Xueba's life simulator

End of Chapter 154 Report (810 910)

"Finally done."

On the afternoon of January 1, after Zhou Ming stopped reading the paper, he began to prepare for tomorrow's academic report, and his preparation lasted until night.

After Zhou Ming stretched his waist, he looked at the time. It was already past 50:[-]. Originally, Zhou Ming would make video calls to Shen Qingqiu and chat with Shen Qingqiu, but recently he I haven't even made a video call to Shen Qingqiu.

It is almost the Spring Festival now, and the Metalworking University has long been on vacation, and those very few who stayed in school are still staying in school.

And Shen Qingqiu naturally returned home as soon as the holiday was over. This time, she flew back by plane, and Zhou Ming had bought her the plane ticket in advance.

If Zhou Ming had told Shen Qingqiu in advance that he wanted to buy her a plane ticket, then Shen Qingqiu would definitely not be willing.

But buy the ticket in advance, and tell her a few days before Shen Qingqiu's holiday, so she can only accept the plane ticket that Zhou Ming bought for her and go back by plane.

After grabbing something to eat at night, Zhou Ming went to the bathroom to turn on the Yuba and took a simple shower. After washing and drying his clothes, he went to bed.

It is rare for a big boss like Zhou Ming with a net worth of over [-] million to live in a house in this kind of community provided by the school.

As for Zhou Ming with so much money, why didn't he change a house for himself? This was also because he really didn't have any requirements in this regard, as long as he could live in it.

As for the company's profits, it is natural that all of them have been invested in. Only in this way can Zhou Ming's company develop rapidly without financing.

Otherwise, if you make a profit, you still have to pay dividends to shareholders, and Zhou Ming has to buy a house and a car. If you want to live in the best house and drive the best car, it will cost at least tens of millions.

The company's expansion projects require manpower, venues, and various experimental instruments, such as various high-end projection electron microscopes, laser confocal microscopes, scanning electron microscopes, slide scanners, flow cytometers, ultra- High-performance liquid chromatography, etc., these instruments range from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions.

These all need money, and Zhou Ming has so many projects to expand, even if he invests all the profits, it is impossible to start all the projects at the same time, he can only end one batch and start the next batch.

If Zhou Ming spends money, the company will have less funds to invest in production and R&D, and the development speed will naturally slow down.

However, it's not that Zhou Ming doesn't spend any money, he will naturally spend what should be spent, and as a professor of HKUST, he can also get a salary.

Waking up early the next morning, Zhou Ming put on clean clothes and finally walked out of the house.

During this period of time, Zhou Ming went out either to eat and buy vegetables, or to go to the experimental field to see how his super beans were growing, and he hardly went out for other things.

And when Zhou Ming was hurrying to HKUST, the largest lecture hall of HKUST was already full of people, and everyone inside was chattering about Zhou Ming's proof of Goldbach's conjecture. things and some other things.

This lecture hall of HKUST is exactly the one where Zhou Ming will give an academic report.

Because of Zhou Ming's complete demonstration process of Goldbach's conjecture, he has uploaded it to arXiv before, and the editorial board of top mathematics journals such as "Mathematics Yearbook" has also confirmed to the outside world that Goldbach's conjecture has indeed been given by Zhou Ming. Proved, so what many mathematicians present are discussing here is naturally not about Zhou Ming proving Goldbach's conjecture right or wrong, but about Zhou Ming himself and some new methods he used in proving Goldbach's conjecture. mathematical method.

In this lecture hall, it can be said that there are big bosses gathered.

The older generation includes Viscount Pierre René Deligne, Andrew Wiles, Faltings, Qiu Chengtong, Gerd Faltings and so on.

The younger generation includes Terence Tao, Peter Scholzer, Aksaj Venkatesh and others.

In fact, many of them do not study the direction of analytic number theory. For example, Viscount Deligne, Goldbach's conjecture is actually beyond his field, and Qiu Chengtong, who has not studied analytic number theory In terms of content, Peter Scholzer studies algebraic geometry.

