Chapter 1385 A Crucial Breakthrough

Hoshi Yuichiro and Yamashita were stunned, and everyone in the office was stunned.

Not only that, shortly after the video was uploaded to the personal blog, the entire Japanese academic community was blown up.

As everyone expected, Mochizuki stepped forward generously and responded to the removal of the paper from his personal blog and the homepage of the mathematics department.

It's just the content of the response, but it's not what people want to hear at all.

In a sense, the Japanese academia is a relatively closed existence compared to the world academia.

This kind of closure is not reflected in the academic exchange itself, but the entire Japanese academic circle is filled with a xenophobic atmosphere dominated by extremely self-confident sentiment.

To put it simply, they are not targeting anyone, they just subconsciously feel that all foreign scholars here are rubbish, and no country is special.

This kind of xenophobic culture rooted in the subconscious makes it difficult for foreign scholars to integrate into it, and few Japanese scholars are willing to actively integrate into the world. Among the 22 Nobel Prize winners in biochemical biology, 20 only work hard on the island. Dry, and the English level is "average" without exception.

In such an atmosphere, if domestic scholars are questioned by foreign scholars, unless there is hard evidence in front of them, it must be the world that is wrong in the eyes of Japanese academic circles.

And if bowing and apologizing or something like that actually happened, it must be because I couldn't stand it anymore.

It is precisely because of this that, compared with "academic fraud" or "scandal" itself, the Japanese academic community feels a deeper shame about the "mistakes being discovered".

As for why you say that, you can see the top ten retraction list of "Retraction Observation".

Among the top ten bigwigs, four are Japanese scholars.

Especially Yoshitaka Fujii (Yoshitaka.Fujii), who ranks first, this god is simply a mudslide in the academic world. From graduating with a Ph.D. in 1991 to 2012, the public published a total of 212 papers, of which 183 were completely forged.

This number is equivalent to that he alone monopolized 7% of the total number of retracted papers from 1980 to 2011, which caused an uproar at the time.

Even the investigation committee of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology who investigated him couldn't stand it anymore, and wrote in the summary report-"This is equivalent to a person sitting at a desk and compiling a science fiction novel."

Of course, Mochizuki's thesis is far from falsified, and the nature of it is far worse.

The academic world is tolerant of honest mistakes. Besides publishing papers on the website of the Department of Mathematics of Kyoto University and personal blogs, these more than 500 pages of papers have never been published in any journals, and there is no such thing as Questions like retraction.

I just suffered from the Department of Mathematics of Kyoto University.

Since the second-year-old scholar claimed that he had proved the ABC conjecture, the Department of Mathematics of Kyoto University hung his paper on its official website like a treasure, unilaterally claiming that the conjecture has been solved, who will come? Questioning doesn't work.

Now that Mochizuki suddenly betrayed him, the one who hurt the most was not him, but those who supported him...

It wasn't just Xing Yuichiro and Yamashita who were stunned, all the students and assistants in his office couldn't accept this fact for a while.

Among all the people who knew him, only his former mentor - Faltings in Germany, did not feel too much surprise about this.

amsterdam.

Professor Faltins, who is attending the European Mathematical Society meeting, is chatting with Professor Shigefumi Mori about what happened in the mathematics world recently. The topic of the two people unconsciously ran from the ABC conjecture and the research group called LSPM to that A statement that has been making a lot of noise recently.

Speaking of his former students, Professor Faltings smiled lightly and said in an unsurprising tone.

"His opponent is Lu Zhou, and it is obvious that he lost. Mochizuki is an honest scholar, and honest people will only make honest mistakes. Since he admitted his mistakes, he must have fully understood where he was wrong. That's a good thing for him and his Far Abelian geometry."

Immersed in one's own world for too long, it is always inevitable to lose touch with the outside world. If everything goes well, that's fine, but if something goes wrong and no one reminds you, it's easy to lead to a bigger mistake, and you can't extricate yourself from it.

This is one of the reasons why people put communication and discussion first when solving a major mathematical proposition...

Although Professor Faltings' point of view is rare and pertinent, Professor Shigefumi Mori still frowned slightly, and corrected in a slightly unhappy tone.

"I don't like to use the word 'lose' very much. In my opinion, there is no winning or losing in academics, only truth."

"It seems that you are still a little bit unconvinced," Professor Faltings' mouth was wrinkled, as if he was smiling, but it was not so obvious.

Catching the slight change in his expression, Professor Shigefumi Mori shrugged his shoulders and left an ambiguous answer.

