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Chapter 120 Xiao Yi has solved it!
1 month 28 day.

San Jose, California.

As the city hosting the Joint Mathematics Conference this year, many mathematicians have come here in the past two days.
The Joint Mathematical Meetings are an important conference in the mathematics world second only to the International Congress of Mathematicians, and they attract quite a large number of participants. According to statistics, there are definitely more people attending the Princeton Mathematics Conference at the beginning of the month.

Normally, the number of participants in the Princeton Mathematics Conference would not exceed one thousand people, but this year, with the addition of the twin prime conjecture, the conference at the beginning of the year was particularly popular.

Of course, this also caused a problem. After some mathematicians attended the Princeton Mathematics Conference at the beginning of the month, they no longer planned to attend the Joint Mathematics Conference at the end of the month. After all, it is still very troublesome to fly there.

However, sometimes accidents happen.

On the mathoverflow mathematics exchange platform, as the Joint Mathematics Conference is about to be held, the discussion has once again begun.

Under a post titled [Xiao Yi, you've really had enough! After half a month, I took a plane from the UK again, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and flew to the United States! ], quite a lot of people were complaining.

The poster is a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics at the Imperial College of London. He said from his seat on the first floor: [I had not intended to attend the annual Princeton mathematics conference at the beginning of the month. However, I learned that the report on the twin prime conjecture would be held at that time, so I went there. Then I did not plan to attend the joint mathematics meeting at the end of the month.

Who would have thought that the Joint Mathematical Meetings would issue a statement saying that they had invited Xiao Yi on short notice to give another lecture, still about Xiao's polynomial expansion!
It's so nasty!

You're bullying me because I happen to be researching in this field, right?

Now, I spent a lot of money to go to Princeton, and now I have to spend a lot of money again!
Xiao Yi, you really hurt me so much. Can you please take some time off before doing something as big as this in the future? 】

Then in the replies below, a lot of people expressed their agreement.

A doctoral student from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris said: "It's hard not to support it. I'm the same way. I originally wanted to witness the proof of the twin prime conjecture, so I flew over specifically. As for attending the joint conference, I didn't have much interest. I looked at the titles of their reports and basically didn't find anything that interested me. But now, Xiao's expansion happens to match the complex analysis topic I'm studying, so I have to participate.

This trip has used up all my travel money this year! 】

There is also a comment from the University of Bonn in Germany: [Me too! I really miss the last time I saw Xiao Yi at my doorstep. It’s a pity that Xiao Yi didn’t bring a proof of the twin prime conjecture or a new method like Xiao’s expansion. He just ended the dispute over the abc conjecture.]

Even students from Shangjing University in China appeared in the post: [Either keep up with Xiao Shen's pace, or be left far behind by him, there are only these two choices, and between these two choices, I chose to spend money to keep up with Xiao Shen's pace. ]

However, below these replies, a professor from Oxford University asked a question about their complaints: [I want to ask a question, can you understand his lecture? ]

The host responded: [I really don’t understand this. ]

So the Oxford professor made a sharp comment: "Forget about it. You can't understand his lecture, so why do you have to go and watch it? This is not the right way to study mathematics. Not only do you waste your money, but you also cause trouble. What do you get in the end? It's just like participating in a Champions League final. In the end, apart from the excitement of watching the game and showing off to your friends, there is no substantial gain."

As someone who has been through this, I want to say that for young people like you who are postdocs and PhDs, it is not feasible to aim too high. You need to learn step by step with your feet on the ground. Reading a report will not increase your knowledge, only books can. 】

The Oxford professor's sharp comments immediately made newcomers in the mathematics world like the author feel ashamed.

That was indeed the case. They simply could not understand Xiao Yi's report. As for why they were so keen to attend Xiao Yi's report, it was probably because they went there with the same mentality as chasing a star.

Obviously, this mentality is wrong.

The poster finally admitted his mistake sincerely: [Professor, you are right, I understand, I will never spend money on meaningless things like this again. ]

The professor replied: [That’s correct, kid.]

All this looks like the earnest teachings of an old mathematician to his juniors.

