Chapter Sixty-Eight: Excitement (5,000 Harvests and Changes)
After another half an hour, the large conference room was gradually full, and Wiles, Professor Nan, and other professors who were familiar with Lu Qiujian surrounded him with concern and comfort, and assured that Princeton was your strong backing, and they would never sit idly by and watch Lu Qiujian's research results be plagiarized, and would definitely seek justice for him.
William Timothy Gowers, Andrew Wyles, Edward Witten, Charles Feverman, William Thurston, Cyncon Bourcan, Pierre René de Ligne, Vladimir Vottsky, Enrico Pompierli, Pierre Deligne, Artel Selberg At a glance, there are more than a dozen mathematical giants who have won Fields Medals in the small conference room.
Add to that the winners of the Wolf Prize, such as Robert Langlands, and it's not an exaggeration to say that one-third of the best of the mathematical community is now gathered in this room.
If someone throws a bomb in now, maybe the scientific progress of mankind will be delayed for several years, Lu Qiujian suddenly had such a thought in his heart.
"Gentlemen, please be quiet!", Professor Philip Griffiths, who was most excited after receiving the news, acted as the temporary moderator, in addition to his profound knowledge of mathematics, he has also been engaged in teaching and research of intellectual property rights since 72 years, so he was even more angry than Lu Qiujian himself after hearing about this scandal.
"Professor William Thurston, please, explain what happened to us first!", seeing that everyone was quiet, Professor Griffith didn't talk too much nonsense, and directly let Thurston come to the stage.
"A lot of people just hear something on the phone and don't know what really happened, so I'm here to announce a good news and a bad news!", Professor Thurston turned on the computer on the lecture platform, "The good news is that the Poincaré conjecture that has plagued the mathematical community for nearly a hundred years has been solved recently, and the one who solved this problem is Lu Qiujian, an exchange student in the Princeton Department of Mathematics!"
Lu Qiujian stood up and bowed, and there was a warm applause at the scene, and the faces of these mathematicians showed sincere smiles of blessing; Lu Qiujian also saw that Professor Nan was talking to Dyson, and his face was full of proud smiles.
The applause lasted for five minutes, which was a tribute to a great mathematical achievement and an encouragement to the young Lu Qiujian, hoping that he could make greater contributions in his future academic career.
Then Professor Thurston turned on the projector and showed Lu Qiujian's proof process on the big screen, and briefly introduced Lu Qiujian's idea of solving the problem, "As for the detailed process, I will give a speech to you after a while! I believe that Princeton will be happy to host this speech!"
"Okay, the good news is over, it's time to tell the bad news!", Professor Thurston shook his head regretfully, opened his mailbox on the computer, and displayed his mailing list, "Some time ago, Lu sent me the paper for review after writing it, and after I confirmed that it was correct, Lu sent the paper to Science. ”
Speaking of which, there was a little commotion at the scene, and these mathematicians were a little puzzled by Lu Qiujian's choice of Science instead of the four major journals.
"Then Science rejected the paper!", Thurston shrugged, as if mocking the editors and reviewers of Science, "After receiving the news, I thought that it was because the paper was too long, too professional, and difficult to be read by cross-border people, so I asked Lu to resubmit the paper to the Annals of Mathematics!"
The professors in the audience nodded their heads, as if in approval of Thurston's suggestion, and in their opinion the Big Four journals were much more authoritative than Science and Nature.
"Just when I thought this was just another missed opportunity for Science, I received such an email today!", Thurston opened the review paper sent to him by Science today, he opened this paper and put it next to Lu Qiujian's paper for comparison, "This paper is exactly the same as Lu's paper, and then I think that Lu had sent me the paper before, which makes me have to be suspicious!"
There was a buzz in the audience, and although only a few pages were displayed, these mathematicians had already seen that the formulas and proof processes used in the two papers were the same, and that this was a plagiarism of Hongguoguo!
At this time, Professor Nan also stood up, he told Lu Qiujian about the wrong test papers, and then sent the copies of the test papers and printing paper to the professors present, "At that time, I immediately called Professor Thurston after receiving this exam paper, Professor Thurston witnessed the whole process of this paper, and there is no doubt that the ownership of this paper should belong to Lu Qiujian!"
When his assistant mistakenly sent the seven math problems to Lu Qiujian as exam papers, the professors laughed, especially Dyson, who felt that he had lost this bet unjustly, and he had already taken the paper with him, but even if he knew what would happen next, he would still put the paper back on Professor Nan's desk, right? Maybe he would take the test paper prepared by Professor Nan away just to be on the safe side.
"At first, I thought it was Lu re-submitting. When the crowd quieted down, Professor Thurston continued, "But Lu decisively rejected this possibility, and when he came to my office to confirm, I immediately called Science and finally found out the truth of the matter!"
He then opened Lu Qiujian's paper, "Through Science, I found that the reviewers of this paper were Professor Forsman of Harvard and Professor Felig of Yale, of which Professor Forsman passed the review, and Professor Felig rejected the paper on the grounds that there were loopholes in the paper. ”
Thurston took a deep breath, as if to control his emotions, and he opened the paper he had received today, "The author of this paper, Soman, is from Yale like Professor Ferig!
Professor Ferig first rejected Lu Qiujian's submission, and then his student submitted another identical paper in a short period of time, which is not surprising!
Mathematics is a very logical subject, and the mathematicians present quickly figured out the ins and outs of the matter from Professor Thurston's words.
Philip Griffith stood up again and said solemnly, "This matter must not be resolved privately, for the long-term development of the academic community, Lu's research results must be respected, and Professor Ferig and Soman must pay the price!"
Pierre-René-Deligne is an almost Grand Slam winner in mathematics, having won the Fields Medal, the Cratford Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the Abel Prize, and was given the title of viscount by the King of Belgium in '06; The Felig plagiarism incident is taken from the incident of Yale University medical professor Felig and his student Saul/Man plagiarizing Helena of the United States Health Center Research Institute in '79, and the story is exactly the same as in this article.
This is an additional increase of 5,000 receipts, and a further 9,000 and 10,000 additional additions are owed.