Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 145

"Okay, let's hang up now, let's continue talking after I pass by." After Li Mingzhi on the other end of the phone finished speaking, he hung up the phone in a hurry without waiting for Zhou Ming to say anything more .

Zhou Ming guessed that Li Mingzhi had already rushed to him after hanging up the phone, so he also went to the official website of the University of Science and Technology to download an "Application Form for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars" and began to fill in his basic information.

Name, work unit, major, collection status, SCI citation status, budget and brief description, recommendations from the work unit, etc. are just a few books of information. There are not many things to fill in to apply for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, but it is not One page will do.

In addition to the basic information mentioned above, there are also many attachment materials such as proof of acceptance of the article, proof of academic part-time job, copy of representative papers, etc.

When Zhou Ming had almost filled in the relevant information of this application form and started sorting out some relevant attachment materials, Li Mingzhi finally rushed to Zhou Ming's office in a hurry.

Boom, boom, boom...

There was a knock on the door of Zhou Ming's office, and Zhou Ming said please come in without raising his head.

"Huh~huh~huh..." After rushing to Zhou Ming's office, Li Mingzhi was panting heavily, opened the door of his office after Zhou Ming said please come in, and walked to the side of Zhou Ming's office chair sofa sit down.

"Principal Li so fast?" Seeing that it was Li Zhizhi who knocked on the door, Zhou Ming showed surprise on his face. He didn't expect that Li Zhizhi, who was nearly seventy years old, rushed over so quickly.

But seeing his appearance, Zhou Ming knew that Li Mingzhi must have come all the way after hanging up the phone, so he also stood up from his seat, went to the water dispenser and poured Li Zhizhi a cup of hot water with some cold water. Water, if there is only hot water, it will be too hot, and Li Mingzhi will not be able to drink it for a while.

After pouring the water, Zhou Ming walked up to Li Mingzhi and handed the water to Li Mingzhi, then said to him: "President Li, you are already old, there is no need to torment yourself like this! I am here again I won’t run anymore, just walk over slowly, why bother to run over, I’m panting for running.”

Li Mingzhi was indeed thirsty. When Zhou Ming called him, he was already in the car and was about to go out to do some errands.

But when Zhou Ming said that he was going to apply for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and that the project applying for the fund was the Goldbach conjecture he had mentioned to Zhou Ming before, he immediately hung up Zhou Ming's phone, and then On the way to Zhou Ming's office, Li Mingzhi made another phone call and postponed everything today for several days.

Li Mingzhi took the disposable paper cup from Zhou Ming's hand, gulped down all the warm water in the cup, and then panted heavily with excitement and said to Zhou Ming: "Huh~ I can Are you not in a hurry to come here? The project you want to apply for is Goldbach's conjecture! This is a conjecture known as one of the three major modern mathematics problems in the world."

After Zhou Ming told Li Zhizhi not to be so anxious in a flat tone, Li Mingzhi became even more excited.

Li Zhiming felt that Zhou Ming seemed completely unaware of what it meant to prove Goldbach's conjecture. He said to Zhou Ming with increasing emotion: "Fermat's last theorem, which is also known as one of the three major modern mathematics problems in the world, has been since 1637. After Fermat proposed it in the margins of the book, the famous Swiss mathematician Euler used the "infinite descent method" and the unique factorization theorem in the form of a number system to prove the situation when n=1753 in 3;

In 1823, Legendre proved that the theorem holds when n=5;
In 1832, Dirichlet tried to prove that n=7 failed, but proved that the theorem holds when n=14;
In 1839, Lame proved that the theorem holds when n=7...

Then in 1922, British mathematician Model put forward a conjecture called Model's conjecture by later generations...

By 1983, shortly after Faltings proved Model's conjecture, when British mathematician Andrew Wiles thoroughly proved Fermat's last theorem in 1994, how much time and people's time was spent in it? You don't know how big a sensation the painstaking effort caused in the end, if you haven't experienced it.

But I know that I was only 46 years old when Andrew Wiles completely proved Fermat’s last theorem..."

At this point, the emotional Li Mingzhi suddenly stopped talking. When he spoke again, his mood had obviously eased a lot, but Zhou Ming saw some loneliness in his eyes. Throughout history, Mathematica's Theorem has been proven with passion by mathematicians from all over the world.

Similarly, Zhou Ming was also surprised that Li Mingzhi, who is in his 60s and almost [-] this year, can remember Fermat's last theorem so clearly.

"When Mr. Chen Jingrun proved Goldbach's conjecture '1966+1' in 2, we all thought that the time to fully prove Goldbach's conjecture was not far away.

