Into Unscientific

in 2022.

Although Weibo and Tieba have long been criticized as 'women's restroom' and 'men's restroom', they despise and diss each other.

But one thing no one can deny is that

The number of users of these two platforms is indeed quite large.

For live people on online platforms, monthly active MAU and daily active DAU are generally used to describe the statistics.

How to calculate each platform will have its own algorithm, such as the number of times the APP is opened, the total usage time, etc., the overall is actually relatively objective.

Basically, a platform with more than 100 million daily active users can be said to be a national platform.

For example, the DAU of WeChat is close to 900 million, and the DAU of King of Glory is basically 80 million.

In addition, the MAU of the China Literature platform is 220 million, but this is all the platforms of the group, and the starting point of the main website is 119.8 million.

However, the payment rate is less than 8%, only 8.1 million, what a miserable word.

As for the DAU of Weibo is

2 billion.

This value is basically reasonable, after all, China's population base is too large.

Of course.

The DAU here refers to the users of Weibo who are scattered on various topics, and some celebrities have tens of millions of fans and hundreds of millions of fans just look at it.

on the other hand.

This kind of user base can also explain one thing:

That is, there are still many normal people on Weibo.

This part of normal people naturally also includes many relevant people in professional fields.

For example, screenwriters and authors in the field of art.

Such as doctors and nurses in the medical field.

Another example.

Enthusiasts and practitioners in the field of mathematics.

Although there are not many people in the field of mathematics or engineering.

But when it comes to professional content, they can often explode a lot of influence.

For example, you can often see some forwarded chat records in the QQ group, and a report or paper screenshot full of terminology at the beginning.

Then two or three "Understanding Brothers" below analyzed it with seemingly high-quality words, and a Nobel Prize-level achievement appeared, and the speed and wide spread were astonishing.

This shows that although there are many people, there is still a strong desire to eat melons for cutting-edge academics.

So soon.

The remarks of Wang Tong and others began to spread quickly after they were released, and then something happened:

They were labeled as washing the grounds of HKUST.

"Crazy!"

Seeing the random comments posted on his Weibo, the veins on Wang Tong's forehead were about to explode:

"Wife, where do you think I washed the ground for Xu Yun? The deduction process of the Mersenne prime number conjecture is indeed all right?"

"Oh, there is another person who said that the University of Science and Technology is protecting him. Do you really think that the University of Science and Technology will endorse such a student? Wouldn't it be easier to directly close the comments and ban the speech if you really want to keep it?"

Looking at the angry Wang Tong, Zhang Ying came behind her boyfriend with a light smile, and rubbed his shoulder happily:

"A Tong, I told you to stay out of the game a long time ago. When you encounter this kind of thing, at most, just don't follow suit. Otherwise, if you disagree with the mainstream opinion, you will get a hat on you."

"In the end, you still don't believe it. What you say can be reasonable, now? You have a long memory?"

As a little girl who often hangs on Weibo and occasionally chases stars, Zhang Ying has a much deeper understanding of internet explosions than Wang Tong.

When Wang Tong told her that there might be other secrets about this matter, while she believed her boyfriend's judgment, she immediately guessed that the water of this matter might be much deeper than what she saw so far.

So she persuaded Wang Tong not to end at that time, so as not to get into trouble.

In the end, Wang Tong didn't expect Wang Tong's top and bottom to be as hard, insisting that he only mentioned the matter of Mersenne primes, not trying to whitewash Xu Yun.

Then

The mob gave Wang Tong a severe blow.

Looking at the comments that have been added to the 121st floor, Wang Tong's expression is still a little puzzled or even aggrieved:

"Honey, aren't these people unreasonable?"

"Obviously talking about the facts, but saying that I'm beating around the bush to wash things up for Xu Yun, what's the basis for that?"

"To put it bluntly, couldn't it be a scumbag who deduced this result? Character and ability are not positively related."

Zhang Ying shook her head lightly, comfortingly said:

"Give up, Ah Tong, don't think about reasoning online these days."

"Nowadays, once someone does something wrong, he must be painted black, and you won't even be given a chance to stand up."

"As long as the content of the announcement does not meet their wishes, there must be an inside story. I would rather believe gossip than believe in rumors, just get used to it."

"How about Ah Tong, let's do something interesting now, follow me into the house with Elbow."

Clinker Wang Tong shook his head, moved away his girlfriend's hand, and said earnestly:

"Forget it, wife, you go to rest first, this matter is not straightened out, I probably won't be able to sleep tonight."

Then he thought for a while, opened a QQ of a friend who graduated from the University of Science and Technology, and typed to ask:

"Dog, why don't you ask me about someone?"

Seeing this, Zhang Ying curled her lips, she had nothing to do with her boyfriend:

"Then I'm going to put on a mask."

In fact, neither Zhang Ying nor Wang Tong knew.

Wang Tong's seemingly angry behavior is not an isolated case on the Internet.

Under the impact of a large number of bulldozer-like remarks.

Some people chose to delete the comment.

Some people were not reconciled, and either started to understand Xu Yun's information through their own channels, or directly sprayed back.

The people who choose the latter are not even aware that their actions are approaching the image of Xu Yunyoujun step by step.

at the same time.

Inside HKUST.

Department of Cyber ​​Security.

"Dean Tian."

Looking at the complex data curves in front of him, Wang Qingchen raised his head excitedly:

"According to our analysis, in the last four hours, # USTC announced the proof of the infinity of Mersenne prime numbers # , there are obviously a lot of comments from mathematics practitioners or enthusiasts!"

