Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 153 One wave of ups and downs and another wave (610 710)

"Haha, Lao Qiu, when I heard my cell phone ringing, I was still wondering who called me so late in the middle of the night. When I saw it was you, my mood changed."

After hearing the person on the other end of the phone, Li Mingzhi didn't answer his question immediately. Instead, he explained his mental activities from hearing the phone ringing to seeing the caller ID.

"All right, all right, I know you're amazing. Tell me about the young man in your school who proved Goldbach's conjecture." Old Qiu on the other end of the phone saw Li Mingzhi being so fussy, and said quickly , he now just wants to know the specifics of this matter.

The person who called Li Mingzhi is the biggest figure in the domestic mathematics field. He was born in 1949, one year younger than Li Zhiming. He is now the director of the Mathematical Science Center at Tsinghua University, and Professor Qiu Chengtong, who is also a chair professor of Tsinghua University.

Speaking of Professor Qiu Chengtong, this boss is not only recognized as the biggest boss in the field of mathematics in China, but also recognized as one of the most influential contemporary mathematicians, and these recognitions are naturally related to his own legendary experience and achievements .

Although this big brother was born in Shantou in 1949, he was taken to Xiangjiang by his parents when he was just born. He is now an academician of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences and a foreign academician of the Huaguo Academy of Sciences.

As for his achievements, he entered the Department of Mathematics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong at the age of 17. Because he completed four years of courses ahead of schedule, he was supposed to graduate at the age of 21 one year earlier, and successfully graduated from the Department of Mathematics at the age of 20.

Later, because of his outstanding performance, he was discovered by Shiing-shen Chen, who was teaching at the University of California, Berkeley at the time, and admitted him as a graduate student. He successfully obtained a doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley two years later, when he was 22 years old. .

At the age of 27, Qiu Chengtong, who had just completed his wedding, had a sudden burst of inspiration and solved a world-class mathematical problem-Carabi's conjecture.

So far, Qiu Chengtong has completely caused a sensation in the world of mathematics and became famous in one fell swoop.

After that, he won the Veblen Award, one of the highest awards in the world of differential geometry, the Fields Medal, the highest honor in the world of mathematics, the Crawford Award known as the Little Nobel Prize, and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Mathematicians. The so-called Wolf Prize in Mathematics... It can be said that winning the prize caused hand cramps.

His research covers topology, algebraic geometry, representation theory, general relativity and many other fields of mathematics and physics. For example, he solved the Calabi conjecture about the existence of Keller-Einstein metric in 1976. Applied in superstring theory, it has an important impact on the unified field theory.

And his compact Keller manifold whose first Chern class is zero is called Calabi-Yau manifold, which plays an important role in mathematics and string theory.

There is also the estimation of the first and second eigenvalues ​​of the Laplacian operator on the compact Riemannian manifold under various Ricci curvature conditions. Zhou Ming’s previous papers on the Laplacian eigenfunction can be related to this.

"You are very well informed! Is it because Xiao Zhou uploaded his proof process to arXiv when he went back at night?" Li Mingzhi asked cheerfully, still not in a hurry to answer Qiu Chengtong's inquiry .

"Yes, he did upload a paper proving Goldbach's conjecture to arXiv a few hours ago.

In the past few days, many colleges and universities in Ugly Country have been circulating that he proved Goldbach's conjecture. As soon as his paper was uploaded, he immediately confirmed this rumor, and the news spread very quickly.

I estimate that most of those around the world who have been paying attention to Goldbach's conjecture should know about it now. I am afraid that many doctoral students who are going to discuss Goldbach's conjecture will have to revise their papers overnight. "

Qiu Chengtong was delayed by Li Mingzhi's one or two sentences. Instead, he was no longer in a hurry to ask Li Zhizhi to answer his question. Instead, he finally said that he cared about those graduate students who wanted to graduate with Goldbach's conjecture thesis. .

