The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 127: Seizing the Baton from the Mounted Police
At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the room.

Xiao Yi put down his phone, walked over and opened the door, then saw Terence Tao and James Maynard running over with excited expressions.

"Xiao Yi, did you receive it? The bank sent a message saying that Maynard and I both received more than $100 million. This should be the money for our project, right?"

Seeing the expressions of the two, Xiao Yi smiled and said, "Yes, I received it too."

He showed the text message interface on his phone to the two people.

Although Terence Tao and Maynard could not understand the Chinese text on the message, they could still recognize the Arabic numerals. When they saw the long string of zeros after the 6, they showed envious expressions.

Of course, this was the distribution that was agreed upon at the beginning, so there is no question of jealousy or anything like that.

"Thank you very much, Xiao Yi."

Tao Zhexuan patted Xiao Yi on the shoulder and said, "If you hadn't talked to the World Bank's chief information officer that day, it would probably take another three months for the money to arrive."

Xiao Yi smiled and said, "It's okay, there's nothing to thank me for. After all, this is also good for me."

Suddenly, Tao's phone rang. He looked and saw that it was Professor Kleinlock calling.

As soon as the call went through, Kleinrock shouted excitedly: "Did you receive it? Did you receive it? Our money has arrived!!"

The three of them smiled and said, "Got it, Professor."

"Oh my god! Didn't the World Bank say it would take three months for the funds to arrive? Why did it arrive so quickly this time? It's only been a few days, right?"

Kleinlock did not attend this mathematics conference. In his words, among all the reports, only Xiao Yi's report interested him. However, he already knew what Xiao Yi's report would be about. As for the other mathematics reports, he could not understand them, so there was no need for him to come.

Therefore, he did not know about the conversation between Xiao Yi and Brian Winston that day.

So, after the three people explained, Kleinlock said, "So that's how it is! Thank you so much, Xiao Yi."

"But, is your meeting over? Is Xiao Yi leaving too? And Maynard?"

"Yes." Xiao Yi and Maynard replied.

"That's such a pity." Kleinlock sighed. As an old man, whenever he encountered such a separation, what he worried about most was whether he would be able to see each other again in the future.

"No matter what, you are all very good collaborators. I hope we will have a chance to see each other again in the future."

Maynard smiled and said, "Maybe there will be a chance for us to work together again?"

Kleinrock laughed and said, "Hahaha, I probably won't do any more research projects in the future. No matter what, I am already satisfied enough to get such a result in the last project of my life. I can even make such a large sum of money. Haha! Maybe I can buy my grandson Thomas his favorite Mustang."

"Thomas will be very happy."

"Haha, I think so too!" Kleinlock laughed heartily, "Then let's not say any more. See you again someday!"

"Yes, Professor Kleinlock."

After hanging up the phone, the three of them were silent for a while.

After all, they all knew that it was time to say goodbye.

Finally, the oldest one, Terence Tao, spoke up: "Okay, guys, even though our x^2+1 prime number problem has not been solved, it's not surprising. There is no such easy problem to solve in mathematics."

"We can still communicate after we return."

"Yes." Maynard nodded and said with a smile: "And no matter what, we have gained a lot!"

The three of them remembered the text message on their phones and started laughing.

"Professor Zhang Yitang is quite lucky. Your Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture should be very close to being solved, right?"

Tao Zhexuan thought of this incident and said.

By using Shaw's expansion, the difficulty of proving the Landau-Siegel zero point conjecture can be greatly reduced. Although it cannot be proved immediately, some mathematicians have predicted that the Landau-Siegel zero point conjecture may be proved at least in the next few years, and the mathematical community generally agrees with this.

However, Tao and Maynard are obviously more aware that Zhang Yitang has been studying the zero point conjecture for many years. Now with Xiao Yi's help, perhaps it won't be long before they can see the paper on arxiv.

Xiao Yi smiled and said, "It shouldn't be too different."

The paper that Xiao developed was first sent to Zhang Yitang before being uploaded to arxiv.

So Zhang Yitang was one of the first people in the world to read that paper.

After he finished reading it, he called Xiao Yi directly.

Xiao Yi could probably still recall the excitement in his tone.

After that, Zhang Yitang began to immerse himself in research, so he did not attend this joint mathematics conference.

However, he did say that he would come to pick Xiao Yi up to take him to Santa Barbara. If we calculate based on the time...

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived.

The knock on the door sounded again.

