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"No, Li Fei, how can you tell me to calm down." Tao Hanhai said cracklingly on the other end of the phone, "I will entrust Xiaozhuang to you, he is my best student, if he has any troubles, Li Fei, if you dare to return to China, do you believe that I will hunt you down?"

"I told you to take a good look at Xiao Zhuang, tell me now that something happened to him?" Tao Hanhai said almost out of control, "Do you know that he is not only my student, but also my family member. Xiao Zhuang in the end what happened?"

"If you don't make it clear, I will come to the Lighthouse Country to settle accounts with you now."

"Don't get excited, don't get excited." Li Fei was stunned, he didn't expect Tao Hanhai to be so excited about Zhuang Weiran.If Tao Hanhai and his wife were not so affectionate, he would have wondered if something strange had happened between Tao Hanhai and Zhuang Weiran.

This Tao Hanhai, wouldn't he treat Zhuang Weiran as his own child?

Don't say it, it's really possible.Learning mathematics from him at such a young age, Tao Hanhai is probably the first time he has come into contact with such a young doctoral student, and he is also married, so it is not impossible for his father to love him.

"That's right." Li Fei was a little embarrassed to say, "Xiao Zhuang's academic report at the International Congress of Mathematicians will be weak Goldbach's conjecture, but he hasn't started writing yet. I want him to choose another topic, At least be sure. I suspect that Nihong and the people who steal the country want to bully him. You also know that Zhuang Weiran and the people who steal the country have had a lot of trouble recently. If Zhuang Weiran makes a fool of himself at the International Congress of Mathematicians, the happiest person must be Steal the countrymen."

"However, the people in the Neon Country are not too shy. They will be very happy if Xiao Zhuang loses his reputation at the International Conference of Mathematicians. Seeing that there are no young geniuses on their side, if the genius mathematicians in Hua Country can be They are happy to lose face and lose family at such a big international conference."

Tao Hanhai calmed down, "Li Fei, don't say you can't control him, I can't control what he decides."

"You want him to change the subject, but he never changed, right?"

"Yes." Li Fei continued, "Not only that, didn't I ask him to make Zhou's conjecture? I think Xiaozhuang should quickly find a breakthrough, but guess what he told me. "

"He said that Zhou's conjecture was too simple, right?" Tao Hanhai's voice was so calm that there was no wave in it, and he couldn't hear the excitement just now.

"Eh?" Li Fei blinked, "How do you know?"

"When he was in college, he studied the Zhou's conjecture." Tao Hanhai said thoughtfully, "At that time, he was about to calculate the Zhou's conjecture, but he didn't continue to do it."

"Eh..." Li Fei didn't know what to say for a while.

"So, he felt that Zhou's conjecture was too simple for him, and it was easy to understand. After all, he almost calculated this conjecture."

"The point is, he seems to want to do Zhou's conjecture right now. And it's in class! You also said that he almost wanted to figure it out, but he hasn't actually been able to figure it out yet."

"Is that so?" Tao Hanhai frowned slightly, it was indeed a bit tricky.

"No, I said Tao Hanhai, what your student is doing is really dangerous, you have to find a way to stop him." Li Fei said anxiously, "Isn't he playing with fire by doing this? If there is a slight difference , then his academic reputation will be gone. In front of so many professors and students in Princeton, it is simply a joke."

"Don't worry." Although Tao Hanhai felt that this matter was inappropriate, he believed that Zhuang Weiran would not do anything he was not sure about.

"Li Fei, let me tell you this. Since he dared to do this, he must be very sure about it. Otherwise, it would be impossible to make mathematical guesses in public." Tao Hanhai paused for a moment, and said with confidence, "I know Xiaozhuang very well. He is not a fool, and he will not drift away. Even ten cows can't pull back the things he decides. Of course, he has always done everything He is measured, and he will not guarantee anything that he is not sure about."

"You said he wanted to solve Zhou's conjecture in class?" Tao Hanhai said with a relaxed tone, "Don't forget to send me the solution process then."

"This is just a guess, I'm afraid he's not sure."

