From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

As the body becomes stronger, the energy consumption increases, and naturally, the appetite also increases. At the same time, because Lin Xiao's brain is highly developed, and he often thinks about problems, this also consumes more energy.

All in all, Lin Xiao's appetite now is much higher than before.

Fortunately, he doesn't have to worry about gaining weight.

He's the kind of guy who doesn't get fat no matter what he eats.

So without further ado, he left the house.

……

Time passes quickly.

Princeton University, United States, Department of Mathematics Building, Fine-Hall.

As a world-renowned university, Princeton University has bred more than 60 Nobel Prize winners, [-] Fields Medal winners, [-] Turing Award winners and so on.

There is no mathematics award in the Nobel Prize, and the Fields Medal is called the Nobel Prize in mathematics.

Moreover, the Fields Medal is reviewed every four years, and the age of the winners is limited. Only mathematicians aged 40 and below who have made outstanding achievements in a certain field of mathematics can receive the award, so The difficulty of getting a Fields Medal is no less than a Nobel Prize.

But it can also be seen from this that Princeton University, which has produced fifteen Fields Medal winners, has such strong strength in mathematics.

In addition to teaching, this is also the headquarters of one of the four top journals in mathematics, the "Annual of Mathematics".

The editor of "Annual Journal of Mathematics" also works here.

At this time, an editor named David was flipping through their submission mailboxes, looking for a certain submitted paper.

But after looking back and forth for a long time, he still couldn't find it, so he couldn't help cursing: "My God, these people are crazy, can't they check whether their papers are eligible to be published in the Annals of Mathematics?"

Every day they can receive dozens or even dozens of papers, but after filtering out the nonsense among them, two or three truly valuable papers left behind can be considered good. However, even if there are two or three good papers, It may not be able to be included by them, they only publish sixty or seventy articles a year.

For example, in the January issue of this year, there was a paper called "The Gopakumar-Vafa Formula for Symplectic Manifolds", but it was sent to them in 2013. It took one or two years of sewing and repairing, and another year of queuing. Published successfully.

But who made them the Annals of Mathematics?

No matter how brilliant your paper is, as long as it is not so brilliant that it will shock the editor or reviewers, just wait quietly in line.

As for what David is looking for now, it is a paper that Peter Sarnak, a professor in the Department of Mathematics, commissioned him to help review in advance. This paper seems to be very powerful. Multiple prime numbers.

As the editor of the Annals of Mathematics, and a researcher in the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University, he is still very interested in this kind of number theory papers.

Probably all mathematicians in the world have tried to study prime number problems. After all, most of these problems are quite simple and clear from the expression, full of mathematical beauty, such as Goldbach's conjecture.

However, it has stumped countless mathematicians, making many people finally choose to give up.

Even if you study Lie groups, symplectic geometry, and Hilbert spaces, don't you get more results than this thing?

Of course, they also admire those bigwigs who have achieved results on the prime number problem.

So David is very curious now, which big guy has completed the proof of this problem.

Chapter 56 proudly introduces a 17-year-old math prodigy!

"Finally found a proof that there are infinitely many prime numbers in the Fibonacci sequence."

After seeing the 'Fibonacci Sequence', David's eyes lit up, and then he turned it out and downloaded the PDF file in the mailbox.

"Huh? This author's name is... Lin Xiao? From Huaguo?"

After seeing the name, David froze for a moment.

"Maybe an ABC."

I thought about it for a while. After all, it was Professor Sanak who entrusted me. The person he introduced should also be from the United States, right?

ABC is the abbreviation of American Chinese.

For David, the Chinese-looking people he usually sees basically have green cards in their hands, and they speak more authentic English than him, because he is an Irishman.

The Irish speak English and are often ridiculed for wearing a muzzle.

Of course, the key to David's disbelief is that this is a thesis written by Huaguo people, or because the results of this thesis are not like the achievements of Huaguo people.

The achievements of the Chinese in mathematics are outstanding in the world, but the Chinese are not outstanding at all. Although the middle school students in the Chinese country often get the team No.1 in the IMO competition, even the IMO players in the United States are basically Chinese. So much so that every year when IMO games are played, they are dubbed "civil war" by Chinese people.

But all in all, David subconsciously believed that this must have been made by a certain Chinese American, and even if it wasn't, it should be Chinese from other countries.

Afterwards, he continued to look at other information about this person named Lin Xiao.

"Age...17...I'm Defa?"

17 years old?

Are you kidding me?

17...isn't that the age to be in some high school and join the baseball club?

As a result, this difficult problem that has troubled the world's mathematics community for an unknown number of years has been solved?

Unbelievable, really unbelievable, even made David wonder if this person named Lin Xiao made a mistake.

But then, he saw the person's address and organization.

The address is Unit 2, Sunshine Community, Huaguo, Qin Province, Jincheng City.

The affiliated institutions are Huaguo, Qin Province, Jincheng City, Jincheng High School, senior high school students.

"Excuse-me?"

David had a black question mark on his face, and he almost didn't show the question mark above his head.

This is really a Huaguo person, or even just a Huaguo high school student?

When will such a super young genius appear in Huaguo?

He couldn't believe it, and even wondered if he had found the wrong paper, or, in other words, this guy is also the kind of paper published indiscriminately, betting that the editor of the Annual Mathematics Journal will pass the manuscript in a daze.

But no matter what, he searched through countless submissions, and found no other paper related to the Fibonacci sequence, and the title of this paper also matched exactly.

