"By the way, "Riemann Conjecture Proof Based on the 'Twin Matching Method'", do you want to publish it in the conference proceedings, or a special mathematical journal? Wiese asked.

Papers that are presented for the first time at an academic conference are usually included in the proceedings of that conference.

The influence of the organizing committee on the conference proceedings is relatively small, and insiders generally value the name of the publishing house or publishing group of the conference proceedings.

Publishing conference proceedings is one of Springer's main businesses, and 100% of the conference proceedings published by Springer are indexed by EI.

Shen Qi did not consider conference proceedings, even those published by Springer do not have an IF value.

The IF value is an important bonus coefficient for brushing the points of the top students, and the bonus income is several times greater.

Shen Qi said: "I am going to submit the "Riemann Conjecture Proof Based on the 'Twin Matching Method'" to the journal, but the conference proceedings have not been considered. ”

Wiese asked: "Annals of Mathematics, Mathematical Inventions, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and Acta Mathematica Sinica, which of the four major journals do you vote for? ”

Shen Qi thought for a while and said: "The proof of Walsh's conjecture was published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society. The Miller-Shen theorem and Shen's proximity theorem were published in the Annals of Mathematics and the Journal of Mathematical Inventions, respectively. So for this paper on the Riemann conjecture, I would like to choose Acta Mathematica Sinica. ”

Wiese made an "oh embarrassed" expression: "Shen, you may be about to break the record, there has never been a mathematician who can publish an article in every one of the four major journals." ”

Shen Qi responded with a smiling expression: "Let it be, I never deliberately thought about breaking a record or anything like that." ”

After the meeting with Weese, Shen Qi submitted the paper "Proof of Riemann Conjecture Based on 'Twin Matching Method'" to the online submission system of Acta Mathematica Sinica according to the normal procedure.

Weese happened to be in charge of organizing number theory experts to review Shen Qi's paper on the Riemann conjecture, which was a review by the IMU.

As the publisher of Acta Mathematica Sinica, Springer Group is familiar with the editorial department of Acta Mathematica Sinica, and Wieser has fully integrated its resources to merge the two teams of number theorists hired by IMU and reviewers contacted by Acta Mathematica Sinica into one big team.

This large team is composed of 11 world-renowned number theory experts, and for the sake of avoiding suspicion, mathematicians and Chinese mathematicians from the Princeton system were not selected for this large jury.

If the "Riemann Conjecture Proof Based on 'Twin Matching Method'" is verified by the 11-member jury, it means that Shen Qi's research results have been widely recognized by the international mathematical community, and he will truly achieve "half of the god".

To put it simply, the day when Acta Mathematica Sinica published "Proof of Riemann's Conjecture Based on 'Twin Matching Method'" was the day when Shen Qi became a god.

A month passed, and at the end of April, Shen Qi got the news that the 11-digit number theorists of the Grand Jury had been arranged in a secret place in Sweden, and the verification of his Riemann conjecture proof was still in progress, and there was no conclusion for the time being.

The editorial office of Acta Mathematica Sinica was in Sweden, and Shen Qi couldn't fly to Sweden to check the progress or anything, and he was not invited.

Besides, Shen Qi has important work to do, and the second half of the Riemann conjecture has not yet been completed.

Shen Qi's team ran into an obstacle and couldn't push the third expression of ζ(s) alive or dead.

Ou Ye officially joined Shen Qi's team, and the current team members are Shen Qi, Mary, Jonas, Ou Ye, and Muller, and the technical advisors are Faltings, Lyndon Strauss, and Gong Changwei.

The Princeton Department of Mathematics and the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University have agreed that they will work together on this project, and both are Ivy League allies, and cooperation will always come first.

This cross-university collaborative project is under the name of Professor Muller, and the actual person in charge is Shen Qi.

Shen Qi is the default project host within the research group, and his project host has money, people and resources, and the mathematics circles of Pupu, Columbia and the world are paying attention to the latest research progress of Shen Qi's team.

After all, FLAG has been established, and the verification of the second half of Li Guess will directly lead to the solution of Gechai, and the ultimate meaning of the prime number distribution law cracked by Li Chai + Gechai may rewrite the rules of the application field.

"I've found that deriving the third expression of ζ(s) is more difficult than adding the first one. ”

Shen Qi, Mueller, Mary, Faltins, Lyndon Strauss and others sat around a Wednesday coffee break in the Princeton Department of Mathematics, and Shen Qi expressed his views.

Mill nodded and said: "Theoretically, the third expression is the support of the first and the second, and it is always difficult to get a supporting result. ”

Jonas said he was too tired, the first half of the Riemann conjecture had exhausted him, and he was out on vacation and needed some rest and recuperation. During this time, it was two women who really helped Shen Qi work, Mary and Ou Ye.

Müller, Faltings, Lyndon Strauss, and Gong Changwei are all professors, and there are two Filipino Prize winners, who mainly provide technical support in the general direction, and the specific work is done by Shen Qi, Mary, Ou Ye, and Jonas.

Jonas went on vacation, so according to the latest contributions, the team ranking is Shen Qi, Mary, Ouye, Jonas, and Muller.

In the final officially published paper or published academic monograph, there is always a sort of author's name, and the basis for the order is very simple: contribution.

The names of the three technical advisors, Faltings, Linden Strauss, and Gong Changwei, will not appear in the list of authors, and they will be thanked in the closing remarks of the paper or in the preface of the academic monograph.

In the second half of the Riemann conjecture proof, the main battlefield is the café on the third floor of the Princeton Department of Mathematics, and the sub-battlefield is the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University.

There are still more than five months to hold the International Congress of Mathematicians, whether the second half of the Riemann conjecture proof can be completed before October, Shen Qi is not sure, the team lineup has been strengthened, but the difficulty of the subject he is facing has increased exponentially.

The more he delved into the third expression of ζ(s), the more difficult it became for Shen Qi to get it.

Another month passed, and by the end of May, Shen Qi's team's research on the second half of the Riemann conjecture was progressing slowly, albeit slowly, but planned. According to this planned project schedule, it is estimated that it will not be completed before October this year.

At the same time, Shen Qi also received good news that the first half of the Riemann conjecture will be jointly organized by the IMU and Acta Mathematica Sinica in the near future to arrive in the United States.

Shen Qi will accept face-to-face questions from 11 well-known number theory experts in the Grand Jury Pattern.

"It's finally time for this day. Shen Qi waited for two months for this special defense, and he was ready for this international defense.

Under normal circumstances, an author submits a paper to an academic journal, and the journal finds several reviewers to carry out the review work, and after that, the paper is included, but it is rejected.

Authors, journal editorial staff, and reviewers will not meet.

However, Shen Qi's case is an exception, and the "Riemann Conjecture Proof Based on the 'Twin Matching Method'", which is known as "half of the gods", is too big to be moved, and the double-blind or single-blind review system is no longer applicable to atypical cases like Shen Qi.

The paper "Proof of the Riemann Conjecture Based on the 'Twin Matching Method'" was quietly studied by the Grand Jury for two months, and no news was released to the public.

Shen Qi predicted that the grand jury must have made some research progress and had a lot of questions to ask himself.

At the Breakthrough Prize conference in March, Shen Qi did not participate in the Q&A session because there was no one to ask questions at that time.

11 number theorists who had nothing to do with Shen Qi had worked hard for two months, and now, they came to the United States with questions to torture Shen Qi.