"It spread so quickly?" Li Mingzhi didn't expect the news to spread so quickly, but he didn't wait for Li Zhizhi to say anything, so he continued to say to him, "Your news is correct, his name is Zhou Ming.

I, Wang Yuan, Pan Biao, and Wang Hongze started watching the proof process yesterday, but we haven't finished it yet. "

Qiu Chengtong was not in a hurry to ask Li Zhizhi about the specific situation, but Li Zhizhi immediately answered his question just now.

"Yesterday? Did you see the proof process yesterday?" Qiu Chengtong asked in surprise when Li Mingzhi said that he saw Zhou Ming's proof of Goldbach's conjecture yesterday. It took only a few hours to upload to arXiv.

"I didn't see it yesterday, I saw it the night before.

In fact, when Xiao Zhou just completed the twin prime number conjecture, I asked him whether to try to prove Goldbach's conjecture, but he didn't give me an affirmative answer at that time, so I asked him to tell me if he was sure. .

Unexpectedly, within a few days, he contacted me, saying that he had thought of a way to prove Goldbach's conjecture.

In fact, when I made this suggestion to him, I just wanted him to work hard in this direction, but I did not expect to receive the news that he had already thought of a proof method so soon. After he contacted me, he started to prove Gothic. Bach guessed.

It took less than three days from when he started to write down the proof process to when he called me to inform me that he had written the proof process.

After I received his call and heard that he had written the complete proof process of Goldbach's conjecture, I hurried over..."

Li Mingzhi had already walked into the living room with the phone at this time, and his wife had already fallen asleep in the bedroom, so naturally it was impossible to keep talking with Qiu Chengtong on the other end of the phone in the bedroom.

"Three days?" Hearing the time it took for Zhou Ming to prove Goldbach's conjecture, Qiu Chengtong had already seen a mathematical genius like Tao Zhexuan, but he was still shocked by the time Li Mingzhi said.

As Qiu Chengtong, who has always been concerned about the younger generation in the domestic mathematics community, he had heard of Zhou Ming as early as when Zhou Ming's first mathematical paper was published in "New Advances in Mathematics".

But at that time, he only noticed it, and didn't pay special attention to it.

After that, Zhou Ming successively published several mathematics papers in the "Mathematics Yearbook".

Moreover, no matter whether it was in "New Advances in Mathematics" or in "Mathematics Yearbook", Zhou Ming's papers all involved Qiu Chengtong's research field, which attracted Qiu Chengtong's special attention.

In the opinion of Qiu Chengtong at that time, although Zhou Ming had been unknown before, his achievements this year could already be regarded as Tao Zhexuan in China.

However, after the twin prime number conjecture was proved, Qiu Chengtong, who had been following Zhou Ming all the time, realized that Zhou Ming's strength might have surpassed that of Tao Zhexuan. He originally planned to visit the University of Science and Technology after the Chinese New Year and see Zhou Ming with his own eyes.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Ming proved Goldbach's conjecture shortly after solving the twin prime number conjecture.

Now I heard from Li Zhizhi that it only took three days for Zhou Ming to solve the twin prime number conjecture. No one else dares to brag like that.

"Well, yes, it was three days. When I first heard the news, I had the same reaction as you.

After rushing to Zhou Ming's place, I quickly saw his proof process.

However, after watching the proof process for a while, I found that I was struggling, so I contacted Wang Yuan and the others, and they arrived the next day, and began to study Xiao Zhou's proof process together. "Li Mingzhi continued.

"You didn't even tell me about such a big thing?" Qiu Chengtong on the other end of the phone said a little unhappy after hearing what Li Mingzhi had said.

After all, Professor Qiu has known Li Mingzhi for more than 20 years, and the relationship between the two is still very good.

This time Li Mingzhi learned that Goldbach's conjecture had been proved to be such a big thing, but he didn't tell him about it. It's understandable that he felt a little unhappy.

"Hey, this is my fault. Actually, I was thinking of telling you at the time, but after I thought of you, I quickly rejected this idea.