Terence Tao, a Chinese from Uganda, and Aksayi Venkatesh, an Indian from Australia, both included number theory in their research fields.

Tao Terence's research fields include harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, etc., and he is a master in these fields.

Aksaj Venkatesh’s research fields are mainly distribution problems such as counting and automorphic forms, as well as number theory, especially representation theory, local symmetric space and ergodic theory. One of the top candidates for the award.

However, based on Zhou Ming's performance in the past year, he has already been awarded the Fields Award. If he fails to win the Fields Award, the reputation accumulated by the Fields Award over the years may be like a collapsed building. , disappeared overnight.

"Who else do you think will win the Fields Medal in two years' time besides Zhou Ming?" In the lecture hall, someone asked, and the person who asked was Viscount Deligne, who had retired at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

As the so-called big bosses are surrounded by big bosses, Deligne is also surrounded by some big boss-level figures.

Just like in some comprehension novels, in the early stage, high-ranking cultivators were rare, and the main characters never had a chance to meet each other.

But in the later stage, the former high-ranking monks have sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain, and after becoming big bosses, all the protagonists are surrounded by big bosses.

And after Deligne finished speaking, Tao Terence from UCLA was the first to speak, and he said: "I think Peter Scholzer from Technetic Country is the most popular candidate besides Zhou Ming. , he transformed arithmetic algebraic geometry into the p-adic field by introducing quasi-complete spaces, and applied it to Galois representation, and developed a new cohomology theory, which are very important breakthroughs.

If Zhou Ming hadn't proved Goldbach's conjecture, he might not be the No. [-] candidate for the Fields Medal two years later. "

Tao Zhexuan and Viscount Deligne are both in Ugly Country now, and they came to Hua Country as companions and came together.

At this time, Peter Scholzer was also sitting around Deligne and Terence Tao. He didn't plan to sit here, but he saw several seniors in the field of algebraic geometry here, so he sat here .

Facing Terence Tao, the winner of the Fields Medal in 06, Peter Scholzer, who grew up with the aura of "genius boy" and grew up with a "genius boy" who is so optimistic about and praised himself with more genius qualifications than himself, is rare. I'm a little embarrassed.

"Without Zhou Ming, Aksayi Venkatesh from Australia would actually be a popular candidate for the next Fields Medal. and representation theory, and his solution to long-standing problems in the distribution of arithmetic objects are also very good.

This one is here too, you see. "

Speaking on the side was Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat's last theorem. When he said the last sentence, he pointed to a place. From what he said next, it can be seen that this big man has a great understanding of today's mathematics. The younger generation in the world still has a lot of attention.

“There is also Ilan Kocher Birkar, who proved the boundedness of Fano algebraic varieties and his contribution to minimal model theory, which can actually compete for the next Fields Medal.

In addition, Italy's Alessio Figalli is up for the Fields Medal for his contributions to optimal transport theory and its applications to partial differential equations, metric geometry and probability.

It has to be said that in recent years, the world of mathematics seems to be revived again. This time, many good seedlings have emerged one after another. In the next year, except for Zhou Ming, everyone else should not be 100% sure whether they will win the prize .

I just don't know how many winners there will be in the next Fields Medal, so I'm really looking forward to it. "Andrew Wiles on the side continued.

……

The discussion didn't last long, and soon Zhou Ming walked into the lecture hall wearing a suit that couldn't be more plain.

Zhou Ming's attire did not look like the boss of the future smart technology company that was hot a few days ago.

However, although Zhou Ming does not have the aura of a boss, he has the aura of a scholar, which is in line with today's scene.

Although few people in the lecture hall had seen Zhou Ming face to face, they had all seen Zhou Ming's photo and knew what Zhou Ming looked like.

Therefore, after Zhou Ming walked into the lecture hall, the originally noisy lecture hall immediately fell silent, and everyone's eyes turned to Zhou Ming who had just entered the lecture hall.

