After Chen Zhou submitted the "Annals of Mathematics", the original noisy and boiling discussion.

Because there are no new sources of hot spots, there is a short-term weakening trend.

The reason why I say it is short is because the second issue of the Annals of Mathematics this year, the time for publication, has been finalized.

The editorial department of the Annals of Mathematics, after receiving the review opinions of Chen Zhou's paper, immediately began to arrange the publication of the second quarter of the journal.

At the same time, the official website of the Annals of Mathematics also directly released the publication date of the second quarter of the journal.

He also emphasized the paper in which Chen Zhou proved Jepov's conjecture.

This one-handed operation can be regarded as rubbing a wave of Chen Zhou's popularity.

After all, the attention of this incident has been rising step by step.

In addition, the invitations from the previous four major journals were exposed on the papers, which sparked heated discussions.

In doing so, Annals of Mathematics has proved its dominance in the field of mathematical journals.

And this news on the official website of the "Annals of Mathematics" was also directly captured by the majority of netizens for the first time.

It was directly reprinted and quoted to the forum, which injected new vitality into this incident that had been silent for a few days and had no new attention.

Speaking of which, Chen Zhou's paper this time is really a bit of a high-profile feeling.

The coming out of the preprint has attracted a great deal of attention.

There are all kinds of news on the Internet, and the comments of the math bigwigs are continuous.

Then to the long-awaited final version of the paper, looking forward to the final review comments of the reviewers.

Up to now, the much-anticipated journal has been published.

It can be said that it has attracted the attention of the entire mathematical community.

The only thing that may surprise everyone is that Tao Zhexuan and Zhang Yitang have always remained silent.

Tao Zhexuan, a blogger, also allows the number of comments on his blog to refresh to new heights every day.

But there was no response.

This also made the outside world start to speculate, what are these two people doing?

Is it because you can't afford to lose?

Other people's papers have been published, what are you still inking?

Even if the twin prime conjecture is solved now, it won't be able to get back this situation, right?

Why can't you say congratulations generously?

Isn't that what academic research is all about?

Didn't you see those wailing doctoral students all standing up and choosing to "forgive" Chen Zhou?

Not only under Tao Zhexuan's blog, but also on a well-known foreign mathematics forum, it is also full of this tune.

Basically, the news of the upcoming publication of the Annals of Mathematics occupies half of the forum.

Although the students led by Tao Zhexuan also came out to defend their teachers.

But their words, apparently, are not convincing.

Moreover, when asked what Professor Tao has been doing lately, why he doesn't even have time to respond positively.

They couldn't answer why.

Because, they don't know what Tao Zhexuan is doing.

Tao Zhexuan has not been seen at school for many days recently.

Therefore, some netizens began to speculate that Tao Zhexuan couldn't withstand the blow and sank?

Tao Zhexuan naturally didn't see these comments.

Otherwise, he would have been unable to sit still.

Now he is with Zhang Yitang at the moment.

After Zhang Yitang came by plane to the University of California, Los Angeles and found Tao Zhexuan.

The two of them began their retreat.

In Zhang Yitang's view, losing is losing, but that's all trivial.

In his eyes, only the real solution to the twin prime conjecture is the biggest and most important thing.

Tao Zhexuan's mentality also completely changed after meeting Zhang Yitang.

He was infected by Zhang Yitang's pure academic heart.

The previous phone call was one thing, but when they actually met, he realized that he was not enough in this regard.

Naturally, Tao Zhexuan, who was dragged by the twin prime conjecture, couldn't tell the slightest bit to look at the online comments during this time.

However, Tao Zhexuan's thesis has been paying attention to Chen Zhou's thesis.

"Professor Zhang, this is the paper I just printed. Tao Zhexuan held a wad of paper that still smelled of ink in his hand.

When Zhang Yitang heard this, he raised his head slightly and glanced at Tao Zhexuan: "Is it Chen Zhou's paper?"

Tao Zhexuan nodded: "That's it, it will be published in the Annals of Mathematics soon." ”

Zhang Yitang's expression did not change in the slightest, and he lowered his head and continued to study his question.