However, if you scroll down further, you will find that another mathematics professor from Oxford University has revealed the true face of this "old senior": [Max, don't try to fool these young people here. Didn't you just fail to get a seat at Princeton last time? You actually come here to fool them. ]

All of a sudden, those young people who were criticized but didn’t dare to reply couldn’t hold back anymore and replied one after another: [Professor, if you can’t get a ticket, just tell us! We can help you!]

Finally, Professor Max couldn't stand this socially humiliating scene anymore, so he deleted his comment and fled.
Amidst the laughter, the comments below resumed the discussion on this joint mathematics conference.

Then someone brought up something: [I heard the news these days that many computer science experts have decided to attend this report. Did you know about this? ]

People were immediately confused. [Computer scientists? Why are they attending the Joint Mathematical Conference?]

[Among all the lectures this time, there are only two that are related to computer science, right? ]

Some even started to laugh: [Can they understand our report? ]

[Did they suddenly realize the importance of mathematics and start planning to retake it? ]

As a subject at the top of the academic contempt chain, it is quite normal to see such comments, and even such comments are agreed by many people.

However, they were still a little confused. What did the computer people want to do?

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"It's such a headache. Maybe we shouldn't have asked Xiao Yi to prepare this report. We could have just awarded him the Cole Algebra Prize and that would have been the end of it. It would have been easy and would have caused a lot of discussion in the mathematics community. It wouldn't have been like it is now, with all the trouble."

At the Joint Mathematical Conference Office at the San Jose International Convention Center, Hales Carr was looking through the information on the arrangements for this conference on the computer and said helplessly.

Hales Carr is the permanent vice president of AMS and also the chairman of the organizing committee of this Joint Mathematics Meeting.

Adam Dougs, the professor who had personally gone to UCLA to invite Xiao Yi to give a speech at the Joint Mathematics Conference, shook his head helplessly after hearing what the vice president said. “It can’t be helped. If we hadn’t invited him, there would only be 1500 people attending the lecture. Now, as soon as we spread the news, the number of participants has risen to 2000, returning to the previous level.”

"So this means that we have to process the information of more than 500 new participants in the next few days." Hales Karl sighed: "I have never worked overtime for so long."

"And the most critical question is..."

The chairman of the organizing committee took another look at the lists and said in confusion, "Why are there suddenly so many computer experts applying?"

"And they all specifically asked to attend Xiao Yi's report?"

"Did they understand the proof of the twin prime conjecture or the Xiao expansion? Or maybe the parity check sorting sieve kept those cryptography researchers awake, so they wanted to come to Xiao Yi to ask how to solve it?"

"Nelson Guerra, Bernard Esser, Quentin Donnelly... I remember all of these people. They are all famous people in the field of computer security, right? They are all experts in cryptography."

"And this! Brian Winston, the Chief Information Officer of the World Bank, how can such a rich man have time to care about a pure mathematics conference like ours? What's wrong with him? If I were him, I would have a party in my big villa every day."

There was laughter in the room.
"Oh, and there's this, Silvio Micali, the Turing Award winner! He's here too... Well, I know this guy, and he's really good at math. I think he won the Turing Award for his outstanding contributions to cryptography, right? But we don't have any reports on cryptography at this meeting?"

“And this one, Google’s Senior Vice President of Knowledge and Information, Prabhakar Raghavan…”

"Forget about these great people." Hales Carl complained, "There are others whose names I haven't heard of, but they are basically professors. Um, and... there are almost two hundred people in total!"

“Do they want to turn our joint math conference into their computer conference?”

Hearing Hales Karl's resentful tone, Dougs beside him could only persuade him: "Okay, Hales, isn't Jones investigating the cause now?"

As he said this, he noticed another person next to him and asked, "Hey, Jones, how's your investigation going?"

Jones Charles, who was also a director of the organizing committee, finally raised his head after hearing Dougs calling him, but his expression looked a little strange.

"Uh... Professor Karl, it seems that what you said just now is indeed right, but... it is only half right."

Hales Carr was stunned and asked, "What did I say right?"

Jones Charles said: "Some of them may have come to Xiao Yi for the classification and screening attack, but Xiao Yi has already solved this problem!"

(End of this chapter)