"And through portrait capture, we found that the number of people who meet the definition of 'friendly army' is increasing significantly!"

Tian Liangwei's face didn't change when he heard the words, but his fists were quietly clenched together.

Although in theory.

Only Weibo officials can grasp the behavioral portraits of Weibo users, and it is almost impossible for ordinary people to obtain relevant data.

But this is only for the 'normal' situation.

Now there is Wang Qingchen in the University of Science and Technology, and Huadun's biological department has Xiaorong, the top three hackers in China. It is too easy for them to obtain some data.

For example # University of Science and Technology of China announces the entry # proving the infinity of Mersenne prime numbers.

Not so long ago.

They intercepted the Weibo database and designed two logics for this entry.

One logic is to capture the historical speeches of commentators, and accounts that mention mathematics and equations are unified by default as relevant practitioners or enthusiasts.

Although there may be errors in this approach, what HKUST needs is not precise measurement, but to analyze a trend.

So whether some people were misidentified or missed is actually irrelevant.

Another logic is to screen whether they have posted secondary Weibo, and also set up some keywords, and those who match the keywords will be labeled as "friends".

Of course.

This kind of friendly army is not necessarily a righteous person who really thinks that Xu Yun is innocent. They are defined as [users who were innocently angered by the Internet bomber and then posted a second blog to try to refute].

Among them, there may be a true friend like Wang Tong who thinks Xu Yun is innocent after knowing him, or it may be a truer party who fights against others.

Anyway anyway.

They all played the role of friendly forces in behavior, and that was enough.

However, Wang Qingchen and others analyzed the data, and judged whether the relevant trend was increasing or slowing down through the increment.

As for the computing power to analyze these data?

Naturally, it was provided by the supercomputer of HKUST.

This is also a part of the so-called "power of the University of Science and Technology". For this reason, the University of Science and Technology even suspended two key projects to free up super-computing time.

Then Tian Liangwei thought about it, and asked Wang Qingchen:

"Xiao Wang, compared to the first four hours, how much has the specific ratio of 'friendly troops' increased?"

Wang Qingchen tapped on the keyboard a few times, and quickly replied:

"Dean Tian, ​​according to the data, the current popularity of the entire topic is 1832145, which means more than 1.8 million comments or a single Weibo."

"Among them, there are 22,344 Weibo posts matching the portraits of mathematics practitioners or enthusiasts, a sixfold increase from four hours ago."

"As for the proportion of 'friendly troops' who posted the second blog, it has increased by about 15 times."

"In addition, if the influence of some popular science bloggers is taken into account, this ratio will actually be even higher."

Tian Liangwei nodded slightly.

According to the fourth round of subject evaluation released by the Ministry of Education and the Graduate Education Development Center, a total of 129 universities across the country have established mathematics departments.

Counting 100 students in one grade, there are more than 12,000 mathematics students graduating every year.

Based on 40 years of accumulation, including various enthusiasts, students who have taken mathematics in college, returnees, etc.

At present, the number of people who can initially understand the derivation process of Mersenne prime numbers in the whole country is probably close to one million.

Deducting users who have not registered on Weibo, the number 22344 still has room for growth in theory.

At present

The first wind has blown.

But in terms of magnitude, this wind is not enough, far from enough.

Think here.

Tian Liangwei couldn't help but took a deep breath, looked at a middle-aged man beside him, and said:

"Mr. Huang, let's start the next step."

The middle-aged man surnamed Huang nodded:

"no problem."

After he finished speaking, he turned around, went outside and made a call.

ten minutes later.

Extranet.

An account named Gregory Margulis suddenly posted a post in English:

【unbelievable! I received an email from the University of Science and Technology of China. A young Chinese man named Xu Yun seems to have made achievements in the infinity of Mason primes. My team has passed the preliminary verification】

In just ten minutes.

This news was topped in the top 30 overseas hot searches.

at the same time.

Domestic Tuantuan also posted a Weibo, the content is a screenshot of this person:

[Heavy news! The current top mathematician Gregory Margulis tweeted, announcing that he has received a verification email from the University of Science and Technology of China about the infinity of Mersenne prime numbers. Are we really going to witness history? 】

This Weibo has been sent out. # Gregory Margulis # This term quickly hit the trending list.

This hotly searched airborne is certainly contributed by the University of Science and Technology, but it is also related to its content.

After all, the person who tweeted it was

Gregory Margulis! (In fact, I wanted to choose Tate at first, but unfortunately this one has passed away)

For every math lover.

Who is the greatest mathematician in history? Everyone may have different candidates in their hearts.

Maybe some think it’s Gauss, some think it’s Riemann, and some think it’s the person who calculated Hideichi Akai to be five meters tall

But if you add a qualification of "alive" to the word, then there are not many answers.

Generally speaking.

The easiest way to judge a person's achievement is to judge his honor, especially the honor of some top awards.

well known.

There are three major awards in mathematics, namely the Fields Medal, the Wolf Medal and the Abel Prize.

Abbreviated as F, W, and A.

Some mathematicians have had either of these FWAs.

Some get both.

Still others have won them all, and such people are often referred to as Grand Slams.

At present, there are only six living "Grand Slam" players in mathematics:

Jean-Pierre Serre.

Andrew Wiles.

Pierre René Deligne.

John Milnor.

John Thompson.

as well as

Gregory Margulis who sent that feed.