Chapter 1391 The Preprint Library that Is Squeezed and Paralyzed

The ABC conjecture is solved!

Whether it is for the mathematics world or for the future destiny of human civilization, this is definitely a day that makes history.

As the manager of the Arxiv preprint electronic library, Cornell University in the United States is very honored and felt this earlier and more deeply than anyone else.

Cornell University School of Computer Engineering.

The tranquility of the morning was broken by a sudden accident.

The Arxiv database, which has been running fairly stable for a long time, suddenly seemed to have suffered a violent DOS attack, and was overwhelmed by the explosive growth of visits.

"Damn it! Is it a special holiday today? Why are you stuck at this point to log in..."

"Visits have increased a hundredfold...God, what happened last night?"

"Ghost knows! Hurry up and call the Los Alamos National Laboratory and ask them to use the backup server!"

"It's already been used...Give it up, there must be something wrong with such a huge amount of visits, it's definitely not caused by normal visit behavior!"

There was chaos in the laboratory.

Facing the paralyzed server, the invited professors tried their best, but they were still helpless.

Arxiv's visits have always been relatively stable, with a peak in the morning and a peak in the evening. Most of the time, people will choose to check whether there is any new research progress in the several research directions they are tracking during these two time periods.

It is precisely because of this that the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is responsible for operating the server, has allocated additional server resources for Arxiv. Unexpectedly, however, the plan still could not keep up with the changes.

The extra spare server resources are just a drop in the bucket, the sudden increase in the number of visits instantly paralyzed the entire website, and now no one can squeeze in...

Dr. Osmond, who was in charge of maintaining the database, was sweating profusely. Seeing that the situation was out of control, he immediately called the Los Alamos National Laboratory and asked the engineers there to take the initiative to switch on the server before starting the inspection. memory of the server, to find the cause of the failure in offline mode.

Arxiv is different from other for-profit non-academic databases. As a non-profit open electronic preprint library, even if the traffic doubles, they will not rely on it for profit. Therefore, in the face of such a situation, he feels Except for the big head, there is no excitement at all.

Seeing the system engineer approaching, Dr. Osmond stopped him and asked anxiously.

"What about Los Alamos? How's their server troubleshooting going?"

The same seriousness was written on the engineer's face.

Although similar situations have been encountered before, to a certain extent, it is far less exaggerated than the situation they are facing now.

"The cause of the failure is still being investigated... There is no new news yet."

"Damn it!" After cursing, Dr. Osmond couldn't help but swear, "Which bastard has nothing to do and is eyeing the electronic library? Awesome, go hack the Federal Reserve!"

"Maybe it was rejected, and you want to vent?" The engineer shrugged and reluctantly proposed a hypothesis, but Dr. Osmond rejected it without thinking about it.

"Impossible, whether that idiot can use the computer correctly is a question."

It is quite difficult to be rejected by Arxiv, because even "folk mathematics" has a separate category here, as a reserved place for folk scholars to entertain themselves.

Only those who are not sure about the positioning of their papers may be "rejected" because of non-compliant issues, so Dr. Osmond almost ruled out this possibility without hesitation.

Just when a group of people were anxious like ants on a hot pot, footsteps suddenly came from outside the laboratory.

I saw a man in a suit walking in almost at a trot, and talking while walking.

"The results of the investigation at the Los Alamos National Laboratory are out!"

Hearing this sentence, Dr. Osmond didn't hesitate for a second, immediately looked towards him, and asked anxiously.

"what's going on?!"

"Proof of the ABC conjecture..."

Dr. Osmond was stunned, looked at him in surprise and asked.

"Proof of the ABC conjecture?! What do you mean..."

"The engineers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory retrieved the error logs and found that almost all traffic points to the same third-level domain name," the man swallowed with the expression on his face as if he had seen a ghost , said with difficulty, "What the hell! A paper, and it was a preprint, completely paralyzed the server... This is the first time in my life that I have encountered such an exaggerated thing!"

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The crash of the Arxiv servers was just the beginning.

The news that the ABC conjecture was proved quickly spread throughout the entire mathematics world along the network cable, and a sound of astonishment spread like a tsunami.

Because the Arxiv server was completely paralyzed and the website could not be accessed, many people who could not download the papers could only frantically flood into the LSPM forum left by Lu Zhou on his personal page, where they shared and exchanged information about the ABC conjecture.

Meanwhile, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Dr. Woolley Vernal, who was studying in the Department of Mathematics, walked quickly into Professor Sanak's office.

Because he was so emotional, he even forgot to knock on the door, so he pushed open the door of the office, and typed the report in an incoherent voice with excitement.

"professor!"

Hearing the voice coming from the door, Professor Sanak frowned slightly, stopped the ballpoint pen in his hand, and looked in the direction of his students.

"Good morning, Mr. Vernal, I would like to know what happened? To make you forget the politeness of knocking before opening the door."

"Sorry! But this is really surprising!" Vernal, who swallowed hard and breathed calmly, continued in a trembling tone, "You would never have thought—"

The sound of the pen cap hitting the table interrupted his speech, and Professor Sanak said in an impatient tone.

"I hope you can make it clear in a minute, or—"

"It's the LSPM research team! Just an hour ago, they uploaded the complete proof process of the ABC conjecture to Arxiv!"

LSPM research group...

A complete proof of the ABC conjecture? !

The moment he heard these words, Professor Sanak's eyes were as big as ping pong balls, and he immediately stood up from behind the desk and said in a hurry.

"Where's the paper? Have you downloaded it yet?"

"No..." Dr. Vernal swallowed, with a bitter expression on his face, "When I found out about this, the Arxiv website was crushed and paralyzed."

Crowded and paralyzed? !

Hearing this completely unexpected news, Sanak was stunned.

After about five minutes, he slowly came back to his senses.

His eyes unconsciously moved to the corner of the desk in the office, and looked at the calendar placed there, only to see the date of April 30th imprinted on it.

Thinking of what Professor Fefferman said some time ago, a clear shock gradually appeared in Sanak's eyes, and his pupils were full of disbelief.

Really let them figure it out before the end of the month? !

It's amazing!

At the same time, even almost in the same building.

Professor Fefferman, who was sitting in his office, also turned his attention to the calendar on his desk after learning the news that the ABC conjecture had been proven.

Sighing slightly, he said something to himself regretfully.

"It's really a big loss..."

It would have been fine if I had persisted.

Maybe if he insists on it any longer, once that old Sanak's gamble is on the rise, he will make that bet with himself?

Not to mention knocking him hard, at least someone will pay for this week's coffee...

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