Wiles was a mathematician who amazed the world.

A mathematical genius at a young age, he graduated from Merton College, Oxford, and later received his PhD from Clare College, Cambridge.

He then served as a junior fellow at Clare College, an assistant professor at Harvard University, and two years later as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

A year later, Bad Les was promoted to professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

The above resume does not seem to be much, many people who have graduated from prestigious universities and do research can get a similar resume, but Wyles was only 28 years old when he was promoted to professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and most people of the same age have just obtained their doctorates, and he is already a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the temple of mathematics.

Then Wiles started more than ten years of research, all around the Taniyama Shimura conjecture and Fermat conjecture, until 1993, when he made some achievements and went to the Newton Institute in the United Kingdom to make three consecutive academic reports.

At the end of his last lecture, he completed the proof of Fermat's conjecture, and the news quickly made the front pages of the world's major newspapers, especially in the mathematical community, when the New York Times published a front-page headline titled "Finally cheered, I found it!" , the long-ago mathematical mystery solved", reported the news that Fermat's conjecture was proved.

Overnight, Wiles became the most famous mathematician in the world, and the only one.

After that, Bad Les began the road to winning awards for more than ten years.

One of the most important is the "Nobel" Fields Medal in mathematics, when Bad Les was over 40 years old, but Fields only awarded the prize to young mathematicians under the age of 40, and finally decided to award Andrew Wilesfields Special Prize.

For any mathematician, cracking the Fermat conjecture is a lifetime of great achievement, and after Wiles's success, life seems to be inseparable from winning prizes.

In June this year, he won the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences supported by the Hong Kong Genomics Society, with a prize of up to US$1 million.

The influence of this award is not great, but the amount of prize money is still very exciting, and now Wiles is still proud, and for him, who has won Fields and is recognized as the world's first mathematician, he came to participate in the International Congress of Mathematicians, it is really to be in the limelight, and he was invited to give lectures at famous universities in various countries, no different.

Wiles enjoyed this life very much, as if just now, when a large group of mathematicians from all over the world surrounded him, he showed the demeanor of a top mathematician, and went to the small stall to instruct the people who set up the stall.

It took him more than 20 minutes to solve a stall owner's problem, find out the problem in a complex five-page mathematical calculation, and get a thousand thanks from the stall owner.

"So the world of mathematics ......"

"I'm the No.1 mathematician, and no one can compare with me. ”

Bad Les walked over proudly, and saw the scene of Zhao Yi pointing at the black guy, and he immediately saw the 'problem'.

How could it be so fast?

He is the world's No. 1 mathematician who cracked Fermat's conjecture, and his understanding of mathematics and calculation ability are all first-class, even if someone can be faster than his own computing ability, it is impossible to be so outrageously fast.

One minute?

Are you kidding?

"It's a play, isn't it? It's funny, I think he can win the Oscar......."

Wiles spoke out loudly, and found that the others had given up their positions, so he simply walked out and said in a tone full of lessons, "Zhao Yi, I know you, Kakutani conjecture, three-dimensional tremor waveform, your research is very profound, but why do you want to do such a little trick?"

"Mr. Wiles?"

Zhao Yi read out Wiles's name, barely said hello, frowned and asked, "What did I do? Acting? Why did I do that?"

"Why did that?"

Wiles found that Zhao Yi didn't admit it, and seemed to laugh angrily, he glanced around, spread his hands to show innocence, and explained the next words by the way, just because he 'couldn't see it', "Does this really need to be explained?" Okay, you are very young, probably to attract people, or increase fame, let people know your computing ability, mathematical ability, in short, your purpose is to show ...... Wow the other people around ......"

"Let's go~"

Wiles explained a lot in one go, and there were people around him who applauded him.

Zhao Yi tilted his head and said to Chen Ming next to him, "Can his words be summed up in two words - pretending to be forced?"

"Poof!"

Chen Ming burst out laughing directly.

"So it's still Chinese that is broad and profound, seeing him say so much, it's so complicated......"

Chen Ming couldn't help but smile while holding his stomach, and gave Zhao Yi a thumbs up.

The interaction between the two made Wiles a little embarrassed and annoyed, and the subjects of the education were not listening, and it was not interesting to continue.

Zhao Yi seemed to notice Wiles's expression, stepped forward and said with a smile, "Dear Mr. Wiles, I found that you have a pair of eyes full of wisdom. ”

Irony?

Wiles was a little confused.

Zhao Yi nodded and said, "That's right, you're right, in fact, not only the black guy just now, but now all the stall owners around me are extras hired by me, and they will cooperate with my performance." ”

After hearing Zhao Yi's words, there was a commotion all of a sudden.

Of course no one believed it.

Wiles didn't believe it at all, but Zhao Yi didn't need him to believe it, but spread his hands and continued, "I know, you don't believe it, so let's prove it." ”

As he spoke, he suddenly shouted, "Does anyone want to show me the papers? There's Mr. Wiles, let's help read the papers!"