He took a deep breath, and finally he could only say in his heart: "Let's take a look first."

Then, he opened the PDF file and read the paper from the beginning.

As for the result, it was the same as the people who had read Lin Xiao's paper before. After watching it, they sank into it, and at the same time took out the draft paper and followed it up.

Until finally, he raised his head with a dazed expression on his face.

No problem, no problem at all, or he couldn't find the problem himself.

But, have all the high school students in Huaguo been able to do this?

And soon, he stood up from his seat, thinking in his heart: "I have to go to Professor Sanak and tell him the news."

As the editor of the Annual Journal of Mathematics, he does not have the ability to decide whether the paper can be published, because whether the paper can be accepted or not still needs to be reviewed by experts, that is, to be reviewed by a big cow with a certain reputation in the mathematics field.

As the winner of the 2014 Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Professor Peter Sarnak is also the editor-in-chief of their annual mathematics journal, so he can come to review this manuscript.

Soon, David found Professor Peter Sarnak. Although Professor Sarnak still has his own affairs, he learned that David asked him to review the manuscript, so he temporarily put down his work.

"You said, you have read the paper that proves that the Fibonacci sequence has infinite prime numbers, and there are no problems?"

Hearing this news, Professor Peter Sarnak was a little surprised.

"Yes." David said suspiciously: "Why are you so surprised? You gave me this paper."

Professor Sanak said speechlessly: "You should read the author of this paper, right?"

"A 17-year-old high school student in Huaguo."

"That's right! I'm just a 17-year-old high school student. I didn't believe that this thesis could really prove success at first. If Professor Xu Ji from Huaguo didn't ask me to help, I wouldn't have helped."

David: "..."

So you thought it was impossible before, so why let me read it again.

"But no matter what, you will know after reading it that this paper is really amazing."

David said so, and Sanak naturally no longer refused, opened the paper, read it, and until the final result, naturally there is no need to say more.

"Unbelievable!"

Sanak was amazed, he is mainly engaged in the research of number theory, and his understanding of the methods used in this paper is naturally not comparable to that of David, he can almost see Lin Xiao's performance in every step at a glance way of thinking and mathematical methods.

"This method of building functions is really too subtle."

"It's a whole new way of thinking!"

"David, I think I have found the direction of the next topic!"

David was stunned by Professor Sanak's words one after another. Professor Sanak actually saw a new topic direction from this paper?

It also……

A bit outrageous, right?

Why can't I see so many things?

It seems that this paper needs more research.

"So, according to your meaning, it means that this paper can be published, right?"

"No, no, the review process still has to go."

Sanak shook his head: "For such an important achievement, the rigor that should be there is still necessary."

Not to mention their Mathematics Annual, any paper that has been drafted needs to go through a preliminary review and review by several experts before it can be officially published.

This is respect for mathematics and respect for all mathematics people.

"I see, I'll contact other reviewers right away." David responded.

"Well, of course, from my point of view, this paper has been perfected. I believe that other people will not have too many problems. If there is no problem with the review, then arrange to publish it as soon as possible. At least before I finish the project, I can Please cite this paper."

Sanak joked, and they both laughed.

David: "Then I will contact you as soon as possible, but the paper for the March issue has been confirmed, so we can only wait for the May issue."

"Well, go ahead, oh, by the way, I have to add a comment to this paper."

David was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "Please tell me."

Professor Sarnak said with a smile: "This paper uses a breakthrough innovative method to open the door to the prime number problem... Then, let us introduce to the world a 17-year-old mathematical genius !"

Chapter 57 It's not too difficult to pass the draft

"Huh? Finished the draft?"

One day in early February, Lin Xiao suddenly saw that he had received an email in English. He glanced at it and found that it was a reply from the Annual Journal of Mathematics.

"Hello, Mr. Lin, your manuscript has passed the review of the Annals of Mathematics and can be included and published in the journal. We plan to publish your manuscript in the third volume of the 187th issue, so please submit it on March 3th. Previously, the signed copyright agreement was sent to the editorial department of the Annals of Mathematics, whose address is 15-Fine-Hall, Washington Street, Princeton University, NJ311, the United States.

Please also send the source material of your manuscript and check the format of your paper, we recommend you to use LaTeX...』

Looking at this long list of English, Lin Xiao basically understood everything, except for some proper nouns.

But no matter what, his paper has passed the review and will be published in the "Annual Journal of Mathematics".

Such an achievement that not many people in Huaguo have achieved, is it just done by yourself?

"It seems...it's not too difficult."

Lin Xiao thought so.

But soon he was inspired again, "Of course, it's all related to my independent struggle and serious study for so long."

"System, give me some experience!"

No reply.

Lin Xiao curled his lips, this auxiliary device did not do his best at all, and his motivation to continue to work hard in the future has faded.

System: "Warning once."

Lin Xiao second counseled: "Ahaha, it's just a joke, brother system, don't be angry."

Afterwards, Lin Xiao didn't hesitate, and told the news to Teacher Xu Hongbing and that Professor Zhou Wu from Peking University.

The Annals of Mathematics can respond within one month. This speed is of course very fast compared to its usual review period of 2 or 3 months. This must have something to do with the School of Mathematics of Shangjing University, so Lin Of course Akatsuki had to thank him again.

Afterwards, the two mathematics professors inevitably sent him congratulations.

At the same time, of course, they couldn't help feeling that Lin Xiao's thesis actually passed the review.