this chapter)