What the hell is it that you don't pass?

It was not only Luo Wenxuan and Lu Zhou's students who were surprised, but also Lu Zhou himself, who couldn't believe the content of this email.

After carefully reading Professor Faltins's review comments, Lu Zhou roughly understood what he meant.

According to Professor Faltins, he believes that there is a great deal of controversy over the positions of some parts of the paper, which leads to a serious proof defect in the core part of the whole paper, which is not enough to prove that there is no non-zero triviality point of the ζ function in the region of Re(s)≥1-ε when the value of the ε is infinite.

To be honest, it was the first time that Lu Zhou wrote this paper and was sent back to ask for rectification.

Standing behind Lu Zhou and also seeing this review opinion from the beginning to the end, Luo Wenxuan swallowed his saliva and asked.

"Prove there's a problem?"

Lu Zhou shook his head: "It's too early to make a conclusion, wait for me to see." ”

Hearing this, He Changwen, who was sitting next to him and listening with his ears pricked up, almost didn't fly out of the pen he was spinning in his hand.

OK.

When others received a reply suggesting rectification, their first reaction was to honestly change it and it would be over, and when the change would be made to the reviewer when it would be comfortable before the manuscript could be approved, this big guy would have to take a look at it......

Thinking of this, He Changwen's heart couldn't help but sigh.

The big guy deserves to be the big guy......

When would it be nice for him to be so awesome......

Didn't notice what a few of his students were thinking.

After saying that, Lu Zhou bent down, dug out a printed copy of the paper that had been proved in the cabinet under his desk, and checked it line by line against the position pointed out by Professor Faltins.

Because he couldn't understand such a profound thing as analytic number theory at all, Luo Wenxuan stood behind Lu Zhou with a confused face, pretending to be able to understand, and quietly waiting for the results of the landing boat.

And so, about ten minutes passed.

Just when Luo Wenxuan was about to start yawning, Lu Zhou suddenly snapped the paper in his hand and threw the stack of paper on the table.

Seeing that Lu Zhou had finished reading it, Luo Wenxuan hurriedly asked curiously.

"The result?"

Lu Zhou shook his head.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with what I'm writing."

Luo Wenxuan hesitated for a moment and asked, "What about ...... Could it be that Professor Faltings is mistaken? ”

When he said this, he didn't have any confidence in his heart.

That was Professor Faltings, the first person in mathematics since Grothendieck.

In terms of influence in the mathematical community, I am afraid that it is a little greater than his mentor Edward Witten.

It's just that this old gentleman is also known for his eccentric temper, and his popularity in the academic world is not as good as Witten's.

"It's too early to discuss who's right and who's wrong," Lu Zhou continued, standing up from his chair and pausing for a moment, "I'll communicate this with Professor Faltins." ”

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to communicate with Professor Faltins...... The things he recognized basically wouldn't change, and ......" hesitated for a moment, Luo Wenxuan still opened his mouth to remind, "...... If you can't convince him, I'm afraid you'll be constantly sneered at by him. ”

"These are secondary," Lu Zhou said unconcernedly, "If he's right, I'll correct it." If I'm right, I won't change a symbol. ”

Luo Wenxuan asked rhetorically: "What if none of you can convince anyone?" ”

This situation is also quite common in the mathematical community, when the academic level of two people is almost the same, and the discourse power in the academic world is also extremely close, it is really difficult for anyone to convince anyone on some specious issues.

After all, the more you delve into cutting-edge research, the less obvious many things are as obvious as they seem. It is also possible that two different schools of thought have two different views on the same issue and have been arguing about it for a long time.

Of course, that's the beauty of mathematics.

No matter how controversial it is, there is never a controversy that lasts forever, and the right side will always stand out from the crowd. Even though there have been three mathematical crises in history, which almost shook the foundation of the entire mathematical edifice, people finally found a suitable way to resolve all the controversies.

"If no one can convince anyone......"

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued as if nothing had happened.

"Then it's up to us to convince the others."

……

There will never be an impermeable wall in this world.

Especially when on the edge of this wall, there is a group of gossip-loving creatures.

On the same night that Lu Zhou received the review comments from the Annals of Mathematics, a major event occurred on Mathoverflow.

Someone suddenly broke out that the paper on the proof of the "quasi-Riemann conjecture" submitted by Lu Zhou in the "Annals of Mathematics" was sent back by the reviewer, Professor Faltings.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately detonated the topic of the entire forum, and almost as soon as you open the forum, you can see that someone is discussing this matter enthusiastically.

[Professor Lu was actually rejected?! The sun is coming out in the west! 】

[As I said, his proof is seriously flawed, and you all spray me.] Now look, I'm not the only one who thinks so, even Professor Faltins thinks so, you guys spray it? Fools! 】

[It's just that rejection is actually very common, right?] Even top scholars will inevitably have some minor flaws in their papers. 】

[It's not as simple as rejecting the manuscript, didn't you see that screenshot?] The wording of the rejection is not as simple as having some minor flaws, but "there are major flaws in the core argument". Do you know what that means? Generally speaking, the appearance of this sentence means that if you can't make a satisfactory supplementary explanation for this, then the next time you will not call back for you to rectify, but throw it directly into the wastebasket! 】

[Anyway, it's too unusual......]

[Nothing out of the ordinary, after all, the reviewer is Faltins.] This old fellow is notoriously impersonal, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to make it in Princeton and would have gone back to Germany to teach...... This is so offensive, allow me to remain anonymous. 】

【……】

In fact, strictly speaking, the review process that the reviewer is in should be strictly confidential, but somehow, some screenshots of the reply to the reviewer's comments were leaked by some boring person.

After the editorial office of Annals of Mathematics found out about the incident, they immediately contacted the administrator of the Mathoverflow forum, and the administrator of the M forum also cooperated to delete the post. But that's the way the Internet is, once a secret is known by more than two people, then it can't be called a secret.

What's more, there is so much lack of gossip in the mathematical community that a small matter of sesame seeds can cause heated discussions in the entire academic community.

Not to mention, it is the two bigwig-level bulls of Faltins and Lu Zhou, and the focus of the debate revolves around the nuclear bomb-level problem of the Riemann conjecture......

The argument lasted for three full days, and neither party responded.

One is a forum that only young scholars go to, and the other has an account, but is probably the kind of person who doesn't bother to explain.

Just when the discussion continued to ferment, just when people were discussing what further actions would be made by the landing boat or Faltins, Jinling University, which had been outside the whirlpool of public opinion, suddenly released a bombshell news on its official website.

The content of the message is very short, but it is only a hundred words.

However, the amount of information in it is so huge that almost everyone does not react.

[On December 18th, our university will hold an academic report meeting with the theme of "Quasi-Riemann Conjecture Proof" in the auditorium of the old campus, and answer the questions of scholars from all walks of life on the spot on the questions existing in the proof process. Registration is now open, and those who are interested in participating should submit their registration information before the deadline of December 7. 】

[Speaker of the report meeting: Lu Zhou (academician)]

Almost the same day the news was released......

The entire mathematical community was suddenly boiling!