The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 106: One Hundred Faintings!

The netizens in the barrage were immediately shocked.

[Oh my god, is this true? Even a PhD in mathematics from Princeton University can't understand this?]

In the eyes of most netizens, a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University is already a very impressive person.

Of course, this is actually true.

However, Wen Chenghua quickly explained: "This is actually a very normal thing. I think at least 90% of the people in this lecture hall would not dare to say that they fully understood this lecture. At least for students like us who are almost just there to make up the numbers, we basically did not understand it."

"Of course, this does not include Xiao Shen. I can't say whether he is a student or not. Um... I can't say whether he is a human or not. Ahem, I mean he might really be a god. Please don't take my words out of context!"

"This kind of conference is really too cutting-edge. In the mathematics community, there are only a handful of mathematicians who can really study cutting-edge problems. The vast majority of people are probably still studying things that were one hundred or even several hundred years ago."

"However, although I didn't fully understand the report, I can still evaluate some of the steps in it, such as the step where Xiao Shen first used the Etale algebraic variety automorphism theory to introduce it into his classification sieve theory. I dare say that if I had a brain like his, I wouldn't have to study in college for five years. Hmm... I'm still not rigorous enough. I should have at least one-tenth of his brain."

"In short, it's just like showing off one's skills. For example, when we play League of Legends, we all use the same hero, but some people can use this hero to the fullest extent and combine some technical means that others can never think of. In mathematics, Xiao Shen is just such a person. According to my mentor's evaluation, his ability and talent are probably ranked at the top in the history of the entire mathematics community."

"In addition, I would like to point out that after Xiao Shen's report, there was a question-and-answer session, but no mathematician raised their hands to ask questions during this session. This is actually a very rare thing."

"Logically speaking, this is such an important conclusion. I have also read Xiao Shen's paper, which is more than 60 pages long. It is a very long proof process. However, at this report conference, after he finished speaking, no mathematician expressed any problem."

"This fully demonstrates one point. Xiao Shen's paper is detailed enough and his report is comprehensive enough."

"In the end, this is a perfect situation that has rarely been seen in the history of mathematics."

"That's my evaluation of this report meeting."

"Well...if I were to give it a score, it would be 100!"

"God among gods!"

Finally, Wen Chenghua made a joke.

There were already nearly ten thousand viewers in the live broadcast room. After hearing Wen Chenghua's comments, they all posted comments like [One Hundred Faintings] and [God of Gods] on the barrage.

Of course, it also made them realize how awesome Xiao Yi’s report was.

Guo Xiaoming snapped his fingers at this time, and then said: "Very good, then thank our Docter Wen for his answer. Finally, please predict how much impact Xiao Shen's proof will have on the mathematics community."

"Do I need to predict this, brother?" Wen Chenghua shrugged helplessly, and finally said: "Not to mention the mathematics community, the entire scientific community, and even the entire world, it is estimated that it will be very exciting for a few days."

"You have to know that this is the twin prime conjecture!"

……

Just as Wen Chenghua said.

The impact of the proof of the twin prime conjecture is enormous.

Before the conference even ended, the news had already spread around the world.

First of all, this incident has basically occupied the top of the hot lists on major social media platforms in China.

Whether it is Weibo, Zhihu, or Tieba.

For example, on Weibo, the hot search term #Twin Prime Theorem# directly jumped to number one.

And the second place is #XiaoShen#.

The third place is #a perfect report meeting#.

The popularity values ​​of the three hot search terms far exceed the other hot searches below them.

When you click on it, you will find that the ones who publish these news are no longer ordinary bloggers like [Mathematical and Physical Events], but the real official media, CCTV News.

【2021年1月8日，当地时间13点43分，于美国普林斯顿大学举办的普林斯顿数学年度会议第一天报告会已经结束。

This lecture is a special lecture on the twin prime conjecture. The speaker is Xiao Yi, a freshman from the my country University of Science and Technology. He published a paper titled "Parity Sieve and Twin Prime Conjecture" in early December 2020, in which he successfully proved an important problem in mathematics: the twin prime conjecture, which attracted a lot of attention in the mathematical community.

It is reported that twin primes refer to pairs of prime numbers whose difference is only 2, such as 3 and 5, 5 and 7, 11 and 13. The purpose of the twin prime conjecture is to prove that there are infinite pairs of twin prime numbers.

The history of the twin prime conjecture can be traced back to the 18th century. French mathematician Rembert-Pierre Bernoulli first proposed this conjecture in a letter in 1742. Since then, it has been hotly discussed by mathematicians in the mathematics community, and they have tried to solve the answer to this problem. However, due to the great difficulty of this problem, no progress has been made even after more than two hundred years.

But with the end of this report, this problem that spans more than 200 years of history was finally proven today, turning from a conjecture into a theorem.

Huang Tingting, a researcher from the Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: "The status of the twin prime conjecture in mathematics is similar to that of the well-known Goldbach conjecture. They are both top-level problems in the field of number theory in mathematics. Even a breakthrough in the study of this problem is a very important event, just like Mr. Chen Jingrun's important achievements on the Goldbach conjecture in the last century. Even until now, Mr. Chen Jingrun's achievements are still very advanced in the Goldbach conjecture."

