Li Mu quickly arrived at the office building of the School of Mathematics at Peking University.
There was already someone waiting for him downstairs, a staff member of the Chinese Mathematical Society.
Under the leadership of this staff member, he entered a conference room, where most of the people sitting were important figures in the Chinese mathematics community.
"Li Mu is here."
Academician Yuan Xiang stood up first and said to Li Mu.
"Let me tell you about the current situation first."
"First of all, there is Fan Pairen, an associate professor of the Department of Mathematics at Zengling University. He signed up to participate in this mathematics academic conference on his own and was not included in our invitation. As for their school, it is an ordinary private second-level school with a teaching team The quality varies.”
"Including Fan Pairen, there are no outstanding achievements. He started as a mathematics graduate student at Wuli University. After completing his master's degree, he went to work at Zengling University."
"We have read the papers he has published before, and we can basically confirm that his mathematical ability is completely incapable of encountering the twin prime number conjecture."
"Professor Lin Yao has also told us that it was purely a coincidence that he was able to propose the combination of the circle method and the finite field."
Li Mu nodded: "I don't know how he thought of this, but I can be sure that I have already determined the combination of the circle method and the finite field before. The file logs on my computer are all It can be proven.”
"Yes." Yuan Xiang nodded: "But the problem now is that the public opinion has spread. We have also contacted the Pu Peng News and asked them to clarify the news, but this media is not our official media, it is A private media based in Shanghai, they probably saw that this news was very popular now, so although they agreed on the surface, they did not do it at all."
At this time, Lian Zhengxing, who was standing next to him, snorted and said, "This kind of media should be severely punished. For the sake of a little traffic, they don't care about the authenticity of the news."
Then he said to Li Mu: "Li Mu, no matter what happens, our School of Mathematics at Beijing University will be by your side."
"We at Qinghua University are definitely on your side." Yu Liang, dean of the School of Mathematics at Qinghua University, also said, "This Fan Pairen, Professor Wang Xiaoming from our college happened to have exchanged mathematics with him before. This person is completely a civilian. I don’t know why this kind of civilian science doesn’t have any self-awareness.”
Subsequently, many leaders from major domestic universities and colleges expressed this, including the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"Of course our Chinese Mathematical Society is also on your side." Yuan Xiang also said.
Li Mu smiled and said, "Thank you everyone."
But then he thought about it and said: "There are still two questions, that is, there are some traces of trolls in the comments on the Internet. These trolls are deliberately going with the rhythm on the Internet. In addition, how is this Fan Pairen? Who contacted this media? Does he have such connections?"
The two questions raised by Li Mu made Yuan Xiang and the others stunned.
And the existence of navy?
In other words, there are still people secretly hacking Li Mu?
Lian Zhengxing was the first to express his position: "Don't let me catch this person, otherwise I will make it impossible for him to survive in the domestic mathematics community."
Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that even Zhengxing has not given up the idea of inviting Li Mu.
Of course, Qinghua was not to be outdone and also made a statement.
Yu Liang: "Same for us!"
Lian Zhengxing: "When I get back, I will ask our Beijing University of Science and Technology to launch an investigation to ensure that we can catch the person behind this."
Yu Liang: "Same for us!"
Lian Zhengxing: "Li Mu is the pride of our domestic mathematics community. All we can do is protect him and not let him be wronged."
Yu Liang: "Same for us!"
Lian Zhengxing: "Yu Liang dares to eat shit."
Yu Liang: "We...our surname is Lian, come here and we'll make some gestures."
There was a burst of laughter in the conference room, temporarily easing the serious atmosphere.
Of course, back to the topic, regarding the second question, how Fan Pairen contacted the media once again aroused their thinking.
But in any case, discussing these issues is only secondary. The most fundamental issue is how to calm down this public opinion incident.
As Lian Zhengxing said just now, Li Mu is the pride of the Chinese mathematics community and cannot allow him to be wronged.
At this time, Yuan Xiang thought for a moment and said: "Since Fan Pairen said that combining the circle method with the finite field was the first thing he thought of, and he also provided Li Mu with ideas, then we will hold another report. , let him prove what he said, he cannot say that he thought of it first, that means he thought of it first."
"Is it possible that Li Mu's improvements to Semerdy's theorem in proving the hail conjecture were what I thought of first just by saying that I thought of it first?"
Everyone present nodded.
"Yes, that's the truth! You can't just say whatever he says."
Suddenly, at this moment, there was a knock on the office door, and a vice president of the Huaguo Mathematical Society walked in. He said with surprise on his face: "Several scholars who attended the meeting just called and said that they could testify. , Fan Pairen is lying, he did not provide any ideas or help to Li Mu at all."
"One of them, a scholar named Cui Wenjian, said that he could produce a video to prove that what Fan Pairen said was false."
"What? "
Everyone present showed surprise.
When Li Mu heard this name, he remembered that they were the participating scholars who were riding in the same car as him, and he was sitting in the row behind them.
The vice chairman continued to explain. As expected, these scholars were all in the same car as Li Mu. Because they couldn't stand Fan Pairen's behavior, they were all willing to testify for Li Mu.
One of them, Cui Wenjian, happened to be filming a video of the street scene outside the car, and Fan Pairen happened to be discussing the twin prime conjecture with Li Mu, so he recorded the entire process.
This video will become decisive evidence.
In the video, Fan Pairen's civilian side is vividly displayed. By then, people will be able to know Fan Pairen's true face.
"good!"
Yuan Xiang burst out laughing: "This means that if you are in the right way, you will get more help, but if you are in the wrong way, you will get less help."
"We will announce the report right now. It will start in three days. Let's see if Fan Pairen dares to come!"
"Publishing this video of Professor Cui Wenjian will let everyone know whether Fan Pairen is a talented mathematician or a civilian scientist who specializes in comedy."
"In addition, contact Zengling University and inform them of this matter. Can such an unethical teacher still serve in their school?"
The others nodded and cheered up.
"Yes! That's what we should do! How dare a civilian scientist to jump up and down, do you really think there is no one in our mathematics community?"
However, at this moment, Li Mu's voice suddenly sounded.
"Can you postpone this report for another week?"
Everyone else couldn't help but be stunned.
"A week later? Why?" Yuan Xiang asked.
Isn't the sooner the better?
Li Mu said: "If I present the proofs of Polignac's conjecture and Hardy-Littlewood's conjecture, then this Fan Pairen will be even more unable to stand up, right?"
(End of chapter)
