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Chapter 287 The Anti-Barrel Principle in Mathematics

Netizens across the country were completely crazy, and the title of Xiao Yi as the God of Mathematics spread further and further.

Gauss was the prince of mathematics, Grothendieck was the emperor of mathematics, and now, a god of mathematics has finally appeared.

And now, on the entire external network, there are basically not many people who refute this name.

After all, relying on his achievement of successfully proving the Riemann hypothesis in such a short period of time, Xiao Yi really deserves the title of God of Mathematics, not to mention that he had already achieved so many results before.

To be honest, the title of God of Mathematics has been used by some people before, and now, only because of the proof of the Riemann hypothesis, the title has become more worthy of the name.

A true God of mathematics should certainly prove the ultimate questions in mathematics.

And now, Xiao Yi has completed this step.

Of course, this is the case abroad, and the situation in China is even more exciting.

Almost as soon as the news came in, it spread across the country.

After all, quite a lot of Chinese people want to know whether their God Xiao can defeat the Prime Number Pioneer Project, a team composed of almost all the top mathematicians from abroad, in proving the Riemann hypothesis.

1vsN is an exciting competition in itself, not to mention that the problem to be faced is the Riemann hypothesis. This is a competition that truly challenges the peak of human wisdom.

It's not something that can be compared with any ordinary competition.

And now, their God Xiao seems to have won!
For a moment, all domestic netizens became excited.

Various related online platforms are filled with discussions about this matter, and as for the hot searches, they are already filled with this matter.

[Oh my god! Is this true? Riemann hypothesis has been proved by Xiao Shen? ]

[Yes, it has been proven. You can go to the website and see it directly. There are five papers in total, all of which are written by Xiao Shen. I downloaded and read them again. Of course, I only read them once, and it is impossible for me to understand them. This thing is like a heavenly book to me.]

[No, what is this Riemann hypothesis? Why is it that when I opened my phone today, all I saw was people discussing this? ]

[No buddy, are you from Mars? How come you don't know this? You can't not even know Xiao Shen, right? ]

[To put it simply, it was a competition between Xiao Shen and a group of top foreign mathematicians to see who could prove the mathematical problem called Riemann hypothesis first. The difficulty of Riemann hypothesis is also very high, which can be called the highest in mathematics. This hypothesis is also known as the jewel in the crown of mathematics. This problem has existed in the mathematics community for hundreds of years, but it has never been proved by mathematicians. Now, our Xiao Shen has suddenly proved it successfully. Don’t you think this is awesome? ]

【Awesome! 】

[I am here to say only three things: Xiao Shen is awesome! Xiao Shen is awesome! Xiao Shen is awesome! ]

【Xiao Shen is the real king of mathematics! 】

[Now, calling him the King of Mathematics is outdated. Now we should call him the God of Mathematics! This is how people call him abroad now.]

[Okay, okay, God of Mathematics, that’s what we should call him]

[God is a term used by foreigners. We should change it.]

[Who told you that this is a foreigner's name? Do you know what Haotian Shangdi is? ]

[No, everyone, isn't it too early for you to open the champagne? The mathematics community hasn't given a definite answer to whether Xiao Yi has really proved successful, right? It's not good to open the champagne too early. ]

[Then you must have forgotten the problems that Xiao Shen had proved before. When did he fail? ]

[Who are you? If you are Chinese, then what did Xiao Shen do to make you disrespect him so much that you don't even want to call him Professor Xiao.]

[I suspect this person is a netizen from northern China]

[It's reasonable to doubt, but it doesn't prevent him from being one of the 1.6 billion members.]

[Don't worry, in a few days, when the mathematical community reaches a conclusion, you will find yourself getting slapped in the face.]

【…】

People are full of confidence in Xiao Yi's proof, which also stems from Xiao Yi's previous achievements. No one would believe that he has already published the paper and there would still be errors.

Even if this paper is to prove the Riemann hypothesis.

So, over the next few days, the domestic Internet was filled with a carnival-like scene.

Some netizens even created a wiki page specifically for this matter, which details all the background stories of the Riemann hypothesis and some related things.

Of course, the most important thing about this wiki page is the voting, which is divided into the Champagne Party and the Bao Si Party.

The Champagne Party thinks that they can open champagne in advance to celebrate, while the Bao Si Party thinks that there is a high probability that Bao Si will happen and they do not believe that it can succeed.

Then in this vote, the total number of votes has reached nearly 5,000, and more than 99% of the votes are for the Champagne Party. Only less than 1% of the votes think that Xiao Yi's proof has failed. Among them, there are some votes that were cast because of wrong clicks, so they chose the Bao Si Party.

This vote attracted a lot of attention, including some foreign netizens who learned about this website, clicked in and cast their votes.

Of course, these things are basically done by the people.

As for the official position, it has also made a statement.

The central bank, for example, broadcast this incident as an important news item, and also included comments from some well-known domestic mathematicians on this matter.

For example, Academician Xi Lan, president of the Chinese Mathematical Society, said: "The Riemann hypothesis is the most important conjecture in mathematics. Once it is proven successfully, thousands of propositions in mathematics will become theorems, and these theorems will play a very important role in the future development of mathematics."

"Similarly, if it can be proven successfully, it will become one of the most important breakthroughs in mathematics in recent years. It is even more important than Professor Xiao Yi's proof of the other two millennium problems."

“…This can be called a great achievement.”

"…Although the success of Professor Xiao Yi's proof remains to be discussed, considering his past achievements, his personal abilities, and our trust in him, it is highly likely that he will not fail. Of course, the final result still needs to wait for the unanimous conclusion of the mathematical community."

