"What a giant old man is not a huge old man, you kid is all about boasting."

Zhang Weiping shook his head with a smile, pointed to the young man beside him and continued: "This is my disciple, Miao Pingbo. ”

"Pingbo, this is the student I mentioned before, Xu Chuan, don't look at this kid's young age, he is only a freshman, and he has already proved a world-class mathematical conjecture."

"The one next to him is Academician Chen Zhengping's student, Lin Feng."

Hearing this, the young man who followed Zhang Weiping's side stepped forward and said hello to the two.

Zhang Weiping didn't have any shelf, and after introducing his students, he shook his head with a smile and said, "Since we met, how about walking together?" ”

"Won't it bother you."

"Harm, they're all here to attend the math exchange meeting, if there's anything to disturb, don't bother, as long as you two don't dislike me, an old man." Zhang Weiping waved his hand.

"Anyway, your kid is going to come to the stage to make a report this time, how are you preparing?"

"I've done a lot of preparation, but who knows? It's Princeton, home to some of the world's top mathematicians. ”

Xu Chuan spread his hands, no one dared to say that there were no flaws in Princeton.

Professor Andrew Wiles has suffered a major blow after proving Fermat's theorem.

At that time, Professor Wyles's proof was divided into six parts, which were reviewed by six people, and the third part, led by Nick Kaetze, found that the construction of the Eulerian system was so flawed that the Koliwakin-Flache method could not be applied to it, and Professor Wyles was powerless about it at the time.

Fortunately, he used Iwasawa's theory combined with the Koliwakin-Fletche method to repair the flaws, proving Fermat's conjecture in one fell swoop, and removing it from the Seven Millennium Problems.

Xu Chuan can't guarantee that his proof will be completely correct, maybe there are some loopholes hidden in it that he didn't find, although this probability is very low, but it is still possible.

Zhang Weiping smiled and said: "Mathematics is rigorous, I am very pleased that you can have such an idea, but don't worry about it, I have carefully discussed and studied your paper with Academician Zhang Gongqing of P University, and it is an excellent proof." ”

......

After meeting Zhang Weiping of Sun Moon University by chance, and after walking around Princeton University and not finding the legendary NPC Professor Fellman, Xu Chuan returned to the hotel where he stayed.

The International Mathematical Research Exchange Conference was held for five days, and his report on the proof of his weak weyl_berry conjecture was half an hour and 30 minutes in the afternoon of the fourth day.

In the past few days, it was basically the superstars in the mathematics community who came to the stage to share their achievements or opinions.

For example, Professor Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat's conjecture, G. Faltins, who proved Model's conjecture in number theory by using algebraic geometry, and Pierre Deligne, a disciple of the emperor of mathematics, and so on.

These are the superstars of the mathematics world, and listening to their presentations is more exciting for the average undergraduate than planting five million.

In fact, Xu Chuan, as a first-year undergraduate, was able to give a 30-minute academic report at such an international mathematical research exchange meeting, which can be said to directly pull him to the top of the undergraduate program.

Such an achievement, let alone an undergraduate, is a doctoral student, or even a mathematics professor is a great honor.

Of course, compared with the International Mathematical Union (IMU), which only holds the International Mathematics Conference every four years, the B grade of this mathematics exchange meeting is still much lower.

If it is the latter, if Xu Chuan can go up and give a 30-minute report, he can directly enter the 100 Talents Program or participate in the selection of young Changjiang scholars after returning to China.

In fact, as of 14 years, that is, two years ago at the International Mathematical Conference, Huaguo had the honor to give a report on the stage, and only the number of individuals was counted, and they were counted in the face.

Of course, the Chinese will not talk about it, after all, there are still many mathematicians among overseas Chinese, but this is not of much significance to the Chinese country.

.......

On the first day of the exchange meeting, Xu Chuan followed Lin Feng to listen to the report of Elder G. Faltings, and felt a lot.

This elder is now recognized as the strongest top three in the mathematical community, and even faintly has the title of the first person.

The other two are Professor Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat's conjecture, and Professor Pierre Deligne, who has won a grand slam in mathematics.

Of course, there are far more powerful people in the world of mathematics than these, except for the three of them, there are all those who have better grades and are still alive.

Professor Jean-Pierre Serre, for example, won the Fields Medal in 1954 at the age of 28, making him the youngest Fields Medal winner to date.

Or Professor Grigory Perelman, who solved the 'Poincaré conjecture' of the seven millennial puzzles.

However, the former is old, and now he is 90 years old.

The latter, on the other hand, rejected the Fields Medal and the Clay Institute for Mathematics' Millennium Prize, which was dedicated to the Seven Millennium Problems, and was semi-detached from the current world of mathematics, living in seclusion in Russia, and rarely appearing at outside mathematical conferences.

