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Chapter 504 World-renowned report meeting
MIT dorms.

Chen Zhou hung up the phone helplessly, and shrugged slightly at Liu Maosheng and others who were sitting beside him.

"I don't know where these media got the contact information. The report meeting has not started yet, and my mobile phone is about to explode. Are you not afraid that I will be wrong in the end?"

Chen Zhou is really annoyed to death now. Ever since he uploaded his thesis and Princeton prepared a report meeting for him and Harold Hoofgot, his mobile phone has never stopped.

In addition to inquiries from acquaintances, there are countless unknown numbers harassing him.

Hearing Chen Zhou's words, Liu Maosheng said with a smile: "Student brother, you are receiving the attention of the whole world now, and it is normal for phone messages to be leaked, so don't be annoyed, just make a rejection of unknown numbers." .”

Chen Zhou was noncommittal, if the setting of the unknown phone was completely useful, then he wouldn't be so bothered now.

Chen Zhou looked at the unknown number that appeared on the phone again, turned the phone to silent, and asked Liu Maosheng and Zeng Zigu: "By the way, you should also go to Princeton, right?"

Liu Maosheng nodded: "I will definitely go, but I don't know whether to go with Dean Sun and the others, or with Professor Qiu Chengtong..."

Zeng Zigu also said: "It stands to reason that Dean Sun will definitely arrange for people to attend this report meeting, but there is no news yet. The Department of Mathematics of our school has already arranged, and Professor Qiu Chengtong will Go to this report meeting."

"And the school also said that as long as we want to go, students can go there at our own expense. However, the two of us considered that we are so familiar with Dean Sun and the others, should we wait for news from Dean Sun? , when the time comes we will go there together."

Hearing this, Chen Zhou laughed lightly and said, "I'm afraid it's not because you are too familiar, but Dean Sun will reimburse you for your travel expenses, so you are thinking about traveling at public expense, right?"

Liu Maosheng and Zeng Zigu shook their heads quickly, and they said in unison: "Student brother, how can you say that? As students from the Department of Mathematics of Yanda University, we must want to do more for the Department of Mathematics of Yanda University. The matter must be Yanda's most important thing!"

Chen Zhou shook his head with a smile, and didn't say anything more.

No matter when they went, in two days' time, he would definitely be leaving.

Generally speaking, a proof of this level like Goldbach's conjecture must hold a report meeting and invite academic colleagues to witness it together.

On the one hand, witness the right and wrong of this proof.

On the other hand, it is to hope to be recognized by the academic community.

In this way, the name of the prover will be linked to the proven conjecture.

Moreover, generally speaking, the choice of venue for the certifier's report meeting is generally based on the arrangement of the unit where he works, or the academic institution where he conducts research.

After all, everyone wants to use such a grand event to expand the influence of their unit or academic institution.

MIT, where Chen Zhou works, is no exception.

Even though MIT has produced several Fields Medal winners, it also has a mathematician like Professor Artin.

However, there has never been such a person who has solved a problem that has plagued the mathematics community for nearly three centuries.

Or to put it bluntly, Goldbach guessed that the influence of this level of mathematical problems has reached the point where even a world-renowned university like MIT cannot be ignored.

So, at the beginning, after MIT learned that Chen Zhou had uploaded a paper and submitted it to the Annals of Mathematics.

I found Chen Zhou and planned to discuss matters related to the report meeting with Chen Zhou.

Even the MIT school has considered the "competitive" relationship between Chen Zhou and Harold Hoofgot.

It is planned to invite Harold Hoofgot to MIT, and the two of them will hold this report together.

Make a worldwide debate on the final proof right of Goldbach's conjecture.

Of course, when MIT made this decision, it also considered that it had to bear two different results.

But no matter what the result is, MIT's influence is bound to increase again because of this report.

In fact, not only MIT has considered these factors.

The École Normale Supérieure, where Harold Hoofgot belongs, also takes these into consideration.

