Chapter 1030

At the beginning of the 20th century, Hilbert's speech on the question of the century ushered in a new century journey for Riemann's conjecture.

And mathematics, a boat far away from ordinary people's vision, has left a magnificent legend under the changeable 20th century era.

At this moment, the Centennial journey about the glory of human mind has finally come to the end.

Under the attention of almost all the world's eyes, this report meeting to answer the question of the century finally opened

The scene of the report meeting was crowded.

Even the largest lecture hall in the clincia hotel can't accommodate all the attendees and those who have traveled a long way.

Some people brought stools from other places, some simply sat on the ground, others even sat on the trunk

Reporters with cameras were standing in the last row of the venue, with only two or three cameras there.

In order not to interfere with the report meeting, the Organizing Committee of the IMU conference has only granted admission to limited media. Therefore, only the BBC, CTV and Columbia TV, which have a certain influence in the world, are standing in this hall.

There was a lot of noise all over the meeting hall, and the ceiling was almost overturned.

Almost everyone is talking about the upcoming report meeting and the paper that Lu Zhou published on arXiv yesterday.

At this time, there was a light sound of opening the door not far away.

The door close to the podium opened, and a figure that no one would be unfamiliar with walked steadily in from the outside of the lecture hall.

As if the mouth had been sealed, the whole meeting place was suddenly quiet.

A pair of fiery eyes coincidentally focused on the man.

Everyone is waiting for his opening to announce the beginning of the meeting

Looking around the audience, the boat on the stage opened its mouth. However, just as he was about to start the 60 minute report meeting, a pair of eyes full of expectation and confusion suddenly made him change his mind and open his mouth instead.

“…… I know you probably have a lot of questions to ask, including the Riemann conjecture, including the future of all of us. So that when I just entered the door, I noticed that the guy in the front row was half a fart. Gu had left the chair I guess he's got a lot of questions to ask me, and he can't wait. "

There were bursts of friendly laughter under the stage, and the original dignified air also eased a little.

Looking at the young scholar who sat back with embarrassed red face, Lu Zhou paused for a moment and said in a relaxed tone.

"According to the Convention, now I should end the nonsense and start this 60 minute report, but in view of the special circumstances, I intend to set aside five minutes before the report meeting, and answer the questions of some audience first, so that they can focus more on the report meeting itself. If you have any questions that you want to know before this report begins, you can raise your hand. "

Almost before he had finished saying this, he raised one hand in an instant.

Lu Zhou looked around the front row of the conference hall and randomly ordered a person.

The little Indian brother in the front row who was chosen by the land boat soon got up.

The bespectacled, curly haired scholar in his thirties, from a mathematician who despises the lower reaches of the chain, the field of artificial intelligence, has thrown up a sharp problem.

"Is Riemann's conjecture proved?"

More than half of the audience pricked up their ears.

For those scholars who are not engaged in the direction of analytic number theory, although they are also concerned about what method is used to prove the Riemann conjecture and how this set of mathematical methods can affect other disciplines, what they are more concerned about is whether the proposition itself has been proved.

Even if it's just a positive tone.

Responding to all the expectations of the audience, Lu Zhou nodded his head.

"Yes, I can say responsibly. From now on, it doesn't matter if you use it as a theorem."

There was a whisper under the stage.

Many people's faces are full of unexpected expressions.

Generally speaking, the more famous scholars are, the more they cherish their feathers. Unless it is the kind of person who has completely released himself, few people will claim that they have proved a major mathematical proposition in such a positive tone unless they have more than 10% assurance.

After all, if you succeed, it's OK to say that if you fail, it's not something that can be easily revealed with the phrase "I'm sorry to make a mistake".

Sir Atia, who once claimed that he had proved the Riemann conjecture, was frequently rejected in his later years, largely because he had done nothing "good" in the past ten years. He often claimed that he had proved nothing without explanation. Even when he claimed that he had proved the Riemann conjecture, even arXiv refused his manuscript, so that Yu had to find another way to publish his research results. (Note 1)The practice of not giving yourself a little leeway like this really surprised many people by his courage and confidence.

When he got the answer, the Indian kid sat back, and then stood up to a professor of mathematics from Columbia University.

"After solving the Riemann conjecture? Where will analytic number theory go? I mean Throughout the 20th century, we have made numerous breakthroughs in the field of number theory, including Fermat's theorem, more or less in the exploration of Riemann conjecture or indirect exploration. And now the hen that can lay the golden egg is gone. How can we go in the future? "

Compared with the question that can be answered with yes or no at first, this question is undoubtedly a little more level.

The boat thought for about five seconds and said.

"I can answer your question, but I want to put the answer at the end of the whole report."

Looking at the wall clock, Lu zhouqing cleared his throat and continued.

"It's almost time. Please put down those still holding hands."

"At the end of this presentation, I will set aside enough time to answer all your questions."

"Now, let's get to the point."

Just like the countless reports that have been completed, I turned around and walked to the boat in front of the whiteboard and picked up the marker under the whiteboard.

Then, he wrote the first line on it --

[proof: all the nontrivial zeros of Riemann ζ function lie in the line of re (s) = 1 / 2 on the complex plane ]There is no special opening.

However, all people are tacitly focused on the whiteboard.

Report on the proof of Riemann conjecture

It's already started!

Off stage.

Staring at the line printed on the white board, sitting next to Professor feverman, Tao zhezuan suddenly spoke in a tone of excitement.

"As expected, he adjusted the contents of the report meeting!"

