Chapter 1380 More than 500 Pages of Proof

early morning.

A car parked downstairs in the laboratory building of Jindashu Institute.

After saying thank you to the driver who helped him take out the suitcase from the trunk, Han Mengqi went upstairs dragging the suitcase. However, just as she was about to open the door and enter the office, she was grabbed by a hand stretched out from the side.

"Zimmer?"

Looking at her junior brother who was holding her back in surprise, Han Mengqi asked suspiciously.

"What's matter?"

Glancing at the closed door of the office, Ji Mo said seriously.

"Master has been in retreat for two days, let's not disturb him."

"Two days?!" Han Mengqi was startled, her glasses widened and she asked, "He, he has been in the office for two days? What about eating? Didn't he come out after eating?"

"The meal is still eaten," Jimo said embarrassedly, "I went to the cafeteria to bring it for him... No, I just delivered breakfast, and I plan to go to the library for self-study in a while... Do you want to go together?"

"Oh, it's okay if you have a meal..." Han Mengqi breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly stared and said, "By the way, who allowed you to call me master?"

Zimmer: "...?"

Realizing that her reaction was a bit sudden, Han Mengqi, who came back to her senses, gave a dry cough and explained: "I mean, this is a school, and you are still studying for an undergraduate degree. It's not good for other students to hear about it."

In my heart, I felt that it seemed reasonable to say so. Ji Mo suddenly scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, admitted his mistake and said, "Ah... sorry, I didn't think about it."

Seeing how the little junior brother corrected after knowing his mistakes, Han Mengqi nodded in satisfaction.

"If you know your mistakes, you can correct them. There is nothing better than being good...don't do this next time."

After dropping these words, she placed her right hand on the doorknob of the office, opened the door carefully and walked in.

After closing the office door, looking at the pouches on Lu Zhou's face, Han Mengqi, who felt inexplicably distressed, whispered.

"Master... I'm back."

After stopping the pen in his hand, Lu Zhou heaved a sigh of relief, put aside the thick stack of papers in his hand, looked at Han Mengqi who was standing at the door, and said with a smile.

"Meng Qi? Are you back already?"

Han Mengqi nodded and said with a hum.

"I just got off the plane."

"Why don't you call me when you get off the plane, so that I can ask Wang Peng to pick you up...By the way, why did you bring all the suitcases here, didn't you go home?"

"I'll be back in a while."

Seeing that she had something to say on her face, Lu Zhou probably guessed what she wanted to ask, so he said with a smile.

"How is it? This trip to North America went well, right?"

"It went very well..." Han Mengqi nodded, and then added in a low voice, "I also received an award by the way."

It's okay to get an award by the way.

He is indeed his apprentice.

Hearing this familiar speech, Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly.

"Oh? What award?"

"Young Scholar Progress Award..."

In fact, in addition to the award presented to her by the International Federation of Materials Research Societies, there were also a series of events including attending a dinner at the White House and meeting the president of the American Society for Materials Science.

This series of dazzling operations made her a little transparent who had almost "no achievements" in the field of materials science except for the Young Scholar Progress Award, and she couldn't help being flattered.

In fact, the reason why she ran to Jin Da non-stop after returning to China was that besides sharing the good news of her award with her master as soon as possible, she also had a lot of questions to ask him.

However, I didn't expect to see such a worrying look as soon as I entered the door...

"Master..."

"What's wrong?"

Han Mengqi said worriedly: "I heard that you haven't slept for two days."

"Two days?" Lu Zhou froze slightly, looked at the stack of more than 500 pages of papers on the table, and frowned, "It's been so long..."

Han Mengqi: "I think it's better for you to take a break."

"It's okay, it's only been two days, and I haven't reached my highest record yet." Lu Zhou smiled and continued, "I'll go to rest after I reply to the email later."

"Email? How about you tell me the content, and I'll help you reply."

Yawning, Lu Zhou waved his hands and picked up the breakfast on the corner of the table.

"No need, I'll write the email myself. It won't be clear for a while. If I ask you to edit it, I'm afraid it will be dark by the time you understand what I want to express."

"What is the problem..."

"ABC conjecture."

"...ABC conjecture?!" Hearing Lu Zhou's concise answer, Han Mengqi was stunned for a moment. She, who was still a little unconvinced before, said with a dazed face, "Why...you suddenly researched this issue?"

If she remembers correctly, her master should be busy carrying people to the fire project.

And he seems to have said more than once that he will not study pure mathematics in the past few years...

"Life is always full of surprises...I didn't expect it either," Lu Zhou coughed dryly, "Anyway, for some special reasons, I'm currently researching this. Don't worry about it here, go back and put your luggage , take a good rest, reverse the jet lag and come here to report again."

After being kicked out of the office by Lu Zhou, Han Mengqi, who was carrying a suitcase, stood in the corridor outside the office with a dazed expression.

