Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 207 The Riemann Conjecture
"As for the separation and extraction of natural active molecules of Chinese medicinal plants, I don't think there is any need for this cooperation." Zhou Ming rejected the cooperation proposal on Chinese medicinal materials that Jay Kisling just put forward without leaving any room.

It was obvious that Jay Kisling did not expect Zhou Ming to reject his proposal, he continued to say to Zhou Ming with a look of surprise, "Our cooperation will not only benefit me, but also benefit you a lot.

The first is the research results, we must each have a part, and this alone can gain money and fame.

More importantly, I know that although traditional Chinese medicine should be abandoned for some people in your country, it also has a special status in the hearts of other people. If you can cooperate with us, you can not only bring out the full potential of your country. The application of traditional medicine in modern medicine can also promote your traditional Chinese medicine, which is enough to make your reputation in your country to a higher level. "

Listening to what Jay Kiesling said, Zhou Ming smiled. It seemed that Jay Kiesling had misjudged this point.

Therefore, Zhou Ming continued to say to him without any hesitation: "Professor Keasling, you don't need to persuade me on this point.

As for what you said about asking me to carry forward our country's traditional medicine, although I have some attainments in biology, I have no research on our country's traditional Chinese medicine, so I can't carry it forward.

And even if I really want to study traditional Chinese medicine in our country, I definitely can’t just start with herbal medicine. I will definitely also explore its most basic scientific principles.

However, firstly, I don't know much about this aspect, and secondly, the current scientific means and theoretical basis are not enough for me to conduct research in this area.

Taking a step back, even if I want to study more functions of natural active molecules in Chinese herbal medicine plants, as well as their isolation and purification, I will definitely not cooperate with others. I am quite relieved about our company's biotechnology. "

As for whether he will definitely conduct research in this area in the future, and if he conducts research, what aspects and methods will be used to conduct research, Zhou Ming will naturally not tell Jay Kisling this week.

After hearing what Zhou Ming said, Jay Keesling's face clearly showed disappointment.

However, this look only flashed across his face, and soon Jay Keesling continued to talk to Zhou Ming about another research collaboration.

"Since Professor Zhou is unwilling to cooperate in Chinese herbal medicine, what about the cooperation in the space synthetic biology project? I wonder if Professor Zhou is interested in this cooperation?"

Jay Kisling asked Zhou Ming again.

"Hmm... Regarding the cooperation of the space synthetic biology project, I can consider it. However, I don't remember that there seems to be some law on your side that prevents you from carrying out space-related cooperation with us?"

Regarding the second cooperation proposal proposed by Jay Kisling, Zhou Ming did not reject it as quickly as Chinese medicinal plants this time. Instead, he gave an ambiguous reply and raised his own doubts.

The reason why he gave such a reply was also because Zhou Ming still had to see how the negotiations between the higher-ups and the American side were going. If they reached an agreement, they would naturally be able to cooperate.

If they couldn't reach an agreement, there was no need to cooperate. After all, Zhou Ming didn't have the habit of letting people prostitute him for free.

Seeing that Zhou Ming didn't directly reject the second cooperation proposed by him as before, but he also didn't directly agree to it, Jie Kesling felt a little unhappy.

However, he also gave his own reply to Zhou Ming's question.

"That restriction is about aerospace. Our cooperation is in the biological field, and that clause cannot limit it."

Jay Kisling said to Zhou Ming that it is almost impossible to cooperate with us because we have the technology that you do not have, but if we do not have the technology that you have, we can cooperate.

After that, Zhou Ming and Jay Kisling chatted for a few more words before saying anything more.

And Zhou Ming left here directly, while Jay Kisling and his team continued to chat with other professors and leaders of the school.

At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, Xue Tian, ​​the dean of the School of Life Sciences, knocked on the door of Zhou Ming's office at the School of Life Sciences.

"Please come in." Zhou Ming said without raising his head.

After hearing Zhou Ming's invitation to come in, Xue Tian walked into Zhou Ming's office, and Zhou Ming looked up at Xue Tian at this moment, and said to him: "Dean Xue, why are you here? What's the matter?" ?"

Xue Tian glanced at Zhou Ming's desk and saw that he was writing a series of mathematical formulas that seemed to be composed of numbers and various mathematical symbols on a piece of draft paper. He didn't stop writing until he looked up at himself, and he was writing A stack of used draft paper was piled up next to him, and these used draft papers were also neatly filled with all kinds of mathematical formulas that he couldn't understand.

