From all-round academic master to chief scientist

"Professor Fefferman, you are here too."

"Of course I want to come, but then again, Mr. Clay, why are you here too?"

At the door of the Beijing University Auditorium, Charles Fefferman, who had flown in from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, was communicating with someone.

This man is called Thomas Clay, who is the chairman of the board of directors of the Clay Institute.

The Clay Research Institute is a private research institution funded by a businessman named Landon Clay.

And this Thomas Clay is from this businessman's family.

The Millennium Prize problem was selected by mathematicians organized by the Clay Institute and then announced.

The prize of up to one million US dollars for each question directly made the reputation of the Clay Institute, which was only established in 1998, spread like wildfire.

So having money is good.

At this time, Thomas Clay smiled slightly when he heard Fefferman's question and said: "After all, this is a million-dollar question. Of course I want to come and see it. Moreover, last year, this Lin Xiao The Hodge conjecture has been proven, so now I also want to know if he can succeed again."

Fefferman smiled and said, "Then I think you can prepare two million dollars."

Thomas Clay laughed: "The second million will have to wait at least a year later. After all, it has to be tested by the academic community for at least a year."

"I came here precisely because Mr. Lin Xiao proved that the Hodge Conjecture is within one year."

Such an important proof obviously requires a period of testing by the academic community before it can be verified.

For example, after Perelman proved the Poincaré Conjecture in 2002, the Clay Institute did not officially hold the award ceremony until 2010. Of course, the result was that Perelman did not come at all.

Fefferman smiled and said: "It seems that you can really award this award."

Thomas Clay also nodded and said with emotion: "Yes! Finally we can award this award."

In 2010, they held such a grand awards ceremony, but in the end, Perelman, the official owner, did not want to come. This can be said to make the Clay Institute feel a little embarrassed.

Good guys, the gimmick was so big, but in the end the real owner didn’t want your prize.

Of course, after all, Perelman was the one who even turned down General Fields, so it wasn’t that surprising that he turned down their $1 million offer.

But now Lin Xiao is not very "non-materialistic" like Perelman. He also accepted the Fields Medal, so he will definitely want their award.

So this Thomas Clay, is ready to host their first Millennium Puzzle Awards ceremony.

You can even prepare for a second game.

As a businessman, Thomas Clay also knew very well how much attention this matter would bring to them, and that it would be able to feed back into their family foundation.

Thinking of this, Thomas Clay stopped waiting and said with a smile: "Okay, Professor Fefferman, let's go in now and look forward to Professor Lin Xiao's report. I will most likely not understand it, so I have to wait for you to tell me the results later."

"No problem at all."

Fefferman smiled and nodded, and then entered the auditorium with Thomas Clay.

Along the way, they also met many well-known figures in academia, and Fefferman continued to communicate with these people.

"Hey, Wiles, you are indispensable in a place like this."

"Fefferman, why do you mean that a place like this is indispensable for me?"

"Nothing...huh? Faltings, are you here too?"

"You're here too, so I can come too. I'm not so old that I can't walk yet."

"Haha, that's good...Oh, Tao, you're here too."

"I have studied the NS equation a little bit before. Of course, this time I want to hear how a more talented person solves this problem."

"...You call the work that played an important role in overcoming the NS equation just a little research?"

"Well...I know a little bit about this!"

"……All right."

After greeting these famous mathematicians along the way, Fefferman also separated from Thomas Clay, and finally came to his seat, which was also the place where the guests of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton were.

"Feferman, you are finally here."

Seeing Fefferman, these mathematicians and physicists from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton all said hello to him.

Fefferman nodded to them one after another, then sat back in his seat and said with a smile: "Okay, let's wait and see what surprises that genius will bring us."

Everyone else nodded and looked at the podium in front of them with anticipation.

Although Lin Xiao is always reducing the space they can study, after all, every time Lin Xiao solves a mathematical problem, it means that all the previous efforts of other people who are studying this problem at the same time have been wasted, but these problems he solved Questions always give them a sense of enlightenment, and then these conclusions or methods used in the process can bring them very important ideas or inspiration, so that they can continue to study other things, or even develop. , so this also makes mathematicians love and hate him.