"I'm sure." Tao Hanhai said bluntly, "It's impossible for him to do something he's not sure about."

"..." Li Feiren was dumbfounded. He originally wanted to ask Tao Hanhai, a professor, to persuade Zhuang Weiran, but why did Tao Hanhai come to persuade him instead?It shouldn't be.

"Okay, if it's about this matter, I really can't help much. As for the weak Goldbach's conjecture, I think about it again. I can only persuade Xiaozhuang. As for whether he will listen to me or not. I hold Pessimistic attitude, I really know Xiao Zhuang too well, I guess he will not agree."

Li Fei sighed, "Do your best and obey the destiny."

"Don't sigh too much. Weak Goldbach's conjecture is indeed very difficult, but it is not impossible to solve it." Tao Hanhai really has nothing to do with Zhuang Weiran. No one can stop him from what he decides.Besides, Tao Hanhai still had great confidence in Zhuang Weiran, he believed that Zhuang Weiran would not gamble with his future.

Li Fei really had nothing to say, since Tao Hanhai couldn't persuade Zhuang Weiran, it was even more impossible for him to persuade Zhuang Weiran.I just hope that nothing will happen to Zhuang Weiran.

Back in the office, Zhuang Weiran was working, and didn't ask Li Fei too much what to do.

"Xiao Zhuang." Li Fei continued, "You don't really want to solve Zhou's conjecture in class, do you? Wouldn't it be too risky?"

"I studied Zhou's conjecture when I was an undergraduate, and it's actually not particularly difficult." Zhuang Weiran shrugged, "Anyway, Associate Professor Li will know after reading it."

Li Fei scratched his head, thinking to himself, as long as this matter is not messed up, it will be fine.If you screw it up, it's one of the biggest jokes Princeton has ever seen.

As long as the name Zhuang Weiran is still remembered, the teachers and students of Princeton University will probably laugh at Zhuang Weiran all the time.

He is really famous. I don't know how many professors will attend this afternoon's class.In this case, as long as he says or does something wrong, he may be infinitely magnified.

Li Fei was really worried about this issue. Zhuang Weiran was not a god, and it was impossible for him to be free from any mistakes.

Even top mathematicians make mistakes.What's more, Zhuang Weiran is not a top mathematician yet.

"I just want to prove to everyone that it is possible for me to make the weak Goldbach conjecture." Zhuang Weiran paused for a moment with a serious face, "My field of expertise is not limited to nonlinear partial differential limit equations."

Li Fei still felt that it was too risky, but seeing Zhuang Weiran's willful attitude, he guessed it would be useless to say it.

He could only pray silently that Zhuang Weiran would not make any mistakes when doing this.

When it came to the afternoon, Zhuang Weiran had packed up his things and was ready to go to class.As an associate professor rather than a student, there is no need to go to the professor to take up a seat in advance, anyway, he is also giving lectures on the podium.

Li Fei is also planning to go to the professor with Zhuang Weiran at this time.

Zhuang Weiran's reputation is so loud that many professors want to attend his class.At this time, he had to be optimistic about Zhuang Weiran, and he couldn't let Zhuang Weiran make any mistakes.

He was even thinking about how he should smooth things over for Zhuang Weiran if something happened to Zhuang Weiran in the afternoon.

When Zhuang Weiran stood up, Li Fei also stood up.

Zhuang Weiran didn't say a word, he knew that Associate Professor Li must be going to attend the class, so he walked directly to the classroom.Li Fei also followed behind him step by step, walking towards the classroom.

When he came to the classroom, Li Fei entered through the back door and saw that the large classroom usually used for academic reports was full of people. There were students and professors, and there were almost no seats.He randomly found a vacant seat and sat down.

After a while, several students entered through the back door, and basically all the available seats were filled.Li Fei looked around, and he saw that many professors he knew were there, and even the professors of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton who were not usually teaching courses at Princeton University came to attend the lectures.

The appearance of a sea of ​​people is simply staggering.

This is probably the treatment of a math genius. I think he was basically a stranger when he graduated from Princeton University and was a teaching assistant here.There weren't many students who came to attend the class, and they were looking at how Zhuang Weiran was treated at Princeton University for the first time - Li Fei suddenly felt a little sad for no reason.

