Chapter 66: Intentions

JAM. Chen.soc, formerly known as The.journal.of.american.society. It is a journal with an impact factor of 7.696. The aim is to discover new chemical theories and trace the cutting-edge of chemistry. It is a weekly magazine with 13,000 papers, newsletters, and other contents published annually in a variety of fields.

But it doesn't mean that publishing in a journal with a large base of 13,000 papers is necessarily a simple matter. JAM's thesis is still very strict, adhering to this consistent principle, so it is not possible to get on it if you want to, but Junxin said it lightly, which really made the two professors sitting opposite him a little overwhelmed.

Junxin didn't notice the strangeness of the two professors, and maybe even if he did, he wouldn't have taken it to heart. If the research direction has been determined, the research ideas can even be available, and most importantly, the research time is relatively sufficient, if they can't make achievements in such a situation, then there is no need for this laboratory to keep them.

The three of them talked for a while, and Professor Zhang and Professor Xu left, and Junxin also took a rare time to deal with the backlog of work he had accumulated during this time.

It's said to be a backlog, but it's actually nothing. It's just dealing with some of the correspondence that has been left behind during this period of time because I was busy with the formation of a chemical laboratory.

In China in the 80s, the use of telephones was relatively not very common, and most of the people who used telephones were either rich or expensive. In addition, the general telephone is rarely used in daily life, and will only be used in emergency situations. Therefore, most of the contact between people is in the form of correspondence.

Junxin is a full-time employee of the Institute of Mathematics at Mizuki University, a professor-level researcher, so it was natural for him to install a telephone. However, except for a few professors from the Institute of Mathematics and the senior management of the school, other people who know about this office phone number really don't know.

Even internationally, there are not many people who know the phone number of Junxin's office. In addition to telling several mathematicians about their numbers because they have to keep in touch with some mathematicians abroad to keep abreast of the latest development of the mathematical community, no one else knows Junxin's number, but because his published papers include his mailing address and unit, many of them were sent to Mizuki University in the form of letters.

As Modell's conjecture is recognized by more and more mathematicians, the name Junxin is also widely known at the forefront of mathematics in the world. As a result, many mathematicians or some mathematical researchers at home and abroad often write to Junxin to discuss some mathematical problems.

In the 80s, it was people who ended the dark sinking, facing the unknown and feeling lost and overwhelmed by the West. Junxin has become a legend in the Chinese mathematics community.

The words of young talents no longer appear in people's mouths, and many young people regard Junxin as an idol for articles that can be published in the top international magazines, and then a large number of letters follow.

At the beginning, the letters that Junxin received were all letters sent by some professional mathematicians, but later, more and more math enthusiasts began to write letters to Junxin, and the contents of the letters were varied, and there were all kinds of things.

On the good side, in Junxin's view, it is those professional mathematicians who send them to discuss the most cutting-edge research problems in the field of mathematics that have attracted his attention the most. At any time, for a scientist, to be able to exchange the latest views with his peers, he can always get some enlightenment to a greater or lesser extent, which is why no scientist is willing to study alone behind closed doors and completely isolate from the world. Just like Professor Wiles, who proved Fermat's theorem, even if he secretly proved it alone, he was not secluded in the wilderness and isolated from the world.

But the bad side also followed, as more and more people understand the meaning of what Junxin did, most of the people who wrote to him now have become those who have a passion for mathematics, but at a glance know that they have not received higher education, and the content of the letters often makes people cry and laugh.

For example, the letter in Junxin's hand, the content of the letter is completely nonsense in Junxin's opinion. In the letter, the author declares with great certainty that he has proved Fermat's theorem, and also attaches his so-called proof to the letter.

Junxin didn't look at the author's name, but just read the author's sworn explanation in the letter, Junxin sneered. Fermat's theorem is not impossible to prove, but the prover Wiles used a lot of knowledge of algebraic geometry, modular forms, elliptic lines, and so on in the process of proofing. In contrast, after the two sentences of "hehe", Junxin could no longer find other words.

Regarding the proof of Fermat's great theorem, Fermat himself wrote a sentence at the end that he had an ingenious way to prove it, but the space was too small to write.

Fermat's sentence has always been considered completely implausible in the mainstream mathematical community, at least not by Junxin himself. The proof of Fermat's theorem was a huge project, and it took Professor Wiles more than seven years to give up all work that had nothing to do with the proof, and finally proved it to him. There is a difference of 358 years. If Fermat really had an ingenious way to prove Fermat's theorem, it would be a direct declaration that in the next 358 years, no mathematician surpassed Fermat, including Euler, Gauss, Riemann, Poincaré and other generations of mathematical geniuses.

Such a letter is not the first time and will not be the last. In fact, such things are often encountered in the Department of Mathematics of Peking University. Since Chen Jingrun made the Goldbach conjecture 1+2, the mathematics department of Peking University has often received letters claiming that the Goldbach conjecture has been completely solved, but their contents are all wrong without exception.

When Professor Wang Yuan mentioned the proof of Goldbach's conjecture, he once clearly said that the proof of Goldbach's conjecture must know the knowledge of analytic number theory and other advanced number theories. The reason is that number theory is a tool for studying the properties of integers, and analytic number theory is a branch of mathematics developed because of the study of prime numbers. If you don't understand the analytic number theory, you can say that you have proved Goldbach's conjecture, and Junxin can only be right about it.

"It seems that I need to write a more professional book, focusing on some things in the world of mathematics, and if this continues, everyone will be a god..."Jun Xin rubbed his sore eyes, walked to the edge of the windowsill, and said to himself.