Chapter 1034: The Grand Event Ends!

Hilbert once said that if he was lucky enough to wake up from his long sleep five hundred years later, the first question he would ask after waking up would be whether the Riemann conjecture had been solved.

Regardless of whether Lu Zhou was in the mood to accept the interview at the moment, at the same time that the bottle of champagne was opened, the entire mathematics world was sensational because of the just-concluded report meeting.

The Riemann Hypothesis is solved!

Good guy, he has solved three of the seven millennium problems!

Especially one that is so important...

If the Polignac conjecture, Goldbach conjecture and quasi-Riemann conjecture at most pushed Professor Lu to the throne of mathematics, then the millennium problem about the NS equation is equivalent to adding A halo, and radiated light to the physics world next door.

The proof of Riemann's conjecture is equivalent to directly pushing him from the ground to the sky, and sending him to the god position!

This analogy may not be so appropriate, but it is not an exaggeration at all.

Although the mathematics community has not yet given a definite answer and recognized the proof presented by Lu Zhou at the 60-minute report meeting, judging from the non-sharp questions asked by the experts at the scene and Lu Zhou's fluent answers , which has become almost predictable.

Even if there are some flaws or small problems in the final paper, they can be revised before it is officially published. After Wiles opened the champagne at the report meeting, he spent more than a year revising his paper. Finally, Fermat's conjecture became Fermat's last theorem.

Although the performance of the mathematical community is often extremely realistic when a proof claim is considered to be a failure, in the face of such a major proposition, the mathematical community often shows unusual patience.

After all, they have been waiting for a century and a half.

Not bad for these last few days months or even a year...

Of course, if it was just Riemann's conjecture, it wouldn't make people so excited.

After all, the thesis was released yesterday, and the excited ones have already been excited. If you want to continue to be excited, you should not be today. Instead, you should wait until the mathematics community, especially the Clay Institute, gives a confirmation on the completeness of the entire proof. I will talk about it after the "review comments".

What really made the entire mathematics community set off this category 12 hurricane again was the sentence that Lu Zhou said at the end of the report——

If nothing else, the subject of his next class will try to unify algebra and geometry!

It would be a little exaggerated to say that the entire mathematics world is boiling because of this, but within tens of minutes after these words were spoken, at least half of the mathematics world was sensationalized by this!

Princeton University's Facebook group.

Hot discussions almost occupied the entire interface, and the hot topic even overshadowed the upcoming Ivy League school kayak competition and football game in the fall.

[Unify algebra and geometry? Wait, give me a moment to figure out what they're saying. Our algebraic geometry is only halfway through, you are now telling me that algebra and geometry should be unified? 】

[I always feel that since that man published his first paper in "The Chronicle of Mathematics", it seems that every day we are witnessing history...]

[The point is how is this possible? The works on algebra, geometry and various sub-disciplines in the Flint Library can be filled with more than 20 rows of bookshelves, and this does not include the latest achievements that have not been included in the works. You're telling me now that these twenty bookshelves can't be filled enough to be explained by a single book? This is crazy! 】

[I think...you may have misunderstood what he meant. Unifying algebra and geometry does not mean combining the two disciplines and their branches into one. If he really did it, the biggest possibility is definitely not to turn the books on these twenty-odd rows of bookshelves into one book, but to open a new bookshelf next to it, and then put a brand new book on it.

【Please stop talking, I will finish my graduation thesis this year...】

For the mathematics community, the unification of algebra and geometry is undoubtedly a shocking news that is even more exciting than the Riemann Hypothesis itself. However, for those who eat melons who are paying attention to the progress of things, the Riemann Hypothesis itself is more topical in comparison.

The video of the report meeting was not only circulated in the communities of major universities, when the high-definition video of the report meeting was uploaded to YouTube, this report meeting for professionals also received millions of views and Tens of thousands of comments.

However, judging from the most liked articles in the comment area, for ordinary people who eat melons, they seem to be more interested in the one million dollar bonus than the mathematical value of the Riemann conjecture.

In particular, Lu Zhou has already received a million-dollar prize from the Clay Institute for the Millennium Problem of the NS Equation. This time he won the million-dollar prize, which really made many people look envious.

Didn't expect to be able to make so much money by studying mathematics well? !

However, this money is not something everyone can earn...

In addition to the discussion on the Internet, many media around the world, including CTV, BBC, Columbia TV, etc., have also reported on this news.

In particular, CTV even released a feature documentary in the form of interviews on CCTV. Experts from the Academy of Mathematical Sciences told academicians in South China about this century-old march to the peak of human mind, which lasted for one and a half centuries!

The enthusiasm about the Riemann conjecture continued to ferment with the end of the report meeting.

In addition to the comments of unrelated people and the reports of major news media, there are also top industry experts who have published objective evaluations.

On the night after the report meeting, the specific point is eight o'clock in the evening Moscow time.

Professor Aksay, who has won the Fields Medal for 18 years, updated an academic comment on this report on his personal blog, which can be regarded as an objective summary of the entire report ...

