The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 86 He did it
PhD dissertations must be recent enough, especially for PhD students at Oxford University.

So if Lichtman's thesis is completed after today, it may not be passed when it is submitted to the academic committee for review.

Therefore, when Li Qiman heard the news, he broke out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, with Maynard's reminder, he was able to complete the defense the day before.

Finally, he got Maynard's signature as he wished and successfully completed his student days.

However, for students like Maynard, they still don’t understand why their professor suddenly criticized Fermat today.

Maynard even made similar remarks on his social media account, which attracted the attention of other well-known mathematicians in the world, especially many mathematicians who worked on analytic number theory, who had a good relationship with Maynard. When they saw him complaining about Fermat, they all asked him about it.

However, before Maynard could explain, mathematicians around the world gradually learned what had happened.

There were more than 300 Chinese mathematicians who attended Xiao Yi's lecture, including many mathematicians who enjoy a certain reputation internationally.
As a result, news about this report quickly spread beyond the country and to the world.

Did a Chinese mathematical genius solve the mysterious functor problem left by Grothendieck?

It also completely algebraizes far Abelian geometry and then closely connects it with the automorphic forms in number theory, which will play a great role in solving a series of related problems?
He even demonstrated it on the spot, pushing the prime number distribution level θ directly to 0.75?

You know, since the Bombieri theorem in the 60s, no one has ever been able to push the value of θ forward by more than 0.1 at once, let alone above 0.1 as it is now!

As for the world record in the 100-meter race, Bolt only broke the 9.63 seconds to 9.58 seconds, which is less than 0.1.

What’s even more outrageous is that Xiao Yi actually claimed that he wanted to prove the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture?

What an international joke!
After hearing these increasingly exaggerated news, many mathematicians thought that these were rumors from the Chinese mathematics community and did not believe them at all. As for the video of Xiao Yi's report, most international mathematicians were not interested in it, after all, they could not understand it.

However, at this moment, a top Chinese mathematician spoke up.

After watching the video of Xiao Yi's report, Qiu Chengtong posted a message on his social account.

[Xiao Yi's conclusion is very likely correct. The specific results can only be determined after reading his paper in two days.]

As a great mathematician with a very high status in the mathematics community, Qiu Chengtong's words immediately eliminated a large number of doubts.

After Qiu Chengtong, more mathematicians from China came forward to testify for Xiao Yi's report.

Of course, if all mathematicians were Chinese, the credibility might not be so high. However, James Maynard also stood up and published a statement on his personal social account: [I can also confirm that Xiao Yi's conclusion is completely credible. He had an email exchange with me some time ago. In the email, he has shown that he has thought deeply about this conclusion, so his idea is likely to be correct. We just need to look forward to his paper in two days. ]
As the current top expert in analytic number theory, Maynard's statement caused an uproar in the entire mathematics community. Even Professor Bombieri, a five-star general in the United States and a master of analytic number theory, said, "Yes, Maynard is right. In fact, when Xiao Yi was at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, he also mentioned his thoughts on this to me, Deligne, Faltings, and Schulz. Therefore, I am optimistic about the conclusion of Xiao Yi's report."

Wow, who could have thought that, not to mention Shing-Tung Yau, Maynard's statement directly involved the support of four Fields Medal winners, plus Shing-Tung Yau, that makes a total of five.

Now I have to believe it.

As a result, those original voices of doubt immediately disappeared, and what turned into a discussion among the entire international mathematics community about Xiao Yi's conclusion.

That evening, a Chinese mathematician translated Xiao Yi's report into English and posted it on major platforms.

Later, more mathematicians in number theory and algebraic geometry began to join the discussion. In the end, they came to a nearly unanimous view: Xiao Yi's conclusion was very likely correct.

All of a sudden, the entire mathematics community became excited. Anyone who understood Xiao Yi's conclusion knew very well that this result would benefit many other mathematicians who were studying this topic. They would be able to directly apply Xiao Yi's conclusion to make a huge breakthrough in the progress of their topics, or even complete them directly!
As a result, quite a number of mathematicians couldn't sleep.

They stayed in front of their computers, constantly refreshing the papers on the arxiv website under the mathematics section, whose author was Yi Xiao.

In this way, two days passed.

……

In the café at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Enrico Bombieri and Pierre Deligne sat together, with a notebook on the table in front of them.

The page on the notebook is exactly the page of arxiv.

Bangbieli was also waiting for Xiao Yi's paper.

While drinking coffee, occasionally press the F5 key on the keyboard to refresh the interface on the screen.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve been so excited about a paper.”

Bombieri sighed.

Deligne laughed: "Who isn't?"

He turned his head and glanced at the other people in the cafe. Among them were many mathematicians, and among these mathematicians, there were also many who, like them, were holding electronic devices and constantly refreshing the arxiv page.

At this moment, someone suddenly exclaimed: "Got it! The paper is published!"

Bombieri put down his coffee cup with a snap, pressed F5, refreshed the page, and then two papers appeared.

Automorphisms of Algebraic Varieties under the Etale Fundamental Group

Distant Abelian Geometry and the Elliott-Halberstam Conjecture

Author's name: YiXiao.

Without waiting, Bangbieli downloaded the two papers and started reading from the first one.

About an hour later, he closed the first article and looked at the second one.

Until the end, the master of analytic number theory who had made the first breakthrough in the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture showed some emotion in his eyes, and finally said calmly: "He did it."

……

(End of this chapter)