"According to the information I have received so far, mathematicians including those from the Prime Number Pioneer Project are currently looking at Professor Xiao Yi's paper. I believe they will have a result in a while." ...

In short, everyone outside the mathematics circle knows nothing about mathematics, so they can only wait for the results announced within the mathematics circle.

In the mathematics circle, most people are also waiting for those at the top of the mathematics pyramid to announce the news.

Mathematics today is like a pyramid. There is only one person standing at the top, and that is Xiao Yi.

Now he has completed the proof of the Riemann hypothesis, and then published his proof, waiting for the top mathematicians at the level below him to interpret and verify it.

Then, after these top mathematicians have finished interpreting the results, the verification results can be announced to the lower levels.

Ultimately, the correctness of this result depends on the verification results of these top mathematicians.

In this way, another week passed quietly.

……

Undoubtedly, the results this time came out very slowly, which is of course completely understandable.

Putting aside the fact that this is the Riemann hypothesis, the book is nearly four hundred pages long and it is not something that can be finished quickly.

However, faced with the attention of many people in society, someone finally made a simple response.

This person is Terence Tao. As the first person to learn the news, he was of course also the first person to see the paper.

Now, nearly ten days have passed. Since he is often active on the Internet, many people follow him. Naturally, many people ask him questions like how Xiao Yi's paper is going.

Although he hasn't finished watching it yet, the content he has already watched has already brought him a huge surprise.

So he gave a simple response to those who asked him questions on his personal blog.

[First of all, I want to state that I have not finished reading all the papers. I have only roughly read three of them, and the last one, which is the paper that proves the Riemann hypothesis, has not been finished yet. But I must point out that the three papers I have finished reading now have brought me a huge shock.

It can be said that this is a work of art! It is a work of art belonging to mathematics. I don’t know how Xiao Yi came up with it, but whether it is his proof logic or the methods he used, etc., they all completely hit my heart. Every time I see the various methods he uses to prove a lemma or construct a new function, I feel it is wonderful.

Now I can basically be sure that Xiao Yi has been making progress all the time, and his speed of progress is also very amazing. I really can’t imagine how high Xiao Yi’s mathematical attainments will be when I am old.

Okay, that’s all I want to say this time, and you don’t have to keep asking me. In fact, when I saw Xiao Yi’s paper, I already believed that he had succeeded. Now that I have read three papers, I am even more certain of this.

And now, I am going to read the last paper to see how the Riemann hypothesis is proved! 】

As soon as Terence Tao's blog was published, it immediately attracted countless attention.

After all, he was the first top mathematician to respond to this matter.

And this blog post of his basically shows that Xiao Yi's proof is very likely to be successful.

In particular, his praise for Xiao Yi's papers surprised people even more.

How well was Xiao Yi's paper written to deserve such high praise from the Mozart of mathematics?

Some even call these papers mathematical works of art?

For ordinary people, or anyone who is not at the level of Terence Tao, even a mathematics professor, it is impossible to understand what he means.

Of course, although they couldn't understand why Terence Tao called it a work of art, it didn't stop them from being shocked by it.

Even Terence Tao has recognized Xiao Yi's proof, although it is limited to the first three papers. But the first three papers have been confirmed. Is the last one missing?

So netizens were excited again.

Of course, except for Terence Tao, other mathematicians have basically finished reading several articles, although most of them just glanced at them first to make sure there were no major errors, and then read them in detail later.

Then, these mathematicians also made some responses.

For example, Schultz, a mathematician who is currently quite active in the international mathematics community, has browsed through and read all four papers.

He said: [What I want to say is basically the same as what Terence Tao wants to say. Although I haven't finished reading some of the details yet, I also want to say that this is a work of art, a work of art that belongs to mathematics. Although sometimes I really want to know whether Xiao Yi is still human, now I am still very grateful that he can bring such a paper to us. This is a great enjoyment for us! Thank you, Xiao Yi. ]

Manuel Bhargava, one of the original initiators of the Prime Number Pioneer Project, also made the same statement. He said this in front of reporters during an interview with a media outlet.

"Unfortunately, the Prime Number Pioneer Project is still behind Xiao Yi. Although we had expected such a thing, Xiao Yi is the kind of person who is unpredictable. You will never think of the extent to which he can achieve it until he suddenly comes up with the results. Then you will suddenly find that you have fallen too far behind. Xiao Yi has been like this for so many years."

Then the reporter asked: "But there are so many mathematicians in the Prime Number Pioneer Project, why did Xiao Yi take the lead so quickly?"

Manuel just smiled and said: "When it comes to mathematical problems, the principle of strength in numbers has never been followed."

"It is more like following the reverse barrel principle. Hmm... I hope you can understand what I mean, that is, the inverse barrel principle. That is to say, how much water this barrel can hold does not depend on the shortest plank, but on the longest plank. I think this is easy to understand. After all, the entire mathematical community also follows this inverse barrel principle, including the entire academic community, without exception."

"Therefore, although the Prime Number Pioneer Project has many top mathematicians, these mathematicians can be regarded as very long planks in the mathematics world, but Xiao Yi is the longest one."

"That's it."

Manuel finally nodded, as if he also agreed with what he said.

The reporter insisted on arguing with him: "But if Xiao Yi is just a piece of wood, it can't be turned into a barrel. You have so many mathematicians. Even if a single wood board is not as long as Xiao Yi, it can at least form a wood board."

Manuel pulled the corner of his mouth, and then said: "That means that Xiao Yi's board is not only long, but also wide, so he can form a super large wooden barrel by himself, unlike us, who need a lot of people to surround it. Do you understand?"

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(End of this chapter)