"I'm not unconvinced, I just think that there may be something hidden in it...Okay, let's stop here, let's change the topic to something more pleasant."

...

Since the establishment of L·S·P·M and announced the ABC conjecture as the object of attack, Nanning University has focused the attention of mathematicians from all over the world, and became the focus of heated discussions for a while.

Not only because of this abnormally strong lineup, but also because of the statement made by Shinichi Mochizuki on his personal blog.

No one thought that this scholar immersed in his own world would actually walk out of his home one day in the future.

What is even more unexpected is that this controversy, which has lasted for more than ten years, ended in this way.

For a while, the atmosphere in the Japanese mathematics circles was rather gloomy, gloomy.

For such a result, netizens who didn’t know the truth also expressed surprise and regret. Before that, many of them regarded Mochizuki Shinichi and his feat as a kind of pride, but they didn’t expect that everything was just their wishful thinking. Many people can't accept it.

Some people with bigger brains and more radical views even believed that it was Schultz and Lu Zhou who kidnapped their Mochizuki, forcing him to make such a statement.

Turning a deaf ear to the heated discussions on the Internet, Mochizuki Shinichi seems to have retired from the world of mathematics these days, almost devoting all his energy to the study of the ABC conjecture.

As for the reporters who tried to interview him, Jin Da stopped them for him.

I don't know if it is Lu Zhou's illusion, but he always feels that this guy seems to regard this place as a temporary refuge.

He couldn't help but speculate in his heart, whether this guy deliberately found a place without colleagues, and went down the steps he gave him.

Obviously not only Lu Zhou thought so, but also another person in the research group.

During the intermission of the seminar, looking at Shinichi Mochizuki sitting across the conference table, Schultz suddenly asked.

"Honestly, did you mean it?"

Realizing that he was talking to himself, Mochizuki pushed down his glasses and asked.

"What is it on purpose?"

"Look for a place where you don't know anyone, and wait until the limelight passes before you go back... In fact, you have already discovered that your method of proof will not work."

Hearing this strange point of view, Mochizuki was slightly taken aback, then frowned, raised his nostrils and looked at Schultz and said.

"Is that necessary for me?"

"Don't be discouraged, my friend, I'm just worried about you," Schultz said with a smile on his face. "I suggest that we can have a party, or go out for a drink together, and comfort our—"

Seeing that the two people who had finally calmed down were about to fight again, Lu Zhou who was sitting at the conference table hurriedly coughed, interrupting his teasing.

"Okay, enough is enough for you, let's stop here for the break... Let's go back to the issue we were discussing just now."

Seeing the gradually serious expressions of the other three teammates, Lu Zhou cleared his throat and continued.

"The progress of the research these days has been smooth. Compared with the dilemma we faced when the project first started, we have achieved considerable results on key issues."

"Starting from the refinement of Baker's theorem, the idea of ​​gradually approaching the ABC guess is correct."

"The key to the problem now is that we have to find a way to give a more accurate result for the upper bound of L(a, b, c), and—"

With that said, Lu Zhou pushed down his chair, slid to the side of the whiteboard, picked up a marker pen and scribbled a line of calculations on it.

【c＜exp{C(rad(abc))^（1/3+ε）}.】

Tapping the whiteboard with the pen cap, he continued.

"And, how to further promote this phased achievement."

"There is no room for tricks in this part of the research, and we can only find the answer through continuous attempts."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, then looked around at the three teammates, and continued in a serious tone.

"In the next few days, the intensity of our work may be very high. I hope you can persevere."

"Next, I will assign their respective tasks."

"Wait a minute," somehow, Schultz suddenly showed an expression of interest—or excitement, and raised his right hand. "Are we going to 'retreat'?"

Lu Zhou froze for a moment, then nodded.

"That's right."

Although this is just his own habit when doing research, he does not recommend others to follow suit.

However, the expression on Schultz's face turned into surprise, and he snapped his fingers and said.

"Great, I've wanted to ask you about that mysterious research technique for a long time!"

Seeing the excited look on Schultz's face, Mochizuki Shinichi and Perelman exchanged glances, seeming to be very interested. As for the other students sitting in the office, they quietly raised their heads at the same time, casting strange glances at the big guys.

Retreat with Professor Lu...

Is this guy crazy?

As for Lu Zhou, he smiled embarrassedly.

"no problem."

"It's just that the process can be a little hard."

"If you can't hold on, you must tell me."

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(Everyone, don’t forget to compare your hearts~)