Chapter 88

Paris, the capital of France.

École Polytechnique is located in the cultural district near the Eiffel Tower.

As one of the top three universities in France, École Polytechnique brings together the country's top talents in various fields.

At the same time, the various academic journals published by the École Polytechnique also have a high status and prestige in the world.

The publishing house behind the journal is École Polytechnique.

In a modestly decorated office, Myron Dunstein brews a cup of coffee, sits at her desk, and turns on her computer.

In addition to being a professor at École Polytechnique, Professor Myron also has another identity - one of the review editors of the Mathematical Bulletin!

As a mathematics SCI journal with a low impact factor, the number of papers submitted by Mathematical Bulletin every day is huge.

As a university professor, he couldn't stay in his office from 9 to 5 every day to review manuscripts.

Typically, he spends one or two mornings a week in his office reviewing manuscripts.

Papers submitted to the "Mathematical Bulletin" generally have to be screened by the preliminary editors first, and those papers that are obviously indiscriminate and submitted to join in the fun are brushed out.

The rest will reach the backstage of Professor Myron's reviewers.

Logging in to the account, Professor Myron directly entered the backstage paper database of the "Mathematical Bulletin".

The number of unreviewed manuscripts currently shown is 875.

"That's a lot!" In recent years, with the increase in the rate of postgraduate entrance examinations in various countries, the number of people engaged in scientific research has been increasing.

The mathematics industry is no exception.

However, the resources of the mathematical community are limited, and the more people engaged in this industry, the more fierce the competition will be.

At the top of the paper database are the submissions of several math math leaders in order.

Compared with the small transparency of the mathematical community, when submitting to SCI journals, well-known mathematicians naturally occupy a certain advantage.

Because, for reviewers, the papers submitted by those well-known mathematicians have a much higher approval rate than those who are not well-known!

When the papers are sorted, the preliminary review editor will also put the journals at the top of the database so that the reviewers can see them.

So when it's fast, those calves usually get a reply in about a week.

And those mathematicians who are not well-known can be as short as two or three months, and as many as ...... Half a year, I will wait for the reviewer's reply.

Professor Myron took a shallow sip of coffee and began his morning's work.

Opening a Maverick submission that had already been annotated by two reviewers, Professor Myron slowly reviewed it line by line.

"Yes, but I have a few suggestions for this paper......

An hour later, Professor Myron finished reviewing the first paper and then gave advice on minor revisions.

Then, Professor Myron clicked on the next Maverick's paper.

Time walked slowly.

At eleven o'clock, Professor Myron stretched and rubbed his sour eyes.

In three hours, he had already reviewed three papers submitted by Maverick.

"Let's finish the week with one more review. ”

Professor Myron thought like this.

"Find a paper on algebraic number theory. Since Professor Myron's main direction of study is algebraic number theory, he chose the direction he is best at for the last paper to be reviewed.

Glancing at the papers that were pinned to the top, there were no papers in the direction of algebraic number theory.

Professor Myron continued to look down.

"Algebraic number theory has been cold lately!" After looking for more than 50 papers, but not a single paper in the direction of algebraic number theory, Professor Myron couldn't help but sigh lightly.

"There it is, this one!" Myron's gaze locked on a paper.

"The Proof of the Cohen-Lenstra Conjecture", Gu Lu, Hua Guo!

Professor Myron's gaze froze.

Chinese, and still challenging the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture?

"It's kind of interesting!"

Professor Myron opened the paper without the slightest hesitation.

Cohen-Lenstra conjectures that the status of mathematics is not very high, but it is not something that can be challenged by any mathematician.

Over the past few years, quite a few mathematicians have challenged it.

But none of them succeeded.

If there were no other projects to do, Professor Myron would have wanted to try this conjecture.

"I finally found a paper in the field of algebraic number theory, I hope it doesn't disappoint me!" Professor Myron chuckled, adjusted his state, and his eyes fell on the computer screen.

At the same time, with a pen in hand, verify the derivation steps described in Gu's paper on scratch paper.

Gradually, as time passed, Professor Myron held his breath and his expression became extremely serious and serious.

"Oh, what a clever articulation of these two theorems!"

“…… And here, the conjecture is further simplified and extended, and the way to deal with it is imaginative, but the effect is not generally good!"

"A class of quadratic domain divisibility discriminants, so you can use it?...... No problem, it's okay to use it like this, I can't find any loopholes!"

While reviewing, Professor Myron was amazed again and again.

Unexpectedly, among the submissions of a bunch of unknown mathematicians, I actually came across a paper of quality that was not inferior to that submitted by those maverick-level mathematicians before.

Professor Myron read Gu Lu's paper for two hours.

It wasn't until he felt the hunger pang in his stomach that Professor Myron woke up.

Professor Myron clicked on the mailbox, groaned, and typed out the next line as a reply to Gu Lu's paper, "The proof process is correct, and it can be directly included!"

Cohen-Lenstra conjecture...... Proven out!

Professor Myron had a trance-like feeling.

Because this matter is verified by him personally!

Gu Lu!

A Chinese name that Professor Myron had never heard of before.

But it was he who succeeded in proving the field of algebraic number theory, a well-known conjecture that has existed for several years.

Although the proof of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture could not set off a major storm in the entire mathematical community.

But it is enough to stir up quite a few waves on the calm lake of algebraic number theory.

Professor Myron first contacted two other reviewers of the Mathematical Bulletin, asking them to complete the review of the paper as soon as possible, and then let the paper be published as soon as possible.

Then, he dialed another number.

"Denton, my old friend, didn't bother you!"

"Myron, I've just finished lunch and I'm going back to the office to work, what's the matter?"

"I heard you say some time ago that you have two students working together to solve the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture, right?"

"That's right. Both of them are PhD students who graduated from Imperial College London in 2014 and started the project this time last year. In the past year, the two of them put all their energy on this conjecture, often bursting their livers and staying up late, and their spirits have been sluggish a lot. But the results are good, and it proves that the progress has been two-thirds of the way, and it is estimated that the two of them will be able to do it in another three months. ”

"What's the matter, old man, do you want my two students to submit their proof papers to your Mathematical Bulletin after completing the proof, this one...... It's not non-negotiable!"

"No, no, no, no, old man, I didn't mean that. I'm calling to let you know your two students that you don't need to work so hard in the future. ”

"What do you mean ????"

"The Cohen-Lenstra conjecture has been successfully proven!"

“……”