In a sense, the Ecole Normale Supérieure may need the influence of this report more.

Because, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris has cultivated countless outstanding teachers, hundreds of academicians of the French Academy, 13 Nobel Prize winners, and 14 Fields Medal winners.

It is no exaggeration to say that this normal university has been an important research center in mathematics, science and philosophy in the world during the more than 200 years since its establishment.

The outstanding talents it has had include Lagrange, Cauchy, Fourier, Monge, Galois and other historical mathematicians, as well as Gounod, Pasteur, Durkheim, Raoler, etc. Big names in the scientific world, such as Romain Rolland, Sartre, Beauvoir, Aron, Alain, Bourdieu, and other world-renowned philosophers.

However, as time goes by, no place can last forever.

The influence of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris is no longer as good as it used to be.

So, they need the change brought about by Harold Hoofgot this time.

Moreover, in terms of chronological order, Chen Zhou's paper proving Ge Guess was also published after Harold Hoofgot.

Shouldn't there be a first-come, first-served basis for everything?
That being the case, what the Ecole Normale Supérieure thinks is that they should be the organizers of this report meeting.

And Chen Zhou can bring the paper to the report meeting.

At the same time, it is up to the mathematics community to judge whose paper is right and whose paper is wrong.

Naturally, MIT would not agree with such a statement. The reason they gave was that Chen Zhou had already discovered the fatal flaw in Harold Hoofgot's thesis in the process of proving Goldbach's conjecture.

So it would be best for them to hold this lecture, and Harold Hoofgot came with the paper.

When I said this, MIT actually had no idea.

Although Chen Zhou published it publicly, his thesis is a statement like "Brother guessed the correct way to open it".

But they are unable to make an accurate judgment on this.

However, after careful weighing, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology still thinks that even if Chen Zhou bluffs, what they will gain in the end is still more than taking the initiative to go to the Ecole Normale Supérieure.

So MIT and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, each insisting on their own opinions, began the competition for the venue of the report.

And, in order to maximize the influence of the report meeting.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ecole Normale Supérieure also specifically told Chen Zhou and Harold Hoofgot not to make any remarks in public or on social media.

We will wait until after the report meeting is over.

This is also under the explosion of Chen Zhou on his Weibo, under the bombardment of many parties.

He still didn't make any further remarks, and he didn't explain too much about the reason for the message he posted on Weibo.

In fact, it was precisely because of Chen Zhou's silence again that the curiosity of the people who paid attention to this matter was aroused even more.

That's why Chen Zhou's phone number was leaked, as well as the cell phone ringing constantly.

Later, after two days of discussions, MIT and École Normale Supérieure still failed to come up with a feasible plan.

Both sides have also begun to tend to hold their own report meetings and carry out "confrontation" in the air.

But this is not good for Chen Zhou and Harold Hoofgot.

In any case, there is no reason for the two to be absent from each other's presentations.

The results of the report meeting are also extremely important to the two of them.

Moreover, where can I find so many bigwigs in the world of mathematics?
Which report will the big guys come to?
In this case, if the family is lively and the family is deserted, isn't it a slap in the face?

Just at this time, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton began to contact people on both sides, and began to solicit opinions from Chen Zhou and Harold Hoofgot.

Because of the two papers received at the same time, the mathematicians at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton are already busy.

World-renowned mathematicians such as Wiles, Faltings, Deligne, Langlands, and Freeman all participated in the review of the paper.

So, if the report will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, where the two are located.

Then it is very likely that these reviewers will not be able to spare time.

And if it is held separately, it will be even more troublesome.

Ultimately, MIT and École Normale Supérieure reached an agreement, accepting the proposal of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

Of course, this is mainly because Chen Zhou and Harold Hoofgot also hope to hold a report meeting in Princeton.

After all, if MIT and École Normale Supérieure were to discuss further, they would probably have to hold a separate report meeting.

