Hammer of Technology

The school officials have sent an inquiry letter to the editorial office of the "Journal of the American Academy of Mathematics", wanting to confirm whether the magazine has mistaken the author's affiliation, but they have not received a reply yet, so it is not easy to publish the already edited press release. send out.

The weird day passed just like that, and the instigator was already sitting in the study, nervously sorting out the context of the whole thing with Sanyue.Because Ning Wei discovered that the joke had come, and to ensure that the whole thing was not discovered, the process needed to be more rigorous.

"March, your paper has been published, but your identity must continue to be concealed, and our two mailboxes must interact. The time will be in the few days when I am in Montreal. Come, come, start now, you edit first An academic discussion email, send it to my mailbox, and then you have to intercept the data packet, and then modify the sending time..."

"Meow..." Sanyue directly raised her two little paws to cover her little face, as if she was ashamed to be with such a person.

"How can this be called a fake? This is paving the way for your future. Think about it, you want a big house, right? Look at your countdown. Originally, you still have a few days before you can live in a big house." Now, everyone knows about you at this time, and they will probably not let you live in a big house!"

"Meow..." Sanyue lowered her paw, and the whole cat was stunned, looking at Ningwei incredulously.

"You think I'm lying to you, go to the Internet to search, are there many people who are particularly afraid of artificial intelligence?"

The webpage flashed quickly, and I don’t know how many things I found in March in just 1 minute, and then the whole person, oh no, the whole cat became energetic, and the cat looked at Ningwei with a heroic face, and then began to quickly edit the email , intercept, modify the time, and enter Ningwei's mailbox.

Soon, the emails recorded between the two through mailboxes appeared in their respective mailbox lists, and most importantly, they appeared in Ningwei's mailbox list.

Well, that's enough!

"Also, the next month of March is the most important thing. Let's sort it out. If there are any loopholes, you must fill them up immediately. Your current personality is the most mysterious mathematician in the world, so don't reveal your secrets. .”

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215 When Everyone Doesn't Play Cards According to the Routine

From a confidentiality point of view, the less information you leave on the Internet, the easier it is to hide your identity.

This point in March is undoubtedly extremely successful. Apart from applying for an email address and a WeChat for March, Ning Wei has not left any information on other social platforms.Especially WeChat only added Ning Wei and Jiang Chenshuang.Therefore, it is almost impossible to find the mysterious Professor March from social software.

After sorting out the relationship between the two, the next step is how to explain the fact that there is no such person in Jiang Dacha.There must be a reasonable explanation, of course not for Jiang Da, but for the editors of the journals opposite.

Because just now, at one o'clock in the morning, March received an inquiry letter from the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society", which actually forwarded Jiang University's inquiry letter, and then asked if March had mistaken the research unit up...

This was something Ning Wei hadn't thought of before. It's fine if you can't find someone, so how can you go to ask?

I have to reply to the email, otherwise, with the IQ of those editors, I will definitely not be able to figure it out. How could there be no such person?

Ning Wei hasn't figured out how to reply to this email yet, San Yue has already figured out a sentence by himself.

"Dear editor-in-chief Connerson: Hello, I have received the letter, and the unit did not make a mistake, but reputation is not the most important thing to me now, in order to avoid unnecessary troubles, and also to be able to travel across the ocean as soon as possible Drinking coffee with you, I chose to use a pseudonym, please forgive me! Jiang Da: March!"

After reading this sentence, Ning Wei felt that San Yue had indeed grown into a genius. The reason for using the topic was very good, and it also gave everyone on the opposite side ample room for imagination, so he helped San Yue press the send button.

Things were indeed as Ning Wei had envisioned. Seeing March's reply, the editorial office quickly replied to Jiang University with an official letter.

"After verification, the unit of the paper is not wrong, but because the author of the paper hopes to concentrate on research and does not want his identity to be exposed, in order to respect the author's personal thoughts, it is inconvenient for us to disclose the true identity of the author of the paper."

Principal Yan, who couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, learned of the reply letter from the secretary for the first time, and then he was stunned again.

The unit was not mistaken, that is, it was indeed the professor of Jiang University who published this paper, but the reason behind it made him unable to move it. People published papers not for fame or profit, but wanted to concentrate on research, so there was a professor in the school who was like A professor like a sweeping monk who publishes papers using a pseudonym just because the school can't find him?

Such a one-in-a-million boss actually appeared in his own school, and Principal Yan didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Now I couldn't sleep at all, so I simply sent this reply directly to the deans of the various colleges in the school. He probably hasn't slept yet, and he wouldn't be able to sleep today either.

