Columbia University, Gong Changwei's office.

"Shen Qi, you are really diligent when you come to our school. Gong Changwei leaned back in his chair, the pencil was turning between his fingers, his hair was getting less and less, and his pencil turning technique was getting more and more refined.

"First of all, congratulations, senior brother, I think you have a hope of winning the Feye Award this year. Shen Qi poured himself a glass of water, he was very familiar with Gong Changwei.

"Let it be. Gong Changwei said that although he said so, his eyes told Shen Qi that he wanted to win the Fields Medal.

This year, a total of three Chinese mathematicians received an invitation from the IMU to give a 45-minute report at the International Congress of Mathematicians: Gong Changwei, Yun Wei, and Xu Yang.

The International Congress of Mathematicians, held every four years, is the highest level of the mathematical community, and mathematicians who are eligible for the Fields Medal will inevitably give a report at this International Congress of Mathematicians.

The report specifications are divided into four grades, from high to low, which are 1 hour, 45 minutes, 30 minutes, and 15 minutes.

According to the convention, if he has made a report at the last or last International Congress of Mathematicians, and has been invited by the IMU to give a one-hour high-level report this year, the chances of winning the Philippine Prize are very high.

According to the grapevine, there are nine mathematicians around the world who received invitations to 1-hour presentations from the IMU this year.

It is highly likely that this year's four Filipino Award winners will be selected from these nine people, all of whom have been speakers at the last and last conferences.

Why does Shen Qi think that Gong Changwei, who has won the qualification for the 45-minute second-class report, also has a chance to compete for the Philippine Award?

Because among mathematicians under the age of 40, Gong Changwei has achieved the top in the field of number theory.

Yun Wei and Xu Yang's main direction of attack are algebraic geometry, this field is too hot, and more than one-third of the previous Fields Medals have been awarded to mathematicians in the field of algebraic geometry.

The hot field means that the competition is fierce, and three of the nine mathematicians who received the highest standard treatment for one hour at this conference mainly focused on algebraic geometry, and the competition faced by Yun Wei and Xu Yang was extremely fierce.

Therefore, Shen Qi felt that Gong Changwei was expected to be upset, of course he hoped that his senior brother would win the award.

If Senior Brother Gong can pretend to be this big force and become the first Chinese mathematician to win the Philippine Prize, Shen Qi will congratulate him.

"Hey, it's actually quite difficult, all the topics that can be broken through in number theory have been broken through, and those that can't be broken through have never been able to break through. Gong Changwei will not change his pen, this year is the last time he will participate in the competition for the Philippine Award, and in the next four years, he will be over 40 years old.

"Never give up hope, brother, maybe you'll be upset. Shen Qi said, "Ou Ye worships you as a teacher, you are going to get the Fei Award, and Ou Ye will also be stained, on behalf of Ou Ye, I sincerely wish you to win the Fei Award." ”

"I don't eat your dog food!" Gong Changwei laughed and asked, "By the way, Shen Qi, what are you looking for me?

"No, no, I came all the way to you to ask you about professional questions. Shen Qi casually took a blank piece of paper on the table, took out a pencil and wrote down his "Shen Matching Method" and the first expression: "Senior brother, please advise." ”

Gong Changwei took the blank paper and looked at it, he didn't know if he didn't look at it, and he was startled when he saw it: "This ...... This ...... This is what you came up with?"

"I came up with the original idea, and now we have a team in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Mathematics working on this project, and I am the actual leader of this project. Shen Qi said.

Gong Changwei took off his glasses, wiped them, and after putting them on, he carefully studied Shen Qi's manuscript, and the more he studied, the more surprised he became: "So Shen Qi, you took two non-obvious zero points that matched the features, and through the clever processing of variables and complex variables, you deduced an important expression of the Riemann conjecture ζ(s) in a completely innovative way. This expression is very convincing, but what about the second one? There should be a set of similar expressions, right?"

Senior brother is really a top expert, to the point, to the point. Shen Qi became excited: "The second one hasn't come out yet!"

"You didn't get it out, are you still so happy?" Gong Changwei returned the manuscript to Shen Qi.

"So senior brother, you agree with my train of thought. Shen Qi said that the mathematics departments of Columbia University and Pu University have their own characteristics, and the top number theorists of Columbia University and Pu University all agree with Shen Qi's thinking, which makes Shen Qi more and more confident.

