I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 524 Heading towards the Desert Sweet Potato Project!

arXiv is the world's largest research sharing platform in the fields of physics, mathematics, and computer science. The number of high-quality papers on it exceeds 200 million, and the number of papers uploaded by civil scientists is even more. The number of daily active users is about 300 million. Almost all of them are teachers, professors and other scholars and researchers from all over the world, as well as college students, graduate students and doctoral students.

It is managed daily by four full-time staff, more than 190 volunteer moderators and an automated system, processing more than [-] uploaded papers every day.

Generally speaking, most papers will be preliminarily reviewed by an automatic system with a certain amount of artificial intelligence. In special cases such as no obvious malicious content or sensitive words and high check severity, they will pass the review and be automatically classified and displayed in the corresponding board area. .

However, the papers uploaded by the accounts of some famous scholars and scientific researchers will basically be reviewed manually, and the homepage recommendation and automatic matching recommendation will be made according to their value to expand their popularity.

When Qin Ke's account first uploaded the "Proof of the Twin Prime Number Conjecture" paper, it was naturally a pure newcomer account without any promotion, and it was a pity that the amount of attention was so small.

But when he became famous internationally and published heavyweight papers in top international mathematics journals one after another, his "qin ke" account has been set as a "key focus" account by arXiv staff, so the last time Qin Ke When uploading a paper proving Polignac's conjecture, it will quickly arouse reactions and heated discussions among users.

After Qin Ke won the Mathematical Breakthrough Award and the Cole Number Theory Award successively, and uploaded the paper "The First Three Groups of Expressions to Crack the Mystery of the Riemann Hypothesis", Qin Ke's account has been promoted to the category of "highest priority attention".

This time Qin Ke uploaded the paper "The Proof of the Hail Conjecture" within a minute, and Rogelio, who was on duty in the background, noticed the priority review prompt message proposed by the system.

Rogelio was a little surprised. When he saw clearly the uploader and title of the paper, he immediately sat up straight.

"God, hailstorm conjecture? Has Xia Guo's Miracle Boy proved this mathematical problem?"

Although papers with similar titles are uploaded to arXiv from time to time, Rogelio is basically numb to the point where he has no interest in opening them.But this paper was uploaded by Qin Ke of Xia Kingdom, so the meaning and value are completely different.

Rogelio crunched and swallowed the chocolate he was chewing, then opened the paper and read it seriously.

Rogelio is a mathematics graduate student at MIT, but he can't understand this paper. Of course, this does not prevent him from judging the value of this paper.

"Awesome, he is indeed the Miracle Boy, and his level may not be inferior to any mathematics professor in our school."

Rogelio sighed and clicked the "approved" button.

arXiv is not responsible for the correctness of the content, because they are not journals, they are only responsible for ensuring that the plagiarism rate of the content meets the requirements, that the content is consistent with the title, and that no sensitive content is involved.

But they also have the right and obligation to promote and help excellent authors improve the influence of their papers.

Rogelio then clicked on "Home page recommendation (heavy recommendation)" and "Automatic matching recommendation" respectively.

The former will make this paper appear in the most prominent position on the homepage, and the latter will automatically remind all users who have set the interest tag as "additive number theory" that there are excellent papers in the direction of number theory uploaded, come and take a look.

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Professor Tao from the University of California is also a heavy user of arXiv, and he goes there every day to see if there are any new papers.

He has a wide range of interests in mathematics, and reading a large number of new papers in various subfields is the secret to maintaining his keen sense of mathematics.

Today was no exception. He made a cup of coffee and opened the arXiv page while enjoying the sweetness of his taste buds.

"Huh? There are new paper prompts and new recommendations?"

As soon as he logged in to the website, he received two system notification messages in his private mailbox. Professor Tao clicked on it, and one read: "The user 'qin ke' you follow has uploaded a new paper."

The other is: "This excellent 'Number Theory Direction' paper should be of interest to you."

Qin Ke uploaded a new paper?

Professor Tao was surprised and delighted. He was very interested in this new friend he made three or four months ago. Although he only got along with him for a few days, Qin Ke gave him a very good impression. The two had similar personalities, and both He purely likes mathematics from the bottom of his heart. In terms of the breadth of knowledge, Qin Ke surpasses him even more. There is no other person in the world who has such a close friend.

In the past three or four months, Professor Tao has also kept in touch with Qin Ke by email. He heard Qin Ke talk about the progress of the hail conjecture. up?

Professor Tao quickly clicked twice, and found that the two system messages pointed to the same paper.