Facts proved that Principal Yan was not wrong, because the phone was picked up as soon as the call was made.

"The magazine replied. I forwarded it to you just now. Have you read it?"

"I just received it and haven't opened it yet. Let me take a look... Well, I am indeed from our Jiang University? But you don't want to reveal your identity?"

"Yes. But this seems to be understandable. You guys have weird personalities in mathematics. Isn't the Russian mathematician Perelman who proved the Poincaré conjecture not willing to accept the award even if he won the award? Maybe what? This professor really thinks this little achievement is not worth mentioning..." Principal Yan felt that he was running out of words as he spoke.

"Then... don't check?" Kong Mingde asked hesitantly.

"It's not a bad thing. The professor is unwilling to stand up and claim the honor. It's not good for us to check hard. Let's respect the professors' ideas. In this way, you can talk about it when you hold a meeting after the holiday. This matter can be commended anonymously It’s fine if no one comes forward like this. If someone thinks that such a big search is not happy, they just jump away, and the loss outweighs the gain.” Principal Yan thought for a while and said.

"Well, that's the only way to go. At least it proves that the paper published by our school's professors is not bad. It's a credit to the school. Hey, wait, old Kong, I remember you also studied it before. In terms of artificial intelligence, you are not calling for a thief, are you?" Principal Yan suddenly asked suspiciously.

The person on the other side of the phone was obviously stunned, and then smiled wryly: "Me? Lao Yan, you think highly of my sentiment. Even if I don't think about myself at this age, I can still promote my students by the way? You say that, If I didn't know that Sanyue is in the school, I would have falsely claimed this honor."

Principal Yan laughed loudly and said, "Haha, I was just joking. Well, let's deal with this matter coldly first."

"Let's stop promoting?" Kong Mingde asked tentatively.

"What is this propaganda? Isn't the outside world saying that Jiang University is the most low-key school in China? Then keep it low-key to the end. No publicity, no response, so be it!" Principal Yan finally decided.

"No publicity at all?"

"Well! That's it, this professor doesn't even want his personal reputation, so what are we going to do? I've decided!"

"OK then!"

After deciding on a non-publicity strategy, the high-level executives are actually relieved. As for everyone's various speculations, they are beyond their control.As Principal Yan said, this is a good thing after all.

However, when everyone fell asleep, many units in the United States, thousands of miles away, started reverse operations.

For example, professors from many well-known universities have mentioned this paper in March in class. If it is only fermented in the academic circle, then the bigwigs of technology companies have chosen to mention this paper in March on various occasions , successfully made the paper in March go viral.

Especially at the Cloudnext conference held by Google on October [-]th, the speech given by the chief scientist of Google X Labs at the conference became the most powerful booster for this paper in March.

“…As you all know, Google has been working on an artificial intelligence platform. Our artificial intelligence platform has always been committed to providing services for everyone. We provide a wide range of artificial intelligence tools for everyone, from development for advanced data scientists. tools and services, to services for automatic learning models.”

"And now we have noticed a paper published in the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society" by the Chinese mathematician Professor March. This paper provides theoretical guidance for us to build a brand new machine consciousness from mathematical theory. Our Scientists have seen the possibility of artificial intelligence in the future from this paper. Laboratory verification has even begun."

"We believe that the theoretical foundation built by this paper will enable us to build a new artificial intelligence platform, which will potentially provide more advanced developers with an end-to-end solution, allowing them to go from receiving data to training and testing. their models, and then put them into production. It can even be used to pre-build models!"

"God, I dare say this paper is the most amazing idea in mathematics in a decade, but what makes us even more excited is that this paper has given us a new understanding of the field of artificial intelligence! I don't know how Describe my mood after reading this paper, but I am sure of one thing, this paper will lead the world's artificial intelligence to a new level!"

How should I put it, since AlphaGo was born and directly defeated the world's top Go masters, at least in the hearts of ordinary people, Google has established a world-leading position in the research direction of artificial intelligence.

Immediately following the next year’s Google press conference, a segment of Google’s voice assistant, Assistant, made a phone call to help the owner make an appointment to go to Mrs. Tony’s haircut. The reception staff at the barber shop did not realize that the opposite was artificial intelligence leading the appointment. , which amazed the whole world at that time, and triggered a worldwide discussion on artificial intelligence.

Now the chief scientist of Google's X laboratory actually praised a mathematics paper written by Professor Hua Xia in this field, and the response can be imagined.Especially at the end of this passage, the words of the chief scientist, Astro Taylor, who had met Ning Wei once, made countless people salivate.

