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Chapter 499 Someone Wants to Take the First Step

After the morning run, Chen Zhou and Nott went to the cafeteria together.

During breakfast, Chen Zhou also got a piece of news from Nott.

It's about Goldbach's conjecture.

Nott told Chen Zhou that on the preprint website e-Print arXiv recently, someone published two first drafts of papers on Goldbach's conjecture research.

This incident also caused a lot of influence in many well-known mathematics forums.

Because it was not someone else who published these two papers.

It was the Peruvian mathematician Harold Hoofgot who proved the weak Goldbach's conjecture.

Moreover, judging from the reaction of the mathematics community, these two papers have extremely high research value.

Although it is not yet certain, whether Harold Hoofgot has completely proved Goldbach's conjecture.

But at least it is certain that Harold Hoofgot has made remarkable progress in the study of Goldbach's conjecture.

It is also possible that he has completely proved Goldbach's conjecture.

It's just that the first draft of the proof paper has not been released.

Chen Zhou was extremely surprised by this.

Could it be that this Peruvian mathematician, who has been silent for several years, once again exploded with amazing energy?
But then I thought about it again, if Harold Hoofgot really proved Goldbach's conjecture, why didn't he put the first draft of the proof paper on the e-Print arXiv website?

Chen Zhou felt that there was a high probability that Harold Hoofgot hadn't fully proved his guess.

It's just that some people wanted to take the first step, but Chen Zhou still felt a different crisis.

Of course, Chen Zhou's crisis is just because he has no graduation thesis.

If Brother Guai really got caught first, Chen Zhou would feel distressed, but more often than not, he would still congratulate this person.

Then look for the next perfect graduation thesis topic that suits you and meets your expectations.

Just like what he said to Nott yesterday.

Whether it is mathematics or physics, all academic research is public.

The development of any discipline cannot rely solely on one person, let alone wait for someone.

After hearing the news, Chen Zhou naturally took out his mobile phone and logged into the e-Print arXiv website.

Start looking for two draft papers published by Harold Hoofgot.

The research progress of the other party still needs to be understood.

It's a pity that although the current mobile phones are already very smart.

But compared with the computer, it is still lacking a little.

Chen Zhou's mobile phone does not support opening the first drafts of these two papers.

Reluctantly put away the mobile phone, Chen Zhou thought, maybe after two years of development, the mobile phone will be similar to the laptop.

Glancing at Nott, Chen Zhou said "Thank you" softly.

If it wasn't for Nott's reminder, he definitely wouldn't have checked the e-Print arXiv website.

Maybe, when he finished his closed-door retreat, Brother Guess would have been resolved.

But now, with Nott's reminder, Chen Zhou can pay attention to the research progress on Gechai on the one hand.

On the other hand, you can also try to get inspiration from the other party's papers.

At this time, Chen Zhou also remembered the draft paper he packed yesterday.

After finishing breakfast, he gave the things to Nott.

A mathematical blueprint drawn by Chen Zhou himself, as well as some thoughts on the research direction of the subject.

As for whether he can help Nott, Chen Zhou doesn't know.

It was the only thing he could do.

The final result still depends on Nott himself.

However, Chen Zhou believed that Nott had obviously changed.

After that, there will definitely be great moments.

And Nott's reaction when he got these materials exceeded Chen Zhou's expectations.

I saw that after this senior sister took a look, her eyes instantly brightened.

Even the way she looked up at Chen Zhou became radiant.

After separating from Nott, Chen Zhou returned to the dormitory.

Glancing at the desk, I saw what I wrote last night when I was studying Brother Guess.

Chen Zhou pondered slightly: "The problem of directionality should not exist. After all, after such a long period of research, coupled with the evidence of the wrong set of questions, I will definitely not make the problem of directionality again..."

"The only thing that exists is the finishing kick, I don't know where to kick it properly..."

Thinking like this, Chen Zhou opened the collection of wrong questions.

On the contrary, he forgot that when he was eating breakfast, he was eager to open the first draft of the thesis to see what happened.

In the collection of wrong questions, more than ten pages have been recorded on the research content of Goldbach's conjecture.

This is the situation where Chen Zhou has been making small progress.

