Chapter 63: The Editorial Department's Shock
The whole paper is flawless and can be called a classic model.
Could it be that my professionalism is not enough to check the mistakes?
Huang Guangxuan stared at the email in a daze, and his heart was like a river overturning the sea, and his thoughts were thousands.
Or did some master really prove Goldbach's conjecture and take off the crown jewel of mathematics?
Huang Guangxuan couldn't help but have a bold idea, and hurriedly pulled down the email to the last page.
However, no useful specific information was obtained, only a simple name.
"Li Changqing?", Huang Guangxuan's doubts increased after seeing the name of the inscription.
There are two editors in charge of the preliminary review in the field of number theory, and Jin Qihua is packing his things and getting ready to leave work.
"Kaneko, look at your mailbox, there's a newly received manuscript!"
One person is short, two people are long, and Huang Guangxuan is an editor to the outside world, Jin Qihua.
"You don't have to look at it at all, it must be a pseudo-paper, how can Goldbach's conjecture be so easy to prove?"
Jin Qihua just glanced at the title and was not interested in it for a moment, and he didn't bother to read the content of the text.
"Seems to prove Goldbach's conjecture, and it's an unknown newcomer!"
Huang Guangxuan believes that the paper is correct, but he still has some confidence and is not authentic.
"An unknown newcomer proves Goldbach's conjecture and takes the crown jewel of mathematics?"
Jin Qihua sounded like a fantasy, full of suspicion.
"I thought it was a prank, but who knew it was true!", Huang Guangxuan said helplessly.
"How is it possible, I didn't pay attention to the lecture in class, right?", Jin Qihua quipped.
"You can see what it looks like!", Huang Guangxuan glanced at it.
"Give me a minute!", Jin Qihua said confidently.
Huang Guangxuan watched Jin Qihua click on the email, and his expression changed from unconcerned to shocked.
"Ten minutes have passed, have you found any errors in the paper?" asked Huang Guangxuan with a smile.
"There really isn't any mistake!", Jin Qihua admired.
"What about Li Changqing, have you heard of it?", Huang Guangxuan continued.
"Well, there is no ......", Jin Qihua said embarrassedly.
"Neither you nor I have heard of it, is it a rookie who has appeared recently?", Huang Guangxuan guessed.
"Mathematics rookies overcome the problems of the century and take off the crown jewel of mathematics, most people will only think it is hype!"
Jin Qihua did not find the errors in the paper, but he was not optimistic about the prospects of the paper.
"According to the process, the two editors in charge of the initial review did not find any errors, and they had to recommend the tweet to the editorial board. ”
Huang Guangxuan wanted to recommend the paper, but he needed to get the unanimous approval of the two first-time editors.
"The water of Goldbach's conjecture is very deep, and Academician Yang Changyu has always opposed putting his energy into Goldbach's conjecture, thinking that it is useless! Moreover, even Hua Lao mistakenly thought that he had been proved in his later years, maybe there was a mistake in the paper, but we didn't find it because of our limited level!"
Jin Qihua pondered and straightened things out and analyzed Huang Guangxuan.
"Recommending a paper may make jokes and even offend people, but it can also make mistakes in major scientific research results. Besides, we are only a primary election, so it is acceptable to make some mistakes, recommend them to the editorial board according to the normal procedures, and leave the matter to the editorial board and the editor-in-chief to decide!"
Huang Guangxuan has his own perseverance and persuades Jin Qihuadao.
Jin Qihua didn't want to take responsibility, so he would only reluctantly agree to recommend the paper.
Yang Changyu, Chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society, Tian Guangwen, Dean of the Department of Mathematics of Shuimu University, Professor Zhang Gongru of Yenching University, and other well-known experts and scholars formed the editorial board of Acta Mathematica Sinica, which was responsible for the preliminary review of the recommended manuscripts.
Each expert received a paper recommended by Huang Guangxuan and Jin Qihua with different reactions, some agreed, some opposed!
Academician Yang Changyu once warned young people in public not to waste their energy on the useless work of proving Goldbach's conjecture. When I saw that the editor in the field of number theory recommended a paper on Goldbach's conjecture, I frowned and was displeased.
Acta Mathematica Sinica is a scientific journal, and Goldbach's conjecture is simply impossible to prove.
The reviewer actually recommended a paper that was inevitably wrong to the editorial board, it must be difficult to detect the level of failure!
Tian Guangwen was and is now Huang Guangxuan's mentor, and the relationship between the two has always been good.
Huang Guangxuan recounted the incident on the phone, and Tian Guangwen immediately attached great importance to it.
I sat down in the office, put on my glasses, turned on the computer again, and carefully studied the paper sent by Huang Guangxuan.
"Not only did it not find any mistakes, but the content also led to the development of number theory tools!"
Tian Guangwen was shocked after reading it and gasped.
"Dean Tian, have you finished reading the paper sent by Guangxuan, have you found any mistakes?"
Zhang Gongru is the opposite of Yang Changyu, who has been extremely interested in Goldbach's conjecture since he was a student.
There was no progress until he became a professor in the Department of Mathematics of Yenching University, and when he saw Li Changqing's paper, it was like opening the door to a new world, and he called Tian Guanglin excitedly.
"No errors have been found yet, do you have any insights into the Goldbach conjecture?"
Tian Guanglin is a well-known mathematician and expert in China, but he has no clue about embarrassment.
"The elaboration of Goldbach's conjecture in the paper is basically in line with the method I had envisioned before! But there are still many imperfections, and I did not expect that someone would really write the whole argumentation process into a complete and rigorous paper. ”
Zhang Gongru was full of praise for Li Changqing's paper and said in a very admiring tone.
"This paper is indeed possible to prove Goldbach's conjecture, but let's convene an editorial board to discuss how to deal with it!"
After reading it several times, Tian Guanglin thought that the paper was very likely to be correct, but it was still safe.
When Yang Changyu received the proposal of Tian Guanglin and Zhang Gongru to work overtime to convene the editorial board, Tie Qing looked at the email he received.
After a quick glance, he carefully and meticulously checked the paper several times, and then the whole person was stunned.
Regardless of whether the paper proves the Goldbach conjecture or not, the paper alone has made a great contribution to the development of mathematical tools!
Li Changqing practiced his piano skills hard in Zhong Nanshan, and seemed to forget about the submission to Acta Mathematica Sinica.
I had no idea what a storm the mathematical community would have caused by the proof of Goldbach's conjecture on a whim.
A hundred years of lightning strikes sycamore wood can be encountered but not sought, and it is even more rare than the Jiaowei of the famous Chinese piano.
Li Changqing continued to hone his skills in chopping the qin, and only dared to do it when he reached the perfect fire.
Sitting under the bamboo forest with an ordinary lyre, playing a song "Zheng Feng" and singing the words in the Book of Songs.
"Qingqing Zijin, relax my heart. Even if I don't go, Zining won't make a sound?"
"Qingqingzi Pei, I think about it. Even if I don't go, Zining won't come?"
"Pick and choose, in the city. Not seen for a day, like March!"