Hey, but at that time, we never expected that when Mr. Chen passed away, we could not see the Goldbach conjecture being thoroughly proved. Now more than 40 years have passed, and that step is still not taken. "

Li Mingzhi continued, but at this point, he looked at Zhou Ming and said to him: "Now you say that you want to prove Goldbach's conjecture, how can you not be excited?
Not to mention me, I can say that any mathematician, no matter whether he studies number theory or not, if he is like me and hears that someone can prove Goldbach’s conjecture for the first time, except for the idea of ​​disbelief, he must Will be as excited as I am, maybe even more excited than me. "

Zhou Ming silently took the finished disposable paper cup from Li Zhizhi's hand, and poured him another glass of water.

"Drink some more water." Zhou Ming handed the water glass to Li Zhizhi and said to him.

Li Mingzhi took the paper cup from Zhou Ming's hand again, took a sip to moisten his throat, and then continued to say to Zhou Ming: "I am getting old and can't run anymore, otherwise I could have reached your place earlier. side."

To be honest, Zhou Ming was really worried that Li Zhizhi's health would be broken because of his own reasons. Last time when he proved the twin prime number conjecture, Li Mingzhi stayed up all night to watch the proof process of the twin prime number conjecture, and his health was not good the next day.

Now that his body has finally recovered, Li Mingzhi is doing strenuous exercise again because he heard that Zhou Ming is going to prove Goldbach's conjecture.

Under these circumstances, it was no wonder that Zhou Ming was worried about Li Zhizhi's health.

But when Li Zhizhi finished speaking, his expression became serious again, and he confirmed Zhou Ming again: "Are you sure you have found a way to prove Goldbach's conjecture?"

"I'm sure I found it, but the proof process hasn't been written yet. No, I'm going to start writing the proof process after I submit the "National Science Fund Application for Distinguished Young Scholars" to the higher authorities today." Seeing Li Zhiming's serious expression, Zhou Ming , then nodded seriously, and said to Li Mingzhi.

Zhou Ming answered very seriously. After hearing Zhou Ming's words, Li Mingzhi didn't speak immediately. After he pondered for a while, he said to Zhou Ming: "So, do you have an idea now?"

"En." Zhou Ming nodded.

An idea may not become a reality. Li Mingzhi just wants to see the complete proof process of Zhou Ming's proof of Goldbach's conjecture as soon as possible, so he said to Zhou Ming again: "Have you filled out the application form? If you fill it out, you can Just give it to me, I will stamp it for you, it is too slow if you submit it like this, if I stamp it for you, you will be able to apply successfully tomorrow."

"So fast?" Hearing Li Zhizhi's statement that the application could be successful tomorrow, Zhou Ming was surprised, because it was so fast. If he followed the normal process, he would not have received Li Zhizhi the next day after submitting it today. , let alone a successful application.

"That's for sure, otherwise why would I come all the way here." Li Mingzhi said matter-of-factly.

After Li Zhizhi finished speaking, Zhou Ming picked up the application form he had just completed from his desk, and said to Li Zhizhi: "The basic information has been filled out, only a few attachments are missing."

"Then get some attachments ready now, and I'll apply for you." Li Mingzhi took the application form from Zhou Ming and said to Zhou Ming.

While Zhou Ming was preparing the attachment, Li Mingzhi looked at Zhou Ming's application, and when he saw the budget, his face showed a hint of curiosity, and then he seemed to understand something, and asked Zhou Ming: "You Now I'm ready to apply for the outstanding youth project, should I arrange two doctoral students to help you in advance, I think you are quite busy by yourself."

"Ah?" Zhou Ming, who was preparing the attachment, heard what Li Mingzhi said, and stopped what he was doing with a dazed expression, and looked at Li Zhizhi.

"No, no, I can do it by myself. For master's students, let's wait until the next group of students from the summer camp come. As for doctoral students, they should contact their supervisors. I'll wait for the second half of the year. Right." Zhou Ming said, he actually didn't really want to accept graduate students.

The main reason is that Zhou Ming is worried that he will not have much time to teach students after he gets busy. In this way, he accepts those who are doctoral or master students. Isn't this delaying them?
But since the school requested, he also agreed to recruit a small number of graduate students.

"That's what you said, but it can be recruited in advance. Since you have no idea now, just wait for the batch of doctoral students who sign up in the second half of this year. They should start looking for teachers soon, and you can learn more about it by then. Understood." Li Mingzhi said with a smile.

There are three ways to recruit doctoral students at HKUST, namely general admissions, combined master-doctoral studies, and direct doctoral studies.

The general admissions does not hold a unified entrance examination for doctoral students in the whole school. Instead, the admissions department formulates the admissions method based on the basic requirements of the school's doctoral admissions, and adopts an "application-assessment system".

