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Chapter 77 Maynard: Am I going to learn Abelian geometry?

Professor, are you planning to go to China?
Upon hearing the news, Maynard's students were stunned.

Why are you suddenly planning to go to China?
As people who study mathematics, they did not have a very deep impression of China as a country. It was only recently when a mathematical genius from China emerged that they were a little surprised that such a talented young mathematician could appear in this country.

"Professor, are you going to China to attend a mathematics conference?"

Lichtman asked.

Maynard waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's not talk too much about it. This matter has not been decided yet. I just have this idea. Let's make a decision later."

He decided to communicate with Xiao Yi first and further discuss his ideas on far Abelian geometry and automorphic forms. If they must talk face to face, he would go to China in person.

Then, he took out paper and pen, ready to study the theory based on Xiao Yi's attachment.

But at this moment, he suddenly remembered something, and then said to Li Qiman: "By the way, since your thesis has been completed, let's start the defense in a week, is that ok?"

Li Qiman was stunned and said in disbelief: "What? Professor! The defense is in a week... I'm not ready yet! At least... at least a month, right?"

Maynard said helplessly: "I'm doing this for your own good. In a month, it will be a question whether you can graduate."

"Why?" Li Qiman didn't understand at all, as he had pushed the θ value to 0.617!
Maynard sighed. He didn't want to discourage his student, but after thinking about it, he felt that if he didn't explain, Li Qiman would probably still dig deep into the matter.

So he explained: "Because someone has further improved my method and pushed the value of θ to 0.65."

"Wang Defa?"

Li Qiman's eyes widened immediately.
How can this be? !
Maynard's three papers were published in June, and only three months have passed since then. Who could improve his mentor's methods to such an extent so quickly?
It increased by 0.05 in an instant!

He was able to advance the value from 0.6 to 0.617 based on Maynard's work. That was because Maynard was his mentor after all. So before these three papers came out, he had already studied this method with Maynard, and combined with his own understanding, he was able to achieve this level.

For their analytic number theory community, an improvement of 0.017 is definitely a huge breakthrough.

The result is now...

"Professor, who is he? Has his paper been published? Where did you see it?"

Lichtman asked three questions in a row.

Since it’s about graduation, he has to be anxious!

"Hmm..." Maynard said, "Since you want to know, I'll reveal it to you for now."

"This person is the 17-year-old Chinese math genius named Xiao Yi. He hasn't published a paper yet. He just sent me an email, in which he mentioned that he probably won't publish this result in the short term... I guess he doesn't think highly of this result yet."

Xiao Yi was able to send him this result without any hesitation, which definitely meant that he looked down upon 0.65. Perhaps, what this talented young man really wanted was to complete the combination of far Abelian geometry and automorphic forms, which would allow him to easily advance to 0.7 or even higher levels.

maybe……

Is it to prove the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture?
He came back to his senses and looked at Li Qiman in front of him.

At this moment, his student was completely stunned. Perhaps he was devastated to learn that the result he had worked so hard for for so long was completely insignificant in the eyes of others?

Especially since that person is only a 17-year-old young man.

Of course, it wasn't just Li Qiman. Several other students who heard the news also looked incredulous.

It seems that it is a little too early for these young people to accept this news.

After all, even Maynard himself felt a little unbelievable.

"Okay, don't think too much. Go back and prepare for the defense. Even if Xiao Yi may not publish it in a short time, it's better to be safe. If he publishes it on arxiv in advance, then your thesis will be outdated, and the college will most likely not approve your thesis." Patting Lichtman on the shoulder, Maynard stopped persuading him, turned around, and began to carefully study the PDF sent by Xiao Yi.

Although there is not much content in these 15 pages, he really needs to study it carefully.
"Should I start learning Abelian geometry?"

Such thoughts came to his mind involuntarily.

……

Time passed quickly.

The second day in China.

When Xiao Yi woke up early in the morning, he looked at the time and it was exactly six o'clock.
I went to bed around 10:50 last night.

Sleep time is just over seven hours.

"Whoo~"

After stretching lazily in bed, he habitually did a few calculation problems in his mind.

[Find lim(x→0)[tan(tanx)-tan(sinx)]/ln(1+x^3).】

"Hmm...it should be equal to 1/2."

After a little thought in his mind, he came up with the answer.

He didn't think too much about the answer, and of course it wasn't worth it. It was definitely right anyway.

Then I thought of two more questions.

Today's "warm-up brain exercise" for getting up is completed.

The [Ruthless Continuation] buff is also shown to be continued.

"It's done."

He gets up, gets dressed, washes up, takes his breakfast coupon, and goes to the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel to have breakfast. Then he goes back to his room and starts studying. The rest of the day will probably be spent studying - this is his normal schedule.

"It seems that the University of Science and Technology is still in military training?"

Xiao Yi thought about it. According to the plan, after attending the meeting in Germany, he would be able to return to school to catch up with a few days of military training.

But who could have imagined that after returning home, he would have to stay in Beijing for another ten days.

According to the time agreed upon with the leaders of the School of Mathematics yesterday, his report after returning home will begin in 10 days, that is, on September 9. The report will be held in a large conference hall in the School of Mathematics, which can accommodate more than 26 people.

He definitely doesn't have to go back for these 10 days. The school has directly stated that he can go back when he has time, and there is no problem if he doesn't go back.

The military training ended on the 20th. If I had known this, he wouldn’t even have met the instructor after school started!
As for classes starting after the military training?
That's even more of a problem.

"In this case, am I a bad student or a good student?"

I thought about this in my mind.

Forget it, stop thinking too much and start studying!
After turning on the computer and checking the mailbox, Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows: "Huh? Professor Maynard sent an email?"

(End of this chapter)