Chapter 860 A Decisive Battle at the Top of Jinling?

On the day of December 18th.

The auditorium of the old campus of Jinling University welcomed a group of special guests. This group of people has different skin colors, ranging in age from their twenties to their seventies and eighties.

The gathering of so many foreign friends is really unusual for this old campus where few people from our school have been here a few times, so it has also attracted the frequent attention of countless students.

In order to maintain order and ensure the safety of the speakers and participants, the Jinling City authorities mobilized almost half of the city's police force, and even dispatched armed police officers and soldiers to escort the entire report meeting.

It is quite rare for a scholar to receive such a degree of attention.

But if you think about it, it's actually not that surprising.

More than 2,000 internationally renowned scholars attended the report meeting, and there were even thousands of people who did not get the admission qualification and went to Jinling to participate in this industry event at their own expense or with their instructors, just to know the results of the report meeting as soon as possible PhD, even master students.

With such a huge lineup, even top players such as ICM and ICPAM may find it difficult to compete with one of them.

Standing at the gate of the old campus, with Chinese and English bilingual volunteer armbands hanging on their arms, two postgraduate students who were fooled by a sentence of "showing you to see the world" from some teacher's office, with emotion on their faces Looking at such a grand occasion in the distance.

"This ostentation can be called the Huashan Discussion of Swords in the mathematics world!"

"Where is Huashan Lunjian, there are only two protagonists in this report meeting, and it is clear that they are fighting on the top of the Forbidden City..."

One is the youngest Fields Medal winner and the well-deserved king among young scholars, and the other is one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry and the first person under the Pope in algebraic geometry.

In such a comparison, Ye Gucheng and Ximen Chuuxue are really in a hurry.

Looking at the crowded entrance of the auditorium, the two Xiaomengxin who had just half-stepped into the mathematics world couldn't help being fascinated in the silence.

Thousands of words come together in one sentence...

The Philippine Award for the strong is so terrifying!

Just passing by the door, Xu Chenyang, who came from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to participate in this grand event, almost couldn't laugh out loud when he heard the conversation between the two Xiaomengxin.

A decisive battle at the top of the Forbidden City?

This statement is quite interesting.

At this moment, he suddenly saw a familiar face not far away. Surprised, he said hello from a distance away, and walked over quickly.

"Brother Zhang! Haha, long time no see!"

Hearing the greeting, Zhang Shouwu, who was walking towards the auditorium, stopped. When he saw Xu Chenyang walking towards him, a surprised expression appeared on his face.

"Brother Xu? What a coincidence, you're here too?"

"It coincides with the decisive battle between the two big men on the top of Jinling, so I have to come," Xu Chenyang joked, and continued, "What's more, the Riemann conjecture has been standing on the building of analytic number theory for so many years. Even Grothendieck The old gentleman hesitated before this difficulty, and now he said that Academician Lu opened a hole in the fortress of Riemann's conjecture. I believe that anyone who has understood how terrifying this difficulty is will not miss it. Let's have a party."

As an outstanding young scholar in China and even the world, he naturally received an invitation from Jinling University. But then again, even if he didn't receive the invitation, he would most likely sign up for this report at his own expense.

After all, the opportunity to witness history is only once in a lifetime.

Any miss is a loss.

Apparently, Zhang Shouwu was amused by the idea of ​​a decisive battle at the top of Jinling, "Haha, that's right. It's just that the situation seems a little grim."

Xu Chenyang asked with a smile: "Why, Brother Zhang doesn't like Academician Lu?"

"It's not a question of whether to look or not, it's just that Faltins is not easy to deal with." Sighing lightly, as if recalling a very distant past, Professor Zhang said slowly, "When I went to Princeton to study, The first thing I did when I was under the old Mr. Faltings was to ask him if he could give me a topic. The old man only said a word to me at that time."

Xu Chenyang: "What did he say?"

"...I have done all the easy questions, and the rest are very difficult. For example, the Riemann conjecture," squinting at the auditorium hall not far away, watching the mathematicians from all over the world entering the venue one after another, holding Zhang Shouwu of the thermos said with a nostalgic voice, "I have been away from Princeton for so many years, and until now I have not understood the humor of the Germans. But one thing is certain, his understanding of the Riemann conjecture is probably the highest in the world today. First……"

"If even he thinks that Professor Lu's proof is wrong and appears in this report."

"Then I'm afraid he's ready to teach him a lesson."

Professor Zhang's point of view is a relatively pessimistic one.

In fact, before the start of this report, not everyone in the domestic mathematics community was optimistic about Lu Zhou's success. As he said, people who understand Riemann's conjecture better than Faltings may have brought the research results to the grave.

If Faltings thinks that there is a problem with Lu Zhou's proof, and there is a problem with the core argument...

Then more than 80% can not be wrong.

However, after hearing Professor Zhang's words, Xu Chenyang just smiled gently and said in a chatty tone

"I met Professor Lu at the Brazilian Congress of Mathematicians and had a short chat with him. Although it was only about NS equations and some problems in the field of partial differential equations, the impression he left on me has continued to this day It’s all fresh in my memory.”

Zhang Shouwu frowned, looked at him curiously and asked.

"What impression?"

"He's a man of miracles."

After a pause, Professor Xu Chenyang continued.

"No matter how ordinary the method is, he can dig out those clues that are ignored by everyone... no matter how small the clues are."

"I believe he will perform miracles again."

"And this is why I traveled thousands of miles to come here from the east coast of North America."

...

In the auditorium, there were many people.

If there are practitioners in related fields standing here, they will definitely not be able to help but exclaim.

Almost half of the big cows in the mathematics world sit here, and the research fields cover almost all research directions of various branches of mathematics.

Just kidding, if someone drops a bomb, the entire mathematics world will go back at least half a century...

Standing next to the podium, Lu Zhou in a suit and leather shoes took a deep breath to let his heartbeat gradually stabilize.

Although it had been a while since a report meeting had been held, this feeling of tension was no stranger to him.

It was as if there was an unknown force flowing through his veins, making him more focused and more active than ever before.

He squeezed his fist lightly, and just as he was about to review what he had prepared earlier, an old man in a black turtleneck came over to him.

Leaning on crutches with dry fingers, like a candle that could be blown out by a gust of wind, the old man tremblingly stopped beside the steps, staring at Lu Zhou motionlessly.

After a long time, a rare smile without sarcasm or ridicule suddenly cracked on that ravine face, and he spoke.

"are you ready?"

Knowing what he was waiting for, Lu Zhou nodded.

"Ready."

Professor Faltings grinned.

However, those eagle-like eyes were shining with sharp edges, and there was no smile in them.

"I hope you are really ready. On this kind of issue that concerns the future of the entire mathematics community, I will not show mercy."

"Please be sure to do this," Lu Zhou said calmly with a gesture of invitation, "I will leave it to you to defend the rigor of the mathematics world."

"Ah."

Stretching out his hand to press the brim of the hat, the old man dropped a word and turned around.

"Even if you don't say it, I will do it."