"And Xiao Yi's achievement was more than just a breakthrough. He directly solved the problem, which is too exaggerated. His proof can be regarded as a milestone event for the mathematical community."

"In the past, if we wanted to prove the twin prime conjecture, we needed to use a mathematical theory called the sieve method. However, there is a very important problem in the sieve method, called the parity problem. This problem prevents us from proving the twin prime conjecture. But does the mathematical community have any good solution to this problem?"

"But Xiao Yi used a very brilliant method to suppress the impact of the parity check problem to a very small degree, and finally completed the proof."

Huang Tingyuan commented: "In short, Xiao Yi's entire method is innovative and transcends the general thinking of the mathematical community. The theory he created and the results he produced are commendable to the mathematical community, and the way of thinking he demonstrated in this process is something that the mathematical community should learn from."

...]

CCTV News issued a long press release, reporting the entire incident in great detail. It can be said that even ordinary people who do not understand mathematics at all can roughly understand how incredible the results Xiao Yi has achieved.
So, within less than an hour after it was posted, the number of comments, likes, and reposts reached an extremely high level. [Oh my god, the twin prime conjecture has actually been proven? When I saw this news a month ago, I thought it was a bit exaggerated, but now you tell me it’s true? ]

[Xiao Shen: I just want to ask, who else? ! ! ]

[The twin prime conjecture is another jewel in the crown of number theory besides the Goldbach conjecture. Xiao Shen’s strength is unfathomable. Now I am looking forward to what problems he can solve next! ]

[A PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at Shanghai University passed by. There is a saying in mathematics that number theory is a game for geniuses, but I think that Xiao Shen will be able to complete this game in the future. ]

[Those people in the amateur science forum will not be able to sleep, they will lack a research field from now on #偷笑]

[If you don’t understand, just ask, what is Minke? 】

[Minke is the abbreviation of folk scientists. Although there are normal people among them, most of them are not human beings, because every year they have more than a dozen proofs of Goldbach's conjecture or twin prime conjecture. If you say that they are wrong, they will get angry with you.

Well, to put it simply, they are a group of clowns who are self-important and feel envied and excluded by society. Minke Bar is where these clowns gather. 】

[A dozen? A hundred!]

[Why does it sound a bit funny? ]

[Xiao Shen is so handsome! Look at this photo of him bowing at the end of the lecture, he is so elegant! (Click to view the picture)]

[Elegant, so elegant! ]

[Oh my god, please give me the original picture! This will be my wallpaper from now on, and it inspires me to learn from Xiao Shen every day! ]

[This was taken by @数学大事件 at the scene. You can take a look. He took many photos and they are all very handsome! ]

This comment immediately attracted many netizens to click on the Weibo of Mathematical and Physical Events, and they found a Weibo post he had just posted, which contained many photos and a video. The video was a video of the lecture about to end.

It has attracted thousands of likes, comments and reposts.

[It’s decided! From now on, Xiao Shen will be my male god! ]

[Although I am a man and my sexual orientation is normal, Xiao Shen just proved the twin prime conjecture! ]

[I want to give birth to a monkey for Xiao Shen! ]

【…】

The entire Chinese Internet has been in an uproar over this incident.

Of course, the main reason is that Xiao Yi is a genius of China!

Every Chinese feels deeply proud of this.

……

Naturally, when Chinese people are proud, people abroad also express envy and jealousy.

Someone has also uploaded relevant videos of the report meeting on YouTube.

The following has already aroused heated discussions among many foreign netizens.

American netizens: [What an amazing genius! I think his talent is no less than that of Terence Tao or Schultz! ]

British netizen: [I can't believe it, I can actually see the twin quality conjecture being proven, am I really not dreaming? ]

French netizens: [Tao Zhexuan, Zhang Yitang, Xiao Yi, they all have Chinese ancestry. Are people of Chinese ancestry so good at number theory? ]

Japanese netizens: [The empire's peerless genius appears only once in a thousand years. ]

Korean netizen: [I think he actually looks like us Koreans. ]

Chinese netizens: [Like your mother’s head]

……

In addition to YouTube, discussions on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms are also much more heated than before.

Major media outlets around the world have also released news reports, and the scientific community, not just the mathematical community, has also expressed great concern.

For example, the two most famous journals in the scientific community, Science and Nature, both announced this big news on their official website homepages.

Generally speaking, "Science" and "Nature" have never paid much attention to achievements in the field of mathematics. After all, the number of citations in the field of mathematics is generally very low. For mathematics, the number of citations of hundreds or thousands in other disciplines is almost equivalent to a legendary paper.

To put it in a more emotionally intelligent way, the mathematics is of a very high standard, but few people are researching it, so it is not appreciated by many journals such as Science and Nature.

Low emotional intelligence means looking down on others.

However, now faced with such major achievements as the proof of the twin prime conjecture, Science and Nature are also willing to take the blame.

……

(End of this chapter)