"Proof of the Hail Conjecture? My God, Qin Ke really proved it!" Professor Tao quickly put the coffee cup on the table, opened the paper and read it carefully.

He read very slowly, as if savoring the most delicious dish in the world, he was reluctant to finish it in one bite, and just wanted to savor the argumentation process of each page slowly.

As a result, he watched late into the night from the evening, and he even forgot to eat dinner.

After seeing the whole paper from the beginning to the end, Professor Tao let out a sigh of satisfaction.

"Excellent paper, rigorous and creative, without any flaws! It's a perfect application of the hypergeometric mapping method of lime number theory, happy, happy!"

Beautiful writing is like good wine. Professor Tao always feels this way every time he reads Qin Ke's mathematics papers.

He took a sip of the coffee that had already been frozen, and saw his phone flickering, only to realize that it was his wife who urged him to go home.

Looking at the time, it was already eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, and he read the paper for six hours!

Professor Tao hurriedly replied a message to his wife, but did not rush to pack up his things and go home.Now his blood was boiling with passion, and he felt an urge to vomit.

He opened the mailbox and wrote: "Qin Ke, Ning Qingyun, I have read your hail conjecture proof paper on arXiv, and I can only say one thing, absolutely-wonderful! This is the best I have seen in the past three months." The paper is comparable to the "First Three Groups of Expressions for Cracking the Riemann Conjecture" uploaded last time! Oh, yes, I forgot to congratulate you, this peak that has been blocked for decades in the history of human mathematics and no one can successfully climb, It has been stepped on by you! Lime number theory hypergeometric mapping method is indeed a super-class mathematical method!"

After sending emails to Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, Professor Tao still felt that it was not enough, so he opened his social account again and sent a new message:
"Heavy recommendation, my good friends Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have uploaded the proof process of the hail conjecture on arXiv. They have done a great thing that I can't do! Congratulations to them! Friends who like mathematics, go to Read it, you will never be disappointed! When this paper is published, I will definitely read it again carefully! Oh, I forgot to ask them, I don’t know which journal this paper was submitted to?”

Professor Tao is keen on surfing the Internet and expressing his own opinions, inspiring words to give advice, so he has many fans on the Internet.Moreover, Professor Tao usually seems to be humble, but in fact he has the arrogance of a literati, especially in mathematics. It is rare to see him so highly admiring other people's papers, so this news he posted on social software quickly attracted attention. Huge response.

As the news spread, more and more mathematicians noticed the existence of this paper. Numerous mathematics-loving netizens flocked to arXiv following the link shared by Professor Tao, and the number of comments under the paper surged at a crazy speed.

【Amzing!I actually only understood one-third of it!It is worthy of being the winner of the Cole Prize in Number Theory!As expected of a good friend of Professor Tao, he is equally unpredictable! 】

[I have also studied the hail conjecture, but I have no clue. I always thought that it would be as rumored. No one can crack it for 200 years. I didn’t expect to see the proof process so soon. I can only sigh, Xia Guo mathematician, ox! 】

[I decided to forward it to our supervisor. His hobby is to study the hail conjecture. I hope this paper will make him excited when he is lost. 】

[Xia Guo's Miracle Boy is really amazing!I look forward to his achievements on the world-class problem of Navier-Stokes equations. 】

[I really can't believe it, this is a thesis written by two young students who haven't reached their twentieth anniversary. There are really super geniuses in the world! 】

In just a few hours, the number of comments on the paper exceeded 30, and the number of followers on Qin Ke's account exceeded [-], becoming the account with the most followers on the entire arXiv, and even the traffic of the arXiv website doubled. times.

……

Qin Ke didn't go to the self-study room for self-study today, but fought landlords with his classmates in the dormitory.

His energy was exhausted a lot. Although he didn't directly faint from exhaustion, the aftereffects of the "Inspiration Amplification" were quite obvious. At least for two or three days, he had a feeling of overuse of his brain. There is no way to ease it easily.

So Qin Keji simply put down the "Goldbach Conjecture" that he had planned to start, relaxed his spirit, went to play on the basketball court, chatted with his classmates, played cards and games.

As for the collation and submission of the thesis, Ning Qingjun took over all of it. In her words, you have completed the core work, and leave the next small things to me.

Qin Ke was also very happy. Now that Ning Qingjun was no less than him in writing papers, and with the help of LV3's artificial intelligence, English grammar mistakes could be completely avoided.

The paper proving the hail conjecture was submitted to Acta Mathematica.