Xiao Yi went to open the door again and saw Zhang Yitang standing outside.

"Professor Zhang, you are here."

Zhang Yitang smiled and nodded, looking in a good mood. He asked gently, "Have you packed all your luggage? I drove here and will be going back later."

"It's been packed." Xiao Yi nodded.

Tao Zhexuan and Maynard also came up, greeted Zhang Yitang with a smile, and said, "Professor Zhang, Xiao Yi will be handed over to you."

"No problem." Zhang Yitang made an OK gesture.

Tao and Maynard nodded, then said, "It's time for us to go." The time to say goodbye finally came.

After saying goodbye, Tao got on the car back to Los Angeles, while Maynard went to the airport.

As for Xiao Yi, he got into Zhang Yitang's car and headed for Santa Barbara.

……

From San Jose to Santa Barbara, you need to take California Highway 1, a famous scenic highway with sea views and vast plains along the way.

The scenery is very nice.

However, when their car passed the Seaview Highway, Xiao Yi felt a sense of déjà vu at first glance.

Finally, he suddenly recalled the game he played when he was a child, that is, the picture of the seaside highway in Road Rush.

The more he looked at it, the more similar it seemed. He checked online and found out that Highway 1 was indeed the prototype of the picture of the violent motorcycle.

So, looking at the coastline next to him, he seemed to recall the afternoon 10 years ago when he was kicked into the sea by the AI ​​opponent on the Big Brain computer.

"What are you thinking about?"

Zhang Yitang's voice suddenly rang out.

"Trying to get a baton from a mounted policeman."

Outside the car, a mounted policeman whizzed past. Xiao Yi remembered the operation in the violent motorcycle and said subconsciously.

Zhang Yitang immediately looked at him in horror: "What did you say?!"

Please!

The police are outside, okay!
Xiao Yi came back to his senses immediately, "Ahem..."

With an awkward but polite smile, he then gave a brief explanation.

"Oh! So you're talking about that game." Zhang Yitang suddenly realized, and then laughed: "I also played it for a long time back then, but later I forgot about it because of my mathematical research."

Then he said nostalgically: "Come to think of it, so many years have passed."

Xiao Yi also nodded with emotion.

The same is true for him.

After the old and the young expressed their feelings to each other for a while, they finally got back to the main topic.

"Thanks to your Xiao's development, after these days of research, I have solved many of the problems I encountered before, and now I am only focusing on the last few key issues."

Xiao Yi nodded, "What are the main issues?"

"I have written it down, take a look."

Zhang Yitang opened the armrest box and took out a stack of draft paper.

The above are the manuscripts he used during the research process.

Xiao Yi took the draft paper and started reading it from the beginning.

The front of this stack of draft paper mainly contains the results produced by Zhang Yitang during this period.

"Well... you have shown that the inequality V1j(y)T^c follows from the Polya-Vinogradov inequality and the sum of parts."

“Oh? I have also given a relationship between the lower bound of L(1,χ) and the non-vanishing central value of this key automorphism L-function.”

"besides……"

Soon, Xiao Yi nodded: "Now we are indeed very close to the final answer."

"Haha, the main reason is that the method developed by the Xiao family is effective enough." Zhang Yitang said with a smile while driving.

Otherwise, he would not have been so surprised when he saw Xiao Yi's paper.

"Hmm..." Xiao Yi nodded slightly and continued to turn to the next piece of draft paper: "Then, the remaining question is..."

"It is necessary to solve the problem of the zeros of L(s,ψ) in Ω, mainly to prove that the gap between any different zeros of A(s,ψ) in Ω is larger than α(1c′αL)."

"And this proves the most basic proposition. When θ(mod k) is the primitive feature, the functional equation of L(s,θ) is L(s,θ)=Z(s,θ)L(1s,θ)."

“These questions…”

Looking at the descriptions of these questions, Xiao Yi began to think.

Zhang Yitang stopped talking and drove quietly.

The only sounds around were the car engine, the wind outside the window, and the sound of waves from the sea.

……

The last few problems are also not easy to solve.

However, for Xiao Yi, even though it was difficult to come up with a direct solution, he still found an angle that could achieve a breakthrough.

That afternoon, they arrived at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and under Zhang Yitang's arrangement, Xiao Yi once again moved into the student dormitory at the Santa Barbara campus.

After a simple dinner, he and Zhang Yitang went to the latter's office to discuss the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture.

(End of this chapter)