A quiet home in Princeton, New Jersey.

A bald white old man stuffed his clothes into the suitcase and did not return to the ground.

“No time, please go find someone! Now, my teacher is lying in the hospital bed, maybe this will be the last side I see him! At least this month, I don’t want to see anything related to mathematics.”

The middle-aged man in a suit has a sly smile on his face, but he has no temper.

After all, standing in front of him is the famous Pierre Pierre Deligne, Visa conjector, Field’s Medal, Crawford, Wolf Prize, and last year’s Abel Prize. His trophy was basically taken up by him.

Even in the Princeton Institute of Advanced Institute, a building that houses the entire World mathematics genius, he can’t hide his rays of light.

And Davis, but an ordinary editor of the “Mathematics Chronicle”, graduated from the Johns Hopkins University Department of Journalism, and only studied the mathematics.

Although the “Mathematics Chronicle” is the son of Princeton University, but after all, he followed the Johns Hopkins University “after the mother.” Coupled with the “mathematics annual” that Princeton is now responsible for, there are four kings in the semester publications, and the resources that lean on the “Mathematics Chronicle” are naturally less and less.

In order to preserve the influence of the “Mathematics Chronicle” in the academic world, the editors of the journal department of Johns Hopkins University Press are also broken.

Originally, if it was an ordinary number theory, it is not worthy of Davis’s heart. However, it is a coincidence that this technical editor has a certain amount of research on logarithm theory. When he first reviewed the manuscript, he immediately discovered that the value of thesis was extraordinary.

There are countless conjectures about the distribution of Mersenne prime numbers, but none of the conjectures have been proven so far. One of the most mathematical aesthetics, to the extent of precise expression, is undoubtedly the famous Zhou’s Conjecture.

However, the guess is ultimately a conjecture.

These conjectures are not proven in a day, and they are always Crown Prince.

When is it proved that it can be upgraded to become the theorem and crowned!

Seeing that Pierre Deligne was indifferent, Davis did not give up and continued to persuade: “Please, Pierre Deligne, in the field of number theory, your research is the most outstanding of the Professors I have seen! After seeing this thesis, I thought of you the first time. Looking at our cooperation for so many years, can you take a look?”

“These flats are useless to me,” he slammed the suitcase, Pierre Deligne coldly smiled. “I don’t need to say that I know.”

He is not so violent at ordinary times, at most like the other geniuses in the Princeton Institute, a little arrogant. If it is normal, Davis personally took an interesting thesis to him, how can he take time to study it.

However, in interesting things, you have to look at the occasion.

His teacher, Alexander Grothendieck mister, is now lying on the hospital bed, and he may be thrown away at any time.

Where does he still have a mind to study what mathematics questions? I can’t wait to fly to France now.

Not to mention the volunteer work of academic editors, even the research projects of the institute, he has been pushed away.

Davis tried to convince: “Don’t you want to bring a gift to Alexander Grothendieck mister?”

“Gift?” Pierre Deligne said aggressively. “Take a pile of waste paper in the past? I might as well feel more meaningful when I bought a bunch of flowers on the street after I arrived in France!”

“I assure you that this thesis is definitely not as bad as you think.” Davis said with sincerity, “Is it true that GFB Riemann’s Conjecture is exactly what you want for your teacher? The distribution of Mersenne prime numbers has been It was solved, we moved towards the crown of this mathematics world and took another step forward…even if it was only a small step! I still remember the sentence you said in last year’s academic report, the road leading to the end of Riemann’s Zetafunction. In the dark, you need countless candles to illuminate… Now, the match is in your hand.”

Staring at Davis’s eyes, Pierre Deligne was silent for a while, and foul-mouthed to take the thesis in his hand.

“Fak!”

In the end, as a Scholar, he still couldn’t stand the curiosity.

“A proof of Zhou’s Conjecture?” Pierre Deligne frowned slightly.

A few years ago, this kind of thesis he did not know how many copies he saw, and it has only recently become less. People who think they are smart always like to pick some seemingly simple questions, but they can’t find the thorny road.