Stepping up to the podium, Zhou Ming had a blackboard behind him and a podium with chalk in front of him. He glanced at the crowded lecture hall with a smile on his face.

At this time, not only the seats in the lecture hall were already full, but even the aisles were crowded with people.

Those crowded in the aisle, some were sitting on the ground in front, some were squatting, while those behind were all standing. In short, they could find a way to see Zhou Ming on the podium in front of them.

"Hello everyone, I am Zhou Ming, a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Huaguo University of Science and Technology. I welcome and thank you all for coming to my academic report on the proof process of Goldbach's conjecture held today. Some friends even I am very grateful for coming all the way.

I believe that the scholars who come here to listen to the report have a certain understanding of me, at least the Goldbach conjecture and the complete demonstration process of the Goldbach conjecture I wrote down.

I will not introduce myself too much anymore, I will briefly talk about my proof of Goldbach's conjecture.

In the process of proving Goldbach's conjecture this time, I used many improved mathematical methods, such as the improved sieve method and the improved circle method, and some other improved methods...

If you have read my proof process completely, you should be able to easily see that the methods I use can not only be used to prove Goldbach's conjecture, but also applicable to other non-analytic number theory fields... …”

Standing on the podium, Zhou Ming briefly explained his identity calmly, to show that he is the reporter of today's academic report, and also briefly explained the general content of Goldbach's conjecture.

After saying this, Zhou Ming's academic report officially started.

Da da da, da da da...

The academic report started, and the lecture hall was very quiet. The sound of the chalk on the blackboard, like a telegram, could be clearly heard by everyone in the lecture hall.

"...=(1+2∈)/logx∫...and deg(p) is called the number of p..."

This time, Zhou Ming condensed the proof process a lot, but almost everyone present had seen Zhou Ming's proof process, so they could understand the condensed version that Zhou Ming made.

"Okay, then you can ask questions. I have left enough time to ask questions. You can take your time one by one. Don't worry." Zhou Ming spent nearly two hours finishing the content of this academic report. , then let them ask questions.

As soon as Zhou Ming said this, many people at the scene expressed their desire to ask questions.

"Professor, what questions do you have?" There were quite a few people who wanted to ask questions. Zhou Ming pointed with his finger and called out one who raised his hand.

"Let me tell you in advance, what I want to ask is not the question of Goldbach's conjecture, but an improved method you just used to prove Goldbach's conjecture..."

The man pointed out by Zhou Ming seemed to have obvious masculine features. He should be a man in his 40s. He was wearing a pair of metal-rimmed glasses. He stood up and said to Zhou Ming in not-so-fluent Chinese: the question you want to ask.

After he finished his question, Zhou Ming didn't quite understand it, so he could only say to him: "If you are not proficient in Chinese, you can communicate with me in English."

Hearing what Zhou Ming said, the male scholar, who seemed to be in his 40s, heaved a sigh of relief, and began to talk to Zhou Ming in English about the question he had just asked Zhou Ming.

This time Zhou Ming heard it very clearly, and after answering the questioner's question, he said to others: "If you can speak Chinese when you ask questions, it is best to speak Chinese with me. If you don't know Chinese, you can also You can communicate with me in English.

If you don't know Chinese or English, sorry, I don't know a third language either. "

After saying this, Zhou Ming started asking the second, third, and fourth people...to ask questions, until finally no one wanted to ask questions, and his academic report was a perfect curtain call.

When Zhou Ming's academic report was over, most of the people present did not leave immediately. There were some reporters who wanted to interview Zhou Ming, but Zhou Ming refused all of them after they asked for an interview.

And those scholars who were unwilling to leave also wanted to find an opportunity to chat with Zhou Ming in person, but most of these people's hopes fell through.