Hulala~

Zhao Yi's fame is far from catching up with Wiles, no one cares about the words in the front, and when it comes to Wiles, many stall owners hurry back to get papers.

"Don't worry!"

"I'm sorry, I can only choose two copies first, whoever is lucky can let Mr. Wiles review it, bad luck, sorry, it can only be me ......" Of course, it doesn't matter later, some people are better than no one, Zhao Yi also solved the Kakutani conjecture, and also published a three-dimensional tremor waveform, and his mathematical ability was also recognized.

A whole bunch of papers were handed over.

Zhao Yi found two copies with clearer handwriting, took them and handed them to Wiles, "Sir, you can choose one, please feel free." ”

Wiles understood.

Is this fair? The content of each paper is different, and the difficulty is certainly different.

With so many people watching at the scene, Wiles couldn't shirk it, as if he was afraid of the other party, so he simply took one and looked at it carefully.

Zhao Yi took out another copy and put it in his hand and quickly flipped through it.

A large group of people around are holding their breath, every year at the mathematician conference, there will be some excitement to watch, some mathematicians will argue about the problem, and even start at the meeting, but it is really extremely rare to directly compete in the 'review paper'.

Now the two people competing are also attracting attention, Wiles will not say, Fermat's conjecture can become a theorem, it is directly related to him, the other is Zhao Yi from China, who solved the Kakutani conjecture at a young age, and also shaped it into a 'three-dimensional tremor waveform diagram', in practical sense, the latter is more shocking than the former.

Most people are still bullish on Wiles--

"Andrew (Wiles) can definitely win!"

"Zhao Yi is also very good, but he is still too young, he can only say that his talent is good, and in another twenty years, it is not surprising that he won Wiles, it is still too early. ”

"This is tantamount to self-inflicted humiliation!"

"But I don't think it's like acting, I've seen that black guy, I've been setting up a stall here for a few days, and I've talked to him, he's a master's degree from the University of Madrid. ”

"It doesn't matter!"

Of course, there are also people who support Zhao Yi, that is, the National Academy of Sciences, the Capital University, including Professor Zhou Li of Yanhua University, who also walked to the side to watch, they were a little worried about Zhao Yi.

That's the famous Wiles, who wrote papers that few people in the world can understand, and it's normal to lose miserably compared to Wiles's math reviewers?

Their fears didn't last long.

Zhao Yi quickly flipped through the things in his hand, silently calculating the time in his heart, the five pages were really a little little, and he found that he had finished turning quickly, so he simply turned it again, and the speed was much slower.

A minute passes.

Zhao Yi immediately stopped flipping through the pages, and asked with a smile, "Who is this?"

"Mine!"

A bearded, sloppy guy walked out, his clothes were torn and dirty, in stark contrast to the white manuscript paper and clear writing.

The bearded man didn't seem to care at all, and he walked over and asked in surprise, "Are you done?"

Zhao Yi nodded.

"Really?" said the bearded man's eyes were full of distrust.

Under the gaze of everyone, including Wiles, Zhao Yi pointed to the paper in his hand with a smile and said, "Your third page, there is a serious error, right here." ”

He pointed to the location, "See for yourself!"

The bearded man took it and looked at it carefully, and every minute it took him to open his mouth wide in surprise, and then his eyes were full of annoyance, "Why didn't I pay attention! I thought I had successfully proved the asymmetric inequality system ......."

"Ula Ula~"

The bearded man began to speak English, and then simply dragged up the Chinese language, but even if it was changed to Chinese, Zhao Yi could not understand it at all, what asymmetry and the like, beyond the scope of his knowledge.

Of course.

At this time, you must remain calm, smile, see through everything, as if the image of a priest who is pleased with the world's repentance, is the most suitable expression.

The people around him immediately began to discuss--

"That's amazing!"

"So fast! It was solved in a minute!"

"It's definitely not acting, is it?"

"Not necessarily!"

"Don't talk nonsense, I know that bearded man, he is Norwegian, and it is said that he has been stuffed at home for five years, and he has been studying ......"

“......”

In the face of the bearded man's remorse and gratitude, Zhao Yi smiled indifferently, and continued indifferently, "Is there anything else!"

"Mine!"

"Look at mine!"

"Sir, it's better to look at me, I handed it to you just now~"

Zhao Yi took the manuscript in the last man's hand.

The number of manuscripts this time is a bit large, and the calculations are more than a dozen sheets of paper, almost all of them are calculations, some calculations are completely incomprehensible, and some are the content of differential equations, which are still within the scope of knowledge.

This kind of paper review is the most headache because there is nothing else, just pure equations, functional transformations, and all kinds of calculations.

Zhao Yi looked at it a little slower, and seemed to have a headache because of this, and after about three minutes, he called the man over and directly pointed out a calculation error and a substitution error.

A dozen pages of complex calculations, with only two simple errors, is really remarkable, but mathematics is like that, the slightest mistake is not allowed, it must be completely correct, because a little mistake can make the conclusion go in the opposite direction.

"Hula~~"

This time there was a complete uproar around.