If there is no progress, Chen Zhou estimated that this collection of wrong questions should be as thick as a dictionary.

Starting from the first page of the record of wrong questions, Chen Zhou flipped through the pages and examined them page by page.

Looking through is sorting out, and examining is error correction.

Although the content recorded in the wrong question set represents an error.

However, these contents are not all wrong.

For example, a mathematical proof problem, if the first half of the proof is correct, but the second half of the proof is wrong.

The whole content will be recorded.

Mistakes, that's it.

Therefore, there are some places that need to be examined by Chen Zhou himself.

Because of this, Chen Zhou watched very slowly and seriously.

Chen Zhou, who originally planned to do his best to overcome the problem of Brother Guess, now met someone who wanted to take the lead.

It made him more serious.

For a day, Chen Zhou just sat at his desk, sorting out and reviewing his research content intently.

It wasn't until the sky outside the window darkened that he slowly stopped the pen in his hand and collected the wrong questions.

Stretching, Chen Zhou slightly leaned back on the chair.

"At the beginning, Professor Wiles spent a total of 8 years proving the Fermat conjecture, and among them, only collecting the mathematical tools required for this proof took 18 months."

"However, such preparatory work is only required when the mathematical tools are lacking and the research ideas or research directions cannot be determined."

"And I, whether it is the sieve method, the circle method, the density ratio method, or the trigonometric sum method, step by step, using number theory conjectures one by one."

"So, the key point is still on the distribution deconstruction method itself..."

Thinking about this, Chen Zhou couldn't help frowning.

Although the sorting out and examination this time gave him some directions, more of them remained the same as before.

Chen Zhou didn't gain anything substantial.

The finishing touch that had been blocking him was still blocking him.

"I remember that when Harold Hoofgot proved the weak Goldbach conjecture, his two papers only reduced the original lower bound to about 10^30."

"In the end, his colleagues used a computer to verify that all odd numbers conform to the conjecture, and thus completed all the proofs of the weak Goldbach conjecture."

"Could it be that……"

Chen Zhou shook his head slightly, but forget it.

He hoped that he could use pure mathematics to fully prove Goldbach's conjecture.

Although the method of computer proving mathematical conjectures has long been applied.

In addition to the proof of the weak Goldbach conjecture, there is also the four-color conjecture that was proved by American mathematicians Appel and Haken with the help of computers.

However, although mathematicians have proved the four-color conjecture with the help of computers.

But until today, artificial proof has not yet appeared.

As a proud mathematician, Chen Zhou obviously didn't want such an imperfect proof to appear in his hands.

Putting away his thoughts, Chen Zhou stopped thinking about it.

Turn on the computer instead, and enter the URL of the e-Print arXiv website in the browser.

He intends to take a good look at the two draft papers uploaded by Harold Hoofgot.

The browser quickly jumps to the end.

Chen Zhou quickly entered the account password, clicked to log in, and the page jumped to the personal center.

Immediately afterwards, a series of notification sounds jumped out.

Chen Zhou, who was taken aback, clicked on the reminder message and glanced at it, and was speechless for a while.

His account on the e-Print arXiv website has been followed by many colleagues.

And these notification sounds are the news of these concerns and the private messages they sent.

Shaking his head slightly, Chen Zhou really didn't like this much.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have kept his Weibo account, which had skyrocketed to millions of fans, without even logging in.

For him, Weibo is just a tool for sharing.

The e-Print arXiv website is just a place to publish the first draft of the paper in advance.

Opening the search bar of the website, Chen Zhou entered the name of Harold Hoofgot.

What follows is a piece of paper information uploaded by Harold Hoofgot.

I have to say that this Peruvian mathematician seems to like the e-Print arXiv website quite a lot.

There are many first drafts of papers he uploaded hanging on it.

How should I put it, the preprint website allows peers to notice your research results earlier.

Because the papers on the preprint website can be downloaded and printed directly.

However, whether it can be recognized by the academic community, the help that the preprint website can provide is very small.

This is also the reason why Chen Zhou sometimes publishes it, but sometimes does not post it on the preprint website.

Moving the mouse slightly, sliding the scroll wheel, Chen Zhou quickly searched for the first drafts of the two papers on Gechai's research that Nott said.