"It's nothing, I just want to talk to you about the cooperation with Jay Keasling and the others. I heard that Professor Keasling proposed two cooperation proposals, but Professor Zhou rejected them?"

After Zhou Ming finished speaking, Xue Tian quickly turned his attention back to Zhou Ming from the draft paper on Zhou Ming's desk, and said to him.

"Oh, so you came to see me to talk about cooperation.

The first cooperation that Professor Keasling talked about was the cooperation on the separation and extraction of natural active molecules of Chinese medicinal plants. I can only say that this is related to the future development of our company, and I cannot disclose more.

As for the second research he mentioned, it is about the space synthetic biology research project.

Dean Xue, let me ask you, what do you think we can gain by cooperating with them? "

Zhou Ming was talking to Xue Tian, ​​but when he talked about the second cooperation, he asked Xue Tian a question instead.

Xue Tian didn't expect Zhou Ming to ask himself suddenly, but he didn't react for a while.

"The upside... some of the technologies they have are not available to us. We can learn from each other, and we can also learn about the progress of synthetic biology in the United States through them."

After thinking for a long time, Xue Tian came up with such a benefit.

"Hehe, what is their biotechnology?
Regarding biotechnology, we have what they have, and we have what they don't.

Also, in the future, we will not only absorb a large number of domestic biological talents, but also absorb biological talents from other countries.

In short, the biological gap between them and us will only widen in the future.

If we really want to cooperate, this is not called learning from each other, it can only be called unilateral learning, or stealing.

Besides, what did they do to us before?Is it possible that we still have to repay grievances with virtue?
Repaying resentment with virtue, why repay virtue?

Regarding this matter, Dean Xue should not get involved too much. I know it well, and this matter is also related to the game between the two parties above. "

Zhou Ming said to Xue Tian that Zhou Ming was not very happy about Xue Tian's coming to persuade him, but he also reminded him at the end.

This is not to blame for Dean Xue. Although he is the dean of Huaguo University of Science and Technology, his influence is less than one percent of that of Zhou Ming. His status was also inferior to that of Zhou Ming.

Moreover, Xue Tian has not yet joined Zhou Ming's team, nor has he joined Zhou Ming's company. Naturally, he doesn't know much about Zhou Ming's undisclosed biotechnology and ongoing biological research, so there is such a misjudgment, saying that each other study.

"Since Professor Zhou knows it well, then I won't bother, I'm leaving." After hearing what Zhou Ming said, although I felt that Zhou Ming's bragging was a bit too much.

But when he heard Zhou Ming say that this matter was still related to the game between Hua Guo and the upper class of the United States, he didn't want to get involved in this matter anymore.

He still wants to be promoted in two years. If this mistake caused a bad influence, then his promotion in a few years' time may be hopeless.

"Wait a minute, since you're here, I have something to talk to you about." Seeing that Xue Tian was about to leave, Zhou Ming quickly stopped him.

Being stopped by Zhou Ming, Xue Tian suddenly had bad associations in his mind, but what Zhou Ming said next was not as he thought, and Zhou Ming was not so narrow-minded.

"Dean Xue is engaged in the research of light signal transduction and neural circuits in photoreceptor neurobiology, as well as visual regeneration and repair?" Zhou Ming asked.

"That's right." Xue Tian replied briefly.

"I have a cooperation here. I wonder if Dean Xue is willing to accept it?" Zhou Ming said.

"Cooperation?" Xue Tian was confused.

"That's right, it's a project jointly invested by Future Biotechnology Company and Future Intelligent Technology Company on the combination of human brain and machine. The light signal transduction and neural circuits of photoreceptor neurobiology and visual regeneration you are engaged in Restoration and other aspects of research, just in line with a research point in the project.

However, I should say upfront that this will be a long-term project. "

Zhou Ming said to Dean Xue.

After Xue Tian heard what Zhou Ming said, the first thing he wanted to say was where did the smart technology company get the money to invest in the project combining human brain and machine?

However, thinking that Future Biotechnology Company also invested, he guessed that the funds for this project must mainly come from Future Biotechnology Company.

"Can you be more specific?"

The information provided by Zhou Ming was of no use at all, so Xue Tian asked again.