Therefore, they are also looking forward to Lin Xiao being able to bring them something new this time.

In this way, time passed quickly.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the report meeting on the existence and smoothness of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equation officially began.

The host came on stage, controlled the scene, and made the audience quiet. Then, he solemnly invited today's protagonist.

"Tap tap tap~"

As footsteps came from the backstage of the rostrum, Lin Xiao also walked in front of everyone.

There was warm applause, and everyone present looked at Lin Xiao on the stage.

Wearing a well-tailored suit, Lin Xiao looked very energetic, and also made people realize that this genius actually looked like a very handsome man, and his thick hair made many bald men in the audience They all felt envious. How could such a smart person have such healthy hair?

"Hello friends who have come from afar, welcome to Beijing University - well, many old friends have already been here last year. Of course, there are also some new friends. I also welcome them. All in all, I am very happy. Nice to see you all here.”

At this time, Lin Xiao smiled and said.

Seeing so many people in the audience, many of whom he knew, he couldn't help but sigh. Although they were not at the same time, they were still in the same auditorium.

He's sharing knowledge with the world again.

"Then, as usual, let's not talk nonsense and go straight to the topic of today."

"A flaky stone is rotated and thrown to the water surface in a flat manner, and then accompanied by ripples on the water surface, the stone miraculously achieves the posture of a dragonfly on the water."

"So, what happens when the water surface comes into contact with this stone? What is the movement of this fluid after that?"

"Then at this time, we have to use the NS equation for analysis."

With that said, Lin Xiao clicked on the PPT and entered the first page.

And because of Lin Xiao's opening remarks, the people below followed him and entered into thinking about this fluid mechanics problem.

"Now, we assume that the density of this piece of water, or fluid, is ρ, its initial velocity V is 0, and u, v, w are the velocity of this fluid at point (x, y, z) at time t Portion..."

As Lin Xiao began to talk about this issue, everyone present had various thoughts.

[Sij=1/2(ui/xj+uj/xi)……]

The narration gradually went into depth, and some of the people present also began to enter a state of confusion. Such people are basically entrepreneurs with related interests like Thomas Clay. They just came to take a look. Lin Xiao's proof is highly recognized by these top mathematicians.

Of course, due to the screening of these participants, there are still quite a few people who can understand it.

However, after all, only a small number of people can understand this top-level mathematical puzzle game, so in the end more and more people are confused and can't keep up with the rhythm.

In this way, Lin Xiao's narration came to his most critical method to solve this problem, which is his Lin's curvature tensor.

As he talked, the top mathematicians who could keep up were once again amazed by this method.

"That's how it feels! Just like the sieve circle method he used to prove Goldbach's conjecture, and the motivational cohomology in Hodge's conjecture! Every time he creates a method, people can feel the wonderfulness inside it. thought of!"

Below, Fefferman felt extremely amazed.

And Pompieri smiled and said: "Haha, I have already seen from his paper proving that there are infinitely many prime numbers in the Fibonacci sequence. The thinking of the function he built in it is only true. It took a genius to complete it, as well as the group transformation theory he later proposed in the process of solving the Mersenne prime distribution."

"Group transformation theory, I used it when I was studying a topic recently."

Deligne next to him also smiled.

Others nodded in agreement, and the physicist next to him also made the same emotion.

At this moment, Pompieri suddenly asked Fefferman: "By the way, Charles, you seemed to have said before that you still have a question about Lin's proof?"

Fefferman nodded, looked down at the paper in his hand, and said, "Yes, there is a very critical question."

Then, he looked up again at Lin Xiao on the stage: "Perhaps this question of mine will stump Lin Xiao? After all, I have been studying it for a long time and don't know how to solve this problem."

Everyone else suddenly became curious.

Fefferman also studied a problem that has not been solved for a long time?

They couldn't help but look forward to Fefferman asking this question.

So they said no more and looked at Lin Xiao on the stage quietly, waiting for his report to end.