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Chapter 132 Zhang Yitang Doesn’t Want to Write a Paper

“It really feels like a joke.”

At UCLA, Terence Tao finished reading the paper and couldn't help but murmur.

It has been less than 10 days since I separated from Xiao Yi, right?
Is it necessary to be so exaggerated?

Although the predictions made by the mathematical community are, to a certain extent, actually quite accurate, he and Maynard had already known long before that this prediction had a prerequisite, which was that Xiao Yi did not join in the research on this issue.

And once Xiao Yi joins in, the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture will not be able to stop him for long.

In particular, Xiao Yi also cooperated with Zhang Yitang.

In this case, it will probably only take two or three months. If it's longer, five months won't be enough.

Well, that's what they thought at first.

As a result, reality is like this, it happened like a joke.

After reading the entire paper, just like when he read Xiao Yi's other papers before, he did not find any errors.

At least that's the basic inference.

The only problem is...

He could tell that this paper was written by Zhang Yitang, and there were some cases of "simplifying proofs" in the paper written by Zhang Yitang.

Ok……

He could only sigh.

Professor Zhang, why does he have to write the paper himself?

Wouldn’t it be better to leave it to Xiao Yi?
This makes everyone feel comfortable and benefits the mathematics community.

Two things mathematicians hate the most.

The first is that when reading a paper, I find that the author uses special vocabulary for simplifying proofs, such as "notice" and "obvious". The second is that I don't allow myself to use these vocabulary when writing a paper.

It can be called a mathematical cancer.

I would like to mention Riemann here. The paper in which this guy proposed the Riemann hypothesis was only 8 pages long, and these 8 pages contained a lot of simplified proofs. Even until today, these simplified proofs have not been fully deciphered by the mathematical community.

It can also be regarded as the number one cancer in the mathematical paper world.

In the end, Tao Zhexuan could only hope in his heart that Xiao Yi would not be led astray by Zhang Yitang.

Of course, there are some very interesting methods in the paper.

In particular, there is a step that uses Xiao's expansion to apply the circle method to the study of the problem. This step can be regarded as the most outstanding method in the entire paper.

Tao Zhexuan could guess at a glance that this method must have been developed by Xiao Yi. He was probably the only one in the world who could use Xiao's method so flexibly.
Of course, this is also confirmed in the paper.

Although Zhang Yitang and Xiao Yi initially named this method directly as the "Circle Method Expansion", later in the process of Zhang Yitang compiling the paper, he probably considered that this method was thought up by Xiao Yi, so he directly named it "Xiao's Circle Method Expansion" in the paper to let the mathematical community know that this important method was developed by Xiao Yi.

"What a pity! If Xiao Yi could come up with some of these methods when studying the n^2+1 prime number problem, our progress might be much faster."

Thinking of this, Terence Tao shook his head and laughed again.

This method is not so easy to come up with.

The phone suddenly rang, and I saw it was James Maynard calling.

After the call was connected, Maynard's exaggerated voice came from the microphone.

"Terrence, have you read that paper? It's the one where Zhang Yitang and Xiao Yi proved Siegel's zero-point conjecture."

"I remember that Xiao Yi had just been with Zhang Yitang for a short time. How come they were so quick..."

Tao Zhexuan said helplessly: "You have been with Xiao Yi for such a long time, haven't you gotten used to it yet? Isn't this a very normal thing?"

Maynard was silent for a moment, and finally said, "Are you used to it?"

"Uh..." Tao Zhexuan paused, and finally said honestly: "I don't have it either."

"That's right! Can we really get used to this kind of thing?! I feel like every time it challenges my limit of acceptance." Maynard said: "But then again, this paper seems to be written by Zhang Yitang. I really don't understand why they didn't let Xiao Yi write it. This paper he wrote is really..."

"You look a little tired."

Tao Zhexuan laughed and said, "Alright, alright, you don't even look at your own paper, and you still have the nerve to criticize Professor Zhang."

"You are reading Xiao Yi's paper and you are used to it."

Maynard chuckled and then asked, "But have you contacted Xiao Yi? I just called him but he said he was out of service area."

Tao Zhexuan was stunned and said, "Not in the service area?"

After thinking for a while, he finally said, "Maybe they have already boarded the plane back to China."

……

Over the next few hours, news of the proof of the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture spread throughout the mathematical community.

The various innovative mathematical methods that appeared in it also amazed the mathematical community. The new technology of circle expansion developed by Xiao was discovered by many mathematicians.

