A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 293 Mathematicians Worldwide Are Going Crazy
Princeton, 3 p.m., tea break room
The atmosphere in the room was somewhat heavy. Everyone had lost interest in discussing academic matters. With the international situation turning turbulent, they also had to consider their own safety.

For scholars, a stable environment is the greatest asset.

"I heard that Professor Chen founded a journal after returning to China?"

Helmut, the editor-in-chief of the Annals of Mathematics, said to Fefferman, who was sitting next to him, that as the editor-in-chief, he was quite sensitive to this kind of news.

Wei Teng, standing next to him, shook his head. "With his level of achievement, let alone running a journal, even if he were to start a school, China might be willing to play along with him."

That being said, the implication was that he didn't have a high opinion of Chen Hui's journal.

After all, the top four journals like the Journal of Mathematics and the Acta Mathematica Sinica have achieved their current status through countless years of accumulation. China obviously does not yet have such accumulation, especially given that academic resources are almost monopolized by the West. If Chinese journals do not have distinctive features that catch people's attention, it will be difficult for them to stand out.

Furthermore, Chinese is not the common language in academic circles. Would anyone really learn Chinese specifically to understand this journal?

Do you really think mathematicians' time is worthless?

"Professor Chen hasn't published a paper in a long time. Maybe he has several papers in his pipeline that he plans to publish in his own journal."

Professor Wigden asked with some curiosity.

"What's the use of accumulating papers?"

"Unless it's a paper at the level of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, not many people would buy his journal just to read his paper, right?"

Fields Medal winner Bhargava nonchalantly stated that his research also focuses on number theory and algebraic geometry, and he has profound expertise in number theory. He has read Chen Hui's paper, which is indeed remarkable, but it is not worth it for him to learn a language because of it.

Of course, if Chen Hui really proves the Riemann Hypothesis, he will buy a copy of this journal, because for such a complex proof as the Riemann Hypothesis, if one cannot read the original proof by the original author and relies solely on translation, many ambiguities will arise.

However, he did not believe that Chen Hui could prove the Riemann Hypothesis, at least not so quickly.

Fefferman also shook his head. Others might not know, but he roughly knew what Chen Hui had been doing for the past year or so. After all, when Chen Hui left, he gave them a magnificent performance. That hurricane, which seemed to have been tailor-made for him, was still vivid in his mind.

He knew that Chen Hui's weather model must have been a success. Considering the coincidence and the accuracy of the hurricane, the model developed by Chen Hui might even have far exceeded his expectations, with many amazing and ingenious uses.

He didn't believe that Chen Hui could spend so much time building weather forecasting models and also incidentally prove the Riemann Hypothesis.

"I don't think so."

Deligne, standing to the side, shook his head with a serious expression. "Have you all forgotten how Princeton came to be?"

One word stirred up a thousand waves.

The tea break room fell silent immediately.

They certainly understood what Deligne meant. Today's Princeton is merely an inheritance of the Göttingen school. Back then, the center of mathematics in the world was the University of Göttingen in Germany, but due to the war, many outstanding mathematicians moved to Princeton.

Given the current situation, America may not be a peaceful place at all; the world's center of mathematics may very well shift again.

As for where to go?
Of course, there is no doubt that, given the current fighting power of China, is there any place on the entire planet safer than China?

If all the world's best mathematicians went to China, a journal founded by a genius mathematician and Fields Medal winner might very well surpass today's top journals such as the Annual Journal of Mathematics and the Acta Mathematica Sinica.

They even believe that Chen Hui received some kind of information and made arrangements in advance.

Once this thought crossed my mind, it became terrifying upon closer examination.

The world's top mathematicians in the tea break room couldn't help but have mixed feelings. After all, everyone is equal before bullets, and mathematicians are human too. Going to China might be a good choice.

Sitting at the back of the tea break room, Deng Leyan listened to the discussion among the bigwigs and couldn't help but feel a sense of frustration. Why couldn't the Chinese language mathematics journal be published?

But he also understood that what everyone was saying was right.