In 2006, the elder was awarded the Fields Medal for "his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights," but he refused to accept the trophy or medal.

Jon Bauer, president of the International Mathematical Union, persuaded Perelman to accept the prize, and after two days of trying and 10 hours of persuasion, he finally gave up.

Perelman famously said, "I'm not interested in money or fame, and I don't want to be exhibited like animals in a zoo." ”

Therefore, not to mention the mathematics exchange held by Princeton, even the international mathematical conference held by the International Mathematical Union could not invite this elder.

Give him a Fields Medal, give him a million meters of gold, and he won't even glance at it.

So now the mathematical community really can't predict the strength of this elder, so they simply give up ranking him for the time being.

But no one can deny the elder's strength in mathematics.

Well, in addition to this, there are quite a few top mathematicians of the new generation.

For example, Tao Zhexuan, who won the Fields Medal in 2006, and Peter Schulz, the youngest W3 full professor in the Germanic country.

However, compared with the predecessors of Faltins and Wiles, their accumulation is indeed inferior.

......

At the beginning of the first day of the Mathematics Symposium, mathematicians and talents from different fields gathered in different auditoriums at Princeton University, and these mathematicians came to participate in different seminars in their respective fields.

As for Xu Chuan, whoever is more famous will listen to whomever he wants.

For him, the little-known math professors didn't have much to do to attract his attention, and it was better to listen to the elders than to waste time in the past.

After listening to Professor Wiles' lecture, Xu Chuan walked out of the second auditorium, ready to go to Carnegie Lake to relax, and bumped into a somewhat familiar figure with a 'bang'.

"I'm sorry to bump into you."

The voice in his ears came, Xu Chuan rubbed his forehead that was hit and raised his head, and when he saw it, it was a man about thirty years old, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, and he looked Chinese.

"Huh? Are you Professor Tao Zhexuan? ”

Xu Chuan asked in surprise, the Chinese-looking man in front of him was Professor Tao Zhexuan, a rising star in the mathematics world.

The elder won a gold medal in mathematics at the IMO International Mathematical Olympiad at the age of 13, was already a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles at the age of 24, and won the Fields Medal at the age of 31.

In terms of age, he is now 41 years old, but maybe he is still talented, and he looks like he is in his thirties, and he remains quite young.

"Exactly the contemptible one, who are you?"

Tao Zhexuan looked at Xu Chuan with some confusion and asked.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, hello Professor Tao, my name is Xu Chuan, and I'm from Huaguo." Xu Chuan introduced himself with a smile.

"Xu Chuan?" Tao Zhexuan muttered, he seemed to have heard the name somewhere.

Frowning and thinking for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said quickly: "Weyl-berry conjecture weakening form is what you proved, right?" ”

"Compared to your achievements, Professor Tao, this is nothing to mention." Xu Chuan responded with a smile.

A weakened form of the Weyl-Berry conjecture proves that it is nothing in front of the super bull in front of him.

As an all-rounder in the field of mathematics, Tao Zhexuan's research spans many fields of mathematics, from harmonic analysis to nonlinear partial differential equations, to combinatorics, analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, and so on.

The exaggeration across fields is greater than the physical research of his previous life.

"No, no, no, you are too modest, the Weyl-Berry conjecture is a problem that has plagued the mathematical community for more than 30 years, and the difficulty belongs to the top level, I have read your paper, it is quite an excellent proof, a 'small opening' between the non-connected branches of the region, so that the non-connected areas are connected, this idea is simply excellent........"

Tao Zhexuan said with a smile, stopped and began to chat with Xu Chuan about mathematics.

The two of them stopped in the corridor outside the auditorium, exchanging their understanding of mathematics, which also attracted the attention of the other participants.

After recognizing the famous Tao Zhexuan, many people chose to come over quietly, wanting to hear what the two were talking about, and they were also a little curious about who the unusually young boy opposite was, and he could talk to Tao about mathematics so freely.

By the time Xu Chuan woke up, there were already many people around the two.

"It seems that this is not suitable for further consultation with you for the time being, Professor Tao, this is my contact information and email address, I hope to consult with you more in the future."

Looking at the crowd around him, Xu Chuan shrugged his shoulders, took out the portable notebook and pen he carried with him from his pocket, wrote down his mobile phone number and email address and handed them to Tao Zhexuan.

"Just ask, it's so much fun to talk to a math genius like you." Tao Zhexuan took the note with a smile, looked at the number on it and put it in his pocket.

The two said goodbye to each other and were about to leave, but suddenly, Tao Zhexuan's footsteps stopped, turned around and shouted: "Hey, Xu Chuan, do you want to come with me to listen to Professor Schultz's report?" ”

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