Sure enough, the treatment of geniuses and normal people is absolutely different.

After waiting for several minutes, Zhuang Weiran didn't enter the door.It wasn't until it was time for class that Zhuang Weiran slowly entered the classroom.

"Hi everyone." Zhuang Weiran walked up to the podium with a smile, and it was obvious that he was still a little nervous.Zhuang Weiran had no such experience before teaching in English for the first time.Even when he was giving an academic report, he never gave an explanation in English.Basically, except for a few nouns that are difficult to translate accurately in English, most of his academic reports are in Chinese.

As for whether foreigners can understand it, it has nothing to do with him.

The students and professors all looked at Zhuang Weiran quietly, with expectations and scrutiny in their eyes.Probably because Zhuang Weiran looks too young, people who have never been in contact with Zhuang Weiran, even though they have read his papers, but suddenly standing in front of this young associate professor, it still makes people doubt his ability .

Faced with these scrutiny, Zhuang Weiran did not panic at all, but began to talk eloquently, "I originally planned to explain analytic number theory in this class, but I suddenly had a new idea."

Zhuang Weiran took a pen and began to write a line on the blackboard——

【当2（2n）＜＜2（2（n+1））时，有2（n+1）－1个是素数】

"???"

Everyone was stunned, and even wondered in their hearts, isn't this Zhou's conjecture about the distribution of Mersenne prime numbers?What is he trying to do?

The students and even the professors began to discuss in a low voice——

"What's going on? This is Zhou's conjecture, right? Isn't it going to explain analytic number theory? Why do you suddenly want to explain Zhou's conjecture?"

"This conjecture seems simple, but after so many years, no one has been able to make it. What is he trying to do when he suddenly raises this question now?"

"Isn't his field of expertise the limit solution of nonlinear partial differential equations? It would be fine if he simply talked about analytic number theory. I believe he has this ability. After all, his number theory itself is not bad. But he wrote on the blackboard With such a line of words, what exactly does he want to do?"

"My God, what exactly does Zhuang want to do?" Professor Feffman's eyes widened, and he looked at the line of numbers on the blackboard in disbelief.

Jia Fei next to him frowned slightly. To be honest, he was quite interested in Zhuang Weiran's explanation of analytic number theory.After all, Zhuang Weiran's comprehension in number theory is obvious to all in this more than a month.But unraveling Zhou's conjecture, it is really hard to believe.

"Does he want to solve Zhou's conjecture?" One of the old men sat beside Selberg and said softly, "It looks interesting, doesn't it?"

"It's really interesting." Selberg said in a deep voice, "However, I'm very worried that if he doesn't do well, he may become the laughing stock of everyone."

"How sure do you think he can untie it?"

"I don't know." Selberg shook his head with a serious expression, "To be honest, based on what I know about him, he shouldn't be so reckless."

"Perhaps, he came prepared." The old man said with a smile, "I didn't expect to encounter such a thing when I just returned to Princeton. He is indeed a very interesting person. Of course, if he can't solve the problem , I’m afraid it will become ridiculous.”

"There's a fine line between being funny and being funny sometimes, isn't there?"

Li Fei's heart was in his throat, Zhuang Weiran was really planning to solve Zhou's conjecture in class, isn't this suicide?

If he had known earlier, he shouldn't be so mean, and gave Zhuang Weiran such an opinion.No matter whether Zhuang Weiran wanted to prove it to him or to everyone, it was too risky.

"Li Fei." Zhang Shouwu, who was sitting next to Li Fei, had an ugly expression on his face, "What's going on with Xiaozhuang? He was so reckless just after the first class."

Li Fei had a mournful face, "It's my fault too, I told him not to give a report on the weak Goldbach's conjecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians. I thought, compared with the academic report on the weak Goldbach's conjecture, Zhou's conjecture will To be simpler, I asked him not to give an academic report on Zhou's conjecture. I have read some of his papers before, and know that he did some research on Zhou's conjecture when he was at the National University of Science and Technology. There have been some breakthroughs. Moreover, those papers have not been published in academic journals. It would not be shameful to bring them out at that time, but I didn’t know that he would prove Zhou’s conjecture on the spot, and he is too hot-tempered.”

