Chapter 178

In the international mathematical community, Chinese mathematicians have not been taken very seriously.

To be honest, China still has a long way to go from the world's top mathematical powers.

Although in recent years, China has a tendency to catch up.

But after all, it's still in the process of catching up.

It will take a long time to change the deep-rooted prejudice against Chinese mathematicians in the world.

As a result, on the arXiv website, the articles uploaded by Chinese mathematicians rarely attract the attention of others, except for those who are quite well-known in the world.

Generally, in the process of brushing arXiv on a daily basis, no matter how attractive the title of the article is, as long as the author is a Chinese mathematician, they will be seen at a glance.

As far as they know, those Chinese people are very good at it.

As for the quality of the papers of Chinese mathematics parents, they generally can't believe it.

Therefore, even if the paper uploaded by Gu Lu on the second problem of the minimum model program, even if it has been marked on the title of the article as a paper with a mature solution to the second problem of the minimum model program, there are still few views after a few hours.

Until, the paper was discovered by Professor Charlie.

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"Proof of Termination of Algebraic Cluster Flip Operations After a Limited Number of Operations: A Solution to the Second Problem of the Minimally Minimal Model Scheme"!

After seeing this long title, Professor Charlie's eyes locked on the line, and the expression on his face kept changing.

Joy, apprehension.

And a little ...... Unbelievable!

So quickly, someone solved the second problem of the minimalist program?

Professor Charlie was puzzled.

As far as he knows, the longest research period of the dozen or so research groups that have been set up around the world to solve the second problem of the minimalist program is only more than two months.

The research group currently led by Professor Charlie has only been open for a month.

Even, a month has passed, and Professor Charlie and his research group have not even found the entry point of the problem.

But, so quickly, someone has solved this problem?!

Maybe it's too fast!

Professor Charlie subconsciously thought that this was a sensationalist paper.

Then the gaze shifted to the author's name on the next line.

Gu-LV

Gao-chuang

These are the names of two Chinese people.

Professor Charlie's brow furrowed.

He has no prejudice against Chinese mathematicians, and there are many Chinese mathematicians at Harvard University.

It's just that these two names, Professor Charlie always feels inexplicably familiar.

Where have you heard of it?

Professor Charlie frowned and thought, and after more than ten seconds, as if something suddenly came to mind, Professor Charlie stood up from his chair.

Then, on the bookshelf next to it, after rummaging for a while, I took out a magazine.

It was the issue of Mathematical Monthly three months ago.

Professor Charlie flipped directly to the first article in this magazine, and his eyes fell on the two authors of the article.

Gu-Lv，Gao-Chuang!

Two names that are exactly the same.

Professor Charlie finally knew why the two names were so familiar to him.

Because three months ago, these two people published an article in the Monthly Journal of Mathematics.

The content is to solve the first problem of the minimalist program!

Now, three months later, the two of them have uploaded an article on arXiv about solving the second problem of the minimal model program.

Professor Charlie's heart was pounding, the blood flow was speeding up, and his lips were a little dry.

If someone else uploads this article on arXiv, Professor Charlie will probably think it's grandstanding, laugh it off, and maybe don't even look at it.

But these two are different.

Three months ago, it was these two Chinese mathematicians who came out of nowhere to overcome the first conjecture of the minimalist program, which is one of the two major problems of the minimalist model.

Three months later, looking at this article in front of him, Professor Charlie has reason to believe that it is really possible for these two Chinese mathematicians to solve the second problem of the minimum model program!

Professor Charlie didn't even notice that the fingers he was holding the mouse were already trembling slightly with excitement.

It took a long time for Professor Charlie to control the mouse and click on the paper.

The paper is very long, more than fifty pages.

But Professor Charlie was patient, writing and drawing on a blank piece of paper while reading, verifying the derivation process in the paper.

An hour, two hours, five hours......

For a whole day, Professor Charlie did not leave the apartment.

And the scratch paper he used for verification was already stacked in a thick stack on his desk.

“…… Is this proof scheme really feasible?"Unknowingly, Professor Charlie also read the second part of the paper, which is to prove that the flip operation of high-dimensional algebraic clusters is terminated after a finite number of times.

Here, Gu Lu adopts a very ingenious method, that is, six unrelated auxiliary theorems are used to extrapolate each other by mathematical induction, and then prove the main theorem that needs to be proved.

When he saw this, Professor Charlie reacted the same as Senior Brother Gao at that time, thinking that this was a rather nonsense plan.

"This method, no matter how you look at it, is completely unreliable at all! I have never seen such a proof scheme before. ”

Professor Charlie muttered softly, but the derivation process in the first half of the paper still allowed Professor Charlie to continue reading.

But the further back he looked, the more frightened Professor Charlie became.

Just now, the proof plan, which he thought was completely unfeasible, went further and further on the road to the destination.

And it's a straight avenue.

This means that Gu Lu's proof scheme is not only feasible.

And maybe it's ...... The simplest solution.

The thought of this made Professor Charlie even more frightened.

Without hesitation, Professor Charlie continued to read.

As if unaware of the passage of time, Professor Charlie entered a state of self-forgetfulness, with only the paper in front of him in his mind.

Even because of hunger, my stomach rumbled and called the police several times without realizing it.

From six o'clock in the morning to nearly twelve o'clock in the evening, Professor Charlie finally finished reading Gu Lu's entire paper.

For Professor Charlie, who has a regular schedule, this is one of the few times he has stayed up so late.

And even in the case of not eating for a day.

Professor Charlie leaned back in his chair, exhaled lightly, felt the exhaustion of his body due to hunger, and smiled helplessly.

But Professor Charlie ignored these for the time being, but took out his mobile phone and dialed a phone number directly.

It was one of his close friends, Professor Clay of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Like Charlie, Professor Clay is currently working on the direction of the minima-model program.

"Charlie, what's the matter with calling so late?" asked Professor Clay over there.

Professor Charlie took a deep breath and spoke in a serious voice, "Clay, the second problem of the Minimal Model Program has been solved!"