Chapter 337

In the evening, at the end of the day's classes, Cheng Nuo came to Professor Fang's office alone again.

As soon as he pushed the door in, Cheng Nuo saw Professor Fang sitting at his desk, staring at him with a serious face.

Being stared at a little chill down his spine, Cheng Nuo scratched his head and said with a sneer, "Professor, I didn't do anything wrong, right?"

Professor Fang shook his head and beckoned to Cheng Nuo.

Cheng Nuo moved a chair and sat across from Professor Fang's desk, with his hands on his laps, looking attentive and respectful.

Professor Fang stared at Cheng Nuo for a few seconds, and then his serious face disappeared like melting ice and snow, turning into a warm smile.

He pointed at Cheng Nuo, "Your performance as a kid makes me never know where your limit is!"

"What do you mean, Professor?"

"Didn't you say before you left this morning that I would like to see the results of your struggle to stay up all night? I've already seen the steps of derivation that you wrote on scratch paper. Sometimes, I really have to admit that talent is more useful than experience!"

Professor Fang continued, "If I were to come, I would not have thought of using the 'Eisenstein series theory', because empirically, there is no logically rigorous relationship between the Eisenstein series theory and the BSD conjecture. And you thought of it, and your derivation steps did prove that your conjecture was correct!"

Although I had expected that my derivation would not be wrong, when I heard Professor Fang's personal affirmation, the sense of accomplishment was definitely different.

A look of joy appeared on Cheng Nuo's face, "Then professor, ...... the follow-up proof work of the conjecture?"

Professor Fang raised his hand and gave Cheng Nuo a gesture of calmness.

Then, he spoke unhurriedly and slowly, "When we found out that the research direction was wrong, it proved that the progress of the work was 56%, but the logic you chose to correct was about 48% of the progress point of the Eisenstein series theory. ”

"So the 8% of what we've done is going to be discarded, which means we're wasting a month in the wrong direction. However, it is worth mentioning that Cheng Nuo uses the Eisenstein series theory to deduce four secondary theories, two of which are the same as we expected, and the other two theories can optimize some of our subsequent derivation steps. ”

"I roughly calculated that at least about 20% of the subsequent 52% of the proof content has been cut by half!"

Good news! Definitely good news!

Although a month was wasted before, this reduction process is enough to make up for this month's progress!

And, after the enlightenment in the early hours of this morning, Cheng Nuo felt that in his mind, a winding but very clear proof route seemed to emerge.

In fact, the proof of conjecture is like building a road, knowing the beginning and the end.

All roads lead to Rome, and the proof of conjecture has always been that there is only an optimal solution, not the only solution.

What Cheng Nuo and Professor Fang are doing now is not to find the optimal solution without knowing the sky, but to open up a route that can lead to the end point.

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Cheng Nuo's life rhythm is going on step by step.

This semester, except for the cross-university cooperation and exchange program, Cheng Nuo did not join any research groups.

The main reason is that the teachers of the entire mathematics school now know that Cheng Nuo is currently working with Professor Fang.

The two did not have the relationship between mentors and students on the surface, but those professors who wanted to add Cheng Nuo to the research group always had to discuss with Professor Fang first, and in the end, they were rejected by Professor Fang one by one.

In Professor Fang's view, with Cheng Nuo's current ability, there is no point in adding projects with average research difficulty other than wasting time.

However, those projects with a high level of difficulty and gold content are not so common, and they have less than ten in a semester in Tsinghua School of Mathematics, and the members of those project research groups have already been selected, and they will not find Cheng Nuo.

Like the T1 program in the hands of Professor Fang last semester, it is rare to recruit an undergraduate!

Therefore, Cheng Nuo doesn't have to rush to catch up with the progress of the project.

In his spare time, he also wrote two papers and submitted them to foreign SCI journals.

One is "The Conditional Gradient Method for Least Squares Problems of Operator Equations under Bounds Constraints", and the other is "Inverse Inverse Polynomials in Kazhdan-Luszting Theory".

Both of them belong to leisure production, and Cheng Nuo didn't expect to gain much fame because of this, so he simply submitted both articles to Yingguo's second SCI journal called "Mathematical Symbols" to brush up on his resume.

Although it will take two or three months to know whether the results will be included, Cheng Nuo is not worried.

In the words of the old man, Cheng Nuo's two papers, even if they are submitted to those big journals in the first district, there is a more than 50% chance of being included, and as for some unknown journals in the second district, there is naturally no problem.

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December 31, 2021 at 11:50 p.m.

In the blink of an eye, the time has come to this time.

Looking at the brilliant fireworks outside the window, Cheng Nuo's eyes were a little dazed.

It's been another year!

This year, Cheng Nuo has learned a lot and made a lot of progress, but the New Year's resolution a year ago has still not been realized.

Become the king of force!

This road is really too difficult to walk!

At the moment when the clock struck zero, Cheng Nuo clenched his fists and made the same wish as last year:

"I'm going to be the king!"

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The year of time turns to 2022.

The XXII World Cup will be held in Qatar in November, and France had already confirmed their place in the group stage four years ago.

The 24th Winter Olympics will also be held in the capital of China in February this year, which is the first time that China has hosted the Winter Olympics and will surely go down in history.

Of course, there's more to this year than that.

And for the mathematical community, there is also a big thing to happen.

The quadrennial Fields Medal will usher in his 20th award ceremony this year.

Needless to say, the significance of Fields is that many mathematicians are eager for the award, but a few succeed in the end.

2022 is the year of the Philippine Awards, but it has nothing to do with Cheng Nuo.

With his current qualifications and level, he is still thousands of miles away from the Fields Medal.

However, Cheng Nuo is still young, which is also his capital.

Now he is concentrating on what he needs to do, or to help Professor Fang quickly finish the proof of the weak BSD conjecture!

However, it seems that now, Cheng Nuo is in some trouble.

Because he was downstairs in the dormitory, he met an uninvited guest.

Oh no, to be exact, two uninvited guests, one big and one small!