After hesitating for a while, she finally took out her mobile phone, opened the address book, and dialed a number.

The phone rang twice and was connected.

The familiar voice quickly came from the other end.

"Meng Qi? Are you back yet? I'm about to call you."

"Well, the plane I just got off... Well, sister, you should hurry up and come to Jinda's side."

"Jin Da? What happened to Jin Da?"

"Brother-in-law, it seems like he hasn't slept for two days... I'm a little worried that he won't be able to handle it. Anyway, if you don't have time to come over, at least call him to persuade him."

"Haven't slept for two days?! Are you at his place now? I'll be right over!"

The sound of getting up from the office chair came, and the phone was quickly hung up.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Han Mengqi stuffed the phone back into her pocket.

Looking back at the office, she silently recited a sentence in her heart.

Master, apprentice can only help you so far!

But don't die suddenly...

...

Sudden death is impossible.

It's only been two days without sleep.

If Lu Zhou remembers correctly, his highest record of staying up late is seven consecutive days without sleep, and then he slept for two days or three days in a row to make up for his sleep.

At that time, it seemed that he was in Princeton. Lu Zhou couldn’t remember whether he was studying Goldbach’s conjecture or the existence of NS equation solutions. After all, staying up late was commonplace for him.

He only remembered the most powerful one, feeling as if he was floating on the clouds, and he couldn't tell whether he was in the sky or the ground.

However, it was this feeling of extreme concentration that made him completely break through the bottleneck and sublimate to a brand new field. Although he also knew that at that time, he was probably only one step away from the "immortal world"...

"Hey, time is not forgiving, and I'm starting to get old too... I'm not as troubled as I was in my twenties."

After eating, Lu Zhou, who gradually felt sleepy, extracted a tube of energy potion from the system space, unscrewed the bottle cap and swallowed it slowly.

A ray of mint-like coolness spread down his throat to the front lobe of his brain. After a jolt, he soon felt the fatigue that covered his whole body completely faded away like a tide.

Pulling himself together, Lu Zhou picked up the stack of papers from the corner of the table, turned to the last few pages where he had marked, turned on the computer and started editing the email.

If he was a little uncertain about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto before, now he is basically sure that this guy is probably Shinichi Mochizuki himself. (Note 1)

This paper on the proof of the ABC conjecture is clearly a revised version of the paper Mochizuki Shinichi published online before.

Because it is an unpublished version, there is neither an abstract nor a title. Lu Zhou only realized it after reading more than 20 pages. This paper looks familiar, and he was basically sure when he read more than 30 pages. This is "Far Abelian Geometry" and the legendary "Intercosmic Theory" that only a few people understand.

In fact, the core idea of ​​Mochizuki’s proof of the ABC conjecture is very simple, that is, to transform this abstract problem into a more abstract elliptic curve—that is, a special binary cubic equation.

This conversion process is actually not difficult to understand, you only need to connect each "ABC equation" with an image and the elliptic curve whose x-axis intersects at a, b and the origin. After this transformation, proving the ABC conjecture is equivalent to proving that there is a certain inequality relationship between the two magnitudes of the constructed elliptic curve.

This operation of transforming algebraic problems into geometrical problems can change it from pure number theory problems to review problems related to geometry, calculus and other fields, so that more mathematical tools can be applied to problem solving middle.

From this point of view of the proof alone, this set of operations is actually very classic. Wiles used a similar method back then to prove the core part of Fermat's Last Theorem.

However, unfortunately, although the idea of ​​the proof is remarkable, when this idea is transformed into a paper with a length of more than 500 pages, everything becomes less friendly.

Many people even commented that it may be more difficult to fully understand what "Far Abelian Geometry" and "Intercosmic Theory" are about than solving the ABC conjecture itself.

Professor Caligari, a famous number theorist, even bluntly stated that this is a "complete disaster".

In Lu Zhou's impression, Schultz and his partner had been to D capital about a few years ago, and had a face-to-face discussion with Mochizuki Shinichi on this issue, but the final result turned out to be a A debate between both sides.

Schultz complained that he was standing on a never-ending Escher ladder, while Mochizuki insisted that he "doesn't understand anything at all" and "got even the basic definition wrong".

As for Lu Zhou...

His views are the same as Schultz's.

[I have read the paper. 】

[Although it has been modified to some extent compared with the previous version, in my opinion there are still relatively large loopholes. Especially in the part of corollary 3.12, if you want to figure out the relationship between the volumes of sets, you must at least establish a relationship between the measurement standards of the volumes in each different space. However, in the mapping you gave, "quantity Rulers are partially compatible with each other...]

【……In summary. 】

[Your proof is wrong. 】

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(Note 1: Shinichi Mochizuki denied this in an interview. This is just a relatively well-known stalk in the mathematics circle. The plot of the novel should not be taken seriously. In addition, everyone, don’t forget to compare Professor Lu with mathematics, physics and chemistry~~ ~)