I just want to be a quiet scholar

Chapter 218 The world is so big

The world's great wonders.

The rivers and lakes are dangerous, so drive carefully.

Without further ado, Shen Qi returned to the apartment and immediately submitted the "Proof of the Walsh Conjecture of the Diophantine Equation" to the online submission system of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

A series of studies on the Diophantine equation, the most famous ones are:

BSD, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dell conjecture, is one of the seven Millennium Difficulties that has not yet been solved. (hell level)
Fermat's big conjecture has been proved by British mathematician Andrew Wiles, and Fermat's last theorem can now be used directly. (nightmare level)
Catalan's conjecture, proved by the Romanian mathematician Mihailescu, is now known as Catalan's theorem. (difficult level)
The proof of Walsh's conjecture solves a relatively difficult problem in the Diophantine series of equations. Shen Qi's research results are very meaningful and have certain mathematical value, which is in line with his current 9th grade mathematics status.

"Professor Mikhailescu should be a master level above 10. Professor Wiles has won the Fields Medal. He estimates that he is at the level of 14? BSD ranks second in difficulty among the seven millennium problems , second only to Hodge's conjecture, if you want to prove BSD, you must have a level 15."

Shen Qi was not complacent because he successfully proved Walsh's conjecture. In front of the real mathematicians, he was an ordinary little person, at best a maverick.

No matter what, Shen Xiaoniu is very happy today, and the first shot after coming to Princeton has been fired.

Although it was only an internal attack and the official results have not yet been published, Shen Qi believes that everything is going in a good direction.

There is an unofficial ranking list of the difficulty of solving the seven Millennium Problems, which is recognized by most mathematicians around the world.

The seven millennium puzzles, in order of difficulty from most to least difficult, are:

1. Hodge conjecture

2. BSD
3. Poincaré conjecture
4. Navier-Stokes equation
5. P vs. NP problem
6. Yang-Mie equation

7. Riemann Hypothesis

The Russian mathematician Perelman who proved the Poincaré conjecture is a big shot. He is low-key, but he is a real big shot.

Shen Qi, a calf-level character, dare not easily try the Millennium Problem, which is too high in the ranking, so let’s start with the Riemann Hypothesis, which is ranked seventh. He has already started to do so.

The subject of the Riemann zeta function ζ(2n+1) does not directly complete the proof of the Riemann conjecture. It is a whetstone, and the responsibility is to sharpen the machete that launches the general attack.

Previously, Professor Muller's arrangement was to let Shen Qi be Mary's assistant, and the two would cooperate deeply to complete the task.

Although the big inheritance is from the Göttingen School, in terms of specific technical operations, Shen Qi and Mary are not in the same style. They used two different solutions to solve the ζ(2n+1) problem.

Professor Muller is a mentor, and he still hopes to see a situation where peace is the most important thing. After all, Shen Qi and Mary are both his students.

The problem of Walsh's conjecture was solved, and Shen Qi concentrated on solving the subject of the Riemann zeta function ζ(2n+1). After half a month, he hoped to impress Professor Muller completely.

In Professor Muller's four-person research team, organizational relationships were not complicated.

Muller is the eldest (professor-level), Mary, who is very ambitious, is the second (doctoral assistant), and Jonas, who is very senior but uncontested, is the third (doctoral student). Shen Qi is temporarily ranked fourth (graduate student).

The sudden emergence of Shen Qi poses a threat to Mary's position as the second child. Although Mary is Shen Qi's nominal project team leader, she can't restrain Shen Qi, and instead, she is blown away by Shen Qi.

Princeton is a sanctuary for reasoning. People with knowledge, culture and academic strength can do whatever they want.

Shen Qi's paper "Proof of the Walsh Conjecture of the Diophantine Equation" has been submitted to the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society" for a week, and the submission system shows that it has passed the preliminary review.

"Yes, Americans are so efficient?" Shen Qi was inexplicably excited. "Journal of the American Mathematical Society" is one of the four major journals. It only publishes four issues a year, and each issue publishes about ten mathematical papers.

