The next day, today's mathematics community is destined to be an extraordinary day, Lin Meng has uploaded the paper for three days, and the "Annals of Mathematics" has officially passed the preliminary review and began to enter the peer review stage.

Rodney received the manuscript from the editorial office of the Annals of Mathematics, and glanced at the line of headlines, and the title of "Any even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers" made him stunned.

Goldbach's conjecture?

Rodney clicked on the email, subconsciously picked up his glasses and began to read the abstract of the paper.

Being able to pass the preliminary review of the Annals of Mathematics and enter the peer review process means that the paper is not fake, but a real paper.

This is a paper that has never been seen before, not only has the paper proved that Gechai's ideas and methods have not been seen, but even the author has not heard much of it.

Mathematicians from the East?

After reading the summary and reading more than a dozen lines of text, Rodney raised his head and shouted to the doctoral student not far away, "Jace, bring me a ham sandwich and a cup of coffee when I go to the restaurant in a moment." ”

"Okay."

The Ph.D. student named Jace stretched and stood up and said, "Professor, are you going to eat in the office today?" ”

"I saw a very interesting paper."

Rodney replied, his attention returning to the paper on the screen.

Half an hour later, Jace returned to the office after lunch with Rodney's sandwich and coffee.

Just as he was about to put the sandwich and coffee on Rodney's table, Jace glanced at the screen with some curiosity, and the coffee in his hand suddenly shook and didn't spill out.

"Goldbach's conjecture? Professor, did someone prove it? ”

"I'm not sure, but I don't see any obvious problems either."

Rodney shook his head: "This paper adopts a completely new method and thinking, and there is a shadow of the sieve method on it, and this closed-orbit integral and tree retention theorem belong to the circle method.

If we are mistaken, the authors of this paper have integrated the circle method and the sieve method into number theory, and have created a new tool to prove the Goldbach conjecture with a new way of thinking. ”

It is impossible to make a conclusion in a short period of time for the conjecture of this kind of major proof, especially when Lin Meng applied himself to integrate and create a new tool to prove it, it is difficult to understand the content of the paper in a short time.

After studying for more than an hour, Rodney put down his pen and rubbed his temples and said, "It seems that we need to contact the author of this paper, and it would be better to have a report that can explain in detail and answer some of the above questions." ”

"Professor, what if this proof process is wrong?" Jace picked up and said what might have happened.

"That's not wrong, although the methods and ideas contained in it are not fully understood, but mathematics has a tight logic."

Rodney took out his phone and began to call several other mathematicians around the world, believing that not only did he want a presentation of the paper, but that others would also need the author of the paper.

......

Two days later, on the other side of the world, the phone of the Foreign Affairs Office of the School of Mathematics at CUHK suddenly rang.

"Hello, this is the Foreign Affairs Department of Sun Yat-sen University in Huaguo."

The staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs saw that the caller ID was from the United States, and when they answered the phone, they spoke fluent English.

"Hello, I'm ...... at the Institute for Advanced Mathematics at Princeton University"

On the other side of the phone, Gibson personally called to explain the situation.

Goldbach's conjecture was successfully proved, and this pearl of number theory and prime numbers in mathematics was taken off, and he, who has studied number theory and prime numbers all his life, can't wait to meet the mathematician who proved this conjecture.

In the past two days, he found the submission mailbox on Arxiv and the Annals of Mathematics, sent an email to Lin Meng, but never received a reply, and finally had to search for the papers that Lin Meng had submitted to other journals before, and finally determined that Lin Meng was at Sun Yat-sen University.

"Goldbach's conjecture has been proven? The person who proved it was Professor Lin Meng of our school? ”

The Foreign Affairs Department personnel were shocked to hear that Goldbach's conjecture had been proven.

But what Gibson said about Professor Lin Meng, he still didn't expect that there was such a person in the School of Mathematics.

There are not many professors in the School of Mathematics, and I dare not say that I know them all and have an impression, but none of them have a name that matches the spelling of Lin Meng, and there is no Meng Lin in reverse.

"Professor Gibson, we need to check on Professor Lin Meng, and we will reply to you by phone and email if there is any relevant situation."

I couldn't figure out who Lin Meng was, so the staff of the Foreign Affairs Department had to record the relevant information and prepare to check it.

Jingle bells!

As soon as the phone hung up, it rang again, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs glanced at the display, France.

"Hello, this is the Foreign Affairs Department of Sun Yat-sen University in Huaguo." The Foreign Affairs Department was still fluent in English, but he couldn't speak French.

"Hello, I'm ...... École Normale Supérieure de Paris"

Fortunately, the English on the phone is also good, but with the name of the other party, the corners of the foreign affairs department's mouth are obviously sweating, why are these academic gods popping up one by one today.

"Professor Rodney, Professor Lin Meng, we need to check it out, and we will get back to you by phone and email if we have any relevant information."

Two minutes later, the same excuse was over, and the Foreign Affairs Department staff hung up the phone, and he knew the importance of the matter, and he rushed to the office of the administrative director of the college.

"Director Gao, Director Gao." The Foreign Affairs Department staff panted and knocked on the door, and shouted eagerly as they entered.

"What's wrong?"

Director Gao, who was still working overtime, looked at the sweaty Foreign Affairs Department personnel with some strange eyes.

At this time, there was also a doctoral student in the office, and the document in his hand should be applied for funding on behalf of the professor.

"Professor Gibson of Princeton and Professor Rodney of the École Supérieure de Paris called and said that the Goldbach conjecture had been proved by a professor at our school named Lin Meng."

The staff of the Foreign Affairs Department knocked on the door and walked in, ignoring the sweat on his head, and said breathlessly: "They said that they could invite Professor Lin Meng to Princeton or Paris to hold a lecture to explain the methods and ideas of the tools used in the paper." ”

"Professor Lin Meng?"

Director Gao was a little confused, he was in charge of the administrative affairs of the college, and he didn't know when the college had an additional professor named Lin Meng.

The doctoral student next to him was also a little skeptical, hesitated and said: "Director, there is no professor named Lin Meng in the college, but I know a student named Lin Meng, and she may prove Gechai." ”

"Who?"

Director Gao asked with some joy, it doesn't matter if he is a professor or a student, as long as the person who solves Goldbach's conjecture is from his own college.

Don't look at CUHK's good ranking in China, but its academic status and reputation in the international arena have not been very high.

Now that there is a great god who has proved to solve the problem of Gochai, this is undoubtedly a great opportunity for CUHK to enhance its academic status and the reputation of its students.

"A sophomore."

The doctoral student was also a little uncertain, and said with a strange expression: "The professor wanted to apply for special recruitment to enter her as a doctoral student, and she won a full scholarship when she was a freshman in the last academic year. ”

"That Lin Meng?"

Director Gao still had an impression of the scholarship subscribers in the college, so he directly took out his mobile phone and called Lin Meng's counselor.

"Xiao Zhang, where is the student named Lin Meng in your class now?"

"What, took a leave of absence yesterday? Two days off? ”