"Have you heard? The Coraz conjecture has been proven!"
"Coraz's conjecture? Is that... the Hailstone conjecture?!"
"Oh, I bought it! Who proved it? Is it Terence Tao?"
"No, he is a young man who is only twenty years old!"
"Gift crab!"
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"What? The Coraz conjecture has actually been proven? Oh my God! The subject I have studied for so many years has been solved by others like this?"
"Don't be sad, you won't be able to figure it out no matter how much you study."
"...Don't hurt others with your words, okay?"
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Similar conversations take place in mathematics schools at nearly every university.
There is not much news in the world of mathematics, and when there is news, it must be big news.
The proof of the Hail Conjecture has become the focus of discussion among all mathematics people, whether they are students, teachers, or professors.
There are many well-known mathematical conjectures, but compared to the number of researchers in mathematics, they are very few.
Therefore, the proof of every mathematical conjecture, or even important progress, can attract the attention of many people, just like the original text of Li Mu's report, which can also attract the attendance of so many well-known mathematicians.
For a time, people in the mathematical community were shocked.
Of course, after learning that this conjecture has been proven, 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.
On reddit, known as the foreign version of Tieba, a post titled [How to evaluate MuLi, who proved the hail conjecture at this year’s Joint Mathematics Conference, is only twenty years old this year? ]’s post caused tens of thousands of discussions.
【OMG! I only knew that there was a Chinese who proved the hail conjecture, but I never expected that he was only twenty years old? ! Are you kidding me? 】
[My God, I don’t know how to evaluate it. I can only say that 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 incredible this MuLi is. Just last year, he proved another mathematical conjecture called the Adamard conjecture. This Adamard conjecture has a history of more than 100 years, which is longer than the Coraz conjecture. , God, 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. My graduation thesis was originally based on the paper on the hail conjecture published by Terence Tao last year, and then extended it a little bit. I My mentor also recommended me to choose this direction at the time, and now he has solved this problem! My papers are all in ruins! Farke! Farke! Farke! 】
[You don’t need to tell me that my tutor has been studying the hail conjecture for more than ten years, but now it’s all in vain. Now I’m really worried that one day he will lose his mind and leave us students behind. 】
[Think on the bright side, what if there is a problem with his proof in the end? 】
[There were so many Fields Medal bosses at the scene who didn’t question it. I’m afraid the hope is slim.]
[Sorry, I can't comment. I can only say, why wasn't it proven by me? 】
[Thank you for the invitation. I am currently attending the Joint Mathematics Conference in Denver. You can’t imagine how many media have come in the past two days. They all want to interview that Li Mu. It feels like a zombie siege. 】
[Coincidentally, I was also attending the Joint Mathematics Conference, and happened to see Li Mu’s report. I can only say that it was so powerful. His speech was recognized by many mathematicians after it ended. I think There is a high probability that he has actually completed the proof. 】
[Oh my God, I just checked. A Japanese company called Bakuage has set a bounty of 120 million yen for the Coraz conjecture, which is equivalent to just over 1 million U.S. dollars. Doesn’t this mean that Li Mu can get it right away? To a $1 million prize? ! 】
【1000000! ! ! ! 】
[It’s because I only have one million US dollars in prize money that I don’t bother to prove Coraz’s conjecture. If it were replaced with 2 million US dollars, I would still consider it]
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On these foreign forums, netizens are already excited enough.
In China, it is even more of a boiling scene.
In this information age, news spreads very quickly, so Li Mu's proof of Hailibing's conjecture was known to the domestic media almost at the same time as foreign countries.
Then, these media immediately caught wind of the news and began to compete for this first wave of traffic.
As a result, the hot search topic [Li Mu once again proved world-class mathematical conjecture], unsurprisingly reached the top of the hot search list.
When China's nearly 1 billion netizens saw such a title, they naturally gave their clicks without hesitation.
[On February 14, while attending the Joint Mathematics Conference in the United States, Li Mu completed the proof of the well-known mathematical conjecture Coraz conjecture.
It is reported that the Coraz conjecture is also called the Hailstorm conjecture. Because a Japanese named Kakuko spread it to our country, it is also called the Kakuko conjecture in our country.
The description of this problem is very simple, even a primary school student 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 it by 2, and repeat this cycle several times, it is inevitable Back to 1.
This conjecture has always been a popular problem in the mathematics community and has attracted research by many well-known mathematicians for decades. However, no one had actually solved it until February 14 this year.
According to what Li Mu said in the report, this was 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 there were even more likes and retweets.
And the one with the highest likes in the comments was [fuck you].
Two simple words expressed the feelings of many netizens when they saw the news.
[However, I am uneducated, so I can take the world by saying shit]
[Holy crap, this is actually a guess! I saw it in a textbook when I was in elementary school. I tried to solve it at the time, but it wasn’t until later that I realized how naive my original idea was. But after so many years, I was suddenly told that it had been solved? 】
[Eye: I understand. Brain: What did I just watch? 】
[No, where should I start to solve this thing? I don’t even know how to get it! 】
[So you are not a mathematician. 】
[How could someone prove two mathematical conjectures in less than a year? 】
[Don’t even think about who they are! He is a faun! 】
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The Internet is as popular as the clouds, and numerous domestic media cannot go abroad to interview Li Mu, so they can only find people around Li Mu.
As a result, Li Mu's school and home were immediately trampled by the swarm of media.
(End of chapter)
