Chapter 1028 Accidentally Witnessed History

Lu Zhou guessed right.

It is true that Xiao Ai successfully uploaded the paper five minutes ago, and the system prompt sound came at about that time.

However, although the paper is uploaded, it may not be so easy to see that paper at this time.

Because almost in these five minutes...

The server of the Arxiv website has been completely paralyzed!

Originally, academic websites like this usually don't get a lot of traffic. Considering various factors such as operating costs, a server with a particularly large capacity will not be set up.

However, now, mathematicians almost all over the world, as long as they set the label to track the problem of Riemann's conjecture, have all received reminders on the site and even email messages.

Coincidentally, it was 9:00 am in North America at the moment, and it seemed that in an instant, most of the mathematicians in the world—even those who were not engaged in mathematics at all, but who were just rubbing shoulders with mathematics, all ran to download papers.

Before the administrator of the Arxiv website could figure out what was going on, he was bewildered by the traffic like a DDOS attack.

Then, the server became honorable and retired.

Almost at the same time that the Arxiv website was paralyzed, the discussion on this topic on Mathoverflow, a mathematics forum for global industry insiders, was completely overwhelmed.

[Proof of the Riemann conjecture! ? Did you see that push on Arxiv? ! 】

【Look at the wool! The website is down! Look at the ghost! 】

[I was fortunate enough to see it, but not in the push message, I saw it in the list of my tracking tag... and I suspected that I was wrong. 】

[God, I went to see the calendar! Today is not April 1st! 】

【Anyone who has read the paper? Come out and tell me what is in the thesis? Did he prove it? 】

[This is beyond the scope of my research field, but I see Professor Tao's dynamic, he seems to have printed out the paper. And looking at his class schedule, it seems that the next week of classes and meetings have been dropped. 】

[Wait, he's not at the IMU conference? I mean he didn't go to St. Petersburg? 】

[I didn't go this time, it is said that he regrets it. 】

It's not just Professor Tao who regrets this.

In fact, many scholars who did not attend this conference of mathematicians for various reasons are now beating their chests with regret.

How did it happen to catch up with this session?

How did it happen to catch up with the one they didn't go to?

Two days later, it was Professor Lu's 60-minute report, and the theme happened to be the research on Riemann's conjecture.

Many people have regretted their bowels!

At the same time, the executive lounge of the Krinthia Hotel.

In the corner by the window, two famous math professors sat there quietly.

One of them was Faltins, and Deligne sat opposite him.

The two were drinking coffee and chatting about the future of mathematics.

"...The matter of Miss Puyuyi is really regrettable. This is a heavy blow to the entire mathematics community. Before coming here, I originally planned to invite her to join my plan, but I didn't expect That kind of thing happened."

"There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and good fortune and good fortune in people's moments... There seems to be such a proverb in China. We can only pray that she will suffer less pain in the short time."

After a pause, Professor Deligne, who sighed softly, glanced at Faltings and changed the heavy topic, "Speaking of which, you are already old, and you can't rest."

"It is precisely because I am at this age that I want to leave something behind before I fully retire... Honestly, I understand Ser Attia a little bit now."

Professor Deligne gave him a noncommittal look and did not answer this sentence.

There have been too many sad things recently, and he really didn't want to touch those already sad topics.

At this moment, footsteps suddenly came from the door of the executive lounge.

I saw that Professor Fefferman came over from there with a lost expression on his face.

It looked a bit frightened, but it didn't look like something terrible happened.

Looking at the expression on his face, Professor Deligne raised his brows slightly, and was about to ask him what happened when he saw him speak consciously.

And as soon as he opened his mouth, everyone stopped.

"The Riemann conjecture has been proven."

The air was quiet for a moment.

As if a needle fell on the ground, it could be heard clearly.

Professor Faltings didn't even look up, and said lightly, "This is impossible."

Professor Deligne was also expressionless, shrugged his shoulders and said, "This joke is not funny at all."

As if he knew what the two would say, the expression on Professor Fefferman's face had no surprises, but added to Deligne: "It is your student who proved it."

This time, the expressions on the faces of the two people sitting there calmly changed instantly.

Especially Professor Faltings, who opened his mouth dumbly, finally raised his head this time, frowned and said.

"...You mean Lu Zhou?"

"Yes." Professor Fefferman nodded and said in a natural voice, "Apart from Lu Zhou, I don't remember any other student of my old friend who is studying this direction."

"..."

Hearing this "Yes", Professor Faltings stopped talking for a moment, but just turned his eyes to Deligne, as if waiting for his opinion.

However, Professor Deligne also had a stunned expression at the moment, even a bit unexpectedly confused.

Opening his mouth, he raised his slightly trembling index finger and touched the glasses on the bridge of his nose. After straightening it, he looked at Professor Fefferman who was standing at the door and said seriously.

"Are you sure he said that?"

Recalling the scene he saw in the lecture hall earlier, Professor Fefferman sighed softly.

"I don't have to be sure, he has uploaded the paper to Arxiv. If you have a Mathoverflow account, you should be able to see that these things are being discussed in the whole mathematical community now, and as far as I know, there are already mathematical researches. The Institute is working on his preprint on Arxiv..."

Taking a deep breath, the shoulders leaning on the chair gradually loosened. When he learned that the preprint had been hung up, Professor Deligne was not in a hurry to confirm the paper on Arxiv.

So did Faltings, who was sitting across from him.

The shock in his heart at this moment is not inferior to his old man, just glanced at him silently, and then said.

"I didn't expect that we would witness history accidentally."

After being silent for a long time, Deligne let out two hasty sighs from her tightly closed mouth.

"……yes."

"It was so sudden."

It is no exaggeration to say that if the Riemann conjecture is really proved by him. The history of mathematics in the 21st century needs at least ten pages less because of his existence. And the textbook on analytic number theory, at least because he has twenty more pages.

Of course, the premise of all this is that he is indeed right.