Huaxia, Beijing, Yanbei University, Beijing International Mathematical Research Center.

It was half past twelve in the evening, but the lights were still on in the office on the second floor of a building in the courtyard.

As the chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society, he was invited to attend the National Conference on Mathematical Logic to be held tomorrow at Beijing Normal University in China, and to make a report on the progress of mathematical research in China in recent years after the opening ceremony.

If it weren't for the fact that Beijing Normal University was too close to it, and it was the first time in recent years that such a large-scale mathematics academic conference was held, Fan Zhenhua actually didn't want to go. Recently, he has also been very busy, and recently the Chinese Mathematical Society is organizing the first BRICS Mathematicians Conference to strengthen the ties between the BRICS countries at the academic level.

This is the most important international academic conference held by the Chinese Mathematical Society as the organizer in recent years. Therefore, this kind of meeting report that is not too important, simply pick the overtime work of the night before to familiarize yourself with it in advance.

Especially at this time, everything is quiet and the work efficiency is extremely high.

"Bell ......"

Very suddenly, Fan Zhenhua's mobile phone on the table rang, and his attention was also diverted from the report in front of him.

Fan Zhenhua frowned, and planned to hang up the phone directly, and then turn it to silent, but after glancing at the caller number, a curious look appeared on his face, and he simply put down the report in his hand and picked up the phone.

"Hey!"

"Hey Fan, I'm sorry, it should be night when you guys are there, right? Hope I didn't disturb your rest. ”

"Yes, Professor Higginson, but it's okay, I'm used to going to bed late. Is there something urgent? ”

"Haven't you opened an email today? Fan? ”

"Well, yes, it's been too busy for the past two days. Is there something big going on? Fan Zhenhua joked lightly, pushed away the report thrown in front of the table, dragged the notebook on the table to his side, then picked up the mouse, opened the browser, and prepared to enter the mailbox.

"No wonder I didn't wait for your call. That's right, Fan, Robert Caney, the editor-in-chief of the Annals of Mathematics at about this time yesterday, personally sent me an article in the hope that I would become a reviewer. Because he thinks that this article may solve the problem of smoothness and uniqueness of the Navier-Stokes equations. ”

Hearing this, Fan Zhenhua couldn't help but speak: "Wait, I remember that Robert didn't study the Navier-Stokes equation before, right?" ”

"That's true. But at his strong recommendation, I spent about a day studying this paper, and although there are many questions that I have not yet figured out and need some time to interpret and verify, my intuition tells me that this paper may really solve this problem. ”

"Huh?" Fan Zhenhua was distracted for a moment, and the hand holding the mouse paused.

Partial differential equations, such as the Navier-Stokes equation, are Fan's field of study, and he certainly knows how significant it is in the number theory community to prove that this equation has universality.

In fact, this is one of the seven new century mathematical problems that the Millennial Clay Institute of Mathematics has offered to the world, along with other problems such as the NP complete problem, the four-color problem, the Poincaré conjecture, the Riemann hypothesis, and other puzzles, all of which have prize money of one million dollars.

So far, only the Poincaré conjecture has been completely solved by the genius Russian mathematicians, and the four-color problem has only been verified at the computer level for the time being, but there is still not much progress in number theory.

The other four problems are not clear to Fan Zhenhua, but the Navier-Stokes equation is a problem that Fan Zhenhua has been paying attention to, and so far there is no good solution in the entire academic community.

Small-scale eddy currents can diverge forces, which makes it particularly difficult to prove this problem.

Professor Higginson of Princeton University, across the phone, was already at the forefront of the world in studying the Navier-Stokes equation. In particular, the computational model of magnetofluid flow that he once gave through the Navier-Stokes equation has led a trend of research and development in the academic field. And because of his achievements in this field, he has won the Fields Medal, a proper generation of academic bosses.

Such a big man in the academic community thinks that someone has really solved this problem?

It is important to know that a scientist's intuition about the direction of his research is often accurate, which is not theology, but the judgment given by the subconscious after deep cultivation in a certain field.

After losing his mind, Fan Zhenhua asked in a hurried tone, "Which scholar's paper is this?" ”

While there is a general practice of double-blind review in the journal world, top journals do not always adopt it. A lot of times it's single-blind, or even two-way choice. Especially when the editor-in-chief personally brought the paper to invite an industry master to review the manuscript, he didn't believe that he would use a double-blind review method.

He soon got an answer, and Professor Higginson's tone began to take on a strange tone: "That's why I called you specifically." Fan, do you know that there is a place in Huaxia called Ningjia Village Machinery Factory in Luohe County, Dongyu City, Nanhu Province? ”

This time, Fan Zhenhua was really stunned, and subconsciously muttered: "Ningjia Village, let's go, no, it should be an agricultural machinery factory, right?" Wait, you're saying this paper was written by a Chinese? ”

Although Higginson's Chinese pronunciation is not standard when he retells the address, the address sounds very rustic, especially the agricultural machinery factory named after the village, which should belong to the style of the last century.

The author of the paper is a Chinese? Still in a small local county?

At this moment, Fan Zhenhua only felt that the whole person was messy.

"Whatever it is, in short, the author of the paper is indeed a Chinese. So I recommended you to Robert Kenny to be one of the reviewers, and the email inviting the reviewers should have been sent to your inbox. I suggest you take a cursory look at the paper first, and then look at the author's bio......"

At this, Higginson's tone began to become eager: "Fan, if you can, I would like you to go to that place, meet the author on my behalf, and then help me relay a word." ”

"Well, if he wants to, I'd be more than happy to write him a letter of introduction to Princeton University. This promise is valid forever, as long as I am alive, of course. I can't even wait for the paper to be published soon, and then I can talk to him about some of the issues in the paper. ”

"Damn, spring break has just ended, and I have a bunch of messy things on my hands right now, otherwise I would definitely fly to Huaxia and personally send him an invitation. Of course, the premise of the above is that you can be sure that this paper is indeed written by him by talking to him, you know! I trust your judgment. ”

“OK！” Fan Zhenhua casually agreed, and the hand that operated the mouse couldn't wait to open the mailbox, found the invitation email from the Annals of Mathematics, and chose to accept it as quickly as possible.

I didn't forget to ask: "Higginson, this is not your style, why is it just communication?" I thought that if I was sure that he actually wrote the paper, you would invite him to teach or to take a position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. ”

The other side was silent, and after a while, he said in a dreamy tone: "I did enough psychological construction to call you, and when you read the author's introduction, you should understand, maybe you will be like me, spend an hour doubting whether this world is really real." ”

Then, Higginson's tone became strange again: "By the way, Robert may have sent an invitation to Lu from Huaqing University, I don't like that guy very much." So I'll leave this matter to you. ”

"Lou? Lu Zhengyue? ”

"Yes."