The applause sounded like a tidal wave, lasting for a long time, like a wave after wave, and constantly pushed the atmosphere of the scene to a climax.
Mathematicians have all kinds of romances in their hearts, and solving mathematical conjectures left by people in the past is one of them.
It’s like a spirit of inheritance.
Problems that celebrities in history had not solved have now been solved in their hands. Just thinking about it makes the mathematicians of their generation proud.
After all, if it can't be solved, it will give them the feeling that the person who asked the question a hundred years ago or even hundreds of years ago seemed to be laughing at them.
So, at this moment, they were all happy for Li Mu.
Andrew Wiles was the first to stand up and applaud Li Mu.
Faltings and Deligne also stood up and applauded Li Mu on the stage. Even Faltings, who had always been very serious, smiled.
Drigne stood next to Wiles. After applauding for a while, he felt something was wrong, so he said to Wiles next to him: "Eh? Why don't you continue to show off?"
Wiles shook his head, with a calm expression on his face: "No need, my students don't need to show off."
Deligne immediately showed an expression that said, "It's weird if I believe you."
Of course, in Wiles's heart, he had a sense of immediacy about this scene, just like his report back then.
This report lasted for more than two hours, and it was not too different from his report - although that report was a failure.
But what impressed him even more was that, similar to Goldbach's conjecture, or even older, the proof of Fermat's last theorem was not officially solved until more than 300 years later.
Fermat raised Fermat's final problem around 1637, and it was not officially solved by him until 1995, which took nearly 360 years.
Goldbach's conjecture was proposed in 1742, and it has been a total of 280 years until this year.
They, a teacher and a student, respectively solved two of the longest-spanning problems in mathematics.
Look, how close Li Mu is to him?
This is the fate!
Looking at Li Mu enjoying the applause on the stage, it also reminded him of himself back then.
The only difference is that Li Mu's proof was complete and detailed, and he explained it very clearly in this report.
Compared with his proof back then, there are very few, if any, doubts.
So, this problem has probably been completely solved.
…
After four climaxes, the applause finally died down, and everyone who stood up to applaud sat back down.
Li Mu pressed his hands to suppress the last scattered applause, and then smiled: "Of course, although I think I have completed the proof, this problem is not completely over until all doubts in the mathematical world are over, so If you have any questions now, you can ask them.”
As his question was raised, there was silence.
No one raised their hand to ask a question.
"No one has a question?"
Li Mu asked again, until a moment later, a hand finally raised from a position in the back row.
Everyone couldn't help but look at it, and then they were all stunned.
It was a girl who looked very young, maybe still studying for an undergraduate degree.
The big guys have no problem, but such a young girl actually sees the problem?
Li Mu didn't pay attention and asked with a smile: "Please ask a question."
The staff at the scene quickly handed over the microphone. After the girl took the microphone, she stood up carefully, then opened the paper in her hand and said: "Hello, Li, I am an undergraduate student from Trinity College, Cambridge." , what I want to ask is, in "Self-consistent properties of elliptic curves under K-mode", page 23, section 2.2, why is it said that CoP C(n) has different real axes?"
Upon hearing this question, everyone in the audience was stunned, and then bursts of chuckles broke out.
It seemed that the young student did not know the significance of asking questions at this time.
Usually, the questions raised at this time point directly to the contradictions or errors in the speaker's proof.
The question raised by this young girl was something she didn't understand.
Just now, people almost misunderstood, thinking that she had discovered an error in Li Mu's proof.
Of course, no one blamed the girl, and to some extent, her question made this somewhat tense moment easier.
Li Mu also smiled.
When the girl was a little overwhelmed by the laughter around her, he said, "The question you asked is a good one. At least you listened carefully to what I just proved."
Then, without turning to page 23 of the paper in his hand, he took a look at the specific content of the question and gave an answer directly: "Here, what you need to pay attention to is that a typical CoP does not require a center. case, we say that the circle has a deleted center."
"And CoP C(n) contains all points with weights of positive integers from 1 to n-1, including..."
Li Mu turned around and started writing on the blackboard: [C(n)={[x]| x∈N, x < n}...].
