Ultimate Scholar

United States, Princeton University.

As one of the most famous universities in the world, it was founded in 1746 and has a history of nearly 300 years. For a school, it can be regarded as a long history.

And such a long history naturally makes this school have a profound heritage that other ordinary schools cannot match.

Especially in mathematics.

In a way, since World War II in the last century, it has become the center of world mathematics.

The "Annual of Mathematics", one of the four top journals in mathematics, was also founded by Princeton University, so the word "princeton" is included in the official domain name of "Annual of Mathematics".

Editorial Office of Annals of Mathematics.

"Hey, friends, the market is open. Guess how many submissions we received today?"

The door of the office was opened, and several editors of the "Annual of Mathematics" walked in with a cup of coffee in their hands. Editor Mike sat back in his seat and said with a smile.

"Ghost knows?" Another editor, Cowkins, shook his head with a smile, but then he couldn't help complaining: "Today is Thursday... Big Gift Crab, tomorrow Friday will be off, so there must be a lot of submissions today ! There are at least a hundred articles.”

Dylan sighed and said, "Okay, okay, let's not talk about this kind of stuff, but don't forget, we haven't read all the submissions from the previous week."

"makes sense."

The editors shook their heads helplessly.

For them, it is common practice to complain about too many submissions every day.

No way, who told them that this is the "Annual of Mathematics"?

Although there are few people who study mathematics, the base is still there after all. There will always be some people who have not measured their own ability to submit articles, plus the status of "Mathematics Annals" in the mathematics field...

"We are the gold diggers in the garbage dump~"

Mike hummed the little song he was making up, turned on his computer, entered their submission mailbox, and looked at various submissions.

"The first article... about the proof of Goldbach's conjecture." Mike read out the title of the first submission, and there was a burst of laughter in the office.

For a while, it was full of joy.

When they saw this kind of headline, they knew it was posted by Minke.

If it is really professional, the title will generally be [Any even number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers].

Of course, even if it is such a title, they must have to see if the author recognizes them. If it is not made by some big cow, or the one with a relatively rich resume in the past, they will not believe it, because such a big Probability is also a science.

Don't ask, it's because they have seen a lot. They don't know how crazy the Minke mathematicians are, but what is certain is that these people are very confident.

Just last month, a civil science mathematician who claimed to have proved Kakutani’s conjecture broke into their editorial office and asked them why they hadn’t responded for several months. After searching for a long time, it turned out that they hadn’t even read this article at the beginning. The manuscripts that were just thrown into the trash bin of the system were lost when they were discovered.

Mike shook his head helplessly. In order to avoid encountering the same thing as last time, he replied to the contributor of this article [Sorry, your submission did not meet our submission requirements, you can try to turn around to other Journal].

Well, it's better to be alone than to be happy, so that the editors of other journals can also have fun.

Then without thinking too much, he looked to the next article.

This article looks very professional, whether it is the title or the abstract, it is already very mature.

Of course, according to the usual practice, he would also take a look at the contributor's profile first.

"Well, Skarner Gelton, New York University, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics? He has published... twenty-seven papers in the past, of which there are five papers in the first district, but he has no publishing experience in top journals."

Looks like another scholar trying to challenge the Annals of Mathematics.

But can he succeed?

Mike read the paper, but after a short time, he couldn't help laughing.

Because he directly saw the problems in the argumentation process of this thesis.

Although these editors are not very responsible for the teaching work of Princeton University, they all have the title of professor.

Otherwise, if a bunch of professors from prestigious schools submit articles to them, but the editor doesn't even have a professor's title, naturally he won't be convinced.

"pass."

After replying a rejection email to the associate professor, he continued to look at other submissions.

In this way, after at least ten submissions were rejected by him, he finally saw the eleventh one.

"Hey, why is this article written three days ago? Didn't I read all the papers written five days ago? Could it be that the papers written four days ago were distributed to other people?"

When he saw the submission time, he was a little confused, but soon he didn't take it to heart and looked at the title.

"For every multiple of 4 n=4k, where k is a natural number, there is an Hadamard matrix of order n..."

"Huh? This proposition seems a bit familiar."

Mike was lost in thought.

It seems to have heard of it.

After a long while, there was a sudden shock in his heart.

"This is... Adama's conjecture!"

Adama is well-known in the mathematics world, which means that although the conjectures left by him are relatively unpopular, there are many people who know about them.

And Mike just knew it because he happened to have researched in this direction.

Thinking of this, a lot of interest suddenly came to his heart.

Someone actually tried to prove the Adama conjecture?

This is quite rare, because Minke rarely touches this kind of conjecture.

And its difficulty naturally exists, "Remember that up to now, at most, the Hadamard matrix of order 428 has been constructed?"

Thinking in his heart, he also downloaded all the attachments of this submission.

Which naturally also includes the contributor's information.

No matter how awesome the title of the manuscript is, it is Mike's habit to read the contributor's profile first, so as not to waste time.

It's just that after opening the contributor's profile, after reading the above basic information, Mike felt a little hopeless.

"Li Mu? Only 19 years old? Are you kidding me?"

Leaving aside the boldness of claiming to have proved Adama's conjecture at the age of nineteen, Mike would give this young man a thumbs up if he dared to contribute to their "Annual Mathematics" at the age of nineteen.

Courageous.

Of course, after the thumb, it is completely disbelief.

A nineteen-year-old young man, who may not have any achievements before, can prove Adama's conjecture?

Mike didn't believe it.

"It's a pity, I thought it was an article that would bring news to the mathematics world..."

He shook his head and sighed, but just halfway through the sigh, he suddenly froze for a moment, because his eyes suddenly noticed the column of [papers published in the past].

He blinked, and there were actually a dozen... more than a dozen? ?

And also...

All in one district? ? ?

Mike was taken aback.

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