In today's China, there is indeed no fertile ground to support a top-tier journal, but he knows that Chen Hui's research on the Riemann Hypothesis is far more in-depth than these people imagine. If it weren't for so many things that have happened, perhaps Chen Hui would have already completed the proof.

Even with so many distractions, Chen Hui is unlikely to be too far from his ultimate goal. Even if the first issue of the journal doesn't produce a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, it will likely appear in a few later issues. He has great confidence in the speed at which Chen Hui will produce results.

"Eh?"

"Professor Chen's journal's official website is now live!"

During the discussion, Professor Sanek exclaimed in surprise that he had seen the official website of the Chinese Mathematics Journal on his phone and quickly shared the URL in the group.

"A quarterly journal, written entirely in Chinese?"

Witten frowned. Generally speaking, even Chinese-language journals have English supplements. Although mathematics relies on a symbolic system, the explanation of proofs and innovative ideas still requires language support.

Chinese-language papers have low indexing rates in international databases such as Web of Science, posing significant reading barriers for Western scholars. Only by publishing English-language supplements can journals increase their citation rates and impact factors.

At the same time, the English supplement can also attract submissions from some Western authors, thereby enhancing the journal's influence.

If it were a purely Chinese-language journal, its impact factor would probably be extremely low, and it would be even less likely that Western scholars would submit to it. They wouldn't understand what the point of Chen Hui creating such a journal would be.

"The editorial team is quite strong, including Qiu Chengwu, Yuan Xinyi, Tao Zhexuan, and Chen Hui, four winners of the Philippine Film Award."

Barghava clicked his tongue in amazement, “It’s a pity that the journal’s influence has little to do with the academic editors. I wonder what quality of submissions they will receive in the first issue.”

Deligne projected his phone directly onto the projector in the tea break room, saying, "No need to guess, the first episode has already been released."

"What? That fast?"

Everyone's eyes turned to the projector.

Deligne has also opened the journal catalog, and to everyone's surprise, this issue of Huaxia Mathematics only has one paper.

What stunned them even more was that the title of the paper was also in pure Chinese, which most of them could not understand at all. Although they knew some basic Chinese due to their communication with Chen Hui, it would be too difficult for them to recognize the characters.

The difference between being able to speak and being able to write the Chinese language is enormous. So everyone looked at Deng Leyan.

"A Proof of the Diffuse Conjecture!"

Deng Leyan's eyes widened in disbelief at the words he was seeing.

"How can this be?"

Barghava gasped in surprise, his words having come true.
Having also studied the Riemann Hypothesis, he was well aware of its difficulty. How could anyone in the world solve the Millennium Prize Problem as if it were a homework exercise? This made him question what he had actually learned in mathematics over the past few decades.

Everyone calls him a math genius, so what does he really look like compared to Chen Hui?

Even Fefferman was stunned. He knew that Chen Hui would solve the Riemann Hypothesis sooner or later, but he never thought that he would solve it so quickly, especially under those circumstances. In fact, he suspected that Chen Hui had already completed the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, otherwise he would not have published the paper as soon as he returned to China.

Geniuses truly cannot be measured by ordinary standards!
The entire tea break room fell silent as the journal's table of contents was displayed.

"Stop keeping everyone in suspense, open the paper now."

The impatient Witten couldn't wait any longer.

Deligne then snapped out of his shock and clicked on the table of contents to access the main text of the paper.

However, after clicking on the main text of the paper, they became even more anxious, because the main text was also written in Chinese, and apart from the mathematical symbols, they couldn't understand a single word.

"Can someone translate this for me?"

Bargava was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. He looked around the tea room and finally his gaze landed on Deng Leyan.

"?"

Deng Leyan was full of questions. He was just a sophomore. Even if he could read Chinese, could he understand the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis?

"I have something to do, so I'll be going now."

Fefferman got up, intending to find a Chinese mathematician specializing in number theory to see if he could have the paper translated into English.

"Damn it!"

"I'm already over 60 years old. Does Chen Hui really want me to learn a language all over again?"