And this is actually what neither Chen Zhou nor Harold Hoofgot wanted to see.

Mathematicians have the unique pride of mathematicians.

What's the point if you can't beat your opponent face to face?
Even if you fail, you should accept it with your head held high.

From the perspective of the inheritance of mathematics, Goldbach conjectures that this difficult problem that has plagued the mathematics world for nearly three centuries should also be announced to the world at the World Mathematical Center.

In fact, as far as Chen Zhou himself is concerned, he has another idea.

That is, he hopes to solve Goldbach's conjecture once and for all.

To put it simply, it is to defeat Harold Hoofgot head-on, and at the same time make the entire mathematics community recognize and accept his proof results.

Two days passed quickly.

In the past two days, Chen Zhou also carefully checked his proof process again.

At the same time, once again, the proof process of Harold Hoofgot's thesis was verified, and the fatal flaw he discovered was carefully studied.

This was also the first time that Chen Zhou paid so much attention to one matter before the report meeting.

If you want to put it aside, Chen Zhou is probably copying a certain PPT, trying to change it, and use it as a PPT for his own report meeting.

But now, his heart is yearning for a word called foolproof.

Of course, during these two days, Chen Zhou was still constantly being harassed.

His Weibo has completely exploded.

On Weibo, almost all messages asked him why he said that his proof paper was "the correct way to open my guess".

Everyone's curiosity has been hoisted to the highest level.

There were even many netizens who didn't get a reply, and began to leave messages saying that he wanted to go to the report meeting to witness this historic moment with his own eyes, and he also wanted to see with his own eyes whether Mr. Chen Zhou would break his promise.

At the same time, this netizen also said that if possible, he would definitely broadcast it live for everyone...

In fact, Chen Zhou also saw these situations on Weibo.

I almost couldn't hold back, and replied a [dog head] to this netizen.

Fortunately, I held back in the end and didn't expose my posture of diving quietly and observing secretly.

The reason why Chen Zhou didn't reply was not entirely because of MIT's instructions.

Rather, he believes that since there is an occasion for a public "confrontation".

Then if he makes too many comments on this matter, it will be meaningless.

In other words, Chen Zhou felt that this was too inconsistent with his perfect temperament, and it was really out of gentlemanly demeanor.

He planned to wait until he defeated his opponent before replying to these cute sand sculpture netizens.

In addition, as Liu Maosheng and Zeng Zigu saw that day.

Chen Zhou's cell phone also completely "exploded".

It beeps almost every 3 minutes.

Chen Zhou actually admires the perseverance of these people. With this time and perseverance, what can I do wrong?
If I give him this time, I won't be able to keep it all, and I will solve another mathematical conjecture...

But no matter what, it doesn't matter whether there are netizens who will actually go to the report meeting in person.

Chen Zhou and Harold Hoofgot's report meeting in Princeton is really about to start.

On the plane, Chen Zhou was very glad that he bought a hat and put it on.

Otherwise, he estimated that he would be surrounded by the media reporters on the plane.

He would never have imagined that this plane would become a "special plane for the news media".

Because Chen Zhou was surprised to find out from their discussions that most of these people were journalists, and they were on their way to Princeton.

The goal is also the report meeting between him and Harold Hoofgot.

Chen Zhou went to Princeton with his mentor, Professor Michael Artin.

This master of algebraic geometry has not left Boston or MIT for a long time.

This time, he offered to go to Princeton with Chen Zhou.

In addition to Professor Artin, there are many professors and students from the Department of Mathematics.

Glancing at Chen Zhou, who had the brim of his hat pulled down, Professor Arting said with a smile, "It's not an exaggeration to have a world-famous mathematical conjecture coupled with a world-renowned report."

The plane landed at Philadelphia International Airport on time.

Chen Zhou, Professor A Ting and others took the airport car to Princeton.

And this is not very big, even a little classical town.

At this moment, it seemed extraordinarily lively.

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