If a black guy with a Norwegian beard can still be said to be a 'hired actor', the one who gave Zhao Yi a paper just now is a professor at the University of Madrid, or a professor who has made research contributions to partial differential equations and has a certain reputation in the international mathematical community.

Everyone saw it.

Zhao Yi quickly found out the mistakes of the black guy's paper, which is simply the real level, not acting or the like.

Wiles felt like he had been tricked.

When Zhao Yi took the paper of the fourth person, Wiles had only read less than two pages, and he knew that he had lost a big face, and it was not interesting to continue to stay.

"You're amazing!"

Wiles said symbolically, with a hateful expression, handed the manuscript in his hand to the original owner, and walked away.

"Shh~"

There were also mocking cries from behind.

In fact, Wiles was by no means the popular one, even in the UK, he was not very popular with his peers.

This is not the so-called 'peers are enemies', but Wiles has not done mathematical research for more than ten years, just receiving awards, giving speeches, and talking about his Fermat conjecture everywhere.

When a person shows off his achievements everywhere, it is strange that there are good people in the industry.

At the same time, there are many top mathematicians who think that Wiles is a liar, and his proof paper is too complicated, and there are so many contents in the proof before and after that even if you understand all the contents, it is difficult to sort out all the logical relationships.

So far, no one has identified the error, but many of the top mathematicians still don't buy it, arguing that the proof process should be simpler and clearer, rather than incomprehensible to the vast majority of people.

Now seeing Wiles, being compared to a young Chinese man, they are even a little sad in their hearts, and at the same time shocked by Zhao Yi's genius program.

"Look at it! A paper can be solved in two minutes, what a genius, it is said that he is not yet twenty years old!"

"No wonder he was able to crack the Kakutani conjecture, and the proof process was so simple that even undergraduates could understand it. ”

"That's the real proof process, not ......"

"His waveform diagram is also very powerful, and I've been working on it lately, and the more I study it, the more mysterious it becomes, even better than the Riemann function. ”

“......”

After Zhao Yi was in the limelight, he greeted the domestic mathematicians around him, chatted with Zhou Li from the same university, and then followed the group to the venue for a walk.

There is no exact start time for the International Congress of Mathematicians, which is marked by the opening ceremony, but the venue of the conference was opened early, and the exchange of mathematicians was already taking place a week ago.

Now it is the people who come to register, and after registration, they will be divided into various groups, and there is no fixed time for academic reports.

Zhao Yi, Liu Hemin, and several people from the Academy of Sciences were divided into the same discussion group, and they arrived at their own branch venue, which was a large conference room with a capacity of more than 200 people.

Although the capacity of the conference room is not small, there are only more than 100 people in the general group, but when important people give academic reports, people from other groups will also come to listen, which makes the venue seem crowded.

At this time, someone was making an academic report at the venue, but because it was only a ten-minute report of a 'small role', not many people really listened attentively, basically the people on the stage were talking, and the people off the stage were 'sightseeing'.

Zhao Yi sat down and listened carefully to a few words, and found that it was really not interesting, even he could understand it......

Later, he simply returned to the hotel with the Academy of Sciences and his team to recharge his energy and prepare for his speech.

He still has a headache in this regard.

The 'three-dimensional tremor waveform' is certainly the most suitable for speeches, but the problems prompted by the "Law of Supervision" have not been solved for a long time, and he always feels that it is not perfect.

If you just talk about the content of published research, it seems to mean that you are going to eat the old book.

"Or point out Wiles's proof paper?"

He still doesn't want to think about it, even if he doesn't consider the content of the academic report, he wants to find the problem.

"From tomorrow onwards, I will go to the venue to listen to the academic presentations, and maybe I can find some inspiration from them. ”

Zhao Yi made a decision.

The next day, he went to the venue early and listened patiently to the academic reports.

The organizer arranges the academic report very regularly, and in the morning and afternoon, there will be two people who are invited to give a long report on the stage, and the rest of the time will arrange a short report for individual applications.

Most of the short reports are not interesting, most of them just talk about recent work, or they want to attract attention, or they just want to put forward certain points in the hope of being recognized by others, or they simply want to show their faces on stage.

You can still listen to the long report patiently, such as partial differential equations and other research, Zhao Yi listened to it very carefully, and made notes for some things he didn't understand.

He felt that in order to find out the conclusions reached by the Law of Supervision, complex mathematics in other directions might be of great help.

Pity.

Zhao Yi listened to it for two days in a row, it can be said that he harvested Liao Liao, and on the third day, it was time for him to make a report, and he was scheduled for the last long report in the morning.

There was a long report before, Zhao Yi planned to close his eyes and rest for a while, but when he found that the people on the field immediately became energetic.

Wiles?

"The following is a study by Andrew Wiles, on the algebraic geometry objects of elliptic curves!"

"Hulala~~"

A round of applause.

Wiles turned on the microphone with a smile on his face, thanked everyone in the audience for their applause, and while speaking, he also glanced at Zhao Yi heavily, and then talked about the content of the speech report.