Chapter 218: The world is so big that there are no surprises

The world is so big that there are no surprises.

The rivers and lakes are dangerous, and you can drive carefully for 10,000 years.

Without further ado, Shen Qi returned to his apartment and immediately submitted the "Proof of Walsh's Conjecture of the Diophantine Equation" to the online submission system of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

A series of studies on the Diophantine equation, the most famous are the following:

BSD, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dale conjecture, one of the seven millennial puzzles, remains unsolved. (Hell)

Fermat's Great Conjecture has been proven by the British mathematician Andrew Wiles, and Fermat's Great Theorem can now be used directly. (Nightmare)

The Catalan conjecture, which was proved by the Romanian mathematician Mihailescu, is now known as the Catalan theorem. (Hard)

The proof of Walsh's conjecture solves a more difficult problem in the Diophantine series of equations, and Shen Qi's research results are very meaningful and have certain mathematical value, which is in line with his current mathematics level of 9.

"Professor Mihailescu is supposed to be a master of level 10 or above, Professor Wiles has won a Fields Medal, and he estimates it to be level 14?BSD is the second most difficult of the seven millennial puzzles, after Hodge's conjecture, and to prove BSD, you have to have a level of 15. ”

Shen Qi was not complacent because he successfully proved Walsh's conjecture, in front of the real math bull, he was an ordinary little person, at most a calf.

Anyway, Shen Xiaoniu was very happy today, and his first shot after coming to Princeton was fired.

Although it was only an internal start, and the official results were not published, Shen Qi believed that everything was developing in a good direction.

The difficulty of solving the Seven Millennium Problems is an unofficial ranking that is recognized by most mathematicians around the world.

The seven millennial puzzles are, in descending order, the difficulty of the puzzles is:

1. Hodge's conjecture

2、BSD

3. The Poincaré conjecture

4. Navier-Stokes equation

5. P vs. NP problem

6. Yang-meter equation

7. Riemann's conjecture

Perelman, the Russian mathematician who proved Poincaré's conjecture, was a bigwig, he was low-key, but he was a real bigwig.

The Maverick-level figure Shen Qi didn't dare to easily try the millennial problem that was too high, so let's start with the seventh-ranked Riemann conjecture, he had already begun to do so.

The subject of the Riemann Zeta function ζ (2n+1) is not a direct proof of the Riemann conjecture, it is a whetstone, and the responsibility is to sharpen the machete that launched the general attack.

Previously, Professor Muller's arrangement was to let Shen Qi be Mary's assistant, and the two worked together to complete the project task.

Although the great lineage is the Göttingen School, Shen Qi and Mary are not the same style in terms of specific technical operations, and the two use two different solutions to solve the problem of ζ (2n+1).

Professor Muller is a mentor, and he still wants to see a situation where harmony is precious, after all, Shen Qi and Mary are his students.

With Walsh's conjecture solved, Shen Qi concentrated on solving the problem of Riemann Zeta function ζ (2n+1), and half a month later, he hoped to impress Professor Müller completely.

In Professor Müller's four-person research team, organizational relationships are not complicated.

Mueller is the eldest (full professor), the very ambitious Mary is the second (doctoral teaching assistant), the very old but indisputable Jonas is the third (doctoral student), and Shen Qi, who has just arrived, is temporarily ranked fourth (graduate student).

Shen Qi's sudden rise threatened Mary's second position, although Mary was Shen Qi's nominal research team leader, she couldn't suppress Shen Qi, but was blown up by Shen Qi.

Princeton is a mecca of reasoning, knowledge, culture, and academic strength, that is, you can do whatever you want.

It has been a week since Shen Qi's paper "Proof of Walsh's Conjecture of Diophantine Equations" was submitted to the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and the submission system shows that it has passed the preliminary review.

"Yes, Americans are so efficient?" Shen Qi was inexplicably a little excited, the Journal of the American Mathematical Society is one of the four major journals, and it only publishes four issues a year, and each issue publishes about ten mathematical papers.