"Xiao Zhou, let me introduce you one by one. This is an internationally renowned mathematician, the first Chinese winner of the Fields Medal, an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an academician of the Academia Sinica of my country. Professor Qiu Chengtong, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an honorary academician of the Xiangjiang Academy of Sciences, and a chair professor at Tsinghua University..." As soon as the academic report ended, Li Mingzhi brought some people to Zhou Ming and introduced him one by one. Get them up.

The first person Li Mingzhi introduced to Zhou Ming was Professor Qiu Chengtong who had called Li Mingzhi in the middle of the night.

"This man proved the 'Fermat's Last Theorem' in 1994, and at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 won the Silver Medal of the Fields Medal specially made by the International Mathematical Union and the Abel Prize in 2016. Now teaches at his alma mater, Merton College, Oxford

Who is this……"

After introducing Qiu Chengtong to Zhou Ming, Li Mingzhi then introduced the second and third places to Zhou Ming...

Naturally, these people were not selected by Li Mingzhi, but by Zhou Ming himself.

Before the start of the academic report, Zhou Ming received countless emails wanting to meet him and chat with him about academic issues. Zhou Ming took the trouble to reply to these emails one by one, and agreed to the meeting requests made by some of them.

"Everyone is a bigwig in the mathematics world. I'm a junior, so don't worry too much. Let's sit down and talk slowly." After meeting these bigwigs in various fields of mathematics, Zhou Ming had expected it, but after all It was also the first time I met him, and he was still a little flattered.

Under the leadership of Li Mingzhi, Zhou Ming and this group of bigwigs finally came to a secluded conference hall.

After sitting down in the conference hall, Zhou Ming continued to chat with them. They had already chatted for a while on the way here.

"I didn't expect you to have such a deep understanding of physics. Biology, artificial intelligence, mathematics, and now there is another physics. Professor Zhou, is there anything else you don't know?"

It was Professor Qiu Chengtong who said this to Zhou Ming.

Just on the way here, when Zhou Ming was chatting with Gerd Faltings, he talked about some physics.

Gerd Faltings was born in Gelsenkirchen in 1954. He is a German mathematician. Peter Scholzer came with him. The two research fields are arithmetic algebraic geometry .

However, Gerd Faltings' most famous work is to use the algebraic geometry theory developed by Grothendieck to prove Model's conjecture, that is, only Finitely many K-rational points.

He also won the Fields Medal in 1986.

However, don't think that Faltings has won the Fields Medal. He is just a mathematician, but physicists can also win the Fields Medal.

Edward Witten won the Fields Medal in 1990, but he is a mathematical physicist who mainly uses mathematical methods to study physical problems.

However, it is a pity that Edward Witten did not come to Zhou Ming's academic report this time. Otherwise, Zhou Ming could just chat with him about mathematics and physics. After all, Zhou Ming has seen a lot of Edward Witten during this time. papers.

Faltings is also a mathematical physicist, and he has won the Danny Heinemann Prize in Mathematical Physics.

He also made important contributions to the parametric theory of Abelian varieties, the arithmetic Riemann-Roch theorem, and the p-adic Hodge theory.

As a disciple of Grothendieck, Pierre Deligne, who also has an in-depth study of Hodge's theory, also has a lot of common topics with Faltins.

Zhou Ming has read a lot of physics papers during this period, coupled with some physics knowledge beyond this world in his mind, when chatting with Faltings, Faltings is often moved by Zhou Ming's advanced ideas. Surprised and admired.

Although Faltins saw Zhou Ming for the first time today, in his heart, if Zhou Ming can devote himself to the study of mathematical physics, his achievements in the next few years will definitely not be inferior to him, and the field of mathematical physics will definitely not be inferior to him. A master figure will appear.

As for what Qiu Chengtong said to Zhou Ming just now, the other mathematicians present also understood what he meant. They all know something about Zhou Ming.

It doesn't matter if they don't understand, after all, if they don't have an in-depth understanding, they may only know about Zhou Ming's achievements in mathematics.

