As we approach the end of the month, there has been another sensational event in the mathematical community recently, and its influence is not only in the academic world, but even outside the academic community.

In the office of the Institute for Advanced Study, Hardy, who was sitting in front of the computer and browsing the conference information, was suddenly stunned after seeing the relevant news.

Then he almost didn't shout in a surprised voice.

"Professor, I heard that the Riemann conjecture has been proven?!"

Lu Zhou: "Oh? ”

As if discovering a New World, Hardy excitedly said: "I saw on Mathoverflo that Sir Michael Attiyah of Cambridge University in England claimed to have proved the Riemann hypothesis in a very simple way, and it will be presented at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum." ”

Mathoverflo is a well-known online math community, and many of the biggest names in the math community have their own accounts on it, such as TAO, which is particularly active, not only updating blogs regularly, but also interacting with visitors frequently.

After hearing Hadi's words, Lu Zhou smiled and said in a joking tone, without joking.

"If he does complete the proof, he will undoubtedly become the greatest mathematician of the century."

Hardy: "Are you optimistic about his proof?" ”

Lu Zhou did not answer this question directly, but simply expressed his opinion.

"Sir Attiyah was a brilliant scholar and a double Abel Medal and a Fields Medal winner, but he is now 89 years old...... It's hard to be honest. ”

In fact, Attiyah was by no means the first scholar to claim to prove the Riemann hypothesis.

In terms of academic circles alone, Professor de-Branges, a well-known scholar in the field of number theory, also claimed to have solved the Riemann conjecture in about 04, which caused quite a stir at the time, but unfortunately it was not recognized by the mathematical community.

Even Hardy had claimed to have proved the problem before.

Hardy hesitated for a moment, then continued, "But...... He was Sir Attia, a double Abel Medal and Fields Medal winner, and if he wasn't absolutely sure, would he make such a claim? ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhou smiled and said with a pleasant face: "My dear Hadi, if you plan to become a scholar, then you must remember that medals are glory, but they are only glory. Or in other words, it was precisely because of these two honors that the mathematical community had awarded him that he should respond to well-founded doubts rather than ignore those who questioned him as fools. ”

Facing Hardy's inquiring gaze, Lu Zhou paused for a moment and continued.

"And I would like to know more than the Riemann conjecture what is the situation of Sir Attia's negative proof of the existence of complex structures on the six-dimensional sphere S^6."

Hardy: "...... Six-dimensional spherical S^6 supercomplex structure? ”

Lu Zhou nodded: "This is a well-known unsolved problem in the K-theory of algebraic topology, although it is not a millennial problem, but it is no less important in the field of algebraic topology than the millennial problem." About 16 years later, Sir Attiyah gave a negative answer to this proposition, but the paper he presented was not satisfactory. Not only is the process of proof in the true sense of the word only half a page, but in the fourth part of the paper he even talks about the history of mathematics......"

After a pause, Lu Zhou shrugged his shoulders and continued, "At least according to the information on Mathoverflo, he has not responded to people's doubts about him so far, and the academic community is also skeptical of his paper. ”

The paper on the superstructure of the six-dimensional spherical S^6 is searchable on Arxiv, which is not his nonsense.

In less than two years, one of the most important problems in number theory and even in mathematics as a whole has been solved......

Of course, Lu Zhou hopes that this is true, after all, there is a bit of a hero complex in the field of mathematics.

But for this old man, who is nearly ninety......

To be honest, he didn't have much hope.

Mathematics is a young subject, and there is no such thing as being old and getting stronger. Once a person ages, whether it is memory or thinking ability, it will decline significantly.

As a result, few mathematicians are able to produce outstanding results in their later years that are not inferior to those of their youth.

In short, no matter what the final result is, it is good for the old man to be happy......

……

The Riemann conjecture is a very interesting subject, but it is not the main concern of Lu Zhou at the moment.

With a focus label on the report, he shifted his focus back to the Fusion Light's task chain.

The direct design of a stellar mimic was too large and the quantum computer was still far away, so after considering various factors, he finally chose superconducting materials as his next topic.

To be honest, superconducting materials are not simple, but for now, this is the closest topic to his research field.

In Frick's chemistry lab, Lu Zhou meets Connie.

Because of the collaborative project with Professor Pablo Herero, he basically spent most of the year at MIT for exchange visits, and he didn't return until last week.

After meeting Connie, Lu Zhou asked straight to the point: "How is the superconducting materials project going?" ”

"I can't give you an exact result, but overall, it went well." Handing a USB flash drive to Lu Zhou's hand, Connie continued, "I have written an interview summary report on the relevant research progress, and I put it in the folder that starts with C in the USB flash drive, and I originally planned to send it to your mailbox. ”

After taking the USB flash drive from his hand, Lu Zhou nodded.

"I see, I'll see it later."

Looking at the serious expression on Lu Zhou's face, Connie said a little excitedly: "Professor, are you finally going to make a move?" ”

Lu Zhou said briefly: "Hmm...... For a variety of reasons, I've recently shifted my focus from mathematics to the topic of superconducting materials. ”

As for why, of course he won't say.

After letting Connie go about his own business, Lu Zhou walked to the desk and sat down, plugged the USB flash drive into the computer, and opened the report that Connie had written.

It took half an hour to quickly read the report, and Lu Zhou quickly had a general understanding of the progress of the project.

In short, the Pablo Brown Chaired by Professor Herero, The Jarillo-Herrero laboratory is theoretical, mainly studying the symmetry of this superconducting phase, pseudo-energy gap, nematic phase, and so on.

The Jinling Institute of Computational Materials and the Sarot Laboratory are mainly doing applications through a large number of experiments to find a method that can maintain this superconductivity under the condition of increasing the concentration of graphene carriers.

I have to say that Professor Pablo Herero is indeed a big bull in the field of graphene, and after receiving the funding support of 10 million US dollars from Star Technology, the research progress can be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.

With the help of these theoretical achievements, the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials and the Salrot Laboratory have also made many beautiful phased achievements in the field of application.

However, there is still a long way to go before the final result.

After thinking for a moment about the images on the computer screen, Lu Zhou quickly had a clear understanding of the work he needed to do.

What he is good at is computational materials, using mathematical methods to find the laws in materials science.

For him, the first thing he needed to do was to build a reliable mathematical model based on the data collected by the three laboratories over the course of nearly a year.

Secondly, in order to make the project a little faster, he needs more people.

Professor Chirik, for example, is a good candidate......