After all, although your research fields are very broad, including partial differential equations, differential geometry, and mathematical physics, haven't you studied analytic number theory much?

And the most important thing is that I also called Pan Biao. I also know about the things between you and Peking University.

So, at that time, I was thinking of notifying you after our side has gone through Xiao Zhou's proof process in its entirety.

How could Xiao Zhou write the thesis so fast, we only read half of the content here, he has already sorted out the thesis, and uploaded it to arXiv overnight. "

Li Mingzhi also knew that it was a bit unreasonable for him not to tell his old friend, so he explained it to Professor Qiu with apology.

Upon hearing what Li Mingzhi said, Qiu Chengtong was silent for a moment. If he really went over and saw Pan Biao from Peking University, the two of them might really start fighting.

"I understand your concern. Although I don't want to quarrel with them, what you said is indeed possible." When Qiu Chengtong said this, Li Mingzhi could hear a faint sigh.

In fact, Li Mingzhi knew that Qiu Chengtong's criticism of Peking University was actually a criticism of the mathematics major of Huaguo University as a whole. After all, he studied mathematics and didn't understand other aspects, so naturally he would not intervene.

The reason why it became like this is only because Professor Qiu believes that Peking University is the number one university in China, at least in terms of mathematics, Peking University can indeed be called the number one university in China.

He clearly expressed his views on education issues in Huaguo. In his opinion, it is most appropriate to start from Peking University, because this is an issue of a large-scale education system. explore these important questions.

But later, because some media reported that what he said was not completely consistent for the second time, as well as some other problems, the war escalated.

As for the dispute between him and Peking University, most of the mathematics professors outside of Peking University in the Huaguo mainland are on the sidelines and do not want to participate in this Qiu-bei dispute.

"I also heard that Zhou Ming will hold an academic report at the University of Science and Technology on February 2. Is it true? Why hasn't your school released any news?" Qiu Chengtong didn't want to talk about the matter between him and Peking University, so he asked Li Mingzhi asked another question.

"Yes, in fact, I only found out about this today. I have already told the school and asked them to publish the notice of this matter as soon as possible and put it in the most prominent place on the official website until February 2st. "Li Mingzhi explained again.

"Okay, I know everything I want to know.

Since he will hold an academic report on Goldbach’s conjecture at the University of Science and Technology on February 2, I will also go there at that time. I will talk to you about other things at that time. Anyway, there will definitely be people from Peking University. of. "Comrade Qiu Cheng said.

It was already late at night, and Qiu Chengtong didn't want to disturb his old friend any longer, so he hung up the phone quickly.

"Alas!" Li Mingzhi looked at the screen of the phone that had hung up the phone, and thought of his old friend and Peking University, as well as some domestic affairs, he couldn't help but let out a sigh.

But the sigh was quickly replaced by a smile, because he thought of Zhou Ming.

Li Zhiming, who graduated from the Graduate School of Huaguo University of Science and Technology in 1981 and served as the first dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology in 2011, now believes that the most important thing he has done for his alma mater when he was a graduate student One of the most important things is that he insisted on hiring Zhou Ming as a professor of mathematics at HKUST.

"With him, the mathematics world in Huaguo will be different soon, at least the Science and Technology Conference will be different." Li Mingzhi thought so, turned off his phone and walked into the bedroom, ready to sleep.

Waking up the next morning, Li Zhizhi received a shocking news about Zhou Ming.

However, this news is not about Zhou Ming proving Goldbach's conjecture, but about an artificial intelligence company that Zhou Ming founded a few months ago.

"Flowers Club Yanjing time... Chinese scientists have developed a new type of artificial intelligence that can accurately predict protein structures... Hua published [Protein Structure Prediction Algorithm Research and Protein Design Application] in the "Science" magazine Professor Zhou Ming from the University of Science and Technology of China is the main person in charge of the project...

They disclosed the source code of this new artificial intelligence system, and described its design framework and training method in detail...The publication of these papers and artificial intelligence system resources will not only make the technology of protein structure prediction of this artificial intelligence system widely available. Scientists and researchers use it to stimulate progress in this field, and at the same time demonstrate our country's adherence to the scientific outlook on development..."