But with this in-depth understanding, they found that they didn't know enough about the level of Zhou Ming's genius. Throughout the ages, I'm afraid there are only a few super geniuses who can span several fields to achieve such achievements.

Discussion of an algorithm for training neural networks and performing other computational tasks Mathematical research on artificial intelligence Enhanced dendritic compartments in human cortical neurons Natural killer cell degeneration intact sensory afferents after nerve injury Protein structure Prediction algorithm research and protein design application...

Biology, artificial intelligence, mathematics, and the combination of artificial intelligence and biology, artificial intelligence and mathematics, and biology and mathematics. Zhou Ming can be said to have mastered these three aspects.

Now, through the conversation between Zhou Ming and Faltins, they learned that Zhou Ming also has a wealth of knowledge accumulation and advanced ideas in mathematical physics and pure physics.

Such people are generally not called geniuses anymore, but monsters.

"Professor Qiu has won the award. I have only touched on these aspects a little bit." After Qiu Chengtong finished speaking, Zhou Ming waved his hand modestly.

"I don't know which field Professor Zhou plans to enter next? Is it the Riemann conjecture? Or the Hodge conjecture? Or the ABC conjecture? Or does Professor Zhou have other plans?"

"From the conversation with Professor Zhou just now, we can see that Professor Zhou has covered a wide range of subjects, and also has a deep understanding of each item of research.

If my teacher is still alive now, or if Professor Zhou was born a few years earlier, and my teacher can meet you, he should also be happy that such a rare genius has appeared in this era.

In this case, when he passed away, he should also leave with a smile...

I see that Professor Zhou has profound insights in both geometry and topology. Why not set the Hodge conjecture as the next goal? "

In these two sentences, the former was said by Andrew Wiles, and the latter was said by Pierre Deligne.

Pierre Deligne was talking about his teacher Alexander Grothendieck, who is known as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, the "Emperor of Mathematics" and the "Father of Modern Algebraic Geometry" "When this happened, a look of loneliness flashed across his face.

Grothendieck’s life can be said to be more legendary than everyone here. He is far away from academic mathematicians, has never received formal education, and has not been promoted step by step on the academic ladder, especially after 1970. completely out of academia.

In Deligne's view, among all the people he came into contact with since he was a child, no one can compare with his teacher.

Only Zhou Ming, who met for the first time today, gave him a feeling that he had only rubbed against his teacher Alexander Grothendieck.

When Pierre Deligne suggested that Zhou Ming's next target be Hodge's Conjecture, Faltings also looked at Zhou Ming with the same keen eyes.

Regarding the Hodge Conjecture, it is a major unanswered question proposed by William Valens Douglas Hodge in the field of algebraic geometry.

Hodge's conjecture is a conjecture about the algebraic topology of non-singular complex algebraic varieties and its geometry expressed by polynomial equations defining subvariety. It is one of the top ten mathematical conjectures in the world.

The top ten mathematical conjectures in the world are NP complete problem, Hodge conjecture, Poincaré conjecture, Riemann hypothesis, Yang-Mills theory, Navel-Stoke equation, BSD conjecture, Fermat's Dading, four-color problem, Goldbach Conjecture.

Among the ten conjectures, Fermat's last theorem, the Poincaré conjecture and Goldbach's conjecture have been solved.

The Hodge conjecture is not only a conjecture studied by Deligne and Faltings, but also a carrier and tool of m-theory structure geometry topology integrated with general relativity and quantum mechanics together with Fermat's last theorem and Riemann conjecture.

Pierre Deligne is 72 years old this year, and Faltings is also 62 years old. Of course, they hope to see the Hodge conjecture solved in their lifetime.

After listening to Pierre Deligne's suggestion, Zhou Ming just smiled, and he said to Deligne: "Viscount Deligne, my next research may be on biology. I'm afraid you'll be disappointed that there shouldn't be much math involved.