"I have already suggested to the company's senior management that if this March professor is willing to work at Google, I am willing to give up my position to him and let him be directly responsible for the construction of the new generation of Google's artificial intelligence platform. I believe he deserves this courtesy .”

With such high praise, March's paper went viral, and many well-known mathematicians received interview requests from journalists, inviting them to comment on the mysterious Professor March and her paper.

"Well, the outside world may not know much about Professor March, but in fact she is already very famous in the mathematics field. As far as I know, several mathematics journals plan to award her the best reviewer of the year You may not be familiar with the concept of a paper reviewer, how can I put it, she has extremely solid basic skills in mathematics and has extremely advanced attainments in many fields of mathematics. This is the general evaluation of her in the mathematics community."

"As for her paper, I have indeed read it, but because I am not a researcher in this direction, to be honest, I don't understand the process of proving some lemmas very well, but I have consulted several friends, and they all understand this This paper has a very high evaluation. Using pure mathematics instead of other technical means to build a machine consciousness system is an extremely complex and extremely difficult project."

"Everyone should know that it is very difficult for a machine that can only recognize 0 and 1 to have complex human emotions, especially to do this with mathematics alone, so it does not mean that with the theory, you can immediately create a machine with human emotions. Emotional programs or machines. This is still a long process, but there is no doubt that the publication of this paper has given our scientists who specialize in artificial intelligence a theoretical guide. Yes, mathematics has always been You need to solve specific problems, it just points you in the right direction, and that’s the beauty of mathematics.”

"In short, anyway, based on this paper alone, I think the most famous mathematician in the 21st world must have the name of Professor March. The only regret is that I heard that Professor March is just a pseudonym Well, many mathematicians have one or another quirk, and the more successful the mathematician is, the more so, but anyway, I hope to have a drink with her, it must be a wonderful thing."

Of course, there are also different arguments during the interview.

"Professor March! Well, I admit that she may be very good, but I actually don't think it's a good idea for Google to ask her to lead a department. If you ask a lot of people, many of them I suspect that there is something wrong with her personality, she looks at things extremely extreme, and it is difficult to get along with others, let alone lead a team."

"Why? Well, you should interview the editors of professional mathematics journals on this point, they have more say. Let's put it this way, she is always extremely harsh on peer research results, and it is not even harsh to describe it. Accurate, even vicious. Don't be surprised if you see an attack on human dignity in her comments."

"Yeah, maybe she's a talented scientist with a lot of ability, but I don't think I can be friends with her. We can't even sit down and discuss math problems because that could turn into an argument. I doubt she's normal The ability to communicate with people is probably the reason why she chose to use a pseudonym instead of her real name! To be honest, I don't like her! Even if she is talented, I don't want to be a colleague with her!"

Of course, Connerson, the editor-in-chief of the journal that published the paper in March, would naturally not be let off by the reporters.

"Actually, everyone is right. Professor March is indeed a professor with great personality. Her academic ability is as distinct as her personality. But you know, I am just the editor-in-chief of a journal. My daily task is to The most outstanding papers are selected from the papers, and then published in journals, as for the character and character of mathematicians, it is not in my consideration.”

"Of course, I also want to say a few words here. Although she often has sharp opinions as a reviewer, the email communication between us is quite pleasant. In fact, she is not completely unreasonable as some professors describe. That's all I can say. At least as an editor-in-chief of a mathematical journal, I appreciate her. Thank you, that's all I can say."

……

Really, never underestimate the power of a propaganda tool when it's in full swing.

In just one day, almost all science and technology enthusiasts in the world know that there is a female mathematician in Huaxia. She published a paper under a pseudonym, and has been sought after by professors from famous foreign schools and major foreign technology companies.

Although the evaluations given by different people are still somewhat different, but no one doubts the level of Professor March.

When all these evaluations were transmitted to China, without any surprise, Professor March, who was unknown in China but was praised by foreign diplomats, suddenly became popular.

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216 Stressful Mountain

No matter how you look at it from any angle, this wave of operations by the Western media really does not follow the routine.

In fact, for Western countries that have mastered the latest scientific discourse power in the world, it is rare for a paper from another country to be promoted to such an extent.After all, it is scientists from developed countries in Europe and the United States who publish the most papers in these top journals, and they are also the ones who win the most top scientific awards in the world.Therefore, it is rare to see Western media reporting on the achievements of scientists from other countries, let alone the achievements of Chinese scientists.

Of course, for many people in Western countries, the goal has been achieved. Ning Wei's previous reputation in Western academic circles has been replaced by March.Young people will always be attracted by people or things full of mystery, and Professor March almost meets all the expectations of many young people.