Witten grumbled and cursed, but got up and walked towards the library. He didn't even rush to look at the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, but decided to try to learn Chinese first.

"Fefferman, wait for me."

Barghava followed anxiously behind Fefferman. He knew exactly what the other man was up to, and with Fefferman's connections, he was definitely more reliable than the people he had found.

For a moment, the tea break room was in complete chaos, with everyone using their own unique methods to try and understand the paper.

Many mathematicians have already begun to learn Chinese, especially young mathematicians. They know that the mathematical world may be about to change, and that Chinese will likely become an important tool for those who want to study cutting-edge mathematics in the future.

Chen Hui's statement was nothing short of a bombshell in the academic world, causing a stir not only in Princeton's tea room but throughout the entire Western academic community.

At Oxford University, James Maynard stared at the jumbled scribbles before him, feeling a surge of restlessness. Having also studied the Riemann Hypothesis and achieved considerable success, he desperately wanted to know if the proof was correct, but unfortunately, he couldn't understand a single word.

So I had to use translation software to import the paper, translate it into English, print it out, and then study it carefully.

But after studying it for a short time, he threw the paper in the trash. Nowadays, translation software is indeed very intelligent, but it is not very good at translating many academic terms. The entire paper was translated into a nonsensical and incomprehensible mess, which made him very angry.

At the University of Bonn in Germany, Schulz looked at the paper in front of him, written entirely in Chinese, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

He didn't email Chen Hui to ask him to translate an English paper. Instead, he planned to email Chen Hui to ask him to hold an academic conference. However, what troubled him was that if Chen Hui also used Chinese at the conference, he wouldn't be able to understand it, and it would be completely useless.

Just as he was on the email screen, he suddenly saw an email from Chen Hui. Before he could make a request, Chen Hui had sent him an invitation to attend his academic conference at Yanbei University, which would be held three months later.

"In that case, there is only one problem that needs to be solved now."

Schultz exited the email, found a video tutorial on basic Chinese language online, and began to learn it meticulously.

He understood Chen Hui's intention: the other party had set the report meeting three months later as a time for everyone to learn Chinese.

For an average person, learning Mandarin in three months would certainly be difficult, but Schultz was confident he could do it.

Chen Hui sent his invitation to only a few mathematicians who were on good terms with him, but it still spread rapidly throughout the mathematics community. All the mathematicians who saw the invitation hesitated, unsure whether they should go.

This invitation looks too much like a trap.

With America's detention of Chen Hui last year as a cautionary tale, they were unsure whether they could return to China.

The idea that science knows no borders is just a lie; it might fool kids, but they won't take it seriously.

Chen Hui certainly didn't care what they thought. The reason he held this academic conference was more to increase the visibility of his journal, Huaxia Mathematics, and to fulfill his initial vision.

But he himself did not expect that there would be so much attention on him. The first issue of Huaxia Mathematics had just been released and had already spread throughout the entire mathematics community. It seemed that there was no need for an academic conference to announce this.

Chen Hui didn't care about that. He had already started processing several terabytes of data on the computer. The difficulty of building a plasma turbulence model was no less than that of a gas phase model, and might even be higher. In addition to the Navier-Stokes equations, it also involved Maxwell's equations and Boltzmann's equations. These coupled nonlinear partial differential equations were the mathematical starting point for understanding all the behaviors of plasma.

Chen Hui began to miss his supercomputer at Princeton. It was because he had a supercomputer all to himself that he was able to complete the construction of the weather model and the design of the evacuation route in such a short time.

Of course, given Qian Xuesen's support for him, it shouldn't be too difficult to apply for a new supercomputer. Chen Hui has already submitted the application, but he doesn't know what kind of supercomputer he will be assigned. He hopes that its performance will at least be comparable to the supercomputer he has at Princeton.

Quickly casting aside distracting thoughts, Chen Hui became completely immersed in the sea of ​​data.

What he needs to do now is to use mathematics to build a virtual solar model to predict large-scale, low-frequency plasma instabilities, and then combine this model with the control system to avoid these problems by adjusting the magnetic field in advance.

(End of this chapter)