It is very difficult to publish papers in the top four international mathematics journals, and it is very rare for a graduate student's paper to be included, on average once every ten years, and in fact twice so far.

Tao Zhexuan was not yet 20 years old when he published a paper in Acta Mathematica Sinica during his graduate studies at Princeton, and at the age of 24, he became the youngest full professor in UCLA history.

In the last decade, the German Peter Schulz published a paper in the journal Inventions of Mathematics while a graduate student at the Klay Institute, and at the age of 24 he became the youngest professor of mathematics at the University of Bonn, and the youngest professor of mathematics in German history.

In the past decade, Shen Qi also wanted to try what it was like to publish papers in the four major mathematics journals during his graduate studies.

In a few days, Professor Müller's next academic meeting is about to take place.

Shen Qi and Mary met, and Mary took the initiative to invite him.

"Your proof of Walsh's conjecture is perfect, and the response on arVix is good. Mary was getting haggard, crow's feet looming.

"Mary, I didn't mean to target you, it's all about math. Shen Qi didn't expect his small achievements to cause such a big blow to Mary. There is no harm without contrast, no way, everything is for the sake of mathematics.

"Let's talk about the topic of the Riemann Zeta function ζ (2n+1), and in a few days from the regular academic meeting, I think we should put together one written report instead of two. Mary didn't have the confidence to say this when she said this, but she still said it, after all, she was the leader of Shen Qi's team, and she was mainly responsible for this subject.

"Can you take a look at your latest research progress first?" asked Shen Qi.

Although Mary has shown a soft posture, Shen Qi still doesn't dare to completely reassure her, if you show me your paper first, then I will consider it.

"You have the right to do that. Mary unzipped her bag and handed her paper to Shen Qi.

Mary's cell phone rang, and she made an apologetic gesture and picked it up: "Hey, Pete...... What, are you serious?"

After answering the call, Mary's expression became even more haggard, and her emaciation turned into anger.

Mary got up, walked outside the café, and screamed at the person on the other end of the phone.

A few minutes later, Mary returned to the café and sat down, she was physically and mentally exhausted but pretended that nothing had happened: "Shen Qi, so what do you think of my thesis?"

"I think you're in a terrible state right now, you should take some time off and take a vacation. Shen Qi found out that Mary was a workaholic, and she was obviously suffering and tired from personal affairs, but she tried to face the reality with the appearance of a strong woman.

Mary shook her head: "No, I'm more awake than ever. ”

"Your full name is Marie Schultz-Schmidt, so which is your original last name?" Shen Qi asked.

"Schmidt. ”

"So your husband's name is Schultz?"

"Yes. ”

"Germans?"

"That's right. ”

"He's also an academic? I'm sorry Mary, I shouldn't have inquired about your privacy, you can choose not to answer. ”

"He's a professor of mathematics. ”

"What university do you teach?" Shen Qi seemed to have gotten something extraordinary.

"The University of Bonn, my alma mater, his name is Pete Schulz. Mary said.

"The Schultz, who won 11 math prizes in a row?"

"Yes. ”

"I knew ......" The doubts in Shen Qi's heart were solved, and then a new question arose: "Your husband is a mathematical genius, and he has won the Cole Prize, the highest award in the field of number theory. So Mary, you should ask your gentleman about the analytic number theory of the Riemann zeta function, why do you ask me? I haven't won a single prize, except for the Olympiad. ”

Pete Schultz is an award-winning maniac, a perverted genius who made Shen Qi's senior brother Yun Shen kneel, and Yun Shen is the youngest full professor in the history of Yale University.

In his twenties, Pete Schultz boasted that he would win more than ten math prizes by the time he was thirty.

He did, and he now has the PCP Prize, the Ramanujan Prize, the Clay Research Prize, the Kohl Prize, the Ostrovsky Prize, the Fermat Prize, the Leibniz Prize...... A total of 11 mathematics awards.

In addition to the three F++A awards, Schultz almost swept away the math awards at his age, and he was just 30 years old.

So the cloud god knelt for Schultz.

"He studies his, I study mine. Mary said coldly.