It is very difficult to publish papers in the four top mathematics journals in the world. It is very rare that the papers of graduate students are included. It happens once every ten years on average, and in fact it has only happened twice so far.

Terence Tao published a paper in the Journal of Mathematics when he was a graduate student at Princeton. He was under 20 years old at the time, and he became the youngest full professor in the history of UCLA at the age of 24.

In the last ten years, German Peter Schulz published a paper on "Inventions of Mathematics" during his postgraduate study at the Clay Institute. He also became the youngest professor of mathematics at the University of Bonn at the age of 24, and at the same time He is also the youngest professor of mathematics in German history.

In this ten-year period, Shen Qi also wanted to try what it was like to publish papers in the four major mathematics journals during his graduate studies.

In a few days, Professor Muller's next academic meeting will be held soon.

Shen Qi met Mary, and it was Mary who invited him.

"Your proof of Walsh's conjecture is perfect, and the response on arVix is ​​good." Mary became more and more haggard, with crow's feet looming.

"Mary, I didn't mean to target you, it's all about mathematics." Shen Qi never thought that his little achievement would cause such a big blow to Mary.No harm without comparison, no way, it's all about math.

"Talk about the subject of the Riemann zeta function ζ(2n+1). In the regular academic meeting in a few days, I think we should put together a written report instead of two." When Mary said this, she thought She had no confidence, but she bit the bullet and said it anyway. After all, she was Shen Qi's team leader, and she was mainly responsible for this subject.

"Can I see your latest research progress first?" Shen Qi asked.

Although Mary has shown a submissive attitude, Shen Qi still doesn't feel completely at ease with her. If you show me your thesis first, then I will consider it.

"You have the right to do this." Mary unzipped her bag and handed her thesis to Shen Qi.

At this moment, Mary's cell phone rang, and she made an apologetic gesture and picked up the phone: "Hey, Pete... what, are you serious?"

After picking up the phone, Mary looked even more haggard, and the haggardness turned into anger to the extreme.

Mary got up, walked outside the coffee shop, and yelled at the person on the other end of the phone.

A few minutes later, Mary returned to the coffee shop and sat down. She was exhausted physically and mentally but pretended nothing happened: "Shen Qi, so what do you think of my thesis?"

"I think your current state is very bad. You should take a break and go on vacation." Shen Qi found out that Mary was a workaholic. She had a private matter that made her miserable and exhausted, but she tried her best to present herself as a strong woman. to reality.

Mary shook her head. "No, I'm more awake than ever."

"Your full name is Mary-Schulz-Schmidt, so which one is your original surname?" Shen Qi asked.

"Schmidt."

"So your husband's name is Schultz?"

"Yes."

"German?"

"Yes."

"Is he also an academic? I'm sorry Mary, I shouldn't inquire about your privacy, you can choose not to answer."

"He's a professor of mathematics."

"Which university do you teach at?" Shen Qi seemed to have gotten something extraordinary.

"Bonn University, my alma mater, his name is Peter Schulz." Mary said.

"The Schultz who won 11 mathematics awards in a row?"

"Yes."

"I knew..." The doubts in Shen Qi's mind were resolved, and then new questions arose: "Your husband is a mathematical genius. He has won the Cole Prize, the highest award in the field of number theory. Then Mary, about Riemann For questions about analytic number theory such as the zeta function, you should ask your husband, why are you asking me? I have never won a prize, except for the Olympiad."

Pete Schultz is an award-gathering maniac, a perverted genius who made Shen Qi's brother Yunshen kneel down, and Yunshen is the youngest full professor in the history of Yale University.

Pete Schultz boasted in his twenties that he would win more than ten math awards by the time he was 30.

He did it, and now he has 11 mathematics awards including PCP Award, Ramanujan Award, Clay Research Award, Cole Award, Ostrovsky Award, Fermat Award, Leibniz Award...etc. .

Except for the three major awards of F+W+A, Schultz has almost swept away all the mathematics awards that can be won at his age, and he is just 30 years old.

So Yunshen knelt down to Schultz.

"He studies his, I study mine." Mary said coldly.

(End of this chapter)