Scholars in the field of analytic number theory were able to quickly see that this method might be useful in solving problems in certain areas of number theory.
Of course, all methods are good methods. As to whether the zero-point conjecture has been proved, it remains to be verified.

However, in addition to the need to verify whether the proof is correct, there is another problem... The simplicity of the various proofs in this paper has caused a bit of a headache for the mathematics community.

Just like Terence Tao and Maynard, the mathematics community has become accustomed to the detail and rigor of Xiao Yi's papers. As a result, now that the author has Xiao Yi, he has produced a paper like this. Although its writing style is in line with the mainstream of the mathematics community, it has still been criticized by many scholars.

Some of Zhang Yitang's old friends started calling him, wanting to ask him why he chose to write the paper himself instead of asking Xiao Yi to do it.

As a result, they found that they could not contact Zhang Yitang again. After inquiring, they learned from Joey Eaton that Zhang Yitang and Xiao Yi would spend the next ten hours on the plane, so they would definitely not know what happened in the mathematics world for the time being.

So, they could only leave messages on Zhang Yitang’s social media accounts.

Well, I must use this method to let Xiao Yi know not to learn bad habits from this old man Zhang Yitang.

And just like that, time passed quickly.

……

At noon on February 2, a large international flight landed smoothly on the runway of Shanghai Beijing International Airport.

On the plane, while waiting for the cabin door to open, people took out their mobile phones, turned off the flight mode, and contacted their relatives and friends.

In a row of seats, there were an old man and a young man.

It was Zhang Yitang and Xiao Yi.

Zhang Yintang also took out his cell phone and started looking at it.

Yesterday, shortly after they published the paper, they went to the airport and boarded the flight back home.

It has been such a long time since we have seen how the mathematics community reacted to their paper, but now we can finally see it.

Zhang Yitang has begun looking forward to congratulations from his friends and colleagues.

After all, as a human being, we cannot avoid worldly things. Who wouldn’t feel excited at a moment like this?

However, when a bunch of notifications popped up, he was stunned.

How is this going?

Why are a bunch of people asking him why he wants to write a paper?
He was a little confused. Where were the congratulations and greetings he had expected?

A little confused, he clicked on his Facebook, took a look, and then his face turned dark.

There were a lot of reviews below.

Peter Sanak: [Professor Zhang, I don’t mean to say that it’s better not to do things like writing papers yourself. It’s better to save some time.]

Terence Tao: [Yitang, the paper is very well written. Don’t write it next time.]

Ivanets: [Let young people write papers in the future, such as Xiao Yi. The paper you wrote looks too exhausting.]

Goldstone: [Professor Zhang, although I can understand your mood when you were writing the paper, after all, we all know that you have been studying the zero-point conjecture for many years, but it is not good to simplify so many proofs in your paper.]

【…】

Damn it, you old guys have the nerve to say that to me?
You are all the same, and the paper I wrote is at least more detailed than yours, otherwise the paper "Bounded Gaps between Prime Numbers" would not have taken only three weeks from submission to the "Annals of Mathematics" to acceptance.

All of a sudden, Zhang Yitang was so angry that he immediately called out the input method and started typing.

fighting!

Xiao Yi, who was standing next to him, vaguely sensed that Professor Zhang behind him was in a mood that something was not right. What happened?
But at this time he also took out his mobile phone, paid a little attention to the things happening in the mathematics world, and then the corner of his eyes twitched.

Not to the point of not to the point of...

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the paper. It's written quite clearly and is not much different from other papers.

I glanced to the side cautiously and realized that it was no wonder that Professor Zhang was frowning.

At this moment, the cabin of the plane was finally opened and the passengers began to get off the plane.

Zhang Yitang finally put away his phone, turned to Xiao Yi and said, "Let's go, let's get off the plane."

Xiao Yi finally asked, "Is Professor Zhang okay?"

Zhang Yitang was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and waved his hands: "Oh, nothing, it's just that those guys have nothing to do."

"I think they are just jealous that I can work with you and achieve results. I will definitely scold them later."

"Bah, do you really think I, Zhang, am easy to bully?"

Seeing him say this, Xiao Yi was even more at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Okay, then he will feel relieved.

Otherwise, he would really have to worry about Zhang Yitang's mood.

After picking up their luggage, they began to disembark in an orderly manner.

Finally, after walking a long way out of the station, they stood outside the airport. Familiar faces kept coming into view, as well as the familiar Chinese words on the signboards and the local dialects spoken by the people around them.

Xiao Yi narrowed his eyes.

Finally back!

(End of this chapter)