But don't worry, when I finish dealing with some biological things, I will definitely return to mathematics. When you see me again in the field of mathematics, it must be that I have solved the problem that is harder than Goldbach's conjecture. when the problem. "

The short period of time mentioned by Zhou Ming refers to a period of several months. These months may be one or two months, or three or four months, but they will not be longer.

But according to Deligne and Faltings, the short period Zhou Ming mentioned was at least one or two years, maybe even three or four years, maybe five or six years.

Therefore, after hearing Zhou Ming's words, Deligne and Faltings looked a little disappointed.

……

The conversation between Zhou Ming and these bigwigs in mathematics continued. This in-depth exchange lasted until the [-]rd. On the afternoon of the [-]rd, it was Zhou Ming who sent them to the airport. They should go back to Ugly Country. Those who return to the country of technetium return to the country of technetium, those who should return to the country of Ying return to the country of Ying.

And Zhou Ming is also preparing to go home. After all, it will be New Year's Eve in a few days, and Zhou Ming has to rush back to Luzhou as soon as possible in mid-February, because by mid-February, Zhou Ming's super beans are almost ready to harvest.

At that time, another big news will shock the world, and this time the results will be different from the previous "artificial intelligence to accurately predict protein structure" and "Proof of Goldbach's Conjecture".

The results this time are related to major national affairs, and are related to the people of the whole of China and even the people of the world. At the same time, once some people know that such an achievement was made by Zhou Ming, some people whose interests are seriously damaged may not give Zhou Ming a good result. eat.

During this more than two-day exchange and discussion, Zhou Ming also benefited a lot. After all, these people are all bigwigs in various fields of mathematics.

Some of them have been studying their respective fields for decades, and some are young talents in their 40s and [-]s. However, as leaders in mathematics, they naturally have some experience and insights.

For such things as experience and experience, even if Zhou Ming gained knowledge through the life simulator, it would definitely not be enough. This time, he could just learn from the decades of experience and experience accumulated by these bigwigs in mathematics.

Even if some experiences may not be useful to Zhou Ming, but the stones from other mountains can be used to make jade, and they can also be used as a reference for Zhou Ming.

"Xiao Zhou, how have you gained during this time?" After watching these scholars enter the airport, Li Mingzhi, who accompanied Zhou Ming to see them off, looked at Zhou Ming and said to him with a smile.

As the dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Science and Technology, it is normal for Li Mingzhi and Zhou Ming to see him off together. It would be unreasonable if he didn't come to see him off.

After all, these foreign mathematicians are all bigwigs in various fields of mathematics, and they can be regarded as leaders in their respective fields in their respective countries. Although they are all here for Zhou Ming, they are coming to your University of Science and Technology, you alone If the dean of the School of Mathematics of the University of Science and Technology of China does not come to see him off, it will be unreasonable.

If Li Mingzhi didn't come to see him off, and he went abroad in the future, the attitude of mathematics professors in other countries would not be so good to him.

"It's no wonder that many scholars like to go abroad for exchanges. It turns out that such in-depth exchanges have a very important role in promoting the understanding of related fields and broadening one's own thinking." Zhou Ming said to Li Mingzhi.

"Haha, that's fine, this time your academic report has not been under-reported by both domestic and foreign media.

You are the only one who can get so many well-known mathematicians to come to our University of Science and Technology. This time, the Department of Mathematics of our University of Science and Technology has a great reputation in China.

After this year's college entrance examination is over, it is estimated that the number of candidates in our School of Mathematical Sciences at HKUST will increase a lot compared to previous years. When the summer camp starts, the number of people coming to our School of Mathematical Sciences at USTC should also increase a lot.

All this is thanks to you. "

Li Mingzhi said to Zhou Ming with a smile on his face, in the past two days, whether it is on the Internet or on TV, there are reports on the gathering of the world's mathematics community in the University of Science and Technology, which has played a very good role in the University of Science and Technology, especially the School of Mathematical Sciences. Propaganda.

We must know that in matters like education, good things are better, and bad things are worse.

(End of this chapter)