Because of the sharp academic rhetoric, everyone has mixed opinions. The academic level of the papers I published are extremely high and widely praised. According to rumors, I still publish them under a pseudonym, and I don’t want to reveal my real identity...

All of this has cast a veil of mystery over Professor March.

Ningwei's academic contributions are also great, and he is extremely young, but at least he has shown his face before, and the information on the Internet is everywhere, but Professor Sanyue is different, almost no words of her can be found on the Internet However, there are only various comments that do not know the authenticity and sharp words, and with the help of many professors and the pursuit of the media, there is no reason not to be popular.

However, if this extremely abnormal behavior falls into the eyes of ordinary Chinese people, there can only be a simple judgment, that is, Professor Sanyue's paper is really too powerful, and artificial intelligence will probably not be able to bypass this paper in the future Yes, so even if they pinch their noses, the western media cannot ignore the contributions of the surrounding Huaxia mathematics professors to the entire field.

So naturally, the code name Professor Sanyue has become popular in China. After all, there are many Chinese scientists who have published papers in top journals, but there are not many professors who are so sought after by the Western media and rush to report.

Curiosity has always been connected, especially after all, March is Professor Huaxia, so when the news spread back to China, everyone's curiosity became stronger.

Although the Western media deliberately ignored Professor March and his relationship with Ning Wei when talking about Professor March, Professor March’s paper was posted on the official website of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society after all, so when everyone When I went to learn about this paper, I naturally knew that Professor Sanyue's work unit is at Jiangda University.

For many people, the first reaction when they see Jiangcheng University is probably to log on to the official website of Jiangcheng University and look for the profile of Professor March. The professor introduced it, first of all, he must have a basic understanding of the professor.

However, when everyone logged on to the official website of Jiang University, they suddenly found that Jiang University seemed to be unaware of this matter, and there was no news about Professor March at all, not even the fact that Professor March's paper was published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society Special copywriting for publicity.

This is indeed a very strange thing. A professor of Huaxia Jiangcheng University was about to be blown up in the western world, but the school he worked for did not make any noise.He didn't even mention who it was or what commendation he was going to give.So what the hell is this?What the hell is Jiang Da going to do?

It is not an exaggeration to say that the leaders of the school and the number of colleges have been harassed by all kinds of phone calls from top to bottom these days. Some asked the real identity of Professor March, and some media hoped to come to interview. In short, the entire holiday Everyone was busy answering the phone, and those who chose to travel on the National Day were not able to avoid being harassed.

It’s not that no one doubts Ning Wei, and the professors at Jiang University are more skeptical and even convinced that March is probably Ning Wei’s pseudonym. After all, there are not many mathematicians in this direction in the world, let alone in China, but When they communicated with their counterparts in the West, the information they got back made them doubt their own judgment.

For example, recently, including during the National Day of China, March has been maintaining frequent academic exchanges with many mathematicians around the world through emails almost around the clock, which is obviously impossible for Ningwei.As we all know, this young mathematician is busy talking to people on Weibo and dating. At least during the National Day, Ning Wei has nothing serious to do. If he can maintain high-frequency academic exchanges , unless Ning Weizhen knows the avatar technique.

The most tangled thing is that Western counterparts have confirmed with certainty that Sanyue's gender is female, while Jiang Dashu Institute and lecturers are counted as few females.There are only two professor titles, one associate professor and two lecturers.And the research direction does not point to isomorphism.

This Nima is really confusing, so who is March?Fortunately, the school completely gave up on finding this March professor, so let's love someone.

But in the end, under various pressures, Jiang University still issued an announcement, to the effect that the school respected Professor Sanyue’s unwillingness to show his face, and would not publicize it with great fanfare, and hoped that the outside world would give the school’s professors a quiet research environment. I'm getting to the bottom of it.

This statement once again ignited the enthusiasm of countless people, and countless people on the Internet began to speculate on the true identity of Professor March. The popularity of "Who is Professor March?" has even directly overwhelmed Ning Wei's previous enthusiasm. Even the upcoming Nobel Prizes in various fields cannot be compared with the enthusiasm for inquiring about the identity of Professor March. This is definitely before. No one thought of it.

The rhythm of this wave of Western media is too good, and of course it seems to confirm from the side that the right to speak of Western media is indeed far superior to that of other regions.

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As the instigator of the whole incident, Ning Wei did not expect that those professors, scientists and media in the West would hype March so wildly that he felt very confused facing the situation on the Internet these two days.

How should I put it, his plan is to make March gradually famous in a silent way. Starting from reviewing manuscripts, on the one hand, he will do an alternative Turing test, and on the other hand, let March's image become popular in Western academic circles. Gradually plump.