Tao Zhexuan glanced at him, sighed lightly, and said slowly: "We have been trying to perfect the distribution deconstruction method, and he has completed it. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yitang's hand holding the pen paused slightly.

The new idea he talked about with Tao Zhexuan was based on Chen Zhou's distribution structure method.

However, both of them are also limited by the method of distributive deconstruction.

A breakthrough in this new approach has been delayed.

Unexpectedly, Chen Zhou himself perfected his own methods.

Tao Zhexuan handed over the printed paper: "You take a look first, I think this is probably what we need." ”

Zhang Yitang put down the pen, took the printed paper, and began to read it.

Tao Zhexuan looked at the old man who was silent, and didn't say anything more, walked back to his position, and continued his research.

Chen Zhou's paper, he has read it completely.

For the distribution deconstruction method that has been perfected again, he has the same feeling as Chen Zhou, Deligne and others.

It's a method with unlimited potential.

It may not be limited to the field of number theory, but also has the potential to shine in many new fields of mathematics.

He didn't know how Chen Zhou came up with such a method.

But for now, Chen Zhou is a real mathematical genius.

At least, Chen Zhou's talent in mathematics will not be worse than him.

Time ticked by, and when Tao Zhexuan looked up at Zhang Yitang again, he found that the other party's expression had become extremely exciting.

Zhang Yitang couldn't help but be amazed by Chen Zhou's idea, this kid was too unexpected.

Suddenly, Zhang Yitang raised his head and looked at Tao Zhexuan: "Professor Tao, you're right, this is what we have always needed!"

Tao Zhexuan got up and walked to Zhang Yitang's side.

Zhang Yitang's eyes were full of brilliance, this was the look of the eyes that found the answer he was looking for.

May 20th.

A beautiful day when the numbers are extremely rich.

The latest issue of the Annals of Mathematics was published.

This is a highly anticipated journal publication.

And the much-anticipated content is Chen Zhou's paper.

An interesting statistic is that the number of subscriptions to this issue of the Annals of Mathematics has reached a record high.

This undoubtedly makes the other three major journals such as Acta Mathematica Sinica can't help but blush.

But they are also very helpless, it is Chen Zhou who did not choose them!

At the same time as the journal was published, the heat of this event reached its peak directly!

Because of the time difference, the first to boil was the foreign network, as well as the foreign media.

The website that many netizens have to browse several times a day.

"It's done! It's been announced, it's finally been published after waiting so long!"

"It's terrifying to solve three world-class mathematical conjectures in a row in one year!"

"Suffocating rhythm, suffocating efficiency, suffocating talent!"

"I don't know how many people can't finish their doctorates this year because of him?

"Upstairs, let's not talk about your heart-piercing problem, you don't pay attention to the formation at all???"

"Piercing the heart, according to incomplete statistics, three chickens that lay golden eggs have at least broken the hearts of dozens of doctoral students!"

"Hahaha, anyway, is this a witness to history?"

"Witness history? Haven't we been witnessing history since his name appeared in the world of mathematics?"

"I just want to ask, why doesn't Professor Tao Zhexuan blog yet?"

"Who knows?"

Compared with the excitement of foreign netizens, foreign media are much calmer.

The Washington Post reported the incident for the first time.

And the match between Chen Zhou and Tao Zhexuan and Zhang Yitang was described in detail.

In the end, I said with great sadness that the mathematicians of the United States lost this competition!

Subsequently, the "Los Angeles Times" and "New York Times" began to report on well-known media in the United States.

Their coverage is the same as that of the Washington Post, with a strong national feel.

Although in the papers published in the Annals of Mathematics, Professor Deligne, Professor Faltings, and Professor Langlands all gave high praise to Chen Zhou's paper.

But their perspective on the problem always revolves around the competition between Chen Zhou and the three.

It seems that the loss of Tao Zhexuan and Zhang Yitang has become the loss of the whole country.

However, in a sense, it is true that Chinese mathematicians have defeated American mathematicians.

Moreover, this is a college student who has not graduated from undergrad, and has defeated two bigwigs in the mathematics world.

It's enough to hurt the proud hearts of the people of the United States.