This latest news from Huashe not only spent a lot of time reporting the research results of [Artificial Intelligence Accurately Predicting Protein Structure] released by Zhou Ming's artificial intelligence company, but also reported their decision to disclose the source code of the artificial intelligence. .

After the report by Flower Club, Zhou Ming's name once again appeared in the public's field of vision, and a large number of popular science videos and texts on various platforms emerged.

"Hehe, this kid, the matter that he proved Goldbach's conjecture has not been reported yet, so it was first reported by the higher authorities because of this matter.

I really don't know how his brain grew, but he is still the main person in charge of this project. After dealing with Goldbach's conjecture, he has to ask Chen Wen and Chen Yun. Li Mingzhi, who was sitting at the table having breakfast, looked at the news on the tablet and said to himself with a smile on his face.

"What's the matter, you've been giggling all the time holding the tablet today, what news did you see?" the wife who was having breakfast at the side asked curiously seeing Li Mingzhi smiling like a child.

"It's the young man I mentioned to you before, Zhou Ming. He's on the news again, and it's reported by the Flower Club. It's a big report."

Li Mingzhi raised his head to look at his wife, and said to her with a smile on his face, and finally emphasized that it was a large-scale report when he mentioned the Flower Club report.

"Is it what Goldbach conjectured when he called you last time?

Didn't he prove the correctness of his proof?Reported so soon?Is the above a bit too anxious? "

When Li Zhizhi's wife heard him say that the Flower Club reported, the first thing that came to mind was the Goldbach conjecture that Li Zhizhi had been concerned about these days.

As Li Zhizhi's bedside person, his wife naturally has some understanding of the Goldbach conjecture that Li Zhizhi has been busy with recently, so she asked this question a little strangely. Wasn't it a big joke to be recognized?

"No." Hearing his wife's question, Li Zhiming shook his head, and the smile on his face grew stronger, "If it's really Goldbach's conjecture, I'm not so surprised. I'm sure I'll be happy if I'm happy, but it won't be like this Glad, after all, the happiest time has passed."

"What else could it be?" Li Zhizhi's wife became even more curious after hearing Li Zhizhi's explanation. She simply took the tablet from Li Zhizhi's hand and read the news by herself.

"Artificial intelligence accurately predicts proteins? Isn't he a professor of mathematics? He is also so talented in artificial intelligence?" Li Mingzhi's wife looked surprised.

"That's for sure, otherwise how can I say that I picked up a piece of treasure for our University of Science and Technology.

And he is not only talented in artificial intelligence and mathematics, he also has a very high talent in biology, which can be said to be blossoming on three sides. "

Li Mingzhi said with a proud face.

……

Regarding the disclosure of the source code of this new type of artificial intelligence system, and a detailed description of its design framework and training methods, and the "Science" magazine met Zhou Ming's artificial intelligence company not only announced that they have developed a protein that has been able to accurately predict Structural artificial intelligence, and after the source code of this kind of artificial intelligence was released, a special issue was rushed out immediately, just to report the article that Zhou Ming submitted to their journal [Protein Structure Prediction Algorithm Research and Protein Design Applications].

And this series of news quickly spread all over the world, which is much faster than the spread of information related to Zhou Ming's proof of Goldbach's conjecture.

After all, one just published an article about the proof process on arXiv, while the other not only had the results, but also published the source code, and it was published in a top world-class journal like "Science".

"Why haven't I heard of this company called 'Future Smart Technology' before?"

After most people received the information from the Internet that a company named Future Intelligent Technology from Huaguo suddenly released the latest artificial intelligence that can accurately predict the structure of proteins, their first reaction was not that this achievement is useful. How awesome, after all, they don't study this, and it's normal not to know what's awesome.

Their first reaction was, what is this company they have never heard of before?Why never heard of it before?And if you check the company's previous products, you can't find anything.