When speaking, Li Fei was about to collapse.

He is about to cry now, but Zhuang Weiran has become the funniest associate professor at Princeton University.He, Li Fei, is not much better. Tao Hanhai asked him to look at Li Fei. Now the Chinese professors in Princeton believe that the appearance of Zhuang Weiran can improve Huaguo's mathematics by a few steps.If Zhuang Weiran made a Waterloo at this time, I am afraid that the first person this group of Chinese professors will not let go is Li Fei.

Maybe he will really be hunted down.

Don't even try to sleep peacefully, these professors are afraid that they want to kill him.

"You..." Zhang Shouwu said bitterly, "Li Fei, you are almost 40 years old, why are you still ignorant. Xiao Zhuang is still young, so you are messing around with me too?"

"I called Tao Hanhai, but he can't take care of it. I can take care of it." Li Fei covered his forehead. Professor Zhang Shouwu is very important among the Chinese professors at Princeton University.Although Zhuang Weiran has not visited him yet, as soon as Zhuang Weiran arrived at Princeton University, he began to pay attention to this mathematical genius from his motherland.

Li Fei treats Zhuang Weiran so well, partly because of Tao Hanhai's TOEFL, and also because these Chinese professors asked him to take good care of Zhuang Weiran.

Not only Princeton University, but also professors and associate professors from Stanford University and other universities asked him to take good care of Zhuang Weiran.

The professors of the older generation have stayed in the Lighthouse Country for a long time and do not want to move back to the country.They were pretty good in the Lighthouse Country, but seeing this math genius from the Hua Country, they still had a heart for talent.No matter whether he returns to Hua Country or stays in Lighthouse Country, they still love this junior from Hua Country very much.

So Professor Zhang Shouwu's face is very ugly now, Zhuang Weiran is young and energetic, and Li Fei is almost 40 years old, and he is going crazy with Zhuang Weiran.Isn't this a joke about Xiaozhuang's future?

Now Zhang Shouwu can't wait to go directly to the podium and drag Zhuang Weiran away, what is this all about!

"Professor Zhang." Li Fei said awkwardly, "Is it too late now?"

"What do you think?" Zhang Shouwu glared at Li Fei, "I'll settle the score with you later."

It's over, really don't want to sleep this time!Li Fei prayed silently in his heart, Xiao Zhuang, you must solve Zhou's conjecture!

Needless to say, Zhang Shouwu was also very nervous, already clenched his fists, and looked at Zhuang Weiran on the podium.

"Everyone be quiet." Zhuang Weiran said calmly, "As we all know, this is Zhou's conjecture in the distribution law of Mersenne prime numbers."

"I think everyone knows about it." Zhuang Weiran paused, "I don't need to introduce more, do you?"

No one spoke, and everyone looked at him with curiosity, worry, or scrutiny.

"When I was studying for a bachelor's degree in Huaguo, I once studied this problem." Zhuang Weiran did not have any guilt in the face of everyone's gaze, but said frankly, "Since this is about number theory, let me talk about Zhou's conjecture by the way. .”

Isn't it to unravel Zhou's conjecture?Professor Zhang Shouwu breathed a sigh of relief, he thought that Zhuang Weiran wanted to solve Zhou's conjecture.If you just briefly explain Zhou's conjecture, there is no problem.Not to mention Zhuang Weiran, any mathematics professor can talk about Zhou's conjecture for a long time.

Unraveling and explaining conjectures are two different things!

"By the way, I want to try. After so many years, can I solve Zhou's conjecture?" Zhuang Weiran showed a smile, "To tell you the truth, I was only a little bit close to solving Zhou's conjecture."

"my God."

"No, Zhuang!"

"what?"

Zhuang Weiran, are you really crazy?Do you know what you are doing?That's Zhou's conjecture!

He really wants to solve Zhou's conjecture now? !

Everyone was stunned, and finally heaved a sigh of relief. They didn't expect him to play for real.