Ultimate Scholar

"Have you heard? The Collats conjecture has been proven!"

"Collats conjecture? Is that... the hailstone conjecture?!"

"Oh, I bought it! Who proved it? Could it be Tao Zhexuan?"

"No, it's a young man who is only twenty years old!"

"Gift Crab!"

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"What? The Collats conjecture was actually proven? My God! I have studied the subject for so many years, and it was solved by others like this?"

"Don't be sad, anyway, you can't find out if you study it yourself."

"...Don't hurt people like this when you talk, okay?"

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Similar conversations take place in almost every university's mathematics department.

There is not much news in the world of mathematics, and when there is news, it must be big news.

The fact that the hail conjecture was proved has become the focus of all mathematics people, whether they are students, teachers, or professors.

There are many well-known mathematical conjectures, but compared with the researchers in the mathematics field, they seem to be few.

Therefore, every proof of a mathematical conjecture, even an important development, can attract the attention of many people, just like the original text of Li Mu's report, which can also attract so many well-known mathematicians to attend.

For a time, people in the mathematics world were shocked.

Of course, after learning that this conjecture has been proved, people naturally want to know who the prover is.

In this way, Li Mu entered the public eye.

And his age of just twenty has become the most eye-catching keyword.

Known as the foreign version of Reddit, a thread titled [How to evaluate MuLi who proved the Hail conjecture at this year's Joint Mathematical Conference is only 20 years old this year? ]'s post has aroused tens of thousands of discussions.

【OMG! I only know that there is a Chinese who proved the Hail conjecture, but I never thought that he was only twenty years old? ! Are you Fuck kidding me? 】

[My god, I don't know how to comment, I can only say, maybe Asians are like this. 】

[Isn’t it normal for Asians to be good at math? Just like Terence Tao. 】

[You probably don’t realize how unbelievable this MuLi is at all. He also proved another mathematical conjecture called the Adama conjecture last year. This Adama conjecture has a history of more than 100 years, which is longer than the Collats conjecture , man, I think he should be awarded the title of guess hunter. 】

[I am a doctoral student in mathematics. I really want to kill this guy named MuLi now. My graduation thesis was originally intended to be based on the paper on the hail conjecture published by Tao Zhexuan last year, and then extend it a little bit later. I My mentor also recommended me to choose this direction, and now he has solved this problem! My dissertations are all trash! Falk! Falk! Falk! 】

[You don't need to say, my tutor has studied the hailstorm conjecture for more than ten years, but now it's all in vain. Now I'm really worried that he won't think about it one day, and then he will leave us students behind. 】

[Think about it in a good way, what if his proof is found out in the end? 】

[There are so many Fields Medalists at the scene who didn't question it, I'm afraid the hope is very slim.]

[Sorry, I can't comment, I can only say, why didn't I prove it? 】

[Thank you for the invitation. I am currently attending the Joint Mathematics Conference in Denver. You have no idea how many media outlets have come here in the past two days. They all want to interview Li Mu. It feels like the city is surrounded by zombies. 】

[Coincidentally, I am also attending the Joint Mathematics Conference, and I also happened to go to see Li Mu's report. I can only say that it is too powerful. His speech was recognized by many mathematicians after the end. I think There is a high probability that he has really completed the proof. 】

[My God, I just checked. A company called Bakuage in Japan has set a reward amount of 120 million yen for Kollaz's conjecture, which is roughly equivalent to a little over 1 million US dollars. Doesn't this mean that Li Mu can get it right away? To the $1 million prize? ! 】

【1000000! ! ! ! 】

【I didn't bother to prove Colraz's conjecture because I only had a prize of one million dollars. If it was changed to two million dollars, I would still consider it】

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On these foreign forums, netizens are already excited enough.

But in the country of Hua, it was another scene of boiling.

In this information age, news spreads very quickly, so Li Mu's proof of Hail's conjecture was known to the domestic media almost at the same time as foreign countries.

Afterwards, the media immediately caught wind of the news and began to compete for the first wave of traffic.

Therefore, the trending search [Li Mu once again proved a world-class mathematical conjecture] rushed to the top of the trending search list without any surprise.

As for Huaguo's nearly 1 billion netizens, when they saw such a headline, they naturally donated their clicks without hesitation.

[On February 14th, Li Mu completed the proof of the well-known mathematical conjecture Collatz's conjecture while participating in the joint mathematics conference in the United States.

It is reported that the Kollaz conjecture is also called the hail conjecture, because a Japanese named Jiaogu spread it to our country, so it is also called the Jiaogu conjecture in our country.

The description of this problem is very simple, even elementary school students can understand it, that is: for any positive integer n, if it is an odd number, calculate 3n+1, if it is an even number, divide by 2, and so on for several times, its inevitable back to 1.

This conjecture has always been a hot issue in the mathematics community. It has attracted the research of many well-known mathematicians for decades, but no one has really solved it until February 14 this year.

According to Li Mu's report, this is his Valentine's Day gift to mathematics.

Maybe this is the romance of mathematicians...]

In just half an hour after this news was published, the number of comments exceeded 10,000, and the number of likes and retweets was only a few more.

And the one with the highest praise in the comments is [Fuck].

These two simple words express the mood of many netizens when they saw the news.

[But I am uneducated, so I can walk the world with a single sentence]

[Damn, it's actually this conjecture! I saw it in textbooks when I was in elementary school. I tried to solve it at the time, but I didn’t realize how naive my original idea was until later. After all these years, I was suddenly told that it was solved? 】

[Eyes: I understand. Brain: What did I just watch? 】

【No, where do we start to solve this thing? I don't even know how to get one! 】

[So you are not a mathematician. 】

[How can someone prove two mathematical conjectures in less than a year? 】

[You don't even think about who they are! People are shepherds! 】

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The Internet is so popular, and countless domestic media can't go abroad to interview Li Mu, so they can only find people around Li Mu.

As a result, Li Mu's school, as well as his home, were immediately trampled by the swarming media.