The reason for choosing "Acta Mathematica Sinica" is relatively simple. "Annual Journal of Mathematics" has published five papers by the two of them this year. If you submit them again, it will really become a special issue for him and Ning Qingyun. "New Advances in Mathematics" has also been submitted. It happened once, because the "American Journal of Mathematics" published the weak Polignac conjecture at a critical period, which made Qin Ke feel uncomfortable and unwilling to submit it.

The "Acta Mathematica Sinica" is also one of the world's top mathematical academic journals, with the highest impact factor and a history of more than [-] years. It is published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Qin Ke wrote three papers on the Riemann conjecture in his senior year. Papers, one of which is submitted here.

The editor-in-chief, Rovshan Oliver, also met a few times, and he was very friendly and enthusiastic. He asked Qin Ke several times for drafts. It was reasonable, and Qin Ke felt that it was necessary to support him, so the "Acta Mathematica Sinica" became the current journal. best choice.

In the past two or three days, Qin Ke's mobile phone has not stopped, and various WeChat messages and phone calls have been incessant, almost all asking him whether the conjecture about the hailstorm is true.

Among them are Uncle Chen Jingxue, Uncle Yang Chengke, old academician Wang Heng, Professor Shi Cunyuan, Professor Lin Haibo, grandfather Shen Tieshan, etc., as well as Elon Lindenstrauss and Mr. Faltings who are far away on the other side of the ocean.

After finally coping with it, Qin Ke had just put down his phone and was about to continue playing cards with his roommates when his phone rang again.

Qin Ke was helpless, and handed the card to Li Xiangxue, asking him to take his place and go to the side to answer the phone.

But the caller ID this time lifted Qin Ke's spirits. It was Wei Xueming, the person in charge of the Lime Plant Cultivation Laboratory.

Wei Xueming did bring good news. The sweet potato seeds that Qin Ke was most concerned about were basically collected and stored in the laboratory. Wei Xueming asked Qin Ke what his next plan was.

When Qin Ke heard the news, he couldn't hold back any longer, so he called Ning Qingyun, got into the car of his assistant Fang Yongtang, and went straight to the plant cultivation laboratory overnight.

The subject of desert sweet potatoes is the most important subject that Qin Ke has been thinking about, even above Goldbach's conjecture.

As far as he knows, deserts account for 20% of the earth's land surface, and 43% of the land is facing the threat of desertification. It is urgent to prevent and control sand.Two-thirds of the desert area is a semi-arid area, not completely desertified, and can grow sand and drought-tolerant plants such as cactus, red willow, seabuckthorn, and Populus euphratica.

If the desert sweet potato can be cultivated successfully, then these areas can be turned green, which not only has the value of economic crops, but more importantly, improves the soil quality and prevents the expansion of desertification, which is of great significance to the Xia country and the whole world.

I don't know how many people will benefit from it, and how many poor people living on the edge of the desert will be able to have enough food.

This kind of scientific research invention that improves the living environment of human beings and enables human beings to lead a more prosperous life is the scientific research direction that Qin Ke attaches the most importance to and yearns for the most.

Ning Qingyun also heard Qin Ke mention the desert sweet potato subject, and she couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Qin Xiaoke, are you really sure that you can grow the desert sweet potato you mentioned?"

"It's about [-]% sure. I have studied it through plant genetic theory and computational biology methods of mathematical modeling. As long as the good genes of sweet potato seeds from all over the world are concentrated, there is a certain probability that through genetic mutations, they will eventually breed particularly tenacious vitality. , Sweet potato crops that can conserve water and improve soil quality.”

Of course, Qin Ke couldn't directly show Ning Qingyun the A+ level knowledge article "Cultivation Method of New Type of Desert Sweet Potato". He could only instill relevant knowledge to Ning Qingyun bit by bit in the form of his own theoretical derivation. , let Ning Qingyun have a general idea.

But the key to this project is the "virtual scientific research and experiment center" he relies on. More than [-] kinds of sweet potatoes are cross-bred with each other, and after more than ten rounds of intergenerational cross-breeding, desert sweet potatoes can finally be cultivated.

In reality, the time and energy spent on trial and error may take decades, but with the "virtual scientific research experiment center" that can adjust time and speed, it will be different. Originally, it would take half a year, but after time When the speed is increased, it only takes one minute to see the experimental results. Qin Ke estimates that it will take about a day to complete thousands of experiments.

At that time, repeat the correct cultivation method in reality, and desert sweet potatoes can be cultivated in reality.

Qin Ke's eyes flashed with excitement.

New desert sweet potato, here I come!

(End of this chapter)