"That's a good idea." Wiles laughed, "To be honest, I want to see what this genius looks like." ”

Deligne then discussed some of the issues with Wiles about the paper, and then took his leave.

A week later, "A Method of Proof of Fermat's Conjecture" was also highly praised by Peter Sanek, Nick Kates, John Coates, and Richard Taylor.

By mid-February, news of Fermat's conjecture being proved had begun to circulate in the international mathematical community.

Soon, the news spread from the mathematical community and began to attract media attention.

On February 20, New York Times reporter Hurst Raphael interviewed Pierre Deligne, chair of Princeton University's Department of Mathematics, by phone and confirmed the accuracy of the news.

The next day, the New York Times published an article on the front page titled "Chinese Mathematicians Create Miracles, Mathematical Conjectures That Have Plagued the World for 366 Years Have Been Solved".

As soon as the news came out, it quickly caused a sensation in the Western world.

……

Zhong Shuyang, a New York correspondent for the Xinhua News Agency, has been in the United States for nearly two years.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has become the only superpower on the planet, and the devastating victory in the Gulf War two years ago directly knocked Iraq, known as the world's fourth military power, back to its prototype.

Therefore, for the United States, Zhong Shuyang has always had a mentality of envy, jealousy and awe.

In other words, this is the mentality of most Chinese towards the United States in this era.

In the United States, the status of Chinese Americans has always been in a relatively awkward position.

Because of the influence of Confucian culture, Chinese families attach great importance to education, and generally do not mix much, and the average economic level is even comparable to that of white people.

But when it comes to the chain of racial discrimination, even the lowest black people are qualified to discriminate against Chinese Americans.

Therefore, even if Zhong Shuyang is in the United States, he also adheres to a low-key attitude.

In the past two years, except for regularly completing the work of the club and sending various reports back to the United States to China, Zhong Shuyang has basically not integrated into American society.

And the pride in his heart as a descendant of Yan and Huang could not make Zhong Shuyang bow his noble head to the Yankees.

Zhong Shuyang is well aware of the views of Western countries on China.

In the Western media, even if there are occasional reports about China, the Chinese are basically negative.

The yellow-skinned monkey is what they call this people with a history of 5,000 years of civilization.

In the eyes of Westerners, China is still in an uncivilized era, and the ghost of GCZY still hangs over China.

Of course, most of the time, there is very little coverage of China in the Western media.

The closed country of the Asian continent is not worth looking at seriously.

But Zhong Shuyang never imagined that one day, the name of the Chinese would appear in the most influential media of the Western superpower with a positive image, and it was also a front-page headline!

After work today, passing by the newsstand, Zhong Shuyang inadvertently turned his head and glanced at it, and saw the front page of the "New York Times", with three words Chinese.

So, before he had time to read the full headline, Zhong Shuyang did not hesitate to spend a little and a half dollars to buy this issue of the "New York Times".

And when he finished reading the title in its entirety, he was stunned all at once.

Chinese mathematician, solving mathematical problems that have plagued the world for more than 350 years?!

The next moment, Zhong Shuyang quickly turned his gaze to the text page.

According to the news obtained by our reporter Herst Raphael from Princeton University, the mathematical problem Fermat's conjecture, which has plagued the world for 366 years, has been solved by the Chinese mathematician Xue Lin Pang, and the paper has passed peer review and will be published in the academic journal "Annals of Mathematics" co-sponsored by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in March. Professor Pierre Deligne, head of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University and winner of the Fields Medal and the Cafford Prize, spoke highly of the achievement and believed that the solution of the Fermat conjecture would become one of the most important academic achievements in the international mathematical community in the 20th century......

Unconsciously, tears overflowed Zhong Shuyang's eyes.

Excited, excited, proud......

All sorts of emotions came in waves.

In this era when the Internet has not yet opened, wandering in a foreign country, suddenly seeing a Chinese name, with an extremely positive image on the authoritative media of the most powerful country on the planet, this feeling, Zhong Shuyang can not describe in words.

In the next second, Zhong Shuyang suddenly seemed to sound something, turned around and ran towards the office.

He couldn't wait to contact China and ask this Pang Xuelin who was sacred!

……

February 22, 1993, 9 a.m.

Capital.

Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Editorial Department of Acta Mathematica Sinica.

Wu Kangyu looked at the latest submitted papers, and said with a smile to his colleague Zhu Hanliang sitting across from him: "The Institute of Mathematics of Lincheng University is a bit interesting, this researcher named Pang Xuelin actually submitted two papers at one time, and the level is very high, one is "On the Automorphism Group of Finite ABEL P Groups", and the other is "G-Brown Motion-Driven Inverted Stochastic Differential Equations under Monotonicity Conditions". Acta Mathematica Sinica", not a big problem......"

Zhu Hanliang was slightly stunned: "Lincheng University? I have the impression that the level of Luo Jianzhong and Wang Chongqing is okay, when will there be another Pang Xuelin? ”

Wu Kangyu said: "Maybe it's a new recruit...... It's a pity to put such a talent in Lincheng University......"

Zhu Hanliang said with a smile: "If you feel pity, you can talk to the editor-in-chief, maybe the editor-in-chief will transfer someone to our institute because of his talent!" ”

"Hey, I don't know anyone, what are you doing here!"

The two were chatting when they saw another colleague, Qu Feng, mysteriously walk in.

"Hey, Lao Zhu, Lao Wu, have you heard? Fermat's conjecture was solved by a mathematician in our country! ”

"What?!"

Wu Kangyu and Zhu Hanliang glanced at each other, and their eyes suddenly widened.

Fermat's conjecture, together with the four-color conjecture and the Goldbach conjecture, is known as the top conjecture of the world's three major mathematical problems.

The four-color conjecture was proved in 1976 by the American mathematicians Appel and Haken with the help of computers, leaving the Fermat conjecture and the Goldbach conjecture, and the international mathematical community is still helpless.

In particular, Fermat's conjecture has plagued the mathematical community for more than 300 years, and countless mathematicians have failed to solve this problem.

Some people are even beginning to wonder if there is a way to prove Fermat's conjecture in the true sense of the word.

Such a difficult problem, which can be called the crown jewel of mathematics, has been solved by Chinese mathematicians?

Wu Kangyu said: "Which god is this?" It's so twitch! ”

Qu Feng tilted his head and said: "This is what I just heard in the editor-in-chief's office, it seems to be a mathematician named Xuelin Pang, I haven't heard of it, people from Xinhua News Agency came to ask, saying that this person has been on the "New York Times", and now the editor-in-chief is looking for someone to inquire around!" ”

"Learn from Lin Pang, learn from Lin Pang ......"

Wu Kangyu muttered to himself, always feeling that the name was a little familiar.

The next moment, his eyes widened suddenly, he glanced at Zhu Hanliang, and said in unison: "Pang Xuelin!! ”