"found it……"

On the computer screen, the cursor stopped in the middle.

Chen Zhou clicked the mouse to open the paper page.

While waiting for the paper to be downloaded, Chen Zhou was also browsing the keywords and abstract information on the paper page.

"Weighted sieve method, circle method, distribution...distribution deconstruction method???"

When Chen Zhou saw the third keyword, he was stunned.

It never occurred to him that this familiar name would appear in someone else's paper.

Moreover, it is the key word of the paper!
Slightly dilated pupils, Chen Zhou's mind was full of thoughts.

Could it be that what I did not prove by the distributional deconstruction method, Harold Hoofgot proved it?
He also found the direction that I didn't find?

Or did he just use the distribution deconstruction method and achieve certain research results?

Or, did he perfect the distribution deconstruction method?

Chen Zhou's heart at this time is far from calm as when he first heard the news.

Among other things, if Harold Hoofgot really used his distribution deconstruction method to solve Goldbach's conjecture.

That Chen Zhou must be very sad.

This is different from what Chen Zhou thought at the beginning.

In the beginning, for Chen Zhou, it was just a topic for his own research, and it was possible that someone else would take the lead.

Scientific research itself is a competition. There is nothing to say about Chen Zhou's lack of ability.

But now, it's not just lack of ability.

It was as if the other party took away the goddess he had been chasing for a long time with the flower gift he carefully prepared.

There are only two words, heartache!
Shaking his head slightly, Chen Zhou threw all these messy thoughts out of his mind.

Now, no matter what he thought, someone else had sent out the first draft of the paper.

He can only see if the opponent has solved Goldbach's conjecture in one step.

Do you still have a chance to compete.

At this time, Chen Zhou had also downloaded the first draft of the thesis uploaded by Harold Hoofgot.

The mouse slides and clicks in rapid succession.

While opening the thesis, Chen Zhou also began to download the first draft of the second thesis.

"Mr. Chen must have studied the proof of '1+1' many times, otherwise it would be impossible to have such a deep understanding, but..."

Regarding Teacher Chen's proof, Chen Zhou himself has also studied it many times.

However, the weighted screening method has been taken to the extreme by Mr. Chen.

Behind, there is almost no possibility of exceeding.

Moreover, Chen Zhou's intuition is also superior to him, and the weighted sieve method will not be the way to prove it.

At least it will not be a proof method based on the weighted sieve method.

Chen Zhou, who continued to read, quickly verified his thoughts in the paper.

Harold Hoofgot quickly joined the tool of the circle method after the tool of the weighted sieve method played an applied role.

Harold Hoofgot is also extremely proficient in the use of the round method in his thesis.

It can be seen that this is definitely a mathematician with extremely high attainments in the field of number theory.

Then came Chen Zhou's distribution deconstruction method.

However, looking at it, Chen Zhou frowned suddenly.

Harold Hoofgot seems to be unskilled in using the method of distribution deconstruction...

At this point in the dissertation, the first staged results have been obtained.

After reading this paper, Chen Zhou also quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

All he was worried about was the trivial incident that happened.

Although he hasn't read another paper, judging from this paper alone, Harold Hoofgot should not have proved Goldbach's conjecture.

Because the research results of this paper are far from enough to prove the depth of Goldbach's conjecture.

It is no exaggeration to say that the research results of this paper alone are not even as deep as Chen Zhou's current research.

Because of this, Chen Zhou gradually relaxed.

He didn't believe that the first drafts of the two papers uploaded at the same time could differ greatly.

But what I have to admit is that this opponent who suddenly came out really put a lot of pressure on Chen Zhou.

In addition to the partial deconstruction method, whether it is the weighted sieve method or the circle method, Harold Hoofgott has used it very well.

This is a mathematician who may have made breakthrough research on the difficult problem of Goldbach's conjecture.

Thinking like this, Chen Zhou opened the downloaded draft of the second paper with a slightly relaxed mood.

As long as you read this article and don't change your conclusion.

Then really, there is still a chance.

However, after reading the keywords and abstract.

Chen Zhou's expression changed.

　Thanks to book friend Yan Hongxue for the 100 starting coins!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)