"Why didn't the IMU invite you to make a report? With this piece of paper in your hand, even if it is a half-finished product of the Riemann conjecture, you are qualified to attend the meeting. I, Gong Changwei, have graduated from Yan University for so many years, and I have studied number theory all my life, and in the end I found that the biggest competitor turned out to be Shen Qi!" Gong Changwei couldn't cry or laugh, but he was also shocked by Shen Qi's whimsy.

"Senior brother, we will never be competitors, it is impossible for me to give me this year's Philippine Award, and ...... next year" Shen Qi stopped abruptly and realized that he had said the wrong thing.

"I won't be eligible to compete for the Philippine Awards next year. Gong Changwei said it himself, "But it doesn't matter, we who study mathematics don't learn mathematics for the sake of winning awards, but because we like mathematics." I am looking forward to Shen Qi and your team finally proving RH, as a mathematician of the same era, it is lucky to be able to witness RH being overcome. ”

"Senior brother, the next guess, I hope to cooperate with you. Shen Qi said heartily that RH has no choice, this is a key project of the University, and it is not easy to explain to the organization that people from other schools are invited into the research group, unless it is a family member.

"You can get RH done first, hey, Shen Qi, do you need me to help you go to the IMU and ask?I think you should go to the meeting, even if you are very young, you can make an exception, at least you should be given 15 minutes to perform. ”

"Your new plan has not been officially published yet, the conference report is the most suitable opportunity to show, and when the journal is reviewed, it will be the year of the monkey, can this kind of problem be solved without reviewing it for a year or two?"

"Director Peverman helped me ask. Shen Qi said.

Gong Changwei felt overwhelmed: "Okay, when I didn't say it, the chairman of the IMU is a student of your director Faifman, and when Peverman was your age, he taught students at Zhi University." ”

"Boss Fei still has this kind of student, the chairman of IMU?" Shen Qi stayed in Pu University for a long time, and found that the connections and energy of Pu University were really huge, and this kind of organization was theoretically operable to raise the strength of the whole school, and if he wanted to make an academic star popular or bury an unknown genius.

There are also circles in the international academic and mathematical circles, but fortunately, Shen Qi is quite good in the circle, he respects the professors, unites his classmates, and treats the students in the tutorial class well.

After all, Princeton is a place where academics are paramount, as long as people are not too annoying, and religious beliefs are not too extreme, young people with strong academic ability are more likely to get out of the way.

Shen Qi looked at the time, there were still two minutes before Ou Ye should get out of class, he asked, "Ou Ye has been enrolled for a month, didn't you cause trouble to you, senior brother?"

"It won't cause trouble, she is relatively well-behaved, and she has not been out of school for a month since she came to Columbia. ”

A few minutes later, the girls' dormitory.

The women's dormitory of Columbia University's graduate students does not have a dormitory administrator or the like, and the door on the first floor needs to be fingerprinted to enter, which is quite safe, unless the girls themselves bring criminals into the dormitory building.

Ou Ye brushed his fingerprints, took Shen Qi into the girls' building, and came to her room.

"How's your health lately?" Shen Qi sat at Ou Ye's desk, burying his head in writing something.

"Took the medicine on time and everything was fine. Ouye said.

Shen Qi: "There is a new set of equations, you can help me solve them." ”

"How many equations?" asked Oye.

"Quadratic equations. Shen Qi finished writing a set of equations in Ou Ye's notebook.

"Quadratic equation ......" Ou Ye took a few steps back, retreated to the bed, hugged the quilt and covered his face, looking so nervous.

"What are you doing under the quilt? Come on, little leaf, come out and solve the equation. Shen Qi glanced back, walked to the side of the bed with a notebook, and patted Ou Ye in the quilt.

Ou Ye showed half of his head and saw the equation in the notebook: "Ah, solve this quadratic equation?"

Shen Qi explained: "In order to analyze the Riemann ζ function, I need you to help me do an extremely important job, starting from the zero point equation and finding the third expression. It's a lot of calculations, so I ask how your body is. ”

Ou Ye showed all her head, she was very interested in the zero-point equation written by Shen Qi: "The second expression, completed?"

"When I return to the University, I will work with Professor Faltins to solve the second expression, and you, Ouye, will assist me in completing the third expression. Shen Qi held Ou Ye's little hand and encouraged: "Although you have just entered graduate school, I think that under my command, you can play the level of a doctoral student, pure prime number calculation, Mary is not as good as you." ”

"Who is Mary?" asked Oye.

"Mary is my colleague, and you're better than her anyway. Shen Qi said.