[Currently, experts in mathematics, including Professor Deligne and Professor Faltings, are optimistic about Professor Lu Zhou's proof. And I have exchanged opinions with many famous professors such as Schulz and Tao Zhexuan, and I also agree that there are basically no major problems in Professor Lu's proof. 】

[However, after all, this is only the opinion of some people, and many scholars who are studying this issue still have not expressed their views. On the one hand, this is out of careful consideration. The more important the conjecture is, the more cautious we must treat it, because once we make a mistake, the foundation of the edifice of number theory will be shaken. On the other hand, because there are still many people who do not fully understand his paper, we must give them some choice whether to accept such results, and time to express their opinions. 】

[I can't say that Professor Lu must be right, but there is at least a 70% or even 80% possibility. 】

[But to be honest, compared to the Riemann Hypothesis itself, I am more concerned about the equation he used when he introduced the method of differential geometry to solve problems on the complex plane. Maybe it's my illusion, but I always think that step is very interesting, and it has a lot to do with a research I did a few years ago... I recommend colleagues who study non-singular complex projective algebraic varieties to study it in depth, maybe this one The last golden egg given to us by Riemann's conjecture will be the key to solving Hodge's conjecture or similar problems...]

Compared with those rumors with different opinions, Professor Aksayi's comments are undoubtedly much more objective, and have been reposted by many people in major online communities.

To a certain extent, this extremely popular blog has also played a certain role in suppressing the bizarre rumors.

No matter what kind of characterization the academic community finally gives to this proof, the superb mathematical techniques used by Lu Zhou in the proof, as well as the wonderful report itself, are enough to be recorded in this report. into history...

...

the next day.

In the same lecture hall as yesterday, it was filled with the same dark crowd.

The closing ceremony of the IMU conference will begin soon.

Although many people left after yesterday's last report meeting, there are still many people who stayed.

Sitting in the middle of the venue, Tao Zhexuan looked around, but did not see the figure he wanted to see, so he lowered his voice and said to Professor Fefferman who was sitting next to him.

"Where's Lu Zhou?"

Fefferman shook his head and said, "I haven't seen anyone else, but I heard from Deligne that he went to the airport by car early in the morning."

Professor Tao was slightly stunned and said, "Are you in such a hurry to leave? Didn't you even attend the closing ceremony?"

Originally, he planned to ask him a few questions about his thesis.

Fefferman's expression was a little subtle, and he answered the question in vague terms.

"After all...a very important student of his is lying on the hospital bed. It is said that he helped her arrange a transfer flight from St. Petersburg to Shangjing."

Hearing that very important student, the expression on Professor Tao's face became a little weird.

The closing ceremony continued for a while.

After being silent for a long time without speaking, he suddenly spoke.

"...Actually, sometimes I would ask myself whether I should have written that letter of recommendation in the first place."

Hearing this sentence, Fefferman sighed softly.

As if expecting him to say that, he spoke.

"Never try to guess the logic behind fate. If you think that without that letter of recommendation, she would not have become Lu Zhou's student, and she would not have come to where she is today. This kind of thinking is really better than those who regret sending Fields Professor Xlater, who awarded her the medal, was even stupider—"

Tao Zhexuan said with a sigh.

"you misunderstood."

Fefferman: "...Oh?"

Tao Zhexuan: "I just feel that if there is no recommendation letter, maybe her life will not have so many intersections with him, and he will not be involved in this matter. At this moment that should be celebrated, He was supposed to join us for a toast at last night's dinner, but didn't you notice? He didn't even show up in the dining room, and Professor Holden toasted us instead."

"I'm not complaining about what interrupted our banquet. This kind of thing is actually insignificant. Really, I just regret the cause and effect of fate behind it. It would be better if this kind of sad thing happened one day later, but it just happened here. Let At the moment when he was on his way to the peak of his life...even the peak of history, he lost an important person..."

Suddenly fell silent, and after about a minute, he whispered in a somewhat complicated and regretful tone.

"...I'm afraid this feeling won't be good."

Hearing the regret in that tone, Fefferman glanced at him unexpectedly, subconsciously glanced left and right, and lowered the volume.

"You...have seen it?"

Terence Tao nodded silently.

"...It can be seen a little bit."

on stage.

The closing ceremony has reached the final stage.

Professor Mori Shigefumi standing in front of the stage gave up the microphone, and Professor Holden standing behind walked up to the stage with a smile on his face.

According to the usual practice, before the performances of ballet, Russian opera and classical music at the closing ceremony, the Secretary-General of the International Union of Mathematicians will announce the venue of the next congress.

This is the grand finale after the Fields Medals.

Although it was voted on the second day of the conference, it was deliberately announced by the organizing committee at the end of the conference.

At this moment, except for a few people who were indifferent to this, the vast majority of people in the venue had already held their breath, nervously watched the figure on the stage praying, and waited for Professor Holden to speak.

Especially Academician Wang Shicheng.

At this moment, it is as if a child is about to be born, fidgeting.

The same is true for Qin Yue.

Although he is a scholar teaching overseas, his blood is the same. Who would not want their hometown to become better?

Facing the fiery eyes from the audience, Professor Holden smiled, cleared his throat like a trick, and announced in a loud voice.

"Voted by vote, our representatives are unanimous."

"The venue for the next International Congress of Mathematicians is—"

"Hua Guo, Jinling!"

In an instant, the whole venue was boiling.