"Isn't it inevitable?" Professor feverman looked at him strangely. "Now the whole mathematical world is concerned about it. Even if he wants to pretend that nothing has happened, it is impossible."

Tao Zhechuan continued excitedly: "no, until a few minutes ago, I was not sure if he was serious, but now it seems that my suspicion is redundant."

Professor feverman opened his mouth, made a helpless expression, and said.

“…… If you think so, it's really superfluous. At least as far as I know him, he never makes fun of such things. "

Just as they were talking, the boat on the stage did not stop at all. The pen in their hands touched fast. In less than half a minute, they had already brushed four or five lines.

【ζ(s)=2Γ(1-s)(2π)s-1sin(πs/2)ζ(1-s)…… ]

【…… ]

the second step is soon after the first step.

With the writing down of a row of formulas, the number of formulas on the whiteboard is increasing, and the difficulty is becoming more and more easy to understand and obscure.

Sitting in the front position under the stage, looking up at the flowing strokes on the whiteboard, no matter Academician Wang, or young scholars like Zhang Wei, Xu Chenyang and Yang Yong'an sitting beside, their faces are full of shock.

Being amazed by this series of excellent operations, Yang Yong'an finally couldn't help but exclaim.

“…… How fast! "

Sitting next to him, Zhang Wei also expressed a complex emotion.

"It seems that he really intends to finish the whole paper in 60 minutes."

In fact, before the meeting, he was ready for the 60 minute report to be extended.

After all, in terms of the content of the paper on arXiv, it's not like it can be fully explained in 60 minutes. Many of the complex deep logic, even if the verifier reviews it himself, will take some time.

But now it seems that he thinks more.

I'm afraid it will take less than 60 minutes to maintain such a speed, and 40 or 50 minutes will be enough for the great God

Xu Chenyang said with complicated expression: "it's incredible At this speed, doesn't he need to think at all? "

It's enough to write according to the paper, but he only has a pen in his hand.

The most incredible thing is that even just writing is enough. In some key steps, he will add a short explanation to explain why he wrote down this step, which is the foreshadowing of which step.

It's like

The whole process of proof has been engraved in his mind, and it is completely clear to his heart.Zhang Wei pondered for a while and said, "maybe all the steps have been remembered by him."

Yang Yong'an looked at him with an expression.

"Then That's too much. "

At this time, Qin Yue, who was sitting next to him without speaking, suddenly interrupted.

"It's not an exaggeration for a professor."

Hearing the sudden voice, Yang Yong'an, Zhang Wei, Xu Chenyang, or Academician Wang, who was still sitting there, all cast unexpected eyes to Qin Yue.

Noticing those looking at him, Qin Yue paused for a moment and continued.

"As far as I know the professor, he doesn't remember these things deliberately at all."

Academician Wang Shicheng frowned and said, "is that really a live push?"

"I'm afraid so," Qin Yue continued, nodding. "For him, to solve a solved problem again is a matter of entertainment."

Yes

It's a pastime to solve the solved problems again

No wonder this guy is so strong.

No matter how shocked the expressions on Academician Wang Shicheng's faces after Qin Yue said this, the two winners of the fields award of the last IMU conference sitting on the other side of the venue were also amazed by the series of operations of the land boat standing on the stage.

"Unbelievable..." Moving his stiff neck, Professor Aksay raised his index finger, touched his glasses on the bridge of his lower nose, and whispered, "introduce the differential manifold to the complex plane His method completely subverted my understanding of differential geometry and meromorphic functions. "

Sitting next to him, Schulz, holding his arms in his arms, smiled and said, "it seems that he is playing steadily."

Aksay took a look at him and said, "it's a little It's surprising. "

Schulz: what happened

Staring straight at the whiteboard, Aksay pondered for a moment, then continued, "I don't understand how he came up with it. I don't know if you can understand this feeling. It's like a light coming from the sky, but when we look up, we can't find the light source. "

At the same time, looking at the white board that had been filled, Schulz suddenly smiled and said with some emotion.

"It's no surprise, we don't understand, just because we don't know how long he has been wandering in front of the maze. Before making a great achievement, he doesn't seem to be willing to share the periodical achievement with us. "

"So I can understand your confusion, my friend. Because those formulas are the same to me, they are not so obscure as to be incomprehensible, but they still give me this kind of unreal feeling. Just like Mr. grotendic's works, almost every scholar who has studied this field has studied the classics that are regarded as the Bible of algebraic geometry. However, when we try to follow his thinking and trace back to the root of why he produced such thinking, this kind of arrogant idea will mostly fail. It's like... "

Schulz paused for a moment.

He thought for a long time, as if he was looking for a proper metaphor.

At the moment, the full white board on the stage has been dragged aside by the staff and replaced with a brand-new one.

Standing in front of the whiteboard, the boat just pauses for a few seconds, then raises the pen in his hand, and continues to scribble on it.

At this time, Schulz finally thought of it.

Almost subconsciously, the unfinished words came out of his mouth.

“…… As if from the void. "

"It's like those formulas don't belong to the world at all."

-In fact, it is rare for scholars like Sir Atia to encounter frequent rejection of manuscripts, especially for arXiv, a place where even folk mathematicians can get tolerance.

A failure of a major mathematical proposition claims that the blow to a scholar's academic reputation is extremely serious, and the final result of several consecutive failures is to lose everyone's trust, and even the aura of the fields award and the Abel award will be eclipsed by the damage of academic reputation. It can be seen that the academic community is a very realistic place.)