Then began to publish papers slowly, one, two, three...

In short, in this way, the academic fans of March are slowly accumulated, attracting more people to study this field, and finally let March win various mathematics awards, and then use March's mysterious identity and appeal, relying on the Beijing International Mathematical Research Center, Borrowing the identity of March, I started to prepare and open a world-class top mathematics conference in the direction of artificial intelligence, and simultaneously established a world-class top mathematics journal belonging to China and a journal specializing in artificial intelligence algorithms.

Finally, when the time is right, he can reveal March's identity to the world at the meeting, and take this opportunity to directly launch the top world-class science and technology award "March Science Award" similar to the Fields and Nobel Prizes. ".

Yes, to make foreign scientists come to China willingly to participate in top conferences, to be proud of being able to give reports at world-class top conferences held in China, and to publish papers in top journals founded by themselves, has always been Ning Wei’s hope that through his own goal to achieve.

Because only by taking this step, it really means that Huaxia can become one of the world's science and technology centers, and only in this way can more high-tech talents be attracted to Huaxia for development, and more high-tech companies with independent intellectual property rights will be truly incubated enterprise.

During this process, Ning Wei felt that it was worth telling some harmless lies, even if these lies would cause a lot of trouble to the professors of Jiang University and even his own tutor.After all, that sense of mystery is always the only way to get the biggest gimmick.

He could even imagine how much shock it would bring to the world when March's true identity was revealed.At that time, everything will become logical, Huaxia will become the center of the development of the world's artificial intelligence field, and the various algorithms that constitute the main body of March will become the most basic patents for artificial intelligence in the future, regardless of whether Western countries occupy a leading position in other aspects, unless Find another way, otherwise if you want to develop artificial intelligence, you will not be able to bypass the shelf he put up.

In the future, the March Artificial Intelligence Conference, which will be held annually in the future, will be held in many provinces in China in turn. It can be regarded as the completion of the awesomeness he boasted when he first went to the US embassy to apply for a visa. More importantly, countless basic patents can also be used for Huaxia brings high patent licensing profits, supports a group of top domestic high-tech companies, and fulfills his various ambitions through the output of high-tech added value.

The idea is excellent, and the plan is quite perfect, but Ningwei was beaten to death without thinking that the entire academic world and the media in the West did not play their cards according to the routine, and a random paper directly made March Huo into the present In such a field, how can we play in the future?After all, the accumulation in March is far from enough. At least, Ning Wei thought that he could not reach the standard that could shock the world, so he was directly pushed to his current position.

A Chinese mathematician, don't these Western media really feel that their conscience will hurt?In other words, he really didn't spend money on heat, what does this bunch of tap water mean?

More importantly, Ning Wei was also under great pressure at this time. For example, he and Lu Dongyi were summoned to the office by Dao Tian and began to be interrogated.

"Ning Wei, tell me the truth, who is this Professor Sanyue?" He and Lu Dongyi had just entered the door, and before they had time to sit down, Tian Yanzhen stared at his beloved disciple and asked seriously .

Ning Wei paused, while Lu Dongyi walked past Ning Wei without changing his expression, and sat down on the reception sofa.

"Director Tian, ​​didn't I talk to you last time? I really can't say this. After all, we have to respect Professor Sanyue's ideas, right?" Ning Wei still decided to resist.

After hearing this, Lu Dongyi silently lowered his head and remained silent.

It's not that Ning Wei doesn't want a showdown, the key is that the timing is not right.And if Tian Yan really knows about this, it means that countless people know about it. At least at this time, San Yue's true identity cannot be exposed.

"Hehe, I've analyzed it carefully. Let me explain it to you, that is, not long after you came back from Montreal, oh, by the way, that's when Professor Tan asked you for help, and you asked their paper to be a second author. To March, because Professor March has provided them with great help, and then you introduced Professor March to many journal editors, and the academic world had never heard of this name before that.”

"Then she started reviewing manuscripts. Through the review process, the public felt that this professor March has a wide range of research and the review comments are very sharp. Now the papers published by this professor coincide with your research direction, and the unit is in Jiang University is still a woman. I am sure of this. Female professors who meet all the above conditions cannot be found, not to mention Jiang University, even if you look at universities across the country. Ning Wei, Ning Wei, to be honest, is this true? The trick you played with Lu Dongyi?"

As he spoke, Tian Yanzhen glanced at Lu Dongyi.

Lu Dongyi raised his head and looked at Tian Yanzhen sincerely, and then said: "I can guarantee this, I didn't fool around with my junior brother."

"Oh? Not you? Who actually reviewed those papers?"