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Chapter 334 Another Year

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In the evening, at the end of the day's class, Cheng Nuo came to Professor Fang's office alone again.

As soon as he opened the door and came in, Cheng Nuo saw Professor Fang sitting at his desk, staring at him seriously.

Being stared at with chills down his spine, Cheng Nuo scratched his head and said with a sneer, "Professor, did I do anything wrong?"

Professor Fang shook his head and waved to Cheng Nuo.

Cheng Nuo moved a chair and sat opposite Professor Fang's desk, with his hands on his knees, as if he was listening and respectful.

Professor Fang stared at Cheng Nuo for a few seconds, and then his serious face disappeared like melting ice and snow, transforming into a warm smile.

He pointed at Cheng Nuo, "You kid's performance makes me never know where your limit is!"

"Professor, what do you mean?"

"Before you left this morning, didn't you tell me to take a look at the results of your hard work after staying up all night? I have already seen the derivation steps you wrote on the draft paper. Sometimes, I really have to admit that talent requires More useful than experience!"

Professor Fang continued, "If I were to come here, I would probably not think of using the "Eisenstein series theory" because from an empirical point of view, there is no logically close relationship between the Eisenstein series theory and the BSD conjecture. But you thought of it, And your derivation steps have indeed proved that your conjecture is correct!"

Although I had expected that my derivation would not go wrong, but hearing Professor Fang's personal affirmation, the sense of accomplishment must be different.

A look of joy appeared on Cheng Nuo's face, "Professor, the follow-up work to prove the conjecture...?"

Professor Fang raised his hand and gave Cheng Nuo a gesture of calm down.

Then, he said slowly, "When we discovered that the research direction was wrong, the progress of the proof work had reached 56%, but the logic you chose to correct, the progress point of using the Eisenstein series theory was around 48%. "

"Therefore, the 8% of the progress we made before will be completely discarded! In other words, we wasted a month in the wrong direction. However, it is worth mentioning that, Cheng Nuo, you Using the four second-order theories derived from the Eisenstein series theory, two of the theories are the same as we expected, and the other two theories can optimize some of our subsequent derivation steps."

"I roughly calculated that 52% of the subsequent proof content, at least 20% of the derivation process was cut in half!"

good news!Definitely good news!

Although a month was wasted in vain before, this process of reduction is enough to make up for the progress of this month!

Moreover, after the enlightenment in the early morning of this morning, Cheng Nuo felt that a winding but very clear proof line seemed to emerge in his mind.

In fact, the proof of a conjecture is like building a road, knowing the starting point and the ending point.

All roads lead to Rome, and the conjecture proves that there is always only the optimal solution, not the only solution.

What Cheng Nuo and Professor Fang are doing now is not to find the optimal solution ignorantly, but to open up a route that can lead to the end.

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Cheng Nuo's life rhythm went on step by step like this.

This semester, apart from the inter-school cooperation and exchange project, Cheng Nuo did not join any research group.

The main reason is that all the teachers in the School of Mathematics now know that Cheng Nuo is currently working with Professor Fang.

The two of them did not have the relationship of mentor and student on the surface, but professors who wanted to add Cheng Nuo to the research team always had to discuss it with Professor Fang first. In the end, Professor Fang rejected them one by one.

From Professor Fang's point of view, with Cheng Nuo's current ability, it would be pointless to join those projects with average research difficulty, except to waste time.

Those projects with higher difficulty level and higher value are not that common. There are only less than ten of them in Tsinghua Mathematics School in one semester. Moreover, those project team members have already been selected and will not approach Cheng Nuo.

Like the T1-level project held by Professor Fang last semester, it is rare to enroll an undergraduate student!
Therefore, at any rate, Cheng Nuo didn't have to rush to catch up with the progress of the project.

I mainly focus on my studies and BSD conjecture proof work. When I am free, I also write two papers and submit them to foreign SCI journals.

One is "Conditional Gradient Method for Least Squares Problem of Operator Equation under Boundary Constraints", and the other is "Inverse Polynomials in Kazhdan-Luszting Theory".

Both articles were produced at leisure, and Cheng Nuo didn't expect to gain much fame because of it, so he simply submitted both articles to a second-region SCI journal called "Mathematical Symbols" in Yingguo to brush up his resume.

Although it would take two or three months to know whether it was accepted or not, Cheng Nuo was not worried.

Both papers Cheng Nuo showed Professor Fang to read in advance. In the words of the old man, Cheng Nuo's two papers had a [-]% chance of being accepted even if they were submitted to the big journals in the first district. Some unknown journals are naturally no problem.

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2021年12月31晚11点50分。

In the blink of an eye, time has arrived.

Looking at the gorgeous fireworks outside the window, Cheng Nuo's eyes were in a daze.

It's another year!
This year, Cheng Nuo learned a lot and improved a lot, but his New Year's resolution from a year ago still hasn't come true.

Become the king of forcing!
This road is really too difficult to walk!

At the moment when the zero o'clock struck, Cheng Nuo clenched his fists and made the same wish as last year again:

"I'm going to be the King of Kings!"

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The annual ring of time turns to 2022.

No.20 The second World Cup will be held in Qatar in November. France has already determined the group stage elimination quota four years ago.

No.20 The [-]th Winter Olympics will also be held in the capital of China in February this year. It is the first time that China has hosted the Winter Olympics, and it will surely be recorded in history.

Of course, there is much more to come than this year.

And for the world of mathematics, something big is about to happen.

The Fields Medal, which is held every four years, will celebrate its 20th award ceremony this year.

Needless to say, the significance of Fields, many mathematicians rush for this award, but how many people succeed in the end.

2022 is the year of the Philippine Awards, but it has nothing to do with Cheng Nuo.

With his current qualifications and level, he is still thousands of miles away from winning the Fields Medal.

However, Cheng Nuo was still young, which was also his capital.

What he should concentrate on now is to help Professor Fang complete the proof work of the weak BSD conjecture as soon as possible!
However, it seemed that now, Cheng Nuo was in some trouble.

Because he met an unexpected guest downstairs in the dormitory.

Oh, no, to be precise, it was two uninvited guests, one big and one small!
(End of this chapter)