For combined master and doctoral programs, a supervisor has already been selected during the master's degree, but a comprehensive qualification assessment is required when entering the second stage from the first stage.

Direct Ph.D. graduates who have been accepted by HKUST as undergraduate graduates and directly pursue doctoral degree graduates. According to the registration and admission information announced by the Ministry of Education's "Recommended Exemption Service System", the admission time is no different from that of ordinary admissions. .

After Li Zhizhi finished speaking with a smile, Zhou Ming didn't continue talking. He waited in Zhou Ming's office for a while, and after Zhou Ming printed out the attachment and handed it to him, he prepared to leave here.

"Then I'll leave first, and I will notify you when the application is successful tomorrow." Holding Zhou Ming's application form, Li Mingzhi turned around and walked towards Zhou Ming's office after saying this. Ready to get out of here.

"Dean Li, wait a minute, are you sure you can apply successfully? There is still an excellent youth project in my biology department." Zhou Ming stopped Li Zhizhi before he left, and finally asked the question in his heart. concerns.

"Don't worry, the excellent young man was from the Department of Life Sciences before, but now the outstanding young man is from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, and there are exceptions to everything. You are still a worldwide problem like Goldbach's conjecture. Once you solve it, you can solve it." Greatly enhance our country's reputation, it will definitely pass." After being stopped by Zhou Ming, Li Mingzhi stopped and said to Zhou Ming with certainty, and he left Zhou Ming's office after speaking.

After Li Mingzhi took Zhou Ming's application and left, Perimeter returned to his seat. He leaned on the back of the chair, stroking his chin with one hand, and resting the hand stroking his chin with the other hand in thought. Thinking about something.

After a while, Zhou Ming recovered from his contemplation. He moved his chair and brought himself closer to the desk.

Opening his e-mail, Zhou Ming began to write an e-mail.

"Hello, respected leaders of Princeton University and professors of mathematics, I am Zhou Ming, a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology.

I am very honored that your school invited me last time.

But I'm sorry, although I really want to go, but due to some personal reasons, I can't go to your school to give an academic lecture, which is really my regret.

However, I am going to hold an academic report in the lecture hall of Huaguo University of Science and Technology on February 2 this year. This is an academic report on how I proved Goldbach's conjecture. I sincerely invite your school Scholars who are interested in Goldbach's conjecture can come to my academic report..."

It turned out that the email Zhou Ming was writing was intended to be addressed to Princeton University, but this time it was different from what he saw in the simulation last time. In the last simulation, the email Zhou Ming sent to Princeton University was About accepting the invitation to go to Princeton University and preparing to give an academic lecture at Princeton University.

But this time Zhou Ming is going to write this e-mail to Princeton University, intending to invite several professors from his school to come to HKUST to listen to his report on the proof of Goldbach’s conjecture.

Since you can't go by yourself, why not try to let them come over?

As for the reason why he couldn't go to Princeton University, Zhou Ming naturally didn't say anything. He was afraid that he would be targeted by the government of the ugly country after he went. After all, these things only happened in the simulated world, and they didn't happen in the real world. They would think that he was suffering from persecution paranoia, and would only think that he was a lunatic.

After typing the last period, Zhou Ming finally finished writing the email, and he clicked send without hesitation to send the email.

At this time, the faculty and staff of Princeton University on the other side of the ocean have already left work, and they will not notice Zhou Ming's email until the evening in Huaguo at the earliest. I'm afraid it will take some time for Zhou Ming's request not to be accepted, whether to go to Huaguo, and how to reply to Zhou Ming's incident.

After Zhou Ming sent the email to Princeton University, he didn't write any other emails. As for other schools in Ugly Country, they didn't send invitations to Zhou Ming before, so Zhou Ming naturally wouldn't deliberately Send them an invite.

Courtesy is reciprocal, and only when there is reciprocity will there be reciprocity.

Before Zhou Ming prepares an academic report on the proof of Goldbach's conjecture, he will definitely release the news in advance, and at that time his proof process must have been published on the Internet, mathematicians from all over the world love to come Just come, don't come if you don't like it, Zhou Ming doesn't care, he doesn't care.

Zhou Ming directly shut down the computer, then took out a large pile of white printing paper and a gel pen from the pen holder, and began to write down the proof process of Goldbach's conjecture on these printing papers.

As for why he wrote the proof process by hand on printer paper, it was because Zhou Ming wanted to keep a manuscript for himself as a souvenir. You must know that the proof process of his Goldbach conjecture was posted on the Internet and was recognized by mathematicians all over the world. Afterwards, his paper manuscript on the process of proving Goldbach's conjecture will be a priceless treasure, and it will be put into a world-class museum after his death, and it will be a limited-time exhibit.

(End of this chapter)