Chapter 854 Then "Persuade" Them!

What the hell is disapproval?

Not only Luo Wenxuan and Lu Zhou's students were surprised, but Lu Zhou himself couldn't believe the content of this email.

After carefully reading Professor Faltings' review comments, Lu Zhou roughly understood what he meant.

According to Professor Faltings, he believes that some positions in the paper are quite controversial, which leads to serious proof flaws in the core part of the whole paper, which is not enough to prove that when ε is infinitely small, Re(s)≥1-ε There is no non-zero trivial point of the zeta function in the region of .

To be honest, it was the first time Lu Zhou was called back for rectification after writing this paper.

Standing behind Lu Zhou and reading the review comments from the beginning to the end, Luo Wenxuan swallowed and asked.

"Prove there is a problem?"

Lu Zhou shook his head: "It's too early to make a conclusion, wait until I have a look."

Hearing this sentence, He Changwen, who was sitting beside him listening with pricked ears, almost flew out of the spinning pen in his hand.

OK.

When others received a reply letter suggesting rectification, the first reaction was to honestly correct it and finish the work. When the reviewer is comfortable with the revision and when can the manuscript be approved, this boss will have to take a look...

Thinking of this, He Changwen couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

The boss is indeed a boss...

When will he be so awesome...

He didn't notice what a few of his students were thinking.

After finishing that sentence, Lu Zhou bent down, and from the cabinet under the desk, he took out the printout of the paper that proved the quasi-Riemann conjecture. Check it out line by line.

Because he couldn't understand such profound things as analytical number theory at all, Luo Wenxuan just stood behind Lu Zhou with such a dazed face, pretending to understand, and quietly waiting for Lu Zhou's result.

In this way, about ten minutes passed.

Just when Luo Wenxuan was about to start yawning, Lu Zhou suddenly closed the paper in his hand with a snap, and threw the stack of papers on the table.

Seeing that Lu Zhou had finished reading, Luo Wenxuan asked curiously.

"How is the result?"

Lu Zhou shook his head.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with what I wrote."

Luo Wenxuan hesitated for a moment, then asked: "Then... Could it be that Professor Faltings made a mistake?"

When he said those words, he didn't have any confidence in his heart.

That is Professor Faltings, the first person in mathematics after Grothendieck.

In terms of influence in the mathematics world, I am afraid that he is a little bigger than his tutor Edward Witten.

It's just that this old gentleman is also famous for his eccentric temper, and his popularity in the academic world is not as good as that of Wei Teng.

"It's too early to discuss who is right and who is wrong," Lu Zhou stood up from the chair and paused for a moment, then continued, "I will communicate this issue with Professor Faltings."

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to communicate with Professor Faltings... What he's sure of will basically not change, and..." After hesitating for a while, Luo Wenxuan reminded, "...If you can't convince him, I'm afraid Will be ridiculed constantly by him."

"These are secondary," Lu Zhou said indifferently. "If he is right, I will correct it. If I am right, I will not change a symbol."

Luo Wenxuan asked back: "What if none of you can convince anyone?"

This kind of situation is also quite common in the mathematics world. When two people have almost the same academic level and have very close discourse power in the academic world, it is really difficult for anyone to convince the other on some plausible issues.

After all, the deeper the research into the frontier field, the less obvious many things seem. Sometimes for the same issue, two different schools of thought have two different viewpoints, and they have been arguing for quite a long time, which is also possible.

Of course, this is where the charm of mathematics lies.

No matter how much controversy exists, there is never a controversy that lasts forever, and the right side will always stand out from the crowd. Even though the three mathematical crises that broke out in history almost shook the foundation of the entire mathematical edifice, people finally found a suitable way to resolve all the controversies.

"If no one can convince anyone..."

After pausing for a moment, Lu Zhou continued as if nothing had happened.

"It depends on who of us can convince the others."

...

There will never be an impenetrable wall in this world.

Especially when there are a group of gossip-loving creatures lying on the edge of this wall.

On the night that Lu Zhou received the review comments from "Annual Journal of Mathematics", a major event happened on Mathoverflow.

Someone suddenly broke out that the paper on the proof of the "quasi-Riemann conjecture" submitted by Lu Zhou in the "Annual Journal of Mathematics" was sent back by the reviewer Professor Faltings.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately ignited the topic of the entire forum. Almost as long as you open the forum, you can see people discussing this matter enthusiastically.

[Professor Lu was rejected? ! The sun is out in the west! 】

[As I said, his proof has serious flaws, you all spray me. Now look, I'm not the only one who thinks so, even Professor Faltings thinks so, why don't you spray it? idiots! 】

[It's just that rejection is actually very common, right? Even for top scholars, it is inevitable that there will be some small flaws in the papers. 】

[It's not as simple as rejecting the manuscript, didn't you see that screenshot? The wording of the rejection is not as simple as some small flaws, but "there are major flaws in the core argument." Do you know what that means? Generally speaking, the appearance of this sentence means that if you cannot provide a satisfactory supplementary explanation for this, then the next time you will not call back for rectification, but throw it directly into the wastebasket! 】

[No matter how you say this is too unusual...]

[Nothing unusual, the reviewer is Faltings after all. This old guy is notoriously ruthless, otherwise he would not be able to get along in Princeton, and went back to Germany to teach... This is too offensive, please allow me to remain anonymous. 】

【…】

In fact, strictly speaking, the review process that the reviewers are in should be kept strictly confidential, but for some reason, some screenshots of the reply to the review comments were leaked by some boring person.

After discovering this matter, the editorial department of "Annual of Mathematics" immediately contacted the administrator of the Mathoverflow forum, and the administrator of the M forum also cooperatively deleted the leaking post. But the Internet is like this. Once a secret is known by more than two people, it cannot be called a secret.

What's more, there is so little gossip in the mathematics world that even trivial matters can arouse heated discussions in the entire academic circle.

Not to mention, it's Faltings and Lu Zhou, the two big bosses. The focus of the debate revolves around Riemann's conjecture, a nuclear-bomb-level problem...

The argument continued for three full days, with no response from either party.

One is a forum that young scholars don't go to very often, and the other has an account, but he probably doesn't bother to explain.

While the discussion continued to ferment, and when people were discussing the further actions of the landing boat or Faltings, Jinling University, which had been outside the vortex of public opinion, suddenly released a heavy news on the official website.

The content of the message is very short, just a few hundred words.

However, the amount of information in it is so huge that almost no one can react.

[On December 18, our school will launch an academic report on the theme of "Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis Proof" in the auditorium of the old campus, and answer questions from scholars from all walks of life on the spot in the process of proof. At present, the registration channel is open, and those who are interested in participating, please submit the registration information before the deadline on December 7. 】

[Speaker of the report: Lu Zhou (Academician)]

Almost on the day this news was released...

The entire mathematics world suddenly boiled!