The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 52: The confusion of the Peking University academicians and the IHES editor-in-chief [Additional update]

The afternoon exam was finally announced to be over with the ringing of the bell.

Afterwards, all the test papers were scanned and uploaded, and the cross-marking groups began to exchange the test papers of students from various schools for marking.

It doesn't take much time to mark the test papers. After all, there are only about 45 students taking the exam in each university. With such a small number of people, a few professors can finish marking the papers quickly.

However, this time, not only professors but also academicians from major universities participated in the grading of the exams.

For example, Academician Hu Guangde of USTC personally corrected the examination papers of Peking University students.

There are many academicians in the School of Mathematics at the University of Tokyo, including Academician Liao Huan, and four academicians have directly participated.
There are only two reasons. The first is that those who study mathematics have been relatively idle recently. There are no important mathematics academic conferences to be held anyway, so of course they have the time to join in the fun. The second reason is that these academicians were all curious about Hu Guangde's words.

Is that guy named Xiao Yi really that awesome?
"The answers of these students from HKUST are just so-so. They barely managed to answer the first question." In the examination room of Beijing University, Academician Wang Jianxin corrected several papers and said, "I didn't see anyone who could answer even half of them."

"Old Liao, are you sure what Hu Guangde said is true?"

Liao Huan shook his head and said, "As for that guy, I'm quite familiar with him. If he's not sure about something, he won't say it. Besides, that student named Xiao Yi is indeed very powerful, as you all know."

Several other academicians also nodded.

How could a student who could win the title of “National No. 1 Scholar” not be amazing?
Liao Huan didn't say much and turned to the next chapter of the test paper.

When he saw the test paper, he narrowed his eyes.

Because this was the first test paper he had ever encountered that was filled with answers.

Since the marking system automatically blocks the candidates' information, and the papers are cross-marked, the real information of the candidates on these papers is with the original schools, and they do not know who the owners of these papers are.

However, Liao Huan felt that he had found his target test paper.

Start from the beginning.

And the more he looked, the more his eyes narrowed.

Because, the answers on this test paper, first of all, the first part, which is the analysis of the mathematical methods of [Theorem 1], [Lemma 8] and [Lemma 9] proved by Mr. Chen Jingrun in the paper selection, have reached a perfect level even from the perspective of him as an academician.

This almost means that the candidate has fully understood the passage and has gained insight into the mathematical knowledge expressed in it.

If you can achieve this level in the first part, how difficult can the second part, which is the problem-solving part, be?

He looked over and, as he expected, the problem was once again perfectly solved by the student.

Even more standard than the standard answer.

After taking a deep breath, Liao Huan was now basically certain that the candidate for this test paper was definitely Xiao Yi.

But...it was really incredible that this student could achieve such an extent that he couldn't even find any possible mistakes.

How about watching the second clip?

The first segment is relatively easy, otherwise not so many students would be able to give an answer.

But the second segment, the segment about Zhang Yitang's paper on twin primes, is definitely much more difficult.

Could it be possible that this student could be impeccable?
He immediately looked at the second clip.

However, after a while he was stunned.

My goodness, this student’s answer on this question cannot be said to be flawless. Rather, it can be said that it is even a little incomprehensible to this academician.

This student actually surpassed Zhang Yitang's method on this problem and gave his own thoughts!
However, Liao Huan did not study number theory and had only a vague understanding of the twin prime conjecture, so he could not understand the extra part.
Are you trying to turn Tiangang upside down?
He hurriedly shouted, "Old Wang, come here quickly. I should have found Xiao Yi's test paper. Please help me take a look. I don't understand it."

Academician Wang Jianxin studies number theory, so he should be able to understand it. However, his words immediately made the other three academicians in the room, as well as several other professors who were also grading papers, unable to react.

"What are you saying? Don't you understand? Are you kidding me?" Wang Jianxin said as he left his seat.

Even if Liao Huan didn't specialize in number theory, that wouldn't be the case. How could a student who doesn't even have an undergraduate degree write something so in-depth?

Other academicians and professors gathered around. This was probably the first time that a test paper of a student who was not even a freshman could attract the attention of so many academicians and professors from Peking University.

However, after Wang Jianxin looked at it for a while, his eyes narrowed like Liao Huan before, and he moved closer to the screen: "There's something, let me take a look."

After a while, his eyes no longer narrowed, but gradually widened, and he moved closer again: "Wait, it does seem to be a little different, let me take another look."

After a while, until everyone present was beginning to suspect that Academician Wang might stick his eyes into the computer, he finally pulled his body back and exclaimed, "Genius! A true genius!"

"He actually thought about Zhang Yitang's method from a different angle. To some extent, he was no longer analyzing Zhang Yitang's method on this question."

"He is improving Zhang Yitang's method!"

Everyone present was bewildered.

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At the same time, equally confused was Bergeron, editor-in-chief of the editorial department of "The Publications Mathématiques de l'IHS" at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France.

He had just finished lunch and returned to his office when he saw that he had received a notification of a new email.

Checking emails is a common thing for people working abroad, and it is even more common for editors like them.

So he opened his email, took a look, and was stunned.

Because this was clearly an email from Peter Schultz, and the content of the email was much longer than the previous ones.

The emails I sent before were as follows:
This paper has a good idea.

【This article does not have a good idea】

This paper has a very good idea.

This paper may be correct.

This paper is very likely to be correct.

The content of this email is: [This paper is undoubtedly correct and has extremely high value in far-Abelian geometry - I am not referring to his conclusion, but to the very amazing mathematical ideas and analytical methods he showed in the paper. I used the ideas and methods he showed in this paper and found the key to prove that Shinichi Mochizuki was wrong.

Of course, adhering to academic ethics, I will not use the author's ideas and methods to publicize any conclusions before the paper is published. In the next period of time, I will communicate with Jacob Stix first. After the paper is published, we will probably hold a mathematics exchange meeting to mainly make the final denial of Shinichi Mochizuki's conclusions. I also hope that your journal can publish this paper as soon as possible so that I can cite it at that time (it would be best to suggest to the author to post the paper to arxiv in advance in the future:)).

Finally, I would like to thank Mr. Bo Jielun for giving me this paper for review. I am very grateful. 】

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