After a moment, he turned back and said to the girl: "So we say that CoP C(n) has different real axes. Do I understand that?"
The girl forgot about being at a loss just now. After thinking for a moment, she showed a happy expression and said gratefully: "Thank you! I understand."
"OK."
Li Mu smiled and nodded, then he looked at the time and said, "Then you can ask any questions in the next 10 minutes, no matter what they are."
The underlying meaning of what he said is naturally that anyone who has not understood his proof process can now ask questions.
After a moment, another pair of hands were raised below.
There were so many people who didn't understand the paper or didn't understand the report, accounting for almost 95% of the audience.
So, of course they have a lot of problems.
And since they can now ask these questions directly to the prover, they are naturally unwilling to give up.
In this way, Li Mu randomly picked up people to answer their questions, and the people who asked questions were not only students, but even professors from prestigious universities. For example, a mathematics professor from Cambridge also raised his hand and was clicked by Li Mu. stand up.
Of course, as a professor, it is also a good thing to still be able to ask questions when you don’t understand, so no one will laugh at this professor.
As the questions passed one by one, the people below also discovered that Li Mu seemed to never read the original text of the paper when answering these simple questions. As long as he heard the questions, he could give the answers.
Deligne couldn't help but marvel: "He actually remembered the paper with more than 150 pages in total so clearly. "
"Maybe this is genius." Wiles smiled, "That's why he can master so many things."
Deligne smiled bitterly and shook his head.
genius?
Who isn't?
It's just that there is a gap between geniuses...
In this way, until the last minute passed, Li Mu finally announced: "Okay, 10 minutes are up, let's end the questions."
"If you have any other questions, you can communicate with me via email later."
"So, today's report..."
Before Li Mu finished speaking, he saw Dean Martin Taylor raise his hand.
He couldn't help but be stunned.
What's wrong with Dean Taylor?
But he still said: "Dean Taylor, what questions do you have?"
Martin Taylor smiled and pointed to the champagne placed next to the podium and said, "Did you forget this?"
Li Mu was stunned and glanced down.
The bottle of champagne sat there quietly from the beginning to the end of the report.
As Martin Taylor's voice came out, the audience immediately started to make a fuss.
Unexpectedly, after watching a report, I could actually see the opening of champagne. All of a sudden, the audience started to boo.
In the first row of seats, these most basic mathematics masters, who are the winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, all had smiles on their faces.
Strictly speaking, if you open it now, it can be regarded as an act of opening champagne at half time.
After all, it will take some time to completely verify Goldbach's conjecture.
It's just...
"Open it!"
Faltins spoke first.
"Open it!"
Deligne also shouted.
Later, Wiles and others also said to Li Mu: "Open it!"
The words of these mathematics masters all expressed their affirmation of Li Mu's proof.
To a certain extent, the people in this row represent half of the mathematics community.
Faced with such a situation, what else could Li Mu say?
He smiled and picked up the bottle of champagne, then removed the foil and wine ring, shaking the bottle up and down.
till the end--
"Plop!"
"ohhhhh..."
The entire venue was filled with cheers.
And this report meeting ended here!
…
"Li Mu: The Unsealer of a 280-Year-Old Letter"
"The end of another world problem!" 》
"Is he really the ultimate genius?" Goldbach's conjecture was successful! 》
"The opening of champagne, the end of century speculation"
…
Many world-renowned news media have been overwhelmingly publicizing this matter. Not only in the mathematics community, but also among the general population, people have shown great interest in this news.
Suddenly, the trending list of social platforms in the entire European region was covered by this news, and even in the United States, the Twitter trending list has always been occupied by various Super Bowl, NBA or celebrity news. The front row was also squeezed out of a position by this news.
Of course, let alone China, it is almost crazy.
All the hot search lists are dominated by this incident!
Even many academic journals have become interested in the matter and are publishing critical articles on this matter. For example, "Science" and "Nature", which almost never publish articles related to pure mathematics, have also They have cited this matter in their research highlights column.
In the past few days, this matter has been in the spotlight.
And Li Mu is a well-deserved top-notch person!
(End of chapter)