If Zhou’s Conjecture is proven, it can really help GFB Riemann’s Conjecture research. After all, the Riemann zetafunction ζ(s)’s behavior is closely related to the frequency of the prime numbers, and the Riemann hypothesis discusses the equation ζ(s)=0 Case.

See the name of thesis author.

Pierre Deligne squatted.

Lu·Zhou?

Chinese people? Still Chinese?

There are many outstanding mathematics homes in Asia, but he has never heard of this name…

The heart could not help but take a bit of contempt, but thought that Davis should not fool himself with the kind of thing that looks like a parallel. Pierre Deligne still looks down to the bottom.

The wall clock on the wall ticks around.

One minute……

five minutes……

ten minutes……

Pierre Deligne kept his initial position, staring at the first page of thesis, not even turning the page.

Seeing this façade of Professor Pierre Deligne, Davis controls the rhythm of breathing and tries to disturb his thinking as much as possible.

The more you look down, the more serious Pierre Deligne’s expression is.

It’s about another five minutes.

Leaning the suitcase’s lever against the wall, his brief remark returned to the study with A4 paper and the door closed.

Davis relaxed, this acted under the stiff shoulders and sat freely on the sofa in the living room.

From the experience of so many years, Professor Pierre Deligne’s emphasis on a certainsis is positively related to his strength in closing the office door.

If you go to the shredder, there is absolutely no need to close the door of the study.

Sitting in the study, Pierre Deligne took the draft paper out of the drawer and began the process of verifying the thesis.

The author’s argumentation is clear, logical and rigorous, and the method of application is so clever that he can’t pick the fault.

Even the places that can be improved can’t be found.

What makes him strange is exactly here. Except for the somewhat crappy English and the slightly sloppy readings, from this argumentation process, it is completely impossible to see that the writer is a newcomer. .

It’s too smooth.

Smooth and unbelievable.

He is more willing to believe that in the five-page paper argumentation process, there is a trap that looks at the past and is easily overlooked!

Can you pass his eyes?

interesting.

An hour has passed.

Looking at the last line of the silence for a long time, Pierre Deligne put down the thesis print and the draft paper next to it, sighed, and spit out a word in French.

“Great.”

If he said that an hour ago, he still had doubts in his mind.

So far, he can almost be sure that there is really no problem with this five-page argumentation process.

In addition to his power, he couldn’t think of anything else.

If possible, he really wants to see the author of this thesis. However, there is no chance in the near future. After returning from the French vacation, he will soon participate in the new project of the Princeton Research Institute, and will be busy in the next few months.

Perhaps, this piece of thesis can really cause the interest of the teacher, maybe?

Although he knows that this possibility is very embarrassing, his teacher has not studied mathematics for many years.

Davis, who walked back and forth in the living room, finally turned his attention to the bathtub next to the entrance cabinet, slammed the fish tank glass with his fingers, and teased the goldfish inside to pass the time.

At this time, the door of the study suddenly opened, and Pierre Deligne holding thesis paper came out.

Upon seeing it, Davis rushed forward and asked, “How?”

Typing thesis manuscript into the suitcase, Pierre Deligne said without lifting his head.

“I need a little time, and I will reply you at the latest one week.”

Hearing this sentence, Davis held his breath for a moment, and his heart was excited.

After working for so many years, he really knows the Professor too.

A thesis, if not directly inserted into the shredder, has already shown that he can’t pick a big problem on this thesis. If he didn’t throw this thesis into his hand, it would be enough to show that the contents of this thesis are enough to draw his attention!

A week’s time is nothing.

It is impossible for any rigorous academic editor to pass a thesis. It is necessary to repeatedly scrutinize and check for a long time. This is not only the rigor of a mathematics family, but also a Scholar, the minimum respect for his field of study!

A World-class mathematics puzzle is about to be solved.

The academic value of the “Mathematics Chronicle” is undoubtedly a huge improvement!

As for Davis himself…

What else can better prove his performance as a technical editor than picking a piece of gold from a pile of sand?


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