As the saying goes, "Experts watch the way, laymen watch the excitement", laymen are now studying this smart company that seems to have fallen from the sky. After careful investigation by interested people, they found that this future smart technology company and the original name newly created last year There is a close relationship with the company known as "Future Technology", which was later renamed "Future Biotechnology".

People don't know about Future Smart Technology Company, but they know that although it was established last year, it was established several months earlier than Future Smart Technology Company. After all, this company has been established in just a few months Many products have already come out, which can be said to be the biggest dark horse in 2015.

"When did our country's artificial intelligence become so powerful?"

"The boss of this artificial intelligence company seems to be Zhou Ming, the same Zhou Ming who was exceptionally hired as a full professor by the School of Mathematical Sciences of HKUST in his junior year last year. I didn't expect that!"

"The boss of IFLYTEK, the leader of my country's artificial intelligence, seems to be from HKUST? Is HKUST going to take off? This is to catch up with Qingbei and aspire to be the world's top prestigious school."

"Hehe, if you do artificial intelligence without developing your own chips, you will eventually be controlled by others. If this 'future smart technology' does not change this point, it will not be possible to develop like foreign Intel, Qualcomm, and Nvidia."

"Upstairs, this company has not been developed for more than a year. I think their future achievements will not only be like Intel's, but will definitely surpass those of big companies."

"Laughing to death, do you think those big companies are living for nothing? Before you develop, you will be acquired by others, or you will be suppressed. Do you still want to develop?"

"Do you think that the top will not support such a private enterprise? They still suppress it. If you really have something, you probably don't know how powerful the iron fist is."

"It's impossible for HKUST to catch up with the top universities in the world. After all, Zhou Ming is the only one who can catch up with Peking University in mathematics.

How many Zhou Ming can he produce?And if you are a person, you may change jobs. If other universities in China, or even foreign universities poach people, he may go abroad directly. "

……

In the last comment on the answer with the highest number of likes in the answer introducing "Future Smart Technology", topics about Future Smart Technology Company, Zhou Ming, and University of Science and Technology are being discussed intensely, and many people are even in Aite Zhao Letian, I want him to come out and say something, after all, Zhao Letian can be regarded as "an excellent answerer under Zhou Ming's topic".

Although at this time the Internet is full of discussions about Zhou Ming and the artificial intelligence that can accurately predict proteins, Zhou Ming has already set his mobile phone to the do not disturb mode at this time.

Zhou Ming never forgot the task that the life simulator arranged for Zhou Ming.

It's just because after the last simulation, Zhou Ming got the proof of Goldbach's conjecture in the [Mathematical Skills], in order to complete the proof of Goldbach's conjecture in this world, Zhou Ming can only spend all his thoughts on On this, the task of the simulator cannot be performed.

Now that the proof of Goldbach's conjecture has been written by Zhou Ming, he should upload the paper to arXiv. It is time to submit the paper to the Yearbook of Mathematics. Now we are waiting for the academic report on February 2st.

Large Radius Expansion of Superstring Compactifications, large radius expansion of superstring compaction.

This is the first paper that Zhou Ming read after waking up and having breakfast this morning. In order to complete the life simulator, he was required to complete the reading of 100 documents, 50 books, and 10 experiments.

The main content of this paper is mainly verified by some explicit perturbative calculation arguments about the existence of compact solutions of superstring theory in which the spin connection is not embedded in the gauge group in a standard way, but the gauge connection is SU (3) Connections on more general holomorphic vector bundles on holographic manifolds.

The paper was written in 1987 by Edward Witten, a famous Jewish American physicist, mathematician, Fields Medal winner, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and his theoretical physicist father Louis Witten who studied general relativity. jointly published in the year.

Among the 100 papers that Zhou Ming bound, none were in pure mathematics, biology, or artificial intelligence. After all, it was too difficult to find papers in these three areas that met the requirements of a life simulator.

As for whether he can understand physics-related papers, although Zhou Ming has not studied physics, he has also comprehensively studied all other science and engineering majors in a previous simulation, and that is the future of science and engineering. Knowledge.

Therefore, it is not very difficult for him to understand these papers on physics.

Zhou Ming sat for the whole morning. By the time he felt a little hungry and was about to have lunch, it was already noon.

[Mission details: There are roads and hard work in the mountains of books, and there is no limit to the sea of ​​learning and hard work.You seem to realize that you have been studying knowledge that you already know the results in your mind, and you are less and less interested in self-learning and researching new knowledge.That being the case, then please wander in the ocean of new knowledge!

阅读符合要求的文献100份，阅读符合要求的书籍50本，完成符合要求的实验十组。任务完成时间不限。文献：3/100 书籍：0/50 实验：0/10】

After looking at the completion of the task, the literature part has changed from 0/100 to 3/100. As for the books and experiments, it is still 0.

"It seems that the speed is not bad, but I'm afraid I can't improve the progress of the literature part to 2/1 before the academic report on February 100. I have to spend some time to prepare for the report that day."

After looking at the completion of the task, Zhou Ming put away the interface of the simulator, thinking so in his heart.

The literature is okay, Zhou Ming found only some not-so-thick papers.

But books are different. Although the amount required is half that of literature, only 50 books, although Zhou Ming has already found books that are not so thick to bind, any books that meet the binding requirements of the simulator , are much thicker than the thesis he bound.

Even with Zhou Ming's current ability, these 50 books cannot be read in a short time.

As for the experiment, Zhou Ming can do it together with the first two items. After all, he is free when doing the experiment, and he can use this gap to complete the first two items.

After lunch, Zhou Ming took a nap for half an hour. After waking up, he plunged into the ocean of papers again.

In this way, Zhou Ming's day passed. When he finished reading documents for a day at night, he opened the emulator panel again and found that the progress of the documents had changed to 11/100.

In this way, time passed quickly, and Zhou Ming stayed at home all the time.

As for the interview on the achievement of "artificial intelligence to accurately predict protein structure", Zhou Ming also handed over all the interviews to the professors and researchers in his company.

This move by Zhou Ming not only did not attract criticism, but also received strong praise from both the government and netizens, who called it "flick off the clothes and hide the merits and fame", saying that this is what a scholar should have style.

When the time came to January 1st, there were only seven days left until New Year's Eve, and February 31th was New Year's Eve.

As for Zhou Minghui's academic report on proving Goldbach's conjecture on February 2, this matter has long been listed on the most prominent place on the official website of HKUST.

At this time, there should be not many people on the campus of the University of Science and Technology. Most of these people are from abroad. There are mathematics professors from Princeton University, University of California, Los Angeles, etc., There are also mathematics professors from top universities in Paris, France, and mathematics professors from Merton College, Oxford University, England, as well as major media.

These professors are almost all professors of mathematics. Some of their research fields are analytic number theory, and some of them are not mainly in analytic number theory, but they are more interested in it.

The purpose of their visit to HKUST this time is to participate in tomorrow's academic report, but they haven't met Zhou Ming formally yet. Since Zhou Ming uploaded the proof paper on the proof of Goldbach's conjecture to arXiv, he has Declined to visit.

Even Li Mingzhi and the others watched Zhou Ming's proof process, and announced to the outside world that the Goldbach conjecture had been proved by Professor Zhou Ming from the School of Mathematical Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology in Huaguo, a member of the editorial board of "Mathematics Yearbook" When the same news was released on behalf of the editorial board and caused another commotion, Zhou Ming still stayed at home and did not accept any interviews.

"Phew, 63/100. It seems that I have been scrambling to sleep and forget to eat and sleep, and I still can't complete the task of this document before the academic report to be held tomorrow.

I can only wait until the academic report is over, and I have to prepare the content of tomorrow's report. "

On the afternoon of the 31st, Zhou Ming called out the interface of the simulator, took a look at the progress, let out a long breath, and began to prepare for tomorrow's academic report.

　This time it is really a big chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)