Omnipotent Data

Chapter 486

Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Mathematics.

The Annals of Mathematics is known as the largest journal in the field of mathematics and is affiliated with the Institute of Advanced Mathematics of Princeton University.

Although it was late at night, several offices in the Institute of Advanced Mathematics were still brightly lit.

"Bill, make me another cup of coffee!" An old professor with a white beard ordered to his students without looking up.

"Professor, you haven't rested for a day and a night. For your health, I suggest you stop working." Bill persuaded.

The old professor wearing presbyopic glasses leaned over, his gaze swept across the lines of formulas on the paper, as if looking at another peerless beauty.

"Genius, what kind of genius brain is able to write such a beautiful mathematical language!"

Seeing that his teacher had been immersed in his own world and couldn't extricate himself, Bill shook his head helplessly, picked up his coffee cup and walked out of the office.

As soon as he went out, he saw a blond young man with a coffee cup coming out of the office next door. The two looked at each other with wry smiles.

"Hey, Bill, what's wrong with this group of professors? They used to take good care of their bodies, but since the dean called everyone together for a meeting the day before yesterday, they've all been working non-stop, like they've been pumped. Dozens of hours." The blond youth asked.

Bill shook his head, "I don't know the specific details."

"But I heard from the teacher that a few days ago, the "Annual Journal of Mathematics" received four submissions. At this stage, what several professors are doing is to verify these four papers. It is not clear which mathematician is responsible for the four papers."

"But I got a gossip. Tomorrow, Professors Fresnel and Cobain from MIT, and Professor Dickens from Harvard University will come to our school to assist the "Annals of Mathematics" in verifying four papers."

"Fuck...fuck!" The blond young man was so surprised that he couldn't speak.

After being stunned for a long time, he murmured, "Fresnel, Cobain, and Dickens, these three are all big bosses of the Philippine Awards!"

"Including the three professors from our school who won the Philippine Award, the total is... six!"

The blond young man suppressed his saliva, "Six Filipino award bosses, with such a luxurious lineup, what are they trying to verify? Also, what kind of article is it that can invite these six bosses!"

Today, there are only eight Philippine Prize winners who are still active in the American mathematics community.

And the "Annual of Mathematics" gathered six people in one breath this time. This is... Is the mathematics world going to have an earthquake?

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The blond youth was right, the mathematics world was indeed about to experience an earthquake.

The editor-in-chief of "Annual Journal of Mathematics" and the chief editor of Brewer, who is also the dean of the School of Advanced Mathematics,

The moment he saw Cheng Nuo's four papers, he had such a premonition.

Cheng Nuo, the editor-in-chief of Brewer is no stranger to this name.

At that time, Cheng Nuo's paper, which solved the two problems of the minimal model program in one fell swoop, was published in the "Annual Journal of Mathematics".

Originally, at that time, Brewer saw that Cheng Nuo had great potential and the mass production was extremely high, so he had the idea of ​​establishing a permanent contracting relationship with Cheng Nuo.

But when Cheng Nuo returned home suddenly, the matter was shelved.

It wasn't until the news that Cheng Nuo was overcoming the BSD conjecture came out that the plan was officially aborted.

Afterwards, Editor-in-Chief Brewer paid little attention to Cheng Nuo, and rarely heard about Cheng Nuo in the international mathematics community.

Until... that day!

The moment Brewer saw the titles of Cheng Nuo's four papers, he was completely stunned.

The first reaction is, how is it possible?

Then he spent more than a day staying up late to briefly read Cheng Nuo's first paper, the "Three-step Proof of the BSD Conjecture".

Although there were a few parts in the middle that he could not fully understand, on the whole, Cheng Nuo's thesis did not contain any logical errors.

This surprised him.

But at the same time, it also made Brewer aware of the seriousness of the situation.

BSD conjecture, has it been proven?

So he immediately held a meeting and brought several top professors from the Institute of Advanced Mathematics to discuss this time.

At the meeting, Brewer handed over four papers to several professors for reading, and finally, they received unanimous attention from several professors.

A deliberation group dedicated to Cheng Nuo's four papers was quickly formed.

Its members include three Philippine Award winners and two Wolf Award winners.

But after two days of research, Brewer found that the review team was completely understaffed.

There are four papers in total, and the paper that proves the BSD conjecture requires at least five professors to review and check.

For the remaining three papers, each paper also requires at least two professors to preside over it.

A total of more than 300 pages of papers, the workload can be described as quite huge.

There is no way, Princeton's manpower is almost exhausted by Brewer, so it can only ask other universities in the United States for help.

I heard that the BSD conjecture might be successfully proved. No one from several universities who received the news could sit still and sent mathematicians to Princeton one after another.

As soon as Professor Fresnel got the news, he boarded the nearest plane and flew to the small town of Princeton.

After more than a year, Professor Fresnel finally heard that familiar name—Cheng Nuo!

And what Cheng Nuo was involved with this time was one of the seven famous conjectures in the mathematics world, the BSD conjecture!

The moment he heard the news, Professor Fresnel was more delighted than surprised.

After being silent for more than a year, Fresnel was really worried that this proud student of himself would be devastated by the setback of the BSD conjecture, and finally disappear in the crowd.

But now, Cheng Nuo has submitted a paper proving the BSD conjecture to the Annals of Mathematics.

Based on Professor Fresnel's understanding of Cheng Nuo, since Cheng Nuo dared to submit a paper and successfully disclose his research, he must have absolute confidence.

Cheng Nuo would never do anything he was not sure about.

Although he didn't understand how Cheng Nuo did it, Professor Fresnel was still proud of himself as a student, and, proud!

Twenty years ago, he proved the Poincaré conjecture, one of the seven major mathematical conjectures, and became famous!

Twenty years later, his student Cheng Nuo proved the BSD conjecture among the seven mathematical conjectures!

This will definitely become a good story in the history of world mathematics.

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Six Philippine Prize winners, four Wolf Prize winners, plus professors sent by other schools, a total of 20 mathematicians formed a luxurious review group in the history of mathematics.

Even the review of the proof process of the Poincaré conjecture twenty years ago did not involve so many bigwigs.

With the participation of several bigwigs, the review process was shortened by half.

It took ten days and overtime, and the four papers were reviewed.

The official website of the Institute of Advanced Mathematics at Princeton also announced this news to the outside world, which is enough to cause a sensation in the world:

BSD conjecture was successfully proved!

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