"There will be a meeting later on the specific matter, and I will tell you about it at that time. I just want to talk to you now, so that you can think about it in advance."

Zhou Ming said that in fact, he was mainly worried that Jay Kisling and his team could not cooperate with him, so they ran to other professors from the School of Life Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology to cooperate, so Zhou Ming told Xue Tian in advance.

After all, if you want to build a brain-like intelligent robot, experts in neurobiology are definitely indispensable.

Soon, Xue Tian left Zhou Ming's office, and Zhou Ming continued to do his work.

What Zhou Ming is studying now is mathematical problems. The pile of used draft paper that Xue Tian saw earlier was used by Zhou Ming when he was calculating.

The mathematical problem that Zhou Ming is studying this time is not the Hodge conjecture mentioned by the two big men, Earl Deligne and Faltings, at the beginning of the year, but is known as one of the seven major problems in the world. The Riemann Hypothesis, also known as the Riemann Hypothesis.

Up to now, it has been 2000 years since the seven "Millennium Prize Problems" were selected by the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Clay Mathematics Institute in the United States in early 16, but only one problem of the Poincaré conjecture has been solved.

The other six have not yet been resolved.

Among them, Riemann's conjecture, although he is not as famous as Fermat's last theorem and Goldbach's conjecture, its importance in mathematics is far more than the latter two, and it can even be said to be the most important in today's mathematics. The world's most important mathematical problem.

Once the Riemann Hypothesis is proved thoroughly, there will be more than a thousand mathematical propositions directly established in today's mathematical literature, because they are all based on the establishment of the Riemann Hypothesis or its extended form.

So what is the Riemann Hypothesis?

Prime numbers are numbers with the special property that they cannot be expressed as the product of two smaller numbers. They play an important role in both pure mathematics and its applications.

As in all natural numbers, the distribution of prime numbers does not follow any regular pattern.

However, the mathematician Riemann observed that the frequency of prime numbers is closely related to the behavior of a carefully constructed so-called Riemann zeta function ζ(s), which is the famous Riemann hypothesis assertion and the origin of the name of the Riemann conjecture.

The proof of the Riemann Hypothesis is to prove that all meaningful solutions of the equation ζ(s)=0 are on a straight line.

Although in 2004, some mathematicians have introduced a conclusion that the first 10 trillion zeros satisfy the Riemann conjecture through calculation methods, but there is still no good way to completely prove the Riemann conjecture.

In fact, Zhou Ming only started the proof of Riemann's conjecture a few days ago, and the manuscripts on the table are the waste manuscripts he used to prove Riemann's conjecture in the past few days.

It has to be said that the Riemann Hypothesis is indeed a mathematical problem that has existed for more than 150 years since it was proposed.

In fact, for Zhou Kunming, the Riemann Hypothesis has been proposed for more than 150 years, because he also has many contributions to the Riemann Hypothesis made by many mathematicians in the next few decades through the life simulator.

For the mathematical knowledge in Zhou Ming's mind, the Riemann Hypothesis has been proposed for more than 200 years.

However, it took more than 300 years for Fermat's conjecture to become Fermat's last theorem. It is not surprising that Riemann's conjecture has not been fully proved for more than 200 years.

Mathematics is like this. You may think that this conjecture can be proved in a few decades at most, but it has not been proved for a long time.

There are some problems that people may think may take hundreds of years to be solved, but they were solved in just a dozen years.

The time to determine the proof of these difficult problems can only be determined by inspiration and the unremitting efforts of countless mathematicians.

That is to say, it was Xue Tian who came to Zhou Ming's office today. He didn't have much in-depth understanding of mathematics, nor was he very interested, so he didn't pay too much attention to the draft paper on Zhou Ming's desk with many mathematical formulas written on it.

If Li Mingzhi, the dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, came here today, he would definitely ask to the end, or directly ask Zhou Ming where his proof is.

If Li Mingzhi really asked these questions, Zhou Ming can naturally speak out the research results of many future mathematicians on the Riemann Hypothesis in his mind as his own.

However, this doesn't make any sense to Zhou Ming. What he wants this time is to be able to prove the Riemann Hypothesis thoroughly by himself. What's the use of telling the research results of those mathematicians in the